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Year: 1929 Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company,
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The author contends there remains a question of theoretical and practical aspects of social psychology. As presented in this book it will be a systematic statement of general principles, with illustrative reference to actual types of experience. It is argued that science, however, aims at control of nature. It describes and explains facts for the intellectual satisfaction of understanding them, but also deals with the practical problems of human life. So the psychology of social relations has for its ultimate task the removal or correction of certain individual states of mind and participation in the work of social reconstruction. Personal and collective maladjustments of many kinds, such as childhood timidity, and bumptiousness, industrial conflict and the menace of war, may be dealt with more wisely and effectively in the light of psychological principles. Admittedly our science needs much firmer establishment before it can supersede traditional wisdom and individual common sense, but we may expect it in the future, and indeed in some degree at present, to assume this function. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).
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Year: 1929 Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company,
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"For a number of years, instructors of elementary classes in psychology have desired a book to be used during the second semester which would show how the principles taught in the general psychology during the first semester operate in the various professional and industrial fields. It is to supply such a need that this book was written. The book has been used for three years in mimeographed form with approximately six hundred elementary students each year. In that way it has been possible to prepare a book especially adapted to the particular needs of those whose training in psychology has not been extensive. This book is written from the point of view which regards psychology as one of the natural sciences rather than as a branch of philosophy. An effort has been made to present the experimental findings of scientific investigators without indulging in a partisan discussion of controversial subjects. The book is divided into three parts. Part I deals with those principles which apply equally to the behavior and efficiency of all men. Part II deals with the nature and causes of individual differences. Part III, which is the largest part, considers the specific applications of psychology in the professional and industrial fields"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved).
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