Contextualizing Floyd Allports's Social Psychology

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

“…7 One question raised by this third account is whether Floyd Allport's treatment of personality as a topic of social psychology was a novel approach, as the first two explanations claim. Allport's conception of social psychology was influenced by Hugo Münsterberg (see Parkovnick, 2000), whose text (Münsterberg, 1914) divided "causal" (experimental) psychology into sections on individual and social psychology. Allport's conception of social psychology was influenced by Hugo Münsterberg (see Parkovnick, 2000), whose text (Münsterberg, 1914) divided "causal" (experimental) psychology into sections on individual and social psychology.…”

The compatibility of two generations of American social psychologists

“…As Greenwood demonstrates (andParkovnick, 2000, andBarenbaum, 2000, also point out), Floyd Allport (1924) was an active spokesperson for the rejection of the notion of the collective mind or the group consciousness or the supraindividual group mind, which he called group fallacy. It was an error, according to Allport, to attempt to explain social phenomena in terms of group entity.…”

A critical gaze and wistful glance atHandbook histories of social psychology: Did the successive accounts by Gordon Allport and successors historiographically succeed?

“…Beginning around World War I, Gordon Allport was largely present, and professionally active, during much of the period when social psychology was becoming defined in North America, and elsewhere, and institutionalized as a field (see Barenbaum, 2000;Cherry, 2000;Chung, 2000;Danziger, 2000;Greenwood, 2000;Nicholson, 2000;Parkovnick, 2000). Prior to his death in 1967, he had monitored the methodological changes and the reactions of social psychology to the rising tide of experimentation.…”

“…For discussions of psychologistic, methodological, political, and moralistic individualisms within social psychology, seeLubek, 1993b;Barenbaum, 2000;Chung, 2000;Danziger, 2000;Greenwood, 2000;Nicholson, 2000;Parkovnick, 2000. …”