The British Journal of Psychology: Monograph Supplements No vi Pleasure—Unpleasure: An Experimental Investigation on the Feeling-Elements

Abstract

WHAT the psychologists of the Würzburg school have so largely done for the thought processes, Dr Wohlgemuth has here attempted for the feeling-elements of the mind. The investigation consists essentially of a lengthy series of introspections on the affective states produced by various sensory stimuli—given singly or in combination—carried out by four trained observers under strictly experimental conditions, the data thus obtained being submitted to a detailed consideration and analysis, and eventually summarised and expressed in seventy-seven rules. These rules, the author maintains, may be regarded as a first step towards the building up of a natural history of the feeling-elements—a task which should precede any systematic attempt at theorisation or at the application of the psychology of feeling to practical life.

The British Journal of Psychology: Monograph Supplements. No. vi. Pleasure—Unpleasure: An Experimental Investigation on the Feeling-Elements.

By Dr A. Wohlgemuth. Pp. vii + 252. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1919.) Price 14s. net.