Books - (author:william Mcdougall)and(subject:psychology)

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1934. The work reported in this volume is the first fruit of the policy of naturalization of psychical research within the universities. This momentous study has three dimensions. Firstly, there are about three years during which experiments were conducted until they reached a huge number. Secondly, the cooperation, observation and critical judgment of many, both within and without the teaching staff of the psychological department of Duke University, have been applied to the experiments at various stages. Finally, the diversity of methods used, isolation of telepathy and clairvoyance from one another, and acquisition of data to test the hypotheses were noted.



Customer Review: The defining work in the field:
In this work, J. B. Rhine explores the various research done (at the time of the initial writing) on extra-sensory perception and concludes that there is such a thing.

The work is important because it is cited by a wide range of others including Dr Carl Jung in "Synchronicity." Most other reasonably respectable research into similar topics has been derivative of Rhines.

Anyone interested in this field either to debunk or advocate it should read this work. Highly recommended.

Customer Review: Fascinating Pioneer Work.:
J.B. Rhine was one of the orginal scientific investigators of psychic phenomenon, and just about everyone who has followed has walked in Rhine's footsteps. I found this book fascinating!

Customer Review: The most definitive work from Duke University in telepathy:
This book is great for anyone with a strong science background or understanding. It will be a little dry to read for others, but is none the less the best book describing telepathy and precognition research ever done. A must read for anyone interested in teaching, testing, or developing psychic abilities.

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A pioneering work in psychology, this enormously influential book, first published in 1908, served as a catalyst in the study of the foundations of social behavior. One of the first surveys to focus on human motivation, the volume assisted in laying the foundations of a new discipline, separating the field from sociology and general psychology. Popular, long-lived and ever relevant, this landmark book remains invaluable to teachers and students of psychology. 1961 ed. Among the topics covered: The place of instincts in the constitution of the human mind; Primary emotions of man, and the nature of sentiments; Growth of reproductive and parental instincts; Structure of character.

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1920. From the Preface: In this book I have sketched the principles of the mental life of groups, and have made a rough attempt to apply these principles to the understanding of the life of nations...I wish to make it clear to any would-be reader of this volume that it is a sequel to my Introduction to Social Psychology, that it builds upon that book and assumes that the reader is acquainted with it.

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Originally published in 1918. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III The Highly Organised Group THE peculiarities of simple crowds tend to appear in all group life; but they are modified in proportion as the group is removed in character from a simple crowd, a fortuitous congregation of men of more or less similar tendencies and sentiments. Many crowds are not fortuitous gatherings, but are brought together by the common interest of their members in some object or topic. These may differ from the simple fortuitous crowd only in being more homogeneous as regards the sentiments and interests of their members; their greater homogeneity does not in itself raise them above the mental level of the fortuitous crowd; it merely intensifies the peculiarities of group life, especially as regards the intensity of the collective emotion. There is, however, one condition that may raise the behaviour of a temporary and unorganised crowd to a higher plane, namely the presence of a clearly defined common purpose in the minds of all its members. Such a crowd, for example a crowd of white men in one of the Southern States of North America setting out to lynch a negro who is supposed to have committed some flagrant crime, will display most of the characteristics of the common crowd, the violence and brutality of emotion and impulse, the lack of restraint, the diminished sense of responsibility, the increased suggestibility and incapacity for arriving at correct conclusions by deliberation and theweighing of evidence. But it will not exhibit the fickleness of a common crowd, the easy yielding to distracting impressions and to suggestions that are opposed to the common purpose Such a crowd may seize and execute its victim with inflexible determination, perhaps with a brutality and a ruthless disregard of all deterrent considerations of which no one of...

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AN OUTLINE OF PSYCHOLOGY WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR PRIMER OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY Dent BODY AND MIND Methuen PSYCHOLOGY, THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOUR Home University Library THE GROUP MIND Cambridge University Psychological Series NATIONAL WELFARE AND NATIONAL DECAY Methuen AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Methuen ETHICS AND SOME MODERN WORLD PROBLEMS Methuen AN OUTLINE OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Methuen THE AMERICAN NATION Allen 6-Unwin CHARACTER AND THE CONDUCT OF LIFE Methuen JANUS, THE CONQUEST OF WAR To-day and To-morrow Series MODERN MATERIALISM AND EMERGENT EVOLUTION Methuen WORLD CHAOS, THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SCIENCE Kegan Paul THE ENERGIES OF MEN Methuen RELIGION AND THE SCIENCES OF LIFE Mfthuen PSYCHO - ANALYSIS AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Methuen FRONTIERS OF PSYCHOLOGY Nisbet THE RIDDLE OF LIFE Methuen THE PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO Macmillan In conjunction with Dr. C. Hose AN OUTLINE OF PSYCHOLOGY BY WILLIAM McDOUGALL, F. R. S. METHUEN CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W. C. LONDON PREFACE The time has gone by when any one man could hope to write an adequate text-book of psychology. The science has now so many branches, so many methods, so many fields of application, and such an immense mass of data of observation is now on record, that no one man can hope to have the necessary familiarity with the whole. But, even when a galaxy of learning and talent shall have written the text-book of the future, there will still be need for the book which will introduce the student to his science, which will aim at giving him at the outset of his studies a profit able line of approach, a fruitful way of thinking of psychological problems, and a terminology as little misleading as possible. The present volume is designed to render these services. The need of such a book is greater in psychology than in any other science. In the physical sciences the student needs only to refine upon the methods of observation and reasoning which he has learned to apply in dealing with the physical world about him, regarding all events as links in a mechanical chain of cause and effect. Most students have begun, by the time they ap proach psychology, to regard this as the true and only way of science. And many of the books on psychology encourage them in this belief. Having begun in this way myself, and having slowly and painfully extricated myself and found what seems to me a much more profitable attitude toward psychological prob lems, I hold that the path of the student may be made smoother by setting clearly before him at the outset the alternative routes so that, whichever he may choose to follow, he may at least make his choice with his eyes open, and may constantly be aware of the alternatives. The two principal alternative routes are i that of mechanistic science, which interprets all its processes as mechanical sequences of cause and effect, and 2 that of the sciences of mind, for which purposive striving is a fundamental category, which regard the process of purposive striving as radically different from mechanical sequence. The aim of this vii viii PREFACE book is, then, to introduce the student to psychology by this second route and throughout I have kept in the foreground the question of the relative merits of the two routes for this is the most important issue before psychologists at the present time, the one which divides them most fundamentally. The mechanical psychology, naturally and almost inevitably, adopts the atomistic or mosaic theory of mental process, the theory that what in these pages is called thinking is a stream of consciousness consisting of discrete elements, units, particles, or atoms of conscious stuff, commonly called sensations or units of feeling, cohering somehow in clusters...