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Gordon W. Allport

Born

in Montezuma, Indiana, The United States

November 12, 1897

Died

October 09, 1967

Genre

Social Sciences, Psychology

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Gordon Willard Allport 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. He contributed to the formation of Values Scales and rejected both a psychoanalytic approach to personality, which he thought often went too deep, and a behavioral approach, which he thought often did not go deep enough. He emphasized the uniqueness of each individual, and the importance of the present context, as opposed to past 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 other well known figures. Part ...more

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	The Nature of Prejudice by Gordon W. Allport, Thomas Pettigrew (Foreword), Kenneth Clark (Introduction) 4.23 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 1954 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality (The Terry Lectures Series) 3.88 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1955 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Individual and His Religion: A Psychological Interpretation 3.71 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1964 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Psychology of Rumor by Gordon W. Allport, Leo Postman 3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1947 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pattern and Growth in Personality 3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1963 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Personality: A Psychological Interpretation 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Concepts of Trait and Personality liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1927	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Personality and Social Encounter: Selected Essays really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1981 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Person in Psychology: Selected Essays really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting for the Lord: 33 Meditations on God & Man by Gordon W. Allport, Peter A. Bertocci (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.”
― Gordon W. Allport

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“It is here that we encounter the
central theme of existentialism:
to live is to suffer, to survive is to
find meaning in the suffering. If
there is a purpose in life at all,
there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself,
and must accept the responsibility
that his answer prescribes.”
― Gordon W. Allport

tags: man-s-search-for-meaning

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“Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.”
― Gordon Willard Allport

tags: civil-rights, diversity, ignorance, psychology, understanding

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