ABSTRACT
In Hungary, the authors’ team has been involved in research on authoritarianism since the early-1990s. During this period they have conducted two surveys specifically designed to assess the importance of authoritarianism as a psychological variable in relation to other, social-psychological and sociological variables. The first of which was conducted in spring 1994 when they investigated the connections between authoritarianism, prejudice and political-ideological attitudes on a random sample of one thousand Hungarian citizens aged eighteen and over. These surveys have provided a rich database for the study of many aspects of prejudice, political attitudes, and their connections to different sets of socio-demographic variables. The observed link between authoritarianism and anti-socialism raises the possibility that the Fascism-score (F-score) is, partly, a function of a political orientation. A causal link between the two would, of course, contradict Adorno's interpretation, which is based on early socialisation theories.
