In a study on group therapy with prejudiced college students, it was noted that high “F”-scorers tended to make poor grades in elementary psychology. Holding verbal ability constant, a partial correlation between psychology grades and “F” scores supports the assumption of an anti-psychology bias in authoritarian students which forms a resistance to democratically presented psychological information.
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