Sigmund Freud, of course, headed the list; second was Gordon Allport. Allport himself was ... His greatest contribution to sociology was a theory on the uniqueness of each human personality.

But personality psychologists rarely include values as a part of personality. This is why. Skip to main content ... to the work of one of the founders of personality psychology, Gordon Allport.

As Gordon Allport, one of the founders of personality psychology put it in 1961, "the most important anchorage to our self-identity throughout life remains our own name". Catherine Delahaye/Getty ...

Writing in 1961, the US psychologist Gordon Allport said he had faith that “sometime in the distant future, well-proved facts concerning personality will be found to interlock with well-proved ...

Brief History of the 5 Personality Traits. Trait theories of personality have aimed to determine the number of traits that define individuals. Gordon Allport identified 4,000 traits, Raymond ...

“The father of modern personality trait theory, Gordon Allport, distinguished the ‘mature person’ based on their intentional pursuit of long-term goals. ...

Thinking about personality as a collection of traits goes all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome, and trait theorists such as Gordon Allport, R. B. Cattell and Hans Eysenck shaped the study ...

Gordon W. Allport '19, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, died yesterday in Stillman Infirmary following an extended illness.