In this paper an attempt is made to specify the original conception of the
social dimensions of cognition, emotion and behavior-and of a distinctively
social psychology-that was held by early American social psychologists, bu
t abandoned by later generations of social psychologists committed to Floyd
Allport's individualistic experimental program. Two influential forms of "
individualism" in the work of Floyd Allport are distinguished and detailed.
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