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Following the Second World War, psychologists conducted research into the different motives and tendencies that account for ideological differences between left and right.

The early studies focused on conservatives, beginning with Theodor W. Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality ( 1950 ).

This book has been heavily criticized on theoretical and methodological grounds, but some of its findings have been confirmed by further empirical research.