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...Allport is survived by his wife, Ada, a son, Dr. Robert Allport, who is a physician in California, and three grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Christ Church, Cambridge, with burial to follow
...survey some years ago, American psycho-therapists were asked to name the theorists whose work they found most useful. Sigmund Freud, of course, headed the list; second was Gordon Allport...
...Allport himself was somewhat bemused by the fact, He had never established, as had Freud, a school of thought bearing his name; his students were as diverse in their outlook as the fields he brought together in 1946 to form the Social Relations Department. And that is the way he wanted...
...Allport; had peculiar courage. He was a shy man--his students, misunderstanding, often thought him aloof--and his quiet, gentlemanly air gave the impression of a man not easily involved in the turmoils outside academic seclusion. Colleagues thus mislead were frequently amazed. In the thirties, he worked to bring to this country Jewish scholars, especially psychologists, then living in Nazi Germany. During the war, he was one of the founders of the Boston Herald's "Rumor Clinics," and he began a systematic survey of rumor mongering--ignoring a feeling among some of his colleagues that...
...Allport was in fact always something of an academic maverick. He turned to the study of the human psyche at a time when his American colleagues--and especially those at Harvard--though of psychology chiefly as the study of animals...