Life and Educational Background
Gordon Allport was born on November 11, 1897, in Montezuma, Indiana. His father, a doctor, inspired Allport’s desire to help people through his experience with patients at their home-based doctor’s office. Allport’s mother was a school teacher, whom he regarded as a strict protestant woman, and is credited by Allport for being the catalyst for his unwavering work ethic (Sheehy 2004).
While Allport was in high school, he started his own printing company and was the chief editor for Glenville High School’s school paper. After graduating second in his class, he received a college scholarship and joined his older brother at Harvard University. Allport spent most of his academic and professional career on the campus of Harvard University. It was there he received his A.B.. degree in Economics and Philosophy. Shortly after in 1921, he received his master’s degree in philosophy; followed by his Ph.D. in 1922. Allport was awarded the esteemed Sheldon Travelling...
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Mautz, T., McKnight, C., Dunn, A., Dunn, S.M. (2019). Allport, Gordon. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1675-1
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