Nazi personality theory mapped ideological enemy categories onto alleged perceptual traits

Evidence

On the assumption that personalities manifest a Stileinheit, or “unity of style,” Jaensch filled out his characterization of the S-Type more from imagination than evidence. The S would be a man with so-called “liberal” views; one who would think of environment and education as the determinants of behavior; one who would take a childish wanton pleasure in being eccentric, S would say “individualistic.” S would be flaccid, weak, and effeminate. His general instability would be likely to stem from a racially mixed heredity. Jews are Anti-Types and “Parisians” and Orientals and communists. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 427

Categorization

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