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Also Known As Gordon Willard Allport
Born November 11, 1897 • Indiana
Died October 9, 1967 (aged 69) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Notable Works “Becoming” • “Personality: A Psychological Interpretation”
Subjects Of Study personality • self
Karen Horney
Karen Horney
German psychoanalyst
William Sheldon
American psychologist
Raymond B. Cattell
American psychologist
Morton Prince
American psychologist
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst
Wilhelm Reich
Austrian psychologist
E. Mavis Hetherington
Canadian-born developmental psychologist
John Money
American psychologist
Harry F. Harlow
American psychologist
William Moulton Marston
American psychologist
Eleanor Glueck
American criminologist
Sheldon Glueck
American criminologist
William James
William James
American psychologist and philosopher
Leon Festinger
American psychologist
Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram
American social psychologist
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
American psychologist
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura
American psychologist
George A. Miller
American psychologist
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American psychologist
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie
American author and lecturer