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THE aim of this well written and interesting book, we are informed, is “to present … the character and value of the laboratory psychology, especially as bearing on our moral, and philosophical interests. … Considerable attention has thus been given to the interpretation of the experimental results—to their more immediate scientific meaning, as well as to what they suggest for life and for speculation.” The work, however, contains little that is really relevant to “the bearing of psychology on culture.” Such topics as the value and significance of memory, suggestion and illusions, and the relation of psychology to the body and to the soul, ably as they are treated, are hardly synonymous with culture; indeed, from start to finish the object of the book is by no means evident.
Experimental Psychology and its Bearing on Culture.
By George Malcolm Stratton Pp. vi + 331. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1903.) Price 8s. 6d. net.
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MYERS, C. Experimental Psychology and its Bearing on Culture . Nature 68, 465 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068465a0
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