Civilian morale : Second yearbook of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues / Goodwin Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, Goodwin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 463 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Civilian morale

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942.

Summary:

"The main purpose of this book is to tell America what scientific investigation of morale has thus far demonstrated. The research is still, of course, unfinished. It is hoped that this book may itself stimulate more and better studies of morale. But we cannot wait until the facts are all in. Research has a frontier but no final boundary. Here then, is an interim report on what psychologists now think about morale problems. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the declarations of war came after most of the chapters had been prepared. Publication was necessarily delayed while manuscripts were revised to fit the wartime situation. It is a tribute to the foresight of this group of social scientists, however, that no changes in position or argument were required. Revisions consisted only of changes in phraseology and occasional illustrations. The book appears as the second yearbook of the Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues. This Society is an affiliate of the American Psychological Association, with two main purposes. One is to turn the attention of psychological research toward the urgent problems of our present social, economic, and political life. The other is to make available to citizens, and especially to officials in a position to determine policy, the conclusions which can be drawn from scientific study of human behavior"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (EBSCOhost, viewed June 05, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.