Inventing Personality: Gordon Allport and the Science of Selfhood - Hardcover

Nicholson, Ian A. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 155798929X ISBN 13: 9781557989291

Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn, 2003

Synopsis

Inventing Personality examines the early career of Gordon Allport (1897-1967) to reveal the history of the personality category he championed. Drawing on an extensive array of previously unpublished biographical materials, Ian A. M. Nicholson combines biography with intellectual history to reveal the ways in which Allport's science was embedded in the cultural politics of the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. He argues that personality's emergence as an object of science was linked to the gradual demise of character and the self-sacrificing, morally grounded self that it supported. This book will be invaluable to scholars and practitioners interested in personality, and it will serve as a model of scientific biography.

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About the Author

Ian A. M. Nicholson is associate professor of psychology at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155798929X
• ISBN 13: 9781557989291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288