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7. Destructiveness and Cynicism

A distrustful and misanthropic attitude towards people in general.

“Human nature being what it is, there will always be war and conflict.”

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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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