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authoritarian personality  

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  • In 1950, Else Frenkel-Brunswick, Daniel J. Levinson, Theodor Adorno and R. Nevitt Sandford published The Authoritarian Personality, which popularised the idea that certain people, by virtue of their upbringing, acquired a character that predisposed them to accepting anti-democratic political beliefs. Rigid discipline and conditional affection created a personality that found comfort in submission to authority while directing aggression towards outsiders, usually racial minorities. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Authoritarian Personality]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-B67F5GWK-M

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