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Gordon Allport

1897 - 1967

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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 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 was too deeply interpretive, and a behavioral approach, which he thought did not provide deep enough interpretations from their data. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gordon Allport has received more than 842,909 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Gordon Allport is the 33rd most popular psychologist (up from 35th in 2019), the 470th most popular biography from United States (down from 444th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Psychologist.

Gordon Allport was an American psychologist who is famous for his contributions to the field of personality psychology. He is particularly known for his development of the trait theory of personality, which emphasized the importance of individual differences in human behavior and cognition. Allport was also a prominent advocate for the study of social attitudes and the role of prejudice and discrimination in society.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Gordon Allport ranks 33 out of 235. Before him are Karen Horney, Alfred Binet, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hermann Rorschach, and Howard Gardner. After him are Paul Ekman, Jerome Bruner, Eric Berne, Lawrence Kohlberg, Hans Eysenck, and Donald Winnicott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Gordon Allport ranks 19. Before him are Georges Bataille, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Louis Aragon, Norbert Elias, Ferenc Szálasi, and Soong Mei-ling. After him are Tadeusz Reichstein, Frank Capra, Kurt Schuschnigg, Pola Negri, Thích Quảng Đức, and Odd Hassel. Among people deceased in 1967, Gordon Allport ranks 18. Before him are Spencer Tracy, Zoltán Kodály, Jack Ruby, André Maurois, Edward Hopper, and Jayne Mansfield. After him are Rodion Malinovsky, Ilya Ehrenburg, Johannes Itten, Felix Yusupov, John Coltrane, and Richard Kuhn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gordon Allport ranks 470 out of 20,380. Before him are Bryan Cranston (1956), Douglas Engelbart (1925), Iggy Pop (1947), Jayne Mansfield (1933), Dick Cheney (1941), and Steven Van Zandt (1950). After him are Lou Reed (1942), Jodie Foster (1962), John Tyler (1790), Rutherford B. Hayes (1822), Paul Walker (1973), and Kevin Spacey (1959).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Gordon Allport ranks 10. Before him are Carl Rogers (1902), John B. Watson (1878), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), Edward Thorndike (1874), B. F. Skinner (1904), and Howard Gardner (1943). After him are Paul Ekman (1934), Jerome Bruner (1915), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Milton H. Erickson (1901), Alfred Kinsey (1894), and Albert Ellis (1913).

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