Gordon Allport Contact Theory
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Gordon allport contact theory. Written by jim a. Of them social psychologist gordon allport united early research in this vein under intergroup contact. Allport 1939 apa presidential address allport created a highly influential three tiered hierarchy of personality traits consisting of.
He rejected two of the dominant schools of thought in psychology at the time psychoanalysis and behaviorism in favor of his own approach that stressed the importance of individual differences and situational variables. In psychology and other social sciences the contact hypothesis suggests that intergroup contact under appropriate conditions can effectively reduce prejudice between majority and minority group members. While the contact hypothesis has been studied most often in the context of racial prejudice researchers have found that contact was able to reduce prejudice against members of a variety of marginalized groups.
The seeds of intergroup contact theory. The modern premise behind desegregation is that when people are exposed to people of different races and ethnicities that will inherently reduce their racial bias and that concept is often. Gordon allport was a pioneering psychologist often referred to as one of the founders of personality psychology.
Gordon allport was one of the pioneer trait theorists who attempted to list the traits that make an individuals personality. Has allport been supported. Rare but strongly deterministic of behavior.
Central traits influence but do not determine an individuals behavior. Future directions in intergroup contact theory. We provide an overview of the type and trait theory of personality as developed by this famous psychologist.
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Past present and future. Following wwii and the desegregation of the military and other public institutions policymakers and social scientists had turned an eye towards the policy implications of interracial contact. According to gordon allport who first proposed the theory four conditions are necessary to reduce prejudice.
A metaanalysis of intergroup contact effects. The application of the theory toward the improvement of intergroup relations has had the effect of concealing the fact that contact theory is fundamentally a prejudice theory and not a theory of intergroup relations.