Allport’s Personality and Allport’s Personality

  • Alan C. Elms
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Abstract

In Gordon Allport’s (1967) brief autobiography, written a year before he died, he asked the question repeatedly: “How shall a psychological life history be written?” It was a question he had asked recently about another life, in preparing for book publication the Letters from Jenny (1965). It was a question he had asked more broadly a quarter-century earlier, in writing his monograph on The Use of Personal Documents in Psychological Science (1942). It was a question he had asked quite early in his career, in a paper on a confessional work titled The Locomotive God (1929). Indeed, Allport said that even his doctoral dissertation, An Experimental Study of the Traits of Personality (1922a), “was an early formulation of the riddle: How shall a psychological life history be written?” (1967, p. 7).

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Early Training Functional Autonomy Introductory Lecture Personal Document Clean Personality 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Alan C. Elms
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  1. 1.Department of PsychologyUniversity of CaliforniaDavisUSA

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