Allport shifted his definition of religious intrinsicness across eleven variants

Evidence

Allport’s conceptualization of “intrinsic” roamed even farther than this. Hunt and King (1971) cited eleven different ways he distinguished the intrinsic orientation from the extrinsic. This strikes me as singularly unusual, for Allport was justly known for the care he took in defining concepts such as “personality” and . — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4190

Categorization

• QUESTION: A construct this unstable may not be a clean operationalization of the religious-authoritarianism pathway — worth checking which variant most studies actually used.