Instinct: A Study in Social Psychology

Originally published in 1925, according to the preface, Instinct: A Study in Social Psychology is the result of many years of interrupted labors that began in a graduate seminar in 1909–1910, when the author attempted to apply Professor McDougall’s classification of instincts to the classification of criminals. The immediate result was the conviction that McDougall’s instincts were habits, and further constructive work found issue in an unpublished report on “Instinct and the Social Science...