Experimental Psychology Its Scope and Method: Volume V (Psychology Revivals)

<p>First published in English in 1968 Joseph Nuttin contributes the first chapter on Motivation. He discusses various aspects of the motivational process. Such as incentives conflict social motivation and negative motivation and describes the mechanism of the process. The second chapter by Paul Fraisse is on the Emotions. Fraisse examines the nature of the emotions both on the behavioural and on the neurophysiological levels and goes on to define and discuss moving situations. He shows the different types of expression an emotional reaction may take and discusses the causes of hyper-emotionality. </p><p>Richard Meili writes on the Structure of the Personality showing the importance of the idea of trait in the psychology of personality. He describes the use of the factorial method in the analysis of personality and gives an account of the beginnings of personality as well as the different parts known as instances of the total organization of personality.</p>