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The authoritarian personality is a personality type characterized by a disposition to treat authority figures with unquestioning obedience and respect.
Authoritarians, who may or may not have any personal interest in abiding by rules, love rules for other people. The more quixotic and unclear the rules, the better, since quixotic, unclear rules...
Explore the psychology of authoritarian personalities, their characteristics, origins, and effects on society. Understand key traits and measurement methods.
The Authoritarian Personality. New York: Harper. In this seminal work addressing the individual and social origins of authoritarianism as a personality characteristic, the legendary social theorist T.W. Adorno teamed up with three research psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Authoritarian Personality was an attempt by a group of researchers to explain the conditions that allowed Nazi-ism to gain a foothold in Europe. The researchers, led by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, used various psychological scales to attempt to explain racism and the atmosphere that led to the slaughter of six million Jews and others ...
The “authoritarian personality” is a social psychological construct derived from early psychoanalytic theories of attachment to (and conflict with) the father. To begin with, note that Freud’s own attitude toward paternal authority was profoundly ambiguous.
The construct of the authoritarian personality has been a controversial topic in personality psychology since its inception. Like other personality styles, it can be conceptualized as a...