Gordon Allport was born to Montezuma,
Indiana, in 1897, the youngest of four brothers.
Gordon Allport was born in Montezuma,
Indiana, in 1897, the youngest of four brothers.
Mixing between groups could reduce prejudice even if all of Allport's conditions weren't met.
In 2006,
researchers Thomas Pettigrew and Linda Tropp convincingly showed that Allport's conditions weren't actually necessary;
For intergroup contact to reduce prejudice, however, Allport maintained that four critical conditions had to be met.
First proposed by American psychologist Gordon Allport in 1954, the“Contact Hypothesis” suggests that having a positive interaction-
or contact- with a person from an opposing group can improve our attitudes towards that group.
Allport(1950) suggested that mature religious intentions
come from feelings of profound gratitude and Edwards(1746/1959) claimed that the"affection" of gratitude is one of the most accurate ways of finding the presence of God in a person's life.