Biography

• • Mother of Gordon Allport
  • a very pious woman who placed heavy emphasis on religion
  • Former Schoolteacher
  • taught Gordon the virtues of clean language and proper conduct as well as the importance of searching for ultimate religious answers

  Nellie Wise Allport
• • Older brother of Gordon by 7 years

  Floyd Allport
• • Father of Gordon Allport
  • engaged in a number of business ventures before becoming a physician at about the time of Gordon’s birth
  • turned the household into a miniature hospital

  John E. Allport
• Allport (1967) wrote that his early life “was marked by plain Protestant piety”
• Allport was even bullied as a boy for being a “human dictionary”
• He described himself as a social “isolate” who fashioned his own circle of activities.
• He described himself as a social “isolate” who fashioned his own circle of activities.
• He received his bachelor’s degree in 1919 with a major in philosophy and economics, he was still uncertain about a future career.
• In Vienna, Allport had the meeting with Sigmund Freud that we briefly described in the introduction to this chapter. This meeting with Freud greatly influenced Allport’s later ideas on personality.
• • In 1924, he returned again to Harvard to teach, among other classes, a new course in the ? ? ?
  • this course was the first personality course offered in an American college.
  • combined social ethics and the pursuit of goodness and morality with the scientific discipline of psychology.
  • It also reflected Allport’s strong personal dispositions of cleanliness and morality.

  Psychology of Personality
• • Wife of Gordon Allport
  • he had met her when both were graduate students.
  • received a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Harvard, had the clinical training that her husband lacked.
  • a valuable contributor to some of Gordon’s work, especially his two extensive case studies

  Ada Gould
• His wife was a valuable contributor to some of his work, especially his two extensive case studies: the case of Jenny Gove Masterson and the case of Marion Taylor, which was never published.