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    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...
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  • psychology book by American psychologist Gordon Allport, on the topic of prejudice. The book was written by Gordon Allport in the early 1950s and first published...
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  • Allport's Scale of Prejudice and Discrimination is a measure of the manifestation of prejudice in a society. It was devised by psychologist Gordon Allport...
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  • these issues in light of the Brown v. Board of Education lawsuit. Gordon Allport's 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice provided the first theoretical framework...
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  • them, social psychologist Gordon Allport united early research in this vein under intergroup contact theory. In 1954, Allport published The Nature of Prejudice...
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  • in peoples' eyes. In his 1950 book The Individual and His Religion, Gordon Allport (1897–1967) illustrates how people may use religion in different ways...
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  • theorists in the field, a group that includes Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Gordon Allport, Hans Eysenck, Abraham Maslow, and Carl Rogers. Personality can be determined...
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  • the book has sold 16 million copies and been printed in 52 languages. Gordon Allport, who wrote a preface to the book, described it as a "gem of dramatic...
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    affiliated with the department include William James, B. F. Skinner, Gordon Allport, Jerome Bruner, George Miller, and Henry Murray, among others included...
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  • State-Level Policy Work grants. Gordon Allport (1897 – 1967) was an American psychologist and past president of SPSSI. Allport was one of the first psychologists...
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  • also predicts human reactions to other people, problems, and stress. Gordon Allport (1937) described two major ways to study personality: the nomothetic...
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  • 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...
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  • to the German and English estimates offered by earlier researchers, Gordon Allport and Henry S. Odbert revealed this to be a severe underestimate in a...
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    theories of stereotype content proposed by social psychologists such as Gordon Allport assumed that stereotypes of outgroups reflected uniform antipathy. For...
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    the end of the chain. His student was another pioneer in the field, Gordon Allport. The experiment is similar to the children's game Chinese whispers....
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  • Proponents of Humanistic psychology included Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, Gordon Allport, Erich Fromm, and Rollo May. Their humanistic concepts are also related...
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    unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence". Gordon Allport defined prejudice as a "feeling, favorable or unfavorable, toward a...
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  • are descriptions of our actions that do not try to infer causality. Gordon Allport was an early pioneer in the study of traits. This early work was viewed...
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    and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. He also won the Gordon Allport Prize for his work on reducing prejudice. In 1981 he was one of five...
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    African-American slave and US Civil War soldier Gordon Abbott (1914–1986), Australian rules footballer Gordon Allport (1897–1967), American psychologist Gord...
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  • idiographic and nomothetic were introduced to American psychology by Gordon Allport in 1937, but Hugo Münsterberg used them in his 1898 presidential address...
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    subsequently. For this article, Tajfel was awarded the first annual Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize by the Society for the Psychological Study...
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  • concepts of intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation." In 1967, Gordon Allport and J. M. Ross developed a means of measuring religious orientation...
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     Calvin Perry Stone 1941  Herbert Woodrow 1940  Leonard Carmichael 1939  Gordon Allport 1938  John Dashiell 1937  Edward C. Tolman 1936  Clark L. Hull 1935...
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    the Allee effect. He died in Gainesville, Florida, in 1955 at age 69. Gordon Allport was born in Montezuma in 1897; when he was six years old, his family...
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    Ernst Bernheim asserted that a legend is simply a longstanding rumour. Gordon Allport credited the staying-power of some rumours to the persistent cultural...
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  • Meaning. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-1427-1. Retrieved 8 May 2012. Gordon Allport, from the Preface to Man's Search for Meaning, p. xiv "Logotherapy:...
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  • Thorndike Carl Jung John B. Watson Clark L. Hull Kurt Lewin Jean Piaget Gordon Allport J. P. Guilford Carl Rogers Erik Erikson B. F. Skinner Donald O. Hebb...
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    Applied and Preventive Psychology, the James McKeen Cattel Award, and the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize. Her finding that taking care of a plant...
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  • and 30s. Gordon Allport and Henry Murray both supported the idea of a consistent personality with occasional situational influences. Allport noted that...
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