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Gordon Allport
Born
November 11, 1897
Montezuma, Indiana, US
Died
October 9, 1967(1967-10-09) (aged 69)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Alma mater
Harvard
Scientific career
Fields
Psychology
Gordon Willard Allport (November 11, 1897 – October 9, 1967) was an American psychologist. Allport was one of the first psychologists to focus on the study of the personality, and is often referred to as one of the founding figures of personality psychology.[1] He contributed to the formation of values scales and rejected both a psychoanalytic approach to personality, which he thought often was too deeply interpretive, and a behavioral approach, which he thought did not provide deep enough interpretations from their data. Instead of these popular approaches, he developed an eclectic theory based on traits.[1] He emphasized the uniqueness of each individual, and the importance of the present context, as opposed to history, for understanding the personality.
Allport had a profound and lasting influence on the field of psychology, even though his work is cited much less often than that of other well-known figures.[2] Part of his influence stemmed from his knack for exploring and broadly conceptualizing important topics (e.g. rumor, prejudice, religion, traits). Another part of his influence resulted from the deep and lasting impression he made on his students during his long teaching career, many of whom went on to have important careers in psychology. Among his many students were Jerome S. Bruner, Anthony Greenwald, Stanley Milgram, Leo Postman, Thomas Pettigrew, and M. Brewster Smith. His brother Floyd Henry Allport, was professor of social psychology and political psychology at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (in Syracuse, New York) from 1924 until 1956, and visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Allport as the 11th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[3]
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^Haggbloom, Steven J.; Powell, John L. III; Warnick, Jason E.; Jones, Vinessa K.; Yarbrough, Gary L.; Russell, Tenea M.; Borecky, Chris M.; McGahhey, Reagan; et al. (2002). "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century". Review of General Psychology. 6 (2): 139–152. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.586.1913. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139. S2CID 145668721.
Gordon Willard Allport (November 11, 1897 – October 9, 1967) was an American psychologist. Allport was one of the first psychologists to focus on the study...
psychology book by American psychologist GordonAllport, on the topic of prejudice. The book was written by GordonAllport in the early 1950s and first published...
these issues in light of the Brown v. Board of Education lawsuit. GordonAllport's 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice provided the first theoretical framework...
them, social psychologist GordonAllport united early research in this vein under intergroup contact theory. In 1954, Allport published The Nature of Prejudice...
in peoples' eyes. In his 1950 book The Individual and His Religion, GordonAllport (1897–1967) illustrates how people may use religion in different ways...
theorists in the field, a group that includes Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, GordonAllport, Hans Eysenck, Abraham Maslow, and Carl Rogers. Personality can be determined...
to the German and English estimates offered by earlier researchers, GordonAllport and Henry S. Odbert revealed this to be a severe underestimate in a...
also predicts human reactions to other people, problems, and stress. GordonAllport (1937) described two major ways to study personality: the nomothetic...
unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence". GordonAllport defined prejudice as a "feeling, favorable or unfavorable, toward a...
State-Level Policy Work grants. GordonAllport (1897 – 1967) was an American psychologist and past president of SPSSI. Allport was one of the first psychologists...
affiliated with the department include William James, B. F. Skinner, GordonAllport, Jerome Bruner, George Miller, and Henry Murray, among others included...
Proponents of Humanistic psychology included Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, GordonAllport, Erich Fromm, and Rollo May. Their humanistic concepts are also related...
the end of the chain. His student was another pioneer in the field, GordonAllport. The experiment is similar to the children's game Chinese whispers....
and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. He also won the GordonAllport Prize for his work on reducing prejudice. In 1981 he was one of five...
are descriptions of our actions that do not try to infer causality. GordonAllport was an early pioneer in the study of traits. This early work was viewed...
theories of stereotype content proposed by social psychologists such as GordonAllport assumed that stereotypes of outgroups reflected uniform antipathy. For...
idiographic and nomothetic were introduced to American psychology by GordonAllport in 1937, but Hugo Münsterberg used them in his 1898 presidential address...
theory and instruments are part of the biennial European Social Survey. GordonAllport, a student of American philosopher and psychologist Eduard Spranger...
concepts of intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation." In 1967, GordonAllport and J. M. Ross developed a means of measuring religious orientation...
three brothers were Fayette W., Harold E., and Gordon W. Allport, also a psychologist. During Allport's childhood, the family moved from Jupiter to Ohio...
subsequently. For this article, Tajfel was awarded the first annual GordonAllport Intergroup Relations Prize by the Society for the Psychological Study...
(1935) Clark L. Hull (1936) Edward C. Tolman (1937) John Dashiell (1938) GordonAllport (1939) Leonard Carmichael (1940) Herbert Woodrow (1941) Calvin Perry...
Meaning. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-1427-1. Retrieved 8 May 2012. GordonAllport, from the Preface to Man's Search for Meaning, p. xiv "Logotherapy:...
Ernst Bernheim asserted that a legend is simply a longstanding rumour. GordonAllport credited the staying-power of some rumours to the persistent cultural...
American psychologist GordonAllport coined this term in his 1954 book, The Nature of Prejudice. Antilocution is the first point on Allport's Scale, which can...
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