The Berkeley project combined characterizing fascist personality with measuring it at scale.
Evidence
The book’s subject was accurately characterized by the two tasks allotted to the Berkeley project: (1) to expose the character structure of persons susceptible to anti-Semitism, and (2) to develop an instrument capable of measuring susceptibility to anti-Semitism. The title ought really to have been `The Fascist Character and the Measurement of Fascist Trends’. The two went hand in hand: ascertaining and isolating the fascist character by means of questionnaires, interviews lasting several hours and projective tests; and acquiring a reliable instrument usable on a large scale to recognize and measure it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 435
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the study’s twin aims and the mix of instruments (questionnaires, interviews, projective tests) used to pursue them.
- XREF: connects to: The Berkeley study proved theory and empirical research can be combined successfully. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 434; The F Scale items derive from fascist writings and clinical interview data — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 469; The F scale measured ideology while assuming it indexed underlying personality (+4 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Berkeley study proved theory and empirical research can be combined successfully. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 434; The F Scale items derive from fascist writings and clinical interview data — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 469; The F scale measured ideology while assuming it indexed underlying personality (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- The Berkeley project paired character analysis with a large-scale measurement instrument.
#expands(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1763