DeepDyve eBooks - Social psychology.

Preliminary survey.

Myerson, Abraham

Pages: 3 –25

Most of the inner life that besets the human being arises from social teaching and preaching which may date back thousands of years. Without that teaching and preaching, the human being would be as non-introverted as the lion. Time for the lion is his own life's span, with a hazily remembered...

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Some general environmental forces.

Myerson, Abraham

Pages: 26 –35

Man lives in an environment of which he and all his institutions form a pitifully insignificant part. It has been estimated recently that all the human beings on the face of the earth at the present time could be placed in the Grand Canyon, covered over, and easily escape the attention of a...

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The flow of the environment through the organism.

Myerson, Abraham

Pages: 36 –62

The great basis of individuality rests in the feeling, which is far deeper than a mere belief, that each of us is separated from the environment by a skin which thus safely sequesters us from the intruding forces of the world. This conviction, which was built up for each of us in the days when...

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The nature-versus-nurture controversy.

Myerson, Abraham

Pages: 63 –103

The nature-versus-nurture discussion, or rather controversy, which fills so many pages in modern scientific literature, and which has infiltrated so deeply the common talk, merely proves that scientists are human in that they fight and have their own intolerances concerning their pet theories....

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Gregariousness: Animal and human.

Myerson, Abraham

Pages: 104 –130

Something binds human beings together in societies, as a consequence of which they interact on one another in an elaborate and changing way, so that their emotions become pooled, the products of their intelligence accumulate, and their conduct becomes extraordinarily diversified and altered....

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Social psychology of the nervous system.

Myerson, Abraham

Pages: 131 –178

The essential facts of this chapter, insofar as social, psychology is concerned, are, that in the human being the cortex, or forebrain, comes to control more and more the conduct of the individual; moreover, the cortex is the organ of social experience and social learning, and through it the...

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General aspects of maturation, instinct, emotion, and mood.

Myerson, Abraham

Pages: 179 –200

We must assume, first of all, that any human being who is to develop and grow, physically and mentally, is in a favorable environment wherein he has access to the requisite amount of food and drink, has opportunities for physical and mental exertion, and is capable of developing by a successive...

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Certain basic activities and their social psychology.

Myerson, Abraham

Pages: 201 –239

Many of the actions of the living creature have little or nothing to do with his consciousness, either as an initiating or as a directing factor. Thus such inner actions as the movements of cilia, the change in calibre of blood vessels, the pumping of the heart, and the movements of the...

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Social psychology of intelligence.

Myerson, Abraham

Pages: 240 –271

There is no sharp demarcation between intelligence, instinct, emotion, motivation, and mood. Intelligence as such does not exist, any more than instinct. It is an abstract term, or a general term, which can best be understood when we refer it back to the particulars out of which it has grown....

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