Lectures On The Elementary Psychology Of Feeling And Attention

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY ft- FEELING AND ATTENTION WORKS BY EDWARD BRADFORD TITCHENER D.Sc. (Oxon.), PH.D. (Leipzig), LL.D. (University of Wisconsin) the Aristotelian Society; Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine ; Associate Editor of Mind and of the A merican Jour- Member of nal of Psychology ; Sage Professor of Psychology in Cornell University AN OUTLINE OF PSYCHOLOGY Third edition, revised and enlarged. Cloth, 8vo, $1.50 net. A PRIMER OF PSYCHOLOGY Third edition, revised and enlarged. Cloth, 8vo, $1.00 net. EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, QUALITATIVE: Second edition, revised. Cloth, 8vo, $1.60 Manual. Cloth, 8vo, $2.50 net. Student's Manual. Instructor's net. EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, QUANTITATIVE: Student's Manual. Cloth, 8vo, $1.40 net. Manual. Instructor's Cloth, 8vo, $2.50 net. TRANSLATIONS O. KUELPE, O. KUELPