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Gordon Allport

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Gordon Willard Allport (November 11, 1897 – October 9, 1967) was an American psychologist. [1]

45 relations: Allport's Scale, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Anthony Greenwald, Behavior, Berlin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Collier's, Contact hypothesis, Floyd Henry Allport, Gestalt psychology, Glenville High School, Harvard University, Herbert Langfeld, Hugo Münsterberg, Indiana, Instinct, Jerome Bruner, Lexical hypothesis, List of scholars on the relationship between religion and science, M. Brewster Smith, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Montezuma, Indiana, Motivation, Patent medicine, Personality, Personality psychology, Political psychology, Prejudice, Protestant work ethic, Psychoanalysis, Psychologist, Psychology, Religion, Review of General Psychology, Robert College, Rumor, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Sigmund Freud, Social psychology, Stanley Milgram, Syracuse University, United States, University of Cambridge, Values scale, Vienna.

Allport's Scale

Allport's Scale is a measure of the manifestation of prejudice in a society.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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Anthony Greenwald

Anthony Galt Greenwald is a social psychologist and, since 1986, professor of psychology at University of Washington.

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Behavior

Behavior (American English) or behaviour (Commonwealth English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the (inanimate) physical environment.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Collier's

Collier's was an American magazine, founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier.

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Contact hypothesis

In criminology, psychology, and sociology, the Intergroup Contact Theory has been described as one of the best ways to improve relations among groups that are experiencing conflict.

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Floyd Henry Allport

Floyd Henry Allport (August 22, 1890 – October 15, 1979) was an American psychologist who is often considered "the father of experimental social psychology", having played a key role in the creation of social psychology as a legitimate field of behavioral science.

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Gestalt psychology

Gestalt psychology or gestaltism (from Gestalt "shape, form") is a philosophy of mind of the Berlin School of experimental psychology.

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Glenville High School

Glenville Academic Campus is a public high school in the Glenville area on the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Herbert Langfeld

Herbert Sidney Langfeld (July 24, 1879 – February 25, 1958) was an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association (APA).

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Hugo Münsterberg

Hugo Münsterberg (June 1, 1863 – December 16, 1916) was a German-American psychologist.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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Instinct

Instinct or innate behavior is the inherent inclination of a living organism towards a particular complex behavior.

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Jerome Bruner

Jerome Seymour Bruner (October 1, 1915 – June 5, 2016) was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.

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Lexical hypothesis

The lexical hypothesis (also known as the fundamental lexical hypothesis, lexical approach, or sedimentation hypothesis) is a thesis current primarily in early personality psychology and subsequently subsumed by many later efforts in that subfield.

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List of scholars on the relationship between religion and science

This is a list of notable individuals who have focused on studying the intersection of religion and science.

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M. Brewster Smith

Mahlon Brewster Smith (June 26, 1919 – August 4, 2012) was an American psychologist and past president of the American Psychological Association.

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Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (commonly known as the Maxwell School) is Syracuse University's home for professional degree programs in public administration and international relations; scholarly, doctoral programs in the social sciences; and undergraduate instruction in the social sciences.

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Montezuma, Indiana

Montezuma is a town in Reserve Township, Parke County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

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Motivation

Motivation is the reason for people's actions, desires, and needs.

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Patent medicine

A patent medicine, also known as a nostrum (from the Latin nostrum remedium, or "our remedy") is a commercial product advertised (usually heavily) as a purported over-the-counter medicine, without regard to its effectiveness.

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Personality

Personality is defined as the set of habitual behaviors, cognitions and emotional patterns that evolve from biological and environmental factors.

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Personality psychology

Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation among individuals.

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Political psychology

Political psychology is an interdisciplinary academic field dedicated to understanding politics, politicians and political behavior from a psychological perspective.

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Prejudice

Prejudice is an affective feeling towards a person or group member based solely on that person's group membership.

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Protestant work ethic

The Protestant work ethic, the Calvinist work ethic or the Puritan work ethic is a concept in theology, sociology, economics and history which emphasizes that hard work, discipline and frugality are a result of a person's subscription to the values espoused by the Protestant faith, particularly Calvinism.

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders.

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Psychologist

A psychologist studies normal and abnormal mental states from cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior by observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one another and to their environments.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

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Religion

Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.

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Review of General Psychology

Review of General Psychology is the quarterly scientific journal of the American Psychological Association Division 1: The Society for General Psychology.

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Robert College

Robert College of Istanbul (İstanbul Özel Amerikan Robert Lisesi or Robert Kolej) is an independent privateThe Turkish education system divides schools into two classes: public or private.

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Rumor

A rumor (American English) or rumour (British English; see spelling differences) is "a tall tale of explanations of events circulating from person to person and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in public concern." In the social sciences, a rumor involves some kind of a statement whose veracity is not quickly or ever confirmed.

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Samuel Hopkins Adams

Samuel Hopkins Adams (January 26, 1871 – November 16, 1958) was an American writer, best known for his investigative journalism and muckraking.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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Social psychology

Social psychology is the study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

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Stanley Milgram

Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiment on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.

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Syracuse University

Syracuse University (commonly referred to as Syracuse, 'Cuse, or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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Values scale

Values scales are psychological inventories used to determine the values that people endorse in their lives.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Allport

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