5. Superstition and Stereotypy
A belief in supernatural determinants of human fate and a tendency to think in rigid categories.
“Some day it will probably be shown that astrology can explain a lot of things.”
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A questionnaire to measure authoritarianism, first published by the German philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist Theodor W(iesengrund) Adorno (1903–69) and several colleagues in the book “The Authoritarian Personality” (1950).
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