The Berkeley project paired character analysis with a large-scale measurement instrument.

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, 1763

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• XREF: connects to: The Berkeley anti-Semitism survey paired scaled questionnaires with clinical interviews and picture-based projective tests. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1526