Fear, information control and personality disorders keep a tight grip on dictatorship. Psychologists who study terrorism and dictators are able to spread fear among their propels and place themselves as their only salvation. Dictators will manufacture an outside threat like the Hitler did with the Jews, or current Kim Jong Un is doing with the entire West. It helps keep the society in a constant paranoia state and off balanced psychologically. Dictators also exploit a well-known insctict for most people, to seek protection from a “strong leader.” Our behaviors are still affected by the past and what went on thousands of years ago. Society’s bond to strong and powerful leaders is because the history of survival. Take the Holocaust into consideration, those who were for Hitler survived…this human instinct has been passed along the decades. Just like any leadership position, personality comes into play.. Jerrold Post, director of the political psychology program at George Washington University, has studied the personalities of successful dictators for several decades.. referring to North Korea and Iraq dictators, Post commented that their leadership style is based on their personality disorders, they’re called the “big six”: sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic, schizoid, and schizotypal, along with a psychotic thought process Besides personality disorders these dictators successfully and tightly control the flow of information getting to their followers. “Controlling information and controlling dissent are part of what goes into maintaining a totalitarian state.” -Post So the leadership style of dictatorship is a combination of fear, manipulation, and knowledge of society’s needfulness of survival and using it against their followers to gain more control and power..also known as AUTHORITARIANISM.