Else Frenkel-Brunswik
Else Frenkel-Brunswik · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychologist and co-author of studies on the authoritarian personality
1908, Lemberg (Lviv), Austria-Hungary — 1958, Berkeley, California, USA
Austria · United States
Else Frenkel-Brunswik is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Psychologist and co-author of studies on the authoritarian personality
Else Frenkel-Brunswik was an Austrian-American psychologist and co-author of The Authoritarian Personality (1950), the landmark study linking personality traits to prejudice and susceptibility to fascism; she introduced the influential concept of 'intolerance of ambiguity.' Born into a Jewish family in Lemberg, she fled Nazi-annexed Austria in 1938 and worked at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research on antisemitism was directly shaped by her own experience of anti-Jewish persecution.
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Psychologist and co-author of studies on the authoritarian personality
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