Anti-Semitism research shifted to measuring personality structure rather than external factors.

Evidence

For Horkheimer, Sanford became the Lazarsfeld of the Berkeley project. In the course of its research, the Berkeley group began to call itself the Public Opinion Study Group, and it focused on constructing a scale according to which anti-Semitic opinions and attitudes could be measured, and on exposing the connections between anti-Semitism and personality structure. The group’s starting-point was the view that anti-Semitism could be explained by an interplay between external and internal factors. They decided, purely as a matter of research strategy, to concentrate on the role played by personality structure. This had been less well researched than the external factors involved, and was in their view more difficult to analyse. They felt that they were particularly well qualified to undertake just such an analysis of anti-Semitism `under the microscope’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 384

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Institute’s suppressed Weimar workers’ study and its broader turn to character and authority research as the explanatory key to fascist susceptibility. — connects to: The radicalization literature overwhelmingly measures attitudes and intentions rather than actual violent behavior. — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 50; Prejudice research pathologized racists and split antisemitism from other racisms.; The anti-Semitism study’s scientific framing was a concession to its American audience. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 382 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The radicalization literature overwhelmingly measures attitudes and intentions rather than actual violent behavior. — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 50; Prejudice research pathologized racists and split antisemitism from other racisms.; The anti-Semitism study’s scientific framing was a concession to its American audience. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 382 (+5 more)