A pro-American outlook shaped the Chicago study’s interpretation of personality health.

Evidence

But there was no overlooking the fact that the authors of the Chicago study did not share the Berkeley group’s critical views of society, and that they regarded the ability to take part in the American way of life as a sign of a well-developed personality, while for the authors of the Berkeley study this was a sign of conforming to a society which was full of failures and injustices and therefore a breeding-ground for prejudice. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1831

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt Institute’s rejection of Lazarsfeld’s administrative social research and the epistemic split over whether empirical method can be neutral. — connects to: Early authoritarianism researchers defined the healthy personality as their own political outlook — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 431

Broader Connections

• Early authoritarianism researchers defined the healthy personality as their own political outlook #expands (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 431