The Institute’s psychological typology shifted from revolutionary to democratic under American influence.

Evidence

The most extensive was based on the questionnaires Fromm had developed to test the psychological status of workers and clerical employees. Although, as mentioned before, only seven hundred of the three thousand original questionnaires were salvaged, there seemed sufficient variation to support a tripartite division of psychological types: authoritarian, revolutionary, and ambivalent. (Significantly, the antithesis of the “authoritarian” type was called “revolutionary.” By the time of The Authoritarian Personality, after the Institut had been in America for over a decade, it had changed to the “democratic,” a shift of emphasis that reflected the dampening of the Institut’s revolutionary fervor.) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 428

Categorization

• XREF: Direct precursor to The Authoritarian Personality (1950), and evidence of the Institute’s ideological accommodation in America. — connects to: The Institute’s American empirical turn traded revolutionary aims for New Deal liberalism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 679; The Institute’s democracy concept shifted from coded concession to radical measure — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2335
• SEED: Angle: how a political exile’s conceptual vocabulary silently changes under host-country pressure — the ‘authoritarian vs revolutionary’ becoming ‘authoritarian vs democratic’.

Broader Connections

• The Institute’s American empirical turn traded revolutionary aims for New Deal liberalism #corroborates (0.95) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 679