The 1937 Allport and Stagner Texts in Personality Psychology

Abstract

In August 1937, Gordon W. Allport and Ross Stagner completed and dated the prefaces to their distinctive new textbooks. Allport's textbook was entitled Personality: A Psychological Interpretation and was published by Henry Holt in New York, with a later English edition by Constable & Company issued in London in 1949. Stagner's textbook was entitled Psychology of Personality and was published in New York and London by McGraw-Hill. In 1961, Allport prepared a revision that preserved the overall structure of his 1937 volume but with major rewriting and a new title: Pattern and Growth in Personality. Stagner's textbook continued steadily through four editions (1937, 1948, 1961, 1974) with substantial revisions, especially between the first and second editions.