Allport was born in montezuma, indiana, the youngest of four sons of john edwards and nellie edith wise allport. The nature of prejudice download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Experiences in life tends to form itself into clusters, concepts of categories. He contributed to the formation of values scales and rejected both a psychoanalytic approach to personality, which he thought often was. The relationship between prejudice and categorical thinking was first systematically explored by gordon allport 1954 in his classic book the nature of prejudice. Gordon willard allport november 11, 1897 october 9, 1967 was an american psychologist. With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, harvard psychologist gordon allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice. According to allport we think in categories, that is, the human brain processes information by lumping things together. Gordon allport stated in his book the nature of prejudice is an antipathy based upon a faulty and inflexible generalization.
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