Gordon W. Allport Quotes
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
Allport, Gordon W. The Nature of Prejudice. Addison-Wesley, 1954, p. 8.
In the 2015 political campaign, she worked as a political surrogate for Domald Trump. She had been asked why Truumo made so many statements in his campaign sppeches that were contrary to the facts. This was her response. She was right so far as Donald Trump and most of his supporters were concered. One of the major fact checking organziations analyzed his speeches and found that about 80 persent of Trump's statments were untrue in part or totally. And almsot all media including Fex News which supported hom remarked on this extreme use of exaggeration or hyperbole, However, his supportwers did not seem to care. Ms. Hughes observed correctly that for a large number of Americans facts no longer mattered. What was important was the issue that he was talking about, whose siide he said he was on, the people he blamed for problems and the promises he made.
Gordon Willard Allport was an American psychologist. Allport was one of the first psychologists to focus on the study of the personality, and is often referred to as one of the founding figures of personality psychology. He contributed to the formation of values scales and rejected both a psychoanalytic approach to personality, which he thought often was too deeply interpretive, and a behavioral approach, which he thought did not provide deep enough interpretations from their data. Instead of these popular approaches, he developed an eclectic theory based on traits. He emphasized the uniqueness of each individual, and the importance of the present context, as opposed to past history, for understanding the personality.
