No political movement of uniform personality types could function

Evidence

The idea that all persons affiliated with an extremist political party should have the same personality characteristics is much too simple-minded. It is some improvement to recognize the kinds of personality differences among people adhering to a common ideology that are suggested by a dynamic conception of authoritarianism. But there are other differences that must exist. As Lasswell (1954) has argued an organization as complex as a political party must have a great variety of differentiated roles. The Nazi Party had use for a great many rigid, sadomasochistic, anti-intraceptive, anti-Semites of the kind described in the Berkeley study. But it also had need of clever propagandists, clear-thinking ministers, sensitive diplomats, and courageous military men. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 682

Categorization

• XREF: Bears on the collective-versus-individual question in strategic essentialism: collective identity is sustained by role differentiation, not uniform disposition — an institutional logic that resists reducing ideology to shared psychology. — connects to: Authoritarians show no deficit in self-esteem or general adjustment — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2488; No evidence demonstrates fascists and communists share an authoritarian personality type — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2816

Broader Connections

• No evidence demonstrates fascists and communists share an authoritarian personality type #expands (0.80) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2816
• Authoritarians show no deficit in self-esteem or general adjustment #expands (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2488