Gordon Willard Allport (Montezumae Indianae die 11 Novembris1897; cancro pulmonisCantabrigiaeMassachusettae die 9 Octobris1967) fuit psychologusAmericanus, unus e primis qui personalitati penitus studebant, unusque e conditoribus psychologiae personalitatis saepe habitus. Formationem graduum aestimationum amplificavit, ambosque reiecit accessum psychoanalyticum ad personalitatem, quem credidit saepe esse nimis profunde interpretivum, atque accessum moralem, quem credidit interpretationes haud satis profundas ex eorum indiciis non suppeditare. Maxime aestimavit unicam cuiusque hominis qualitatem, et momentum contextus praesentis, contra historiam, ad personalitatem intellegendam.
Allport disciplinam psychologicam penitus et diu movit, quamquam eius opera minus quam opera aliorum psychologorum clarorum citantur.[1] Eius auctoritas ex eius amore rerum gravium iucundarumque explorandarum lateque intellegendarum orta est (exempli gratia rumor, praeiudicium, religio, aliaeque proprietates). Praeterea discipulos penitus movit, quibus gratiam maxime habuit, et quorum multi ipsi cursus in psychologia magni momenti habuerint. Inter eius discipulos erant Hieronymus S. Bruner, Antonius Greenwald, Stanleius Milgram, Leo Postman, Thomas Pettigrew, et M. Brewster Smith. Investigatio a Review of General Psychology anno 2002 facta Allport undecimum a citatissimo psychologo saeculi vicensimi numeravit.[2]
Evans, Richard I. 1971. Gordon Allport, the man and his ideas. Novi Eboraci: Dutton. ISBN 0525116028.
Glick, Peter, John Dovidio, et Laurie A. Rudman, eds. 2005. On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years After Allport. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 1-4051-2750-3.
Matlin, M. W. 1995. Psychology. Texas: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
Nicholson, Ian. 1997. Humanistic psychology and intellectual identity: The "open" system of Gordon Allport. Journal of Humanistic Psychology 37: 60–78.
Nicholson, Ian. 1997. To "correlate psychology and social ethics": Gordon Allport and the first course in American personality psychology. Journal of Personality 65:733–42.
Nicholson, Ian. 1998. Gordon Allport, character, and the "culture of personality," 1897-1937. History of Psychology 1:52–68.
Nicholson, Ian. 2000. "A coherent datum of perception": Gordon Allport, Floyd Allport and the politics of personality. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 3(6):463–70.
Nicholson, Ian. 2003. Inventing Personality: Gordon Allport and the Science of Selfhood. American Psychological Association. ISBN 1-55798-929-X.