ATTITUDE CONTENT AND AGREEMENT SET IN SCALES OF ATUHORITARIANISM, DOGMATISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND ECONOMIC CONSERVATISM.

The article presents a study that examines the roles of attitude content and agreement set in attitude items. These items are important to the theoretical formulation of the Authoritarian Personality, items from the F Scale, dogmatism, and antisemitism scales. The study is necessary to an assumption that agreement set is a mechanical process and general, and that high F scores represent authoritarians in any case. The results of the study indicate that for scales derived from the Authoritarian Personality, agreement with originals is attributed to agreement set rather than attitudes favorable to authoritarianism, dogmatism, or anti-Semitism.