Elementary experiments in psychology / by Carl E. Seashore.

  • Seashore, Carl E. (Carl Emil), 1866-1949.
Date:
1908
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    the brain, ete. But very little work of permanent value has been done in this field of investigation. There are several reasons for the present dearth of experimental studies in feeling. The processes are extremely elusive: when we turn in upon our anger to study it, the anger disappears. The feelings are not correlated directly with traceable objective conditions as sensations are. The feelings are so diffused and com- plex that it is difficult to obtain and control simple con- ditions. The term feeling is used in more than a score of sanctioned meanings. Theories of feeling are notori- ously numerous. The order of experiment must always be from the simple to the complex. It would be interesting to ex- periment on love, hatred, fright, eestasy, ete., but hardly convenient, or discreet at the present stage. Yet we may answer many of the fundamental questions of com- plex and strong emotion by systematic study of the simpler forms.