Background
Allport, Floyd Henry was born on August 22, 1890 in Milwaukee. Son of John Edward and Nellie Edith (Wise) Allport.
Allport, Floyd Henry was born on August 22, 1890 in Milwaukee. Son of John Edward and Nellie Edith (Wise) Allport.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1913, Doctor of Philosophy, 1919.
Instructor psychology Harvard and Radcliffe College, 1919-1922. Associate professor psychology U. North Carolina, 1922-1924. Professor social and political psychology Syracuse University, from 1924, member Rumor Clinic, director Morale Seminar, World World World War II, director research on conformity behavior and theory of event-structure, from 1940.
Acting editor Journal Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1921-1924.
Director research on learning Washington office Maxwell School Citizenship, under contract Office Naval Research, 1953-1954. Visiting professor phychology University of California, 1957-1958.
Member research sub-committee President Hoover’s Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership, 1931. Served from Second lieutenant to First lieutenant Field Artillery, United States Army, 1917-1919, with Advertising Educational Foundation, 1918. Member American (council directors 1928-1930), Eastern psychological associations, American Sociological Society, Upper New York Psychologists, National, Institute Psychology, Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues (council directors 1938-1940.
Club: Harvard.
Married Ethel Margaret Hudson, October 5, 1917. Married second, Helene Willey Hartley, September 5, 1938. Children: Edward Herbert, Dorothy Fay, Floyd Henry.