Psycho-dynamics of chewing / Harry Levi Hollingworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollingworth, Harry Levi, author.

Series:

Archives of psychology.

Archives of psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mastication--Congresses.

Mastication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University, 1939.

Summary:

"This book offers a series of experiments that study the psychodynamics of chewing in various contexts. Chewing is such a satisfying activity, in itself, that random masticatories such as straws, toothpicks, rubber bands, are utilized in order to support it. Most popular of all are the various chicle preparations (chewing gum) for which such a demand exists that their production and processing have become an impressive industrial and commercial activity. The familiarity and convenience of the confectioned masticatory provides a useful technique for the experimental variation of such a motor automatism as chewing. Its widespread use in daily life makes it a conspicuous social institution, or at least a custom, and it is a problem of some scientific interest to inquire into the intrinsic factors which presumably perpetuate and extend such a conventionalized practise. With all these interests in mind we have instituted an extended series of experimental investigations on the role of sustained mastication in the psycho-physical economy of human activity." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Columbia University, viewed June 2, 2023).