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Gordon W. Allport

(1897–1967) Research Fellow

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Gordon W. Allport was a research fellow.

Quick Facts About Gordon W. Allport

Born: November 11, 1897
Died: October 9, 1967
Profession: Research Fellow

About Gordon W. Allport

[Wikidata] American psychologist (1897–1967)... | [Wikipedia] Gordon William 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. He contributed to the formation of values scales and rejected both a psychoanal

Quotes by Gordon W. Allport

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and…

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Conflict

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Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

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Active

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What is familiar tends to become a value.

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Become

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The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

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Lose

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Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

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Makes

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Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time…

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Change

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A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

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Actively

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So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

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Life

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The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult…

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Account

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No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

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Corner

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Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a…

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Becoming

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Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other…

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Anybody

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