Allport paired tolerant personality origins with secure permissive parenting

Evidence

While the core of the authoritarian personality was threat, insecurity, and ego weakness, the core of the tolerant personality was the exact opposite: a sense of inner security, freedom from threat, ego maturity, and therefore the inner confidence and strength to cope adequately with threat. In contrast to the typically harsh, punitive early life experience of the authoritarian, the tolerant person was the product of a permissive home characterized by security and unconditional acceptance from parents, leading to an empathic and accepting orientation toward others, a liberal ideological outlook, tolerance of ambiguity, psychological sophistication, and the capacity to think in shades of gray rather than simplistic, rigid categories. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2431

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the Frankfurt School’s own authoritarian/tolerant personality split, where parental permissiveness underwrote non-authoritarian character.