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The material for this volume was selected from a series of articles appearing under the direction of the Public Ledger Syndicate of Philadelphia, between October, 1927, and September, 1928. The author presents these various selections from the press in book form as a venture in popularizing and humanizing psychology. He feels that there is a popular demand for the simplification of psychological facts for the average readers.
The subjects have a scientific trend, yet one cannot say that the manner of dealing with all of these chapters is exactly scientific in its nature. Some of the topics referred to are as follows: Are you more curious than afraid? What is an I.Q.? What is a complex? Born or made so? Are there human types? Solitude—or the crowd? Is there a cure for the “blues “? Beauty, behavior, or brains? Have you an inferiority sense? Are you a “mental case “? Do you get a kick out of crime? What is absent—mindedness? Why don't I make good?
The volume is written for the average man and woman. It removes the mystery from psychological situations, expressing it in everyday terms, and keeps to concrete examples.