How social was personality? The Allports' ?connection? of social and personality psychology

?A coherent datum of perception?: Gordon Allport, Floyd Allport, and the politics of ?personality?

“…After presenting a version of the "Undivided Personality" at the British Psychological Society meetings, he sent the paper off to the editor of the Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology for possible publication. The editor of that journal just happened to be Floyd Allport (see Barenbaum, 2000). For Gordon, this may have been a calculated act designed to underscore his distinctiveness, or he may simply have viewed the JASP as the best outlet for his work.…”

“… Barenbaum (2000). notes that, in the early 1920s, "personality" was viewed as a subtopic of abnormal and social psychology.…”

The nature ofThe Nature of Prejudice

“…Readers are referred to Elms (1993) who has analyzed Allport's sense of his "inferiority" in relation to the psychodynamic relationship with his older brother Floyd, a relationship explored from other vantage points by Nicholson (2000) and Barenbaum (2000). acknowledged that "It was the interested and arduous labor of my students in the continuing seminar on Group conflict and prejudice that finally determined the content and form of the exposition" (p. xviii).…”

A critical gaze and wistful glance atHandbook histories of social psychology: Did the successive accounts by Gordon Allport and successors historiographically succeed?

“…Although often labeled as a personality theorist, his "chief intellectual love," Allport pointed out that "perhaps half of my research and writing has dealt with more general topics in social psychology" (Allport, 1967a, p. 395). See Barenbaum (2000) on the overlap between Allport's thinking in social and personality psychology, quite evident in his definition of social psychology, and Nicholson (2000). 13.…”

“…Beginning around World War I, Gordon Allport was largely present, and professionally active, during much of the period when social psychology was becoming defined in North America, and elsewhere, and institutionalized as a field (see Barenbaum, 2000;Cherry, 2000;Chung, 2000;Danziger, 2000;Greenwood, 2000;Nicholson, 2000;Parkovnick, 2000). Prior to his death in 1967, he had monitored the methodological changes and the reactions of social psychology to the rising tide of experimentation.…”