The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini - 2010 Words

There are so many factors in this world that contribute to prejudice, there are so many interworking’s in the brain that make prejudice so difficult for psychologists to understand just how the issue becomes such a problem in this world. Prejudice has so many different factors with how one sees in-groups and out-groups, what these individuals are told to believe and how to act, and how cognition can play a role in how a specific individual will divide up their cognitive processes or how their brain will divide up their cognitive process for them. With Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner explains the prevalence of prejudice in Afghanistan between two different groups, the Hazara and Pushtons. Three psychology processes and theories†¦show more content†¦Adorno described how usually people with this personality have childhood memories of authority figures, usually parents, that enforce, solid rules with extreme punishment that is usually from a physical f orm of punishment (Brown 28). Adorno and his fellow colleagues expressed that there were nine characteristics that describe this personality, five of these were related to prejudice; projectivity, authoritarian aggression, authoritarian submission, stereotypy, and conventionalism (Whitley and Kite 234). Right-wing authoritarianism goes hand in hand with this personality type, it describes those that see authority figures as a vigor they have to obey, it values hierarchy in society, and a belief that this hierarchy needs to be maintained (Blaine 69). Right-wing authoritarianism is a bit different than the authoritarian personality because it is more of an attitude than personality type, but these both go fluently with each other for this mindset (Whitley and Kite 235). To test this personality type, a testing method called the F-scale was used to identify just how much these people were either right-winged or the opposite. This testing method was biased and only had small