Those defying against pressure and obeying against pressure scored differently on authoritarian personality measures.

Evidence

In one case, then, the situation pushed people toward obedience; but in the other, it promoted defiance. In both cases some people acted differently from the majority. They defied when it was hard to defy, or they obeyed when it was hard to obey. Who were they? Elms and Milgram (1966) found that the twenty defiant ones scored rather low on a pioneering measure of personal authoritarianism, the California Fascism Scale; whereas the twenty obedient ones, whom the Experimenter could get to shock a helpless victim sitting at ARE THERE REALLY FASCIST PEOPLE IN DEMOCRACIES? — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 121

Categorization

• QUESTION: Passage trails off mid-sentence — the full verse about the obedient subjects’ F-scale scores is cut off at paragraph end.