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Social psychology : the bases of behavior called social /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gault, Robert H. (Robert Harvey), 1874-1971 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1923.
Subjects:
Social psychology.
Social Behavior
Social Behavior Disorders
Psychology, Social
Psychologie sociale.
social psychology.
Social psychology
Online Access:http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/02020580R
Table of Contents:
  • I. Definition and scope
  • II. The sense of social unity
  • Social continuity
  • Social unity not intellectualistic
  • An individualistic conception
  • "Social mind" an unnecessary concept
  • III. Social motives
  • The question of instincts and their role in social life
  • Modifiability of instinctive behavior
  • Functions of instinctive equipment
  • Analogy with the complex
  • Genesis of motives
  • Remorse Self-Approbation
  • Conscience
  • IV. Intellectual levels & Psychic stability of the population
  • proportion of feeble-Mindedness in the general population
  • Psychic defects other than feeble-Mindedness
  • The question of acquisition of mental defects
  • V. The racial factor
  • Intellectual qualities of the Negro
  • Psychologic traits of the other racial groups
  • The scientific attitude
  • Conclusion
  • VI. Suggestion and suggestibility
  • Definitions
  • Suggestibility as dissociation
  • Suggestibility due to superstitious nature
  • Disposition to agree with the strong
  • Race & sex factors in suggestibility
  • Suspicion and suggestibility
  • Acquired disposition and suggestibility
  • Mass effects
  • VII. The crowd and allied phenomena
  • Nature of the crowd
  • The mob
  • Motives of the mob
  • The political campaign
  • Fashion
  • The audience
  • Discussion
  • Public opinion
  • VIII. Convention, costume & morale
  • Distinctions
  • Spirit of the age
  • Nationalism
  • Morale in war
  • Morale in peace
  • IX. Social progress
  • Distinctions
  • Executive leaders
  • True wit & madness
  • intellectual leaders
  • Statistical studies of men of science
  • Superior children
  • X. Social adjustment & maladjustments in relation to mental quality
  • Intelligence & occupation
  • Intelligence & elimination from school
  • Psychic instability & social mal-adjustment evidenced in mental disease
  • Psychic instability & unrest
  • Criminal behavior
  • XI. Potentiality for development of civilization
  • Questions of decadence vs. improvement
  • Factors affecting development.