Is Anti‐Semitism Currently Part of an Authoritarian Attitude Syndrome?

This study used data from the 1990 General Social Survey to investigate the extent to which anti‐Semitism had syndromic relationships with other authoritarianism‐related attitudes among American white non‐Jews. The correlational and factor analytic connections between four measures of anti‐Semitism and the other attitudes were generally weak. There were no clear‐cut differences between respondents high and low in education in the strength of these connections. Moreover, when the scores of respondents favorable and unfavorable to Jews were compared on a number of authoritarianism‐related scales, the differences were usually small. The results suggest a diminished role for anti‐Semitism in authoritarian attitude syndromes.