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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Intergroup relations (section Gordon Allport)
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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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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Psychology of religion (section Gordon Allport)
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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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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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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Lexical hypothesis (section Allport & Odbert)
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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