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Allport’s Personal Documents

Then and Now

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Fifty Years of Personality Psychology

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It was my pleasure to spend a rather extensive amount of time with Gordon Allport during the spring semester of 1966, when he was a visiting fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu and I was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii. He was a gentle and gracious man who was willing to share his past experiences and to facilitate the development of younger colleagues. I remember fondly that he volunteered to fill out an attitude scale I had recently constructed (the Philosophies of Human Nature Scale), and he even scored his own scale responses. Twenty-five years later, I still deeply value my association with him.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, USA

    Lawrence S. Wrightsman

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  1. Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, California, USA

    Kenneth H. Craik

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, 74104, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

    Robert Hogan

  3. Department of Psychology, State University of New York, 14454, Geneseo, New York, USA

    Raymond N. Wolfe

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Wrightsman, L.S. (1993). Allport’s Personal Documents. In: Craik, K.H., Hogan, R., Wolfe, R.N. (eds) Fifty Years of Personality Psychology. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2311-0_11

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