What Gives It Its Human Character Is

Social Psychology Is Especially Interested In The Effect Which The Social Group Has In The Determination Of The Experience And Conduct Of The Individual Member.

Our Cautious Ancestors, When Yawning, Blocked The Way To The Entrance Of Evil Spirits By Putting Their Hands Before Their Mouths. We Find A Reason For The Gesture In The Delicacy Of Manner Which Forbids An Indecent Exposure.

Take The Situation Of A Scientist Solving A Problem, Where He Has Certain Data, Which Call For Certain Responses. Some Of This Set Of Data Call For His Applying Such And Such A Law, While Others Call For Another Law.

Our Specious Present As Such Is Very Short. We Do, However, Experience Passing Events; Part Of The Process Of The Passage Of Events Is Directly There In Our Experience, Including Some Of The Past And Some Of The Future.

Imagery Is Not Past But Present. It Rests With What We Call Our Mental Processes To Place These Images In A Temporal Order.