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	Gordon Allport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gordon Willard Allport (November 11, 1897 - October 9, 1967) was an American psychologist.
		Allport is considered a trait theorist, discussing traits which he believed predominate a person's personality.
		In addition to his contributions to personality, Allport made contributions to social psychology, especially in the study of attitudes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gordon_Allport (303 words)

	Why should we care about Gordon Allport?
		Gordon Allport was born in Montezuma, Indiana on November 11th, 1897.
		Allport called this statistical approach to understanding human nature the nomothetic method, and contrasted its emptiness and aridity to the richness of the idiographic approach -- an approach centered on the meanings and stories of the individual.
		Allport's work on intrinsic and extrinsic approaches to religion was the foundation for a plethora of scaling studies of religious styles, much of which defined itself as extensions, modifications, or rejections of Allport's original approach.
	www.stolaf.edu /people/huff/misc/Allporttalk.html (1452 words)

	McDougal.leg
		Gordon Willard Allport was born on November 11, 1897, in Montezuma, Indiana, the fourth and youngest son of John E. Allport and Nellie Wise Allport.
		Allport placed the levels of personal dispositions on a continuum from those that are most central to those that are only important to the person.
		Allport did not agree with the works of Freud, Cattlell, and Skinner; he believed that these theorists were unable to explain the growing and changing personality.
	www.psychology.sbc.edu /mcdougal.htm (1265 words)

	Gordon Allport
		Gordon Allport was born in Montezuma, Indiana, in 1897, the youngest of four brothers.
		Gordon thought this was likely something he had learned from his mother, a very neat and apparently rather domineering type.
		Allport originally used the word traits, but found that so many people assumed he meant traits as perceived by someone looking at another person or measured by personality tests, rather than as unique, individual characteristics within a person, that he changed it to dispositions.
	www.ship.edu /~cgboeree/allport.html (2187 words)

	Allport
		Given that one of Allport's goals is to bring "the behavior viewpoint"[40] to social psychology, this is not surprising.
		Social behavior, for Allport, is simply that in which the organism's reaction either occurs in response to the stimulus of another's behavior or serves as a stimulus to another's response.
		For Allport, groups are distinguished from crowds by the fact that groups are assembled for deliberate activities, whereas crowds are driven by motives "of the more primitive and prepotent level." [59] In groups, the individual's behavior is influenced by perception of others engaged in the same activity.
	www.brynmawr.edu /Acads/Psych/rwozniak/allport.html (4327 words)

	Haley Downing
		Allport differs in that he does not consider the instinct to be the driving force behind adult or mature personality or behavior, but rather the source of it.
		The famous example that Allport used to illustrate this type is that of an ex-sailor and the sea.
		Allport attempted to clarify and revise with the explanation that functional autonomy is an attempt to describe a general law that provides for the development of a unique personality.
	www.augustana.edu /users/psjohnson/adlerallportsamplepaper.htm (1828 words)

	Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol
		Gordon Allport's contributions to social psychology were also impressive, including his role as the "official historian" of the field and author of a widely accepted definition of the subject matter of social psychology (Samelson, 1974, 2000; Lubek and Apfelbaum, 2000).
		Yet the Allports' use of the term "personality" suggests that the category was in fact remarkably fluid and that it was informed by the social values of the period.
		The Allport brothers arrived at two very different solutions to this question, and yet significantly they did so within the framework of a single category: "personality." For Floyd, the best way to safeguard individuality was to appropriate the methods and language of the very forces that threatened individuality.
	htpprints.yorku.ca /archive/00000170/01/floyd2.htm (3990 words)

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		Allport was the founding father of social psychology and the Head of Harvard University's Department of Psychology.
		Allport presented valid evidence which supported his overall theory that people are driven to form an identity and the shifting nature of those identities.
		Allport hinted at the fact that the stereotypes of men and women were deteriorating by discussing his other theories abou t prejudices.
	english.chass.ncsu.edu /cacteachers/electronic_commenting/sample.doc (1319 words)

	Gordon Allport in Personality Synopsis at ALLPSYCH Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gordon Allport was born in Indiana, the youngest of four boys.
		Gordon was interested in personality, and at the time, personality was not a formal sub-discipline of psychology and it certainly was not as fashionable as social psychology.
		Allport is considered a trait theorist as he believed that every person has a small number of specific traits that predominate in his or her personality.
	allpsych.com /personalitysynopsis/allport.html (382 words)

