In a phrase, personality is not just who we are, Gordon Allport ( 1937 ) described two major ways to study personality: the nomothetic and the idiographic.

Gordon Allport, Abraham Maslow, and Carl Rogers were all advocates of the uniqueness of individuals.

* Gordon Allport delineated different kinds of traits, which he also called dispositions.

In his book, Personality: A Psychological Interpretation, Gordon Allport ( 1937 ) both established personality psychology as a legitimate intellectual discipline and introduced the first of the modern trait theories.

Milgram had a number of significant influences, including psychologists Solomon Asch and Gordon Allport.

Gordon Allport credited the staying-power of certain rumours to the persistent cultural state-of-mind that they embody and capsulise ; thus " Urban legends " are a feature of rumour.

" Gordon Allport defined prejudice as a " feeling, favorable or unfavorable, toward a person or thing, prior to, or not based on, actual experience.

In 1954, Gordon Allport linked prejudice and categorical thinking.

Gordon Allport

Gordon Allport was born in Montezuma in 1897 ; when he was six years old, his family moved to Ohio.

Montezuma is the birthplace of Gordon Allport ( 1897 – 1967 ), a noted personality theorist.

In 1954, Gordon Allport suggested that by promoting contact between groups, prejudice can be reduced.

His student was another pioneer in the field, Gordon Allport.

In the 1947 study, Psychology of Rumor, Gordon Allport and Joseph Postman concluded that, " as rumor travels it [...] grows shorter, more concise, more easily grasped and told.

Other noteworthy inspirations for and leaders of the movement include Roberto Assagioli, Gordon Allport, Medard Boss, Martin Buber ( close to Jacob L. Moreno ), James Bugental, Victor Frankl, Erich Fromm, Hans-Werner Gessmann, Amedeo Giorgi, Kurt Goldstein, Sidney Jourard, R. D. Laing, Clark Moustakas, Lewis Mumford, Fritz Perls, Anthony Sutich, Thomas Szasz, Kirk J. Schneider, and Ken Wilber.

Prominent psychologist Gordon Allport once described attitudes " the most distinctive and indispensable

Gordon Allport was an early pioneer in the study of traits, which he sometimes referred to as dispositions.

Gordon Allport posits additional ideas regarding cell assembly theory and its role in forming engrams, along the lines of the concept of auto-association, described as follows:

As a result, the idea of character and morality were largely ignored, especially in the realm of personality trait psychology, where references to character and morally tinged terms were completely avoided, even banned, by Gordon Allport, a major personality psychologist at the time.

* Gordon Allport

In his classic book The Individual and His Religion ( 1950 ), Gordon Allport ( 1897 – 1967 ) illustrates how people may use religion in different ways.

He also won the Gordon Allport Prize for his work on reducing prejudice.

Other honors include the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest of the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished Contributions of Basic Science to Applied Psychology award from the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology, the James McKeen Cattel Award, and the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize.

Gordon Willard Allport ( November 11, 1897 – October 9, 1967 ) was an American psychologist.

* 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer

* 1917 – Sid Gordon, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )

* 1927 – Gordon Scott, American actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1918 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, pacifist, and author ( d. 2007 )

* 1938 – Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician

* 1960 – Gary Gordon, American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1993 )

* 1892 – Vere Gordon Childe, Australian philologist ( d. 1957 )

* 1978 – Joe Gordon, American baseball player ( b. 1915 )

* 1985 – Noele Gordon, English actress ( b. 1919 )

* 1964 – Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer

* 1971 – Jeff Gordon, American race car driver

* 1943 – Gordon West, English footballer ( d. 2012 )

Reprinted on pp. 92 – 119 in Bell, C. Gordon and Newell, Allen ( 1971 ), Computer Structures: Readings and Examples, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.

* 1980 – 81 Paul " Loaf " Gordon

* Gordon, David M. The China-Japan War, 1931 – 1945.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

* Gordon Wilson ( 1927 – 1995 ), Peace campaigner and Irish senator

Gordon., " The counter-cult monitoring movement in historical perspective ," in Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker, edited by James A. Beckford & James T. Richardson, ( Routledge, London, 2003 ), pp. 102 – 113.

After time spent in Palestine in 1882 – 83, General Charles George Gordon found a location outside the old city walls that he suggested to have been the real location of Golgotha.

* 1949 – Mary Gordon, American writer

* 1965 – Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer

* 1969 – Lewis Gordon Pugh, English swimmer, explorer and motivational speaker

Gordon Onslow Ford ( 1912 – 2003 ), a leading British surrealist painter, attended the Royal Naval College.

* Margaret Maria Gordon ( 1823 – 1907 ) wrote a book on Brewster, which is considered the most comprehensive description of his life.

* 1937 – Gordon Banks, English footballer