A first book in psychology / by Mary Whiton Calkins.

  • Mary Whiton Calkins
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1910
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    imentellen Aesthetik, Archiv fur die gesammte Psychol., II., 1906, and papers there cited; L. J. Martin, An Experimental Study of Fechner’s Principles of Aesthetics, Psychol. Review, May, 1906; R. MacDougall, E. D. Puffer, and R. P. Angier in Harvard Psychol. Studies, 1. (1903), pp. 309 if. On the sense of humor: C. C. Everett, Poetry, Comedy, and Duty. Th. Lipps, Psychologie d. Komik (includes criticisms of Krae- pelin, Vischer, Lotze, Hecker), Philo sophis che Monatshefte, XXIV. and XXV.; E. Kraepelin, Zur Psychologie d. Komischen, Phil. Stud., II.; J. Ziegler, Das Komische, Leipzig, 1900. (.Experimental Study): L. J. Martin, Experimental Prospecting in the Field of the Comic, Amer. Jour, of Psychol., XVI., pp. 35 § 5. On the relation between physical stimidus and affective consciousness: cf. Kiilpe, op. cit., § 37, Wundt, Grundziige der Physiologischen Psychologie, II.5, pp. 311 ff. § 6. Accounts of the bodily conditions of the affective conscious¬ ness are, one and all, avowedly hypothetical. The theory put forward in this book is a sort of composite of certain features of the doctrines of Wundt, Flechsig, and Marshall. Two other doctrines, very recently set forth, may be stated, briefly, in the tvords of their authors: — (1) Professor Titchener hazards the guess that the peripheral organs of affection are the free afferent nerve-endings . . . distributed through the various tissues of the body . . . The nervous excitations,” he holds, “will vary with the tone of the bodily systems in which they are set up, and that tone can itself vary only in two opposite ways.” (2) Professor Max Meyer argues that “ if pleasantness and un¬ pleasantness are different in kind from sensation . . . then the kind of . . . relation between nervous activity and pleas¬ antness and unpleasantness is likely to be ... different.” Accordingly he attributes pleasantness and unpleasantness to intensity of nerve current. He supposes that “while the cor¬ relate of sensation is the nervous current itself, the correlate of pleasantness and unpleasantness is the increase or decrease of
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