Gordon Allport

Gordon Willard Allport ( born November 11, 1897 in Montezuma, Indiana, USA, † October 9, 1967 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) was an American psychologist and founder of the Allport - scale.

Allport was 1933-1966 Professor of Social Psychology at Harvard University.

He is considered the co-founder of humanistic psychology and the concept of functional autonomy with emphasis on the independence of the motive system of the personality of the underlying primary drives, which he represented in contrast to behaviorism.

Life

Allport grew up as the youngest of four brothers to Glenville in Cleveland, Ohio. One of his older brothers was Floyd Henry Allport, psychology, studied at Harvard, while Gordon studied 1915-1919 Economics. He then taught for a year in English and sociology from Robert College in Constantinople Opel. In 1920, he met in Vienna Sigmund Freud. Back at Harvard, he spent two years studying psychology and earned the Ph.D. in 1922 with a thesis on personality traits. He received a scholarship for two years of study in Europe, which he spent in Hamburg, Berlin and Cambridge. One of his professors in Hamburg was William Stern. In 1924 he returned to Harvard, where he worked as a lecturer in social ethics. From 1926 to 1930 he was assistant professor of psychology at Dartmouth College before moving back to Harvard..

Work areas

  • Personality psychology ( "The Shape and growth of personality " ): Big Five ( Psychology )
  • Research on prejudice ( " The Nature of Prejudice "); Founder of the Allport - scale
  • Synthesis of contexts behaviorism and humanities, understanding psychology
  • Value judgments in the psychology of religion: Collaboration between psychology and religion to "improve " the character; functional and dysfunctional religion

Writings (selection )

  • Hunt for scapegoats. (ABC 's of scapegoating ) Ger: . Christian, Bad Nauheim 1953; 4 ext. Ed in 1968. Ed. and explained. Knud Christian Knudsen
  • Personality. Structure, development and acquisition of human nature. Klett, Stuttgart
  • If the personality. Thoughts and the foundation of a psychology of personality. Kindler, Munich
  • Shape and growth in personality, Anton Hain, Meisenheim
  • Carl F. Graumann, eds: The Nature of Prejudice, Translator Hanna Graumann. Series: Study Library. KiWi, Cologne 1971 ISBN 3-462-00826-9
Cambridge (Massachusetts) Allport's Scale Moral character Integrated Authority File
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