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Gordon Allport and his brothers grew up surrounded by their father's patients, nurses, and medical equipment, and he and his brothers often assisted their father in the clinic. [5] Allport reported that "Tending office, washing bottles, and dealing with patients were important aspects of my early training" (p. 172). [6]
Allport was born on August 22, 1890, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to John Edward and Nellie Allport. Allport was the second of four sons. His 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 and it was there that he graduated from Glenville High.
In 1954, Allport published The Nature of Prejudice, in which he outlined the most widely cited form of the hypothesis. [1] The premise of Allport's hypothesis states that under appropriate conditions interpersonal contact could be one of the most effective ways to reduce prejudice between majority and minority group members. [1]
The imagined contact hypothesis is derived from Gordon Allport's contact hypothesis, which states that contact between groups is an effective means of reducing prejudice and intergroup conflict. [8] In Allport's seminal work The Nature of Prejudice he suggested that contact at the "fantasy level" [9] may also be an effective means of reducing ...
Mowrer, Murray, Talcott Parsons, Gordon Allport and others formed a group which eventually led to the formation of the Harvard Department of Social Relations, partially in response to the success of the Yale Institute of Human Relations. [6] During this time Mowrer's faith in Freudian theory was fading. His primary professional loyalty had ...
Gordon Ramsay's children are bonding with their new baby brother. To celebrate Thanksgiving, Ramsay shared an adorable clip of his newborn son cuddling with one of his older siblings.
The retailer on Friday announced a transaction with Boston-based asset liquidation firm Gordon Brothers Retail Partners resulting in the transfer of 200 to 400 Big Lots stores to Variety ...
Nevitt Sanford (31 May 1909 – 11 July 1995) was an American professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and later at Stanford University.A Harvard doctoral student of Gordon Allport, PhD in social psychology and Henry Murray, MD at the Harvard Clinic, [1] as a young Cal professor Sanford studied ethnocentrism and antisemitism, and was the senior author along with ...