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

Bibliographic Data

ID5019989
AuthorsNicole B Barenbaum (Sewanee: The University of the South, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume36
Issue4
Pages471-487
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/1520-6696(200023)36:4<471::aid-jhbs12>3.0.co;2-e
PMID11054739
OpenAlexW2054416375
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited75

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