Gordon W. Allport (1897–1967)
Author of The Nature of Prejudice
About the Author
Gordon W. Allport, the chief founder of the psychological study of personality and the informal dean of American psychologists during his lifetime, was born in Montezuma, Indiana. He came East to study at Harvard University, and, while doing social work as an undergraduate, discovered that, in show more order to help people deal effectively with their problems, he needed a lifelike psychology of human personality. Developing a full-bodied theory of personality that would do justice to the attitudes, values, and traits of the unique individual life became his goal. After graduating from Harvard in 1919, he studied in Germany and traveled in Europe. At the age of 22, he managed a meeting with Sigmund Freud in Vienna, at which Freud mistook his nervous attempt to strike up a conversation by relating an incident he had just witnessed on a train for a confession of his own childhood trauma. This helped convince Allport that depth psychology often erred in slighting manifest motives in favor of probing the unconscious for hidden motives. When he returned to the United States in 1924, Allport was appointed to a teaching position at Harvard, where he remained for most of his career. His research on attitudes, values, religion, group conflict, and prejudice, as well as his extensive writings on what he called an "open system" of personality, are quoted extensively in the contemporary literature of psychology. Allport died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1967. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Gordon W. Allport
La naturaleza del prejuicio 8 copies
Que es la personalidad? 3 copies
The Roots of Religion 2 copies
Gordon Allport 2 copies
Formation of In-Groups 1 copy
What is the Problem? 1 copy
La estructura del ego 1 copy
Associated Works
The art of group conversation : a new breakthrough in social communication (2012) — Foreword, some editions — 13 copies
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- Canonical name
- Allport, Gordon W.
- Legal name
- Allport, Gordon Willard
- Birthdate
- 1897-11-11
- Date of death
- 1967-10-09
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Montezuma, Indiana, USA
- Places of residence
- Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
- Education
- Harvard University (BA | 1919)
Harvard University (MA | 1921)
Harvard University (PhD | 1922) - Organizations
- American Psychological Association
Eastern Psychological Association
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Society for Psychological Studies of Social Issues
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Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of… by Gordon W. Allport
A distinguished psychologist outlines here the need for a psychology of becoming, of the growth and development of personality that he says "can best be discovered by looking within ourselves." Modern psychology is in a dilemma, Allpost states, for it has trimmed down the image of man as a free democractic being. He appraises the present state of the psychology of personality and indicates its relevance to human welfare and religion. This volume is based on the Terry Lectures, which the author delivered at Yale University in 1954.… (more)
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