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of authoritarian personality!
Well, political convictions aside, the general traits
of the authoritarian personality are in similar to those discovered a decade later (in the 1960s) by developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind in her famous study on parenting styles.
This also means that the thought pattern
of the authoritarian personality tends to be relatively narrow.
In the book The Authoritarian Personality written by German Marxist Theodor W. Adorno an ideologist of the Frankfurt School and an author of Critical Theory, he introduced the concept
of Authoritarian personality.
In short, Adorno believed that «astrological ideology» resembles «the mentality
of the authoritarian personality.»
Not exact matches
Actually, such people are likely to be, in the technical definition, «
authoritarian personalities» who may be «contained» but who are incapable
of being reconciled.
A study
of the psychology
of prejudice, reported in The
Authoritarian Personality, (T. W. Adorno, et al. (New York: Harper 8c Row, 1950) showed that prejudice is often associated with personality d
Personality, (T. W. Adorno, et al. (New York: Harper 8c Row, 1950) showed that prejudice is often associated with
personality d
personality distortions.
Fascist, too, are the cults
of personality surrounding televangelists and the structure
of the «male - dominated
authoritarian church.»
Donald Trump also has shown an
authoritarian tendency to base policy arguments on questionable assertions
of fact and a cult
of personality.
Counting the number
of climate scientists that believe in CAGW us mentally challenged, but attractive to
authoritarian personality types.
In 1950, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno helped to assemble a volume titled «The
Authoritarian Personality,» which constructed a psychological and sociological profile
of the «potentially fascistic individual.»
(Jump to these parenting articles if you wish to learn more about the
personality of authoritarian parents or want to know about the
authoritarians way
of parenting seen in a historical light.)
Philosopher and sociologist Theordor Adorno calls this type
of personality an
authoritarian personality.
Before explaining the
authoritarian personality in relation to
authoritarian parents, I'd like to present a few words
of reservation that are good to keep in mind when reading about the
authoritarian personality:
This means that in order for the
authoritarian personality to feel secure, it needs fixed stability which the predictability
of hierarchy, rutines, rules, consensus norms etc. provide.