Floyd Henry Allport

Floyd Henry Allport (August 22, 1890 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA - October 15, 1978 in Los Altos, California, USA) was professor of social psychology and political psychology at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (in Syracuse, New York, USA) from 1924 until 1956, and visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley. He is considered the founder of social psychology as a scientific discipline. Allport received his AB and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1913 and 1919 respectively. At Harvard, Allport was Herbert S. Langfeld's teaching assistant. Floyd Henry Allport was the brother of psychologist Gordon Willard Allport.

Main works:

• Social Psychology, ISBN 0-384-00890-9
• Institutional Behavior: Essays toward a Re-interpreting of Contemporary Social Organization, ISBN 0-8371-2145-0
• Theories of Perception and the Concept of Structure: A Review and Critical Analysis with an Introduction to a Dynamic-Structure Theory of Behavior, ISBN 0-7581-0489-8

External links

• Article: Floyd H. Allport and the Social Psychology
• Allport's work online at the Mead Project
• Nicholson, I. A. M. (2000). 'A coherent datum of perception': Gordon Allport, Floyd Allport and the politics of personality. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 36, 471-487.
• Parkovnick, S. (2000). Contextualizing Floyd Allport's Social Psychology. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 36, 429-441.