PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Authoritarianism, Trait Theory, Substance Abuse

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Chapter 7: using personality traits to understand behaviour. Examines the link between personality and behaviour. Focused on the nature, origins, and consequences of single traits of special importance. How civilized people could participate is such barbasism as the rise of. Fromm theorized that the demise of the catholicism and the rise of. Protestantism in germany, combined with the rise of capitalism, gave individuals unprecedented freedom to conceive of god as they wished an to direct their economic activity any way they chose. To avoid these frightening personal choices, some people turn their will over to an external authority, and take the comforting attitude that they are just following orders. Authoritarian character: individuals who enjoy giving orders to those below them in the hierarchy. Individuals who endorsed anti-semitic statements also tended to be prejudiced against other minority groups, next step was to construct a general ethnocentrism scale (e scale)

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