Gordon Allport was born. One of the most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century, Allport is best known for his pioneering three-tiered trait theory of personality consisting of Cardinal Traits: Rare but powerful determinants of a person’s behavior. Central Traits: Influential and common to all but not direct determinants of behavior and Secondary Traits: Also common to everybody but highly situation specific so not influential in every context.
Allport spent the majority of his academic career at Harvard University during which time he also became renowned for his groundbreaking social psychological research into a range of topics such as rumor, religion and particularly the nature of prejudice, which was the title of Allport’s landmark book on the subject first published in 1954.
Gordon Allport was elected president of the American Psychological Association in 1939 and in 1963 was presented with The American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award along with an accompanying scroll which read: ‘To Gordon Allport, outstanding teacher and scholar. He has brought warmth, wit, humanistic knowledge, and rigorous inquiry to the study of human individuality and social process.’
Visit –> www.all-about-psychology.com/concepts-of-trait-and-personality.html to read 'Concepts of Trait and Personality’ by Gordon Allport, a classic article in the history of personality psychology.
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