Sartre’s portrait of the anti-Semite independently matched the empirical authoritarian personality findings

Evidence

There is marked similarity between the syndrome which we have labeled the authoritarian personality and the portrait of the anti-Semite' by Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre's brilliant paper became available to us after all our data had been collected and analyzed. That his phenomenological portrait’ should resemble so closely, both in general structure and in numerous details, the syndrome which slowly emerged from our empirical observations and quantitative analysis, seems to us remarkable. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1787

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader Critical Theory literature on anti-Semitism and the Frankfurt School’s synthesis of phenomenology and quantitative social science. — connects to: Sartre’s phenomenology independently reproduced the Berkeley study’s findings — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1786; The Berkeley group explained anti-Semitism through personality structure interacting with external factors — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1522; The anti-Semite’s conflict mirrors a clash between prejudiced and democratic norms — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1792 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno believed the anti-Semite’s psyche displays the cause of anti-Semitism. #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1840
• Left and right authoritarians share one underlying personality structure #corroborates (0.78) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2850
• Authoritarian-personality findings may reflect cultural associations, not personality dynamics #complicates (0.75)
• Criminal and law-abiding authoritarianism arise from the same personality dynamics #corroborates (0.70) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 517