Suggested Readings
| | Pattern and growth in personality. | Allport, G. W.. (1961). Pattern and growth in personality.. New York:: Holt, Rinehart and Winston..
A completely revised edition of Allport's classic 1937 book on personality, this volume once again focuses on the study of the individual. The book is essential to an understanding of Allport's conception of personality. |  | | | Letters from Jenny. | Allport, G. W.. (1965). Letters from Jenny.. San Diego:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich..
This is a fascinating account of Jenny as seen through her eyes and from the view of Ada and Gordon Allport. | | | | An autobiography. In E. G. Boring & G. Lindzey (Eds.), A history of psychology in autobiography (Vol. 5, pp. 1-25). | Allport, G. W.. (1967). An autobiography. In E. G. Boring & G. Lindzey (Eds.), A history of psychology in autobiography (Vol. 5, pp. 1-25).. New York:: Appleton-Century-Crofts..
Allport writes an interesting account of his life, including his encounter with Sigmund Freud. | | | | The case(s) of Gordon Allport. | Barenbaum, N. B.. (1997). The case(s) of Gordon Allport.. : Journal of Personality, 65, 743-755..
Nicole Barenbaum reveals the unpublished case of Marion Taylor, with emphasis on the role Ada Allport played in both this case history and the story of Jenny Gove Masterson. | | | | The psychology of religion: An empirical approach (2nd ed.). | Hood, R. W., Jr., Spilka, B., Hunsberger, B., & Gorsuch, L.. (1996). The psychology of religion: An empirical approach (2nd ed.).. New York:: Guilford Press..
For students interested in the psychology of religion, this book is an invaluable research on All port's original concept, later refinements, and empirical research. | | | | Gordon Allport, character, and the "culture of personality," 1897-1937. | Nicholson, I. A.. (1998). Gordon Allport, character, and the "culture of personality," 1897-1937.. : History of Psychology, 1, 52-68..
Prior to Gordon Allport's work during the 1920s and 1930s, the concept "theories of personality" did not exist. Freud, Adler, Jung, and other early writers spoke about "character," not "personality." In this article, Ian Nicholson traces the history of Allport's early career and suggests that Allport's near reverence of the term "personality" was a reflection of his need to minimize "character" and to make psychology more respectable and more scientific. | | | |
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