Born in Montezuma, Indiana, in 1897, Gordon Allport, was the youngest
             of four brothers. He had a shy and serious personality, and was teased due
             to which he lived rather an isolated childhood. His father, who was a
             country doctor, wanted Gordon to grow up with his father's patients and
             nurses and all the belongings of a miniature hospital. However, his early
             life was quite pleasant and ordinary (Valerie, 2000).
             When writing about Allport, one of his stories is always mentioned:
             At the age of 22, he went to Vienna and met with Sigmund Freud. When he
             arrived in Freud's office, Freud just waited for Gordon to begin. After a
             while, as Gordon was not able to hold on to the silence, he exclaimed an
             observation he had made while on his way to meet him.
             He revealed that he saw a little boy on the bus who was extremely
             upset at having to sit where previously a dirty old man was sitting
             (Valerie, 2000). According to Gordon's observation, he has learned this
             attribute from his mother, whom must be a very neat and seemed to be rather
             dominant kind. Freud didn't take this observation as merely an
             observation, but instead he took it as an expression of some profound,
             inborn process in Gordon's mind, and stated "And was that little boy you'"
             Through this experience he realized that in-depth psychology sometimes
             digs too deeply, just the way he realized earlier that behaviorism usually
             doesn't dig to that much extent (Valerie, 2000). In 1922, Allport received
             his Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard, following footsteps of his brother
             Floyd. Much of his career was spent in developing theories and exploring
             social issues like prejudice, and later develop personality tests (Valerie,
             2000). In 1967, he died in Cambridge Massachusetts.
             The center of his work was in the theory of Personality. His books on
             personality include Personality: A Psychological Inter
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