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THIS is a simple presentation of the main features of psychological Science aimed at bringing out the relations of its principles to the personal life of the student. As the study of human nature, psychology deals with humaii behaviour as well as with mental life in the abstract; and, for practical purposes, a knowledge of behaviour and its sources is the more important aspect of the two. Though most people know some psychology (since they carry human nature about with them and can scarcely fail to observe it), science is necessary to approve, correct, or reject popular notions as to the working of human nature, especially when such notions are employed in any attempt to alter or perfect its working. Chapters on the connexion between human nature and body are followed by a fairly complete discussion of all the topics dealt with in elementary psychological textbooks.
Practical Psychology: Human Nature in Everyday Life.
By Prof. Edward Stevens Robinson. Pp. xii + 479. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1926.) 7s. 6d.
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Practical Psychology: Human Nature in Everyday Life . Nature 120, 327 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120327c0
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