	Narrative Psychology: Gordon W. Allport
		For many years Allport had used a series of 300 letters from a woman (from age 58 to 70, the year of her death) as the focus of student discussion and analysis in a seminar on personality.
		Allport began a "semiretirement" in 1965 (he was scheduled to teach only in Fall semesters with the Spring free for writing and traveling).
		Nicholson traces the development of Gordon Allport's interest in the study of personality, the role of the brothers' interpersonal exchange and intellectual disagreements over this issue, and the status of "personality" as a field of study in the 1920s.
	web.lemoyne.edu /~hevern/nr-theorists/allport_gordon_w.html (2009 words)

	Gordon Allport: Father of Personality Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gordon Allport (1897-1967) is often called the father of personality theory: He was very much a trait theorist and believed in the individuality and uniqueness of the person and that people have consistent personalities.
		Allport attempted to blend nomothetic and idiographic perspectives: he called this blend the morphogenic approach.
		Allport believed that through autobiographies, letters and diaries an understanding of an individual’s personality could be gained.
	www.wilderdom.com /personality/traits/PersonalityTraitsGordonAllport.html (127 words)

	PSY260 - Lesson 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although Allport, Cattell, and Eysenck provided somewhat different definitions of the concept of a psychological trait and, in fact, Eysenck includes both traits and superfactors or types that subsume traits, in general, the concept of trait refers to a hypothetical general disposition within the human personality that explains perception, thinking, motivation, and behavior.
		Allport defined personality as "the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine the characteristic behavior and thought" of a person.
		Allport, though, distinguished between a more primitive form of conscience, based on parental-social control and the fear of punishment, which he labeled a "must conscience," and a more mature level, which he labeled an "ought conscience," which were internalized values and principles identified as necessary or instrumental for the achievement of personal goals.
	www.rio.maricopa.edu /classes/psy/psy260/110402/lessons/lesson07.html (2198 words)

	History of Education: Selected Moments
		Gordon W. Allport's nature of prejudice was written during and for a turbulent period in U.S. history to address particular aspects and dimensions of prejudices brought about by economic, legal, political and social inequality.
		Allport argues that the misinformed person or group should not be labeled prejudiced if they can reverse their prejudgment when new social information is presented.
		Allport's The Nature of Prejudice highlights overwhelming evidence that prejudices against the Negro is rooted in negative.
	fcis.oise.utoronto.ca /~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/1954allport.html (1337 words)

	HTP Prints - Gordon Allport, character, and the culture of personality, 1897-1937
		Between 1921 and 1937, Allport was among the leading figures in the movement to establish personality as a research category in American psychology.
		Far from being a strictly scientific concern, Allport's project was deeply embedded in the cultural politics of the age.
		Allport's "psychology of personality" helped fuel this trend while simultaneously attempting to resist it.
	htpprints.yorku.ca /archive/00000169 (146 words)

	Gordon Allport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gordon Allport was born in Montezuma, Indiana, in 1897.
		Allport referred to this as opportunistic functioning, which can be characterized as reactive, past-oriented, and biological.
		According to Allport, opportunistic functioning is not very important for understanding most human behavior, which he instead believed is motivated by something very different, a functioning in a manner expressive of the self, which he called propriate functioning.
	brainmeta.com /personality/allport.php (305 words)

	Gordon Allport Findings - The Gold Scales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Allport thought this was likely to be something the boy had learned from his mother; she seemed to be a very neat and rather domineering type.
		Allport was moved as former students one by one rose to express their individual appreciation for his support throughout their careers.
		In the words of Gordon Allport, "When the individual is dominated by segmental drives, by compulsions, or by the winds of circumstances, he has lost the integrity that comes only from maintaining major directions of striving", and "Do we not in addition have a cognizing self-a knower.
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	Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Allport, Gordon Willard (1897-1967)
		Allport, born in 1897 in Montezuma, Indiana, was the youngest of four sons in the family of John Edwards and Nellie Edith (Wise) Allport.
		John Allport was a physician with a clinic in the family home and, as they were growing up, his sons assisted him in his practice.
		Allport was editor of the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology from 1937 until 1949.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0000/ai_2699000013 (876 words)

