PSY322H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Prosocial Behavior, Social Desirability Bias, Antireligion
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Rigid personality characterized by categorical thinking, submissiveness to authority, and adherence to middle-class values. These individuals tend to dislike anyone who is different from themselves and thus tend to have stereotypes and prejudice toward many groups. Parents tend to be strict disciplinarians, and patterns of prejudice in child and upbringing tends to be common. (allport) believed prejudiced personality comes from the individual feeling threatened and insecure of everything and thus, develop a prejudiced view of others as a way of projecting their fears and self-doubts onto others. Problems with the psychodynamic approach: researchers became critical of psychoanalytic approaches to personality, authoritarian personality was concluded to be unsatisfactory under scientific standards. Personality style in which the individual tends to be: politically conservative, more punitive toward criminals, more likely to endorse orthodox religious views, very prejudiced toward outgroups. These individuals are both fearful and self-righteous.
