Floyd Henry Allport
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American psychologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Floyd Henry Allport 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. His book Social Psychology impacted all future writings in the field. He was particularly interested in public opinion, attitudes, morale, rumors, and behavior. He focused on exploration of these topics through laboratory experimentation and survey research.
Floyd Henry Allport's Published Works
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- Theories of perception and the concept of structure: A review and critical analysis with an introduction to a dynamic-structural theory of behavior. (1956) (343)
- The influence of the group upon association and thought. (1920) (313)
- A structuronomic conception of behavior: individual and collective. I. Structural theory and the master problem of social psychology. (1962) (251)
- The structuring of events: outline of a general theory with applications to psychology. (1954) (159)
- The J-Curve Hypothesis of Conforming Behavior (1934) (159)
- TOWARD A SCIENCE OF PUBLIC OPINION (1937) (137)
- Wartime rumors of waste and special privilege: why some people believe them. (1945) (125)
- The Group Fallacy in Relation to Social Science (1924) (101)
- Students' attitudes; a report of the Syracuse University reaction study. (1931) (85)
- Problems of Installation in Museums of Art. (1936) (83)
- Teleonomic description in the study of personality. (1937) (77)
- The Measurement and Motivation of Atypical Opinion in a Certain Group (1925) (62)
- The Contemporary Appraisal of an Old Problem. (1961) (55)
- Personality structure and group structure: an interpretative study of their relationship through an event-structure hypothesis. (1956) (44)
- A theory of enestruence (event-structure theory): report of progress. (1967) (38)
- BUILDING WAR MORALE WITH NEWS-HEADLINES (1943) (37)
- Behavior and experiment in social psychology. (36)
- The Causation of Anti-Semitism: An Investigation of Seven Hypotheses (1952) (35)
- Mind and behavior (32)
- Social Psychology and Human Values (1928) (31)
- An Event-System Theory of Collective Action: With Illustrations from Economic and Political Phenomena and the Production of War (1940) (29)
- Institutional Behavior: Essays toward a Re-interpreting of Contemporary Social Organization (1969) (22)
- POLLS AND THE SCIENCE OF PUBLIC OPINION (1940) (19)
- Rule and Custom as Individual Variations of Behavior Distributed Upon a Continuum of Conformity (1939) (14)
- The Nature of Institutions (1927) (13)
- A Physiological-Genetic Theory of Feeling and Emotion. (1922) (13)
- Lengths of conversations: a conformity situation analyzed by the telic continuum and J-curve hypothesis. (1939) (11)
- Personality as a Pattern of Teleonomic Trends (1941) (11)
- Social Change: An Analysis of Professor Ogburn's Culture Theory (1924) (11)
- Discussion: The group fallacy in relation to culture. (8)
- Methods in the Study of Collective Action Phenomena (1942) (8)
- The psychological bases of social science. (8)
- The A--S reaction study : a scale for measuring ascendance-submission in personality : manual of directions, scoring values, and norms (1939) (7)
- Broadcasting to an Enemy Country: What Appeals are Effective, and Why (1946) (7)
- Motive as a concept in natural science. (6)
- The present status of social psychology. (6)
- The Psychological Nature of Political Structure (1927) (5)
- Fluctuations of attention. (5)
- I. Introduction: The Hanover Round Table and Social Psychology of 1936 (1937) (4)
- Memory and the Learning Process (1918) (4)
- The psychophysical law (Weber's Law). (4)
- VIII. The Observation of Societal Behaviors of Individuals (1937) (4)
- An elementary laboratory course in psychology, second revised edition. (4)
- CONSERVATION OF VISION. (1914) (3)
- Summary and conclusions: Eight major generalizations of the theories; Perception as a dynamic structure of events. (1955) (3)
- The War-Producing Behavior of Citizens: A Scale of Measurement, with Preliminary Results in Imagined Situations (1940) (3)
- The Scientific Spirit and the Common Man (1945) (2)
- The problem of perception--its place in the methodology of science. (1955) (2)
- The configurational approach: Gestalt theory of perception. (1955) (2)
- Culture Conflict and Delinquency. II. Culture Conflict versus the Individual as Factors in Delinquency (1931) (2)
- TELEONOMIC DESCRIPTION IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR (1941) (2)
- Review of The basis of social theory. (2)
- II Culture Conflict Versus the Individual as Factors in Delinquency (1931) (2)
- Social psychology: The bases of behavior called social. (2)
- A Study of Social Institutions (1926) (2)
- Some Research Suggestions on “Morale” (1941) (1)
- The phenomena of perception. (1955) (1)
- Review of The Ku Klux Klan: A study of the American mind. (1)
- THE STRUCTURAL ENERGICS OF LEARNING: A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF PERSONALITY-TREND AND COLLECTIVE STRUCTURES ON READING RATE IMPROVEMENT (1954) (1)
- Recent psychoanalytic contributions to social theory and practice. (1)
- Social aspects of the measurement of intelligence. (1)
- Review of Social groups. (1)
- Beyond hypothesis-theory: Toward a structural theory of set dynamics and interaction. (1955) (0)
- Perception of space. (0)
- Some basic psychological conceptions. (0)
- Span of perception. (0)
- Detection of suppressed ideas by the association method. (0)
- Review of Personnel management: Principles, practices, and points of view. (0)
- Directive-state reformulated: Hypothesis-theory and the revival of set. (1955) (0)
- The association approach: Cell assembly and phase sequence. (1955) (0)
- Functional and molar standpoints: Probabilistic and transactional functionalism. (1955) (0)
- The unsolved problem of meaning: Perception of object character and situation; critique of gestalt organization; Theories of meaning. (1955) (0)
- Review of The control of the social mind. (0)
- College Problems@@@Students' Attitudes (1931) (0)
- Method of impression. (0)
- Review of Morale, The Supreme Standard of Life and Conduct. (1921) (0)
- Perception of time. (0)
- Kinds and vividness of imagery. (0)
- Personality in our changing society. (0)
- An orientation to psychological theories. (1955) (0)
- Transition to motivational dynamics: Critique of dimensionalism; Nativism versus empiricism. (1955) (0)
- Adaptation-level; Perceptual norm and frame of reference. (1955) (0)
- Free chain association. (0)
- Motor aspects: Sensory-tonic field theory. (1955) (0)
- Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977 (1973) (0)
- Outline of a general theory of event-structure: A tentative statement with applications to the problems of perception. (1955) (0)
- Imagery and voluntary suppression. (0)
- Recent psychoanalytic contributions to child psychology. (0)
- The classical theories and their legacy; Core-context theory. (1955) (0)
- Method of expression. (0)
- The system viewpoint-cybernetics: Its psychological implications and contribution to perceptual theory. (1955) (0)
- Recognition and discrimination in memory. (0)
- Review of Applied psychology. (0)
- Perception and theories of learning: The behaviortheory approach; Embarrassment of rival formulations. (1955) (0)
- Topological field theory and its relation to perception. (1955) (0)
- Motor aspects (concluded): Set and motor adjustments; their relation to perceptual theory. (1955) (0)
- Perception of words and meaning. (0)
- The nature of suggestion. (0)
- The directive-state theory of perception. (1955) (0)
- Strength of attention. (0)
- Directive-state (concluded); Perceptual theory in social psychology; Roads that diverge. (1955) (0)
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