Floyd Henry Allport was professor of social psychology

Social psychology

Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all...

 and political psychology

Political psychology

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 at Syracuse University

Syracuse University

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's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (in Syracuse

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, New York, USA) from 1924 until 1956, and visiting professor at University of California

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, Berkeley

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. He is considered the founder of social psychology as a scientific discipline.
Allport received his AB and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in 1913 and 1919 respectively. At Harvard, Allport was Herbert S. Langfeld's teaching assistant.
Floyd Henry Allport was the brother of psychologist Gordon Willard Allport

Gordon Allport

Gordon Willard Allport 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...

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Main works:

• Social Psychology, ISBN 0-384-00890-9
• Institutional Behavior: Essays toward a Re-interpreting of Contemporary Social Organization, ISBN 0-8371-2145-0
• Theories of Perception and the Concept of Structure: A Review and Critical Analysis with an Introduction to a Dynamic-Structure Theory of Behavior, ISBN 0-7581-0489-8

External links

• Article: Floyd H. Allport and the Social Psychology
• Allport's work online at the Mead Project
• Nicholson, I. A. M. (2000). 'A coherent datum of perception': Gordon Allport, Floyd Allport and the politics of personality. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 36, 471-487.
• Parkovnick, S. (2000). Contextualizing Floyd Allport's Social Psychology. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 36, 429-441.