Allport
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Allport said such recordings were an "invasion of privacy", and in some situations can have a "massive impact on our members' mental health".
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Mr. Allport, a historian at Syracuse University, found this lovely missive in the digital archive of RAF Bomber Command, one of the many archives he has culled to put this book together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
In his 1924 book Social Psychology, Allport made a sweeping inference from Darwin’s writing to say that expressions begin as vestigial in newborns but quickly assume useful social functions.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2022
Alan Allport is a professor of history at Syracuse University.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022
In 1867 Mr. James Allport was general manager of the Midland Railway, Mr. Thomas Walklate the goods manager and Mr. William Parker head of the department in which I began my railway life.
From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow
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