Social Psychology: The Psychology Of Political Domination

THE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY SERIES IN PSYCHOLOGY Edited by CARL MURCHISON, Professor of Ph.D. Psychology and Director of the Psychological Laboratories in Clark University THE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IN PSYCHOLOGIES OF SERIES PSYCHOLOGY 1925 By Madison Bentley, Knight Dunlap, Walter S. Hunter, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Kohler, William McDougall, Morton Prince, John B. Watson, and Robert S. Woodworth. CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE By Carl Murchison, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychological Laboratories in Clark University. THE CASE FOR AND AGAINST PSYCHICAL BELIEF Oliver Lodge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Frederick Bligh Bond, G. Crandon, Mary Austin, Margaret Deland, William McDougall, Hans Driesch, Walter Franklin Prince, F. C. S. Schiller, John E. Coover, Gardner Murphy, Joseph Jastrow, and Harry Houdini. By Sir L. R. FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS: THE WITTENBERG SYMPOSIUM By A. Adler, Buhler, Gault, F. Aveling, V. M. Bekhterev, M. Bentley, G. S. Brett, K. Dunlap, R. H. W. B. Cannon, H. A. Carr, Ed. Claparede, K. D. W. Gruehn, L. B. Hoisington, D. T. Howard, E. Jaensch, P. D. Katz, F. Kiesow, F. Krueger, H. S. McDougall, H. Pieron, W. B. Pillsbury, M. Prince, C. E. Janet, J. Jastrow, Langfeld, W. C. Jorgensen, Seashore, C, E. Spearman, Washburn, A. P. Weiss, W. and R. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: G. M. Stratton, Woodworth. Stern, S. J. S. Terry, M. F. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICAL DOMINATION By Carl Murchison, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychological Laboratories in Clark University. IN PRESS THE COMMON SENSE OF DREAMS J. Watt, Ph.D., Late Lecturer Glasgow, and Consulting Psychologist Author of "The Psychology of Sound" By Henry of in Psychology in the University to the Glasgow Royal Asylum. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICAL DOMINATION THE INTERNATIONAL, UNIVERSITY SERIES IN PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICAL DOMINATION h CARL MURCH1SON, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychological Laboratories in Clark University WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS CLARK UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1929 COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY CLARK UNIVERSITY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE For some years I have felt that the field of social psychology was not only in a condition of chaotic discussion, but that it was also almost entirely untouched by the masses of data gathered by educational psychologists, mental testers, and others primarily interested in the problems of measurement and analysis of distributions. This book is an attempt to give expression to that idea. Political domination is so obvious a phenomenon in every walk of daily life and on every page of history must have a biological and psychological basis. Social institutions and particular forms of social be- that it havior are but trivial and incidental consequences brought about by the ever present and irresistible influence of those persons or communities that dominate others. This book not intended to be used as an elementary textbook, though it may be so used by those who like to play with ideas and who are not forced by mental or economic is restrictions to lead the life of formal quiz- masters. The