Citation

McDougall W. J. Abnorm. Psychol. Soc. Psychology 1924; 19(1): 13-41.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1924, R.G. Badger)

DOI

10.1037/h0068566

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The author notes that two years ago he wrote an article examining some of the objections that had been raised in recent publications against the conception of instinct in general and especially against the use of it as a fundamental conception for social psychology. In spite of this endeavor to stem what seemed to be a reactionary and obscurantist tide, the tide has flowed on in the form of books and articles of similar tendency, that is to say, tending to discredit and reject the conception of instinct as a fact of human nature. The author proposes, in this paper, briefly to examine some of the more important of these writings in respect of this tendency. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)