An individual’s rigid adherence to conventional values motivates and organizes antisemitic prejudice.

Evidence

However, critical objections of this sort did not affect the basic plausibility of the thinking lying behind the F-scale, in particular. For example, when it was discovered that the anti-Semitic individual objects to Jews on the ground that they violate conventional moral values, one interpretation was that this individual had a particularly strong and rigid adherence to conventional values, and that this general disposition in his personality provided some of the motivational basis for anti-Semitism, and at the same time expressed itself in other ways, e.g., in a general tendency to look down on and to punish those who were believed to be violating conventional values. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 437

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the mechanism behind generalizing ethnocentrism from antisemitism: one rigid conventionalism expressing itself across targets.
• XREF: connects to: Breaking the prejudice habit requires long-term personal motivation and commitment.; Enduring prejudice reduction requires internal motivation, not just external pressure. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2125; Internal motivation to suppress prejudice reflects conforming to a new group’s norms. (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Breaking the prejudice habit requires long-term personal motivation and commitment.; Enduring prejudice reduction requires internal motivation, not just external pressure. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2125; Internal motivation to suppress prejudice reflects conforming to a new group’s norms. (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Rigid conventionalism was theorized as the motivational basis of anti-Semitism #corroborates (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1773
• Prejudiced people mostly manage inner conflict by vacillating between values #complicates (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2096
• Religious piety reduces overt but raises covert expressions of prejudice #complicates (0.74) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2553
• Intrinsic religiosity tracks whatever prejudice one’s religion endorses, for or against. #complicates (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2548