| Abstrakt: |
The article investigates the relationship between authoritarianism as a dimension and the use of information for making accurate social judgments. Two outcomes seemed possible. One was that the greater the degree of authoritarianism, the greater the inaccuracy of judgments based on information presented. This hypothesis is predicated on the assumption that authoritarianism, as operationalized through the California F Scale, bears a linear relationship to its correlates. The other was that the correlation between authoritarianism and accuracy of judgments of others is curvilinear. Comparisons between mean estimated California F scores for the high role and the low role were made. The results indicated that within the total subject group as well as within each of the subgroups, the high-role respondent was rated higher in California F than the respondent on the low-role recording. Clearly, the information presented differentiated between the two roles. However, the degree of differentiation varied with the degree of authoritarianism. The results, in general, confirm the hypothesis that the greater the degree of authoritarianism the greater the distortion of attitudinal judgments. |
