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This text represents the revision and organization into book form of the manuscript used by the author-who is Professor of Psychology in Muskingum College, Ohio-in teaching social psychology. The material has been arranged so as to present a psychological viewpoint of the whole field of personal and social relationships to students of social psychology, ethics and education, or to any others who have an elementary knowledge of psychological principles.
Soial psychology is closely related to many other social sciences such as ethics, sociology, political science, economics, etc., as all social sciences are dealing with the same problems and are attempting to build a more favorable social order; however, there are many differences between these sciences, as each is developing a special point of view and is limiting itself somewhat to a selected portion of the field. Social psychology aims to develop a psychological foundation for the other social sciences, but its special field has not as yet been definitely delineated.
The present work has been written from the viewpoint that social psychology should include the relationships of both individuals and group reactions, and an introductory section is given to a discussion of the historical and psychological meaning of the terminology. This is followed by attempts to outline the powerful acquired complexes and to trace the individual-group and group-group relationships. The discussion centers, principally, about social attraction and repulsion, with the former expressed in terms of friendship and the latter in terms of disgust and hatred. Synthetic charts showing impulses and emotions are presented to bring the main relationships into a prominent focus.
Fourteen chapters are devoted to the various aspects of the before mentioned topics, and a final chapter is given to a discussion of the “Sex Impulse and Its Relation to Friendship,” with particular attention to the several conceptions of “sex,” to the more inclusive use of t