Both prejudiced and unprejudiced personalities pay a psychological price under poor conditions.
Evidence
The results of the research showed that both adaptation and non-adaptation to poor conditions were achieved at a price. Ackerman and Jahoda also found some evidence to support the assumption, cautiously formulated in The Authoritarian Personality, that low-scorers tended to develop neuroses in mental illness, since their egos were more strongly developed, while high-scorers tended instead to develop psychoses, since their egos had remained underdeveloped because of strict upbringing. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1834
Categorization
- QUESTION: The finding that low-scorers (unprejudiced) tend toward neurosis while high-scorers tend toward psychosis is a striking asymmetry worth unpacking — is the ego-development causal account still defended anywhere?
- XREF: connects to: Prejudiced personalities somatize distress while tolerant ones psychologize it — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 522; Prejudiced patients somatize distress and blame external events unlike unprejudiced ones; Prejudiced people show self-glorification while unprejudiced people show objective self-appraisal (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Prejudiced personalities somatize distress while tolerant ones psychologize it
#qualifies(0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 522 - Prejudiced patients somatize distress and blame external events unlike unprejudiced ones
#qualifies(0.85) - Prejudice’s psychological harm is now seen as conditional rather than inevitable.
#qualifies(0.85) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 939 - Prejudiced people show self-glorification while unprejudiced people show objective self-appraisal
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