The same psychological typology was praised or damned depending on the political regime

Evidence

A person with this combination of opinions sounded like a potential Fascist. The authoritarian type in his perception and thought appeared to be rigid and intolerant of ambiguity. He was, more or less, Jaensch’s J-Type, but J, who was a hero to Nazi social science, was a villain to American social science. What Jaensch called “stability” we called “rigidity” and the flaccidity and eccentric-ity of Jaensch’s despised Anti-Type were for us the flexibility and individualism of the democratic equalitarian. The typologies of Jaensch and of the authors of The Authoritarian Personality were much the same but the evaluations were different. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 429

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader theme in this book about how values and ideology shape what psychologists measure and call pathological vs. healthy — the ‘scientist as situated observer’ thread.