Effect of Prejudice

Scientists View 'Authoritarian
Personality' in Monumental Work

Completing the five-volume
series of Studies in Prejudice
sponsored by the American
Jewish Committee, "The Au-
thoritarian Personality" was
published this week by Harper
& Bros. The authors of this
momunental work of 1,000 pages
are: W. T. Adorno, senior mem-
ber of the. Institute of Social
Research in Los Angeles; Else
Frenkel-Brunswik, lecturer in
psychology at the University of
California; research associate at
the Institute of Child Welfare,
and research psychologist at
Cowell Hospital, University of
California; Daniel J. Levinson,
assistant profe,ssor of psycholo-
gy at Western Reserve Univer-
sity, and R. Nevitt Sanford, pro-
fessor of psychology and asso-
ciate director of the Institute of
Personality Assessment and Re-
search at the University of Cali-
fornia.
Based on years of research by
anthropologists, historians, so-
ciologists, .psychologists, psychia-
trists and other social scientists,
the series of Studies in Preju-
dice represent a pioneering at-
temp in this country to investi-
gate scientifically the nature of
racial, religious and ethnic in-
tolerance, and to analyze the
effect of these prejudices upon
those who harbor them, as well
as upon the life of the com-
munity as 'a whole.

THE JEWISH NEWS-69'
Friday, September 8, 1950

Future American

erful, even If only in fantasy,
or else with the camp-followers
of a powerful leader.

HOW HATE IS FOSTERED

In their investigations, which
included questionaires submit-
ted to over 2,000 individuals,
personal conversations with
hundreds of them, as well as
the application of high special-
ized psychology tests, the auth-
ors and collaborators on The
Authoritarian Personality"
found that where a youngster is
subjected to harsh discipline
and is deprived_ of deep affec-
tion and understanding, he
grows up with a feeling a world
dominated by inexorable pow-
er—as represented by his par-
ents. In such an atmosphere, he
becomes entirely dependent up-
on higher authorities for his
judgments as well as his re-
sponses, and as he grows up he
continues to seek symbols of au-
thority in the society about him,
as a substitute for the parent
authority which was his main-
stay in his formative years.
The data collected by the
scientists demonstrate how, in
this process, the youngster's ca-
pacity to experience real emo-
tion is throttled, as is his abili-
ty to function as an indepen-
dent human. being. As he de-
velops, he becomes an "authori-
tarian" personality—a human
PEOPLE WITH PREJUDICE
being with little insight either
In this final volume. the "au- into other persons or himself.
thoritarian" personality, the Thus he tends to lump people
type of human being who is into • categories and to label
peculiarly susceptible to undem- them accordingly.
ocratic ideologies because he has
Should the United States
a deep inner need to submit to experience a real crisis, the
power or to align himself with scientists point out, the threat
it, has been scientifically ex- to our democratic institutions
plored and described for the would lie not so much in any
first time by social scientists. un-American ideology, or in
For years they have investigated un-American forces, but rath-
the psychological characteristics er in the degree to which in-'
of people who, in a democratic
dividual Americans are likely
society like ours, still harbor un-
to accept totalitarian ideas.
democratic ideas, imbued with
"Prophets of Deceit," "Re-
ill-will and.even hatred for hu-
man beings who happen to dif- hearsal for Destruction," "Dy-
fer from themselves in race, re- namics of Prejudice" and "Anti-
Semitism and Emotional Disor-
ligion or national origin.
der" are the other works in
This predisposition in some this series.
men and women to surrender
The entire series of Studies in
readily their social and politi-
cal freedoms, the scientists Prejudice is expected to consti-
tute a reservoir of new knowl-
found, stems from their ex-
edge, yielding better methods for
periences in early childhood,
the protection of democracy
when they were deprived of
against the inroads of bigotry
that inner security which en-
and the onslaughts of totali-
ables human beings to func-
tarianism. They were initiated
tion as independent individ-
in May of 1944, by Dr. John
uals.
Slawson, executive vice-presi-
"Authoritarian" personalities, dent of the American Jewish
in the compOsite picture drawn Committee.
by the experts, are people who
tend to fear and dislike persons
outside their own groups; they
accept without question the pre-
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UGO CARUSI, right, head
of. the DP Commission, tells
DP ITZEK Sabin, left, that
under the Amended DP Act
of 1948 he will be one of the
first eligibles to go to the U. S.
Carusi brought the good news
to the 26-year-old prospective
immigrant during a visit to a
DP camp near Munich. Ac-
companying him was HENRY
ORTNER, center, HIAS Di-
rector in Munich. Carusi went
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DP Commission to implement
the Amended DP Act which
will make it possible for thou-
sands of persons to enter the
U. S. during the coming 12
months.

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