	Gordon W. Allport's TRAIT THEORY at Anthony A. Walsh's Personality Theories Page
		ccording to Allport, a trait is "...a generalized and focalized neuropsychic system(peculiar to the individual), with the capacity to render many stimuli functionally equivalent, and to initiate and guide consistent(equivalent) forms of adaptive and expressive behavior."(p.
		lthough Allport was aware of the shortcomings of the trait approach to personality, he nevertheless attacked it head on and in the process adds three other terms to the stew, viz.
		In his discussion of the cardinal trait Allport pointed out that some of the best examples come from history in the form of persons famous for some known trait that pervaded their life completely.
	www.sruweb.com /~walsh/allport_3.html (806 words)

	Later Life
		In 1937 Allport published his first book titled, "Personality: A Psychological Interpretation." This book was the first book to ever define which topics should be covered when studying personality (Hevren).
		Allport also served as a director of the National Commission for the United Nations Educational Scientific, and Cultural Organization (Hjelle and Ziegler p.173).
		Due to his dedication to psychology all the way up until his death, Gordon Allport is one of the most distinguished persons in the study of not only psychology, but in particularly personality and social psychology.
	shrike.depaul.edu /~kmerz/later_life.htm (719 words)

	GORDON, Term Papers 2000, Term papers, 060410
		From the paper: "Psychologist Gordon Allport described the phenomenon of concentric circles around the self, beginning with the family; extending to racial, ethnic, and religious compatriots; and then to members of the community or country.
		Gordon notices "family violence had had virtually no history; that most who discussed it - experts, journalists, friends - assumed they were discussing a new problem" (Gordon 2).
		Gordon reveals that leadership is not about just giving orders, but about making people feel that they are being heard.
	www.termpapers2000.com /lib/essay?A=type1&KEYW=gordon (2014 words)

	(Unedited) Sample Chapter -- Inventing Personality: Gordon Allport and the Science of Selfhood (431684A) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Allport was scheduled to sail to New York in September 1920.
		Allport may have enrolled in both psychology and social ethics, but as a graduate student most of his attention was devoted to the questions and methodological procedures of psychology.
		In 1920, the recently graduated Floyd Allport was appointed to an instructorship in the newly emerging field of social psychology.
	www.apa.org /books/431684As.html (2200 words)

	Trait Theories
		Allport argued that although behavior is variable, there is also a constant portion for each person.
		Allport defined personality as the "dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behavior and thought." According to this view, each person has unique, key qualities.
		Allport conceived personal dispositions in terms of a person's goals, motives, or styles-- a generalized neuropsychic structure that is peculiar to the individual.
	comp.uark.edu /~nlwilli/406ho4.htm (816 words)

	Persogenics Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Allport's study was not based on responses to images, but rather to words; specifically adjectives.
		In a follow-up study, Dr. Allport tested his subject group again, this time eliminating the results gained from the two adjectives not chosen as most or least in each set and instead including the results from only the extremes of the scale.
		We have found that the original study by Dr. Allport was the one with the highest degree of validity and potential.
	www.persogenics.com /mainpage.jsp?page=site/About/Validity.htm (3649 words)

	St. Olaf College \| Psychology Department
		It was established in 1983 by Professor Olaf Millert, one of Dr. Allport's students, to honor Dr. Allport's memory and continuing impact on the psychological profession and on the lives of persons of good will, regardless of race or national background.
		Allport maintained that normal, mature human beings were not irreversibly driven by the events of childhood.
		Allport was a devout Episcopalian and a defender of religious faith in human life.
	www.stolaf.edu /depts/psych/studentinfo/allport.html (590 words)

	Free Essay Learning, from the Perspective of Behaviorism, Skinner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Allport was the first to describe the personality in terms of traits.
		Allport theorized that traits provided the structure, the uniqueness, and the motivation that characterize a person’s personality In Allport’s theory, traits are inferred from behavior and then are used to explain the behavior of the individual.
		Allport’s uniqueness was, he was willing to use whatever method he believed contributed to an understanding of human behavior.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=26254 (2978 words)

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