How social was personality? The Allports' ?connection? of social and personality psychology

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5019989
AutoresNicole B Barenbaum (Sewanee: The University of the South, autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume36
Fascículo4
Páginas471-487
Data de publicação2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/1520-6696(200023)36:4<471::aid-jhbs12>3.0.co;2-e
PMID11054739
OpenAlexW2054416375
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas75

This paper investigates three conflicting reconstructions of the historical relationship between personality and social psychology and addresses questions they raise regarding the subdisciplinary status of personality in the 1920s and the way in which the field gradually emerged as a separate area of psychology. Contesting claims that Floyd Allport first connected social psychology to a separate "branch" of personality psychology in the 1920s, I argue that he drew upon earlier work of psychologists and sociologists who treated personality as a central topic of social psychology. I compare Floyd Allport's views with those of Gordon Allport, who endeavored to establish personality as a separate subdiscipline.

Asian psychology · Cognitive psychology · Critical psychology · Differential psychology · Field (mathematics) · Personality · Personality development · Personality psychology · Psychoanalysis · School psychology · Sociology · Theoretical psychology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Applied Psychology · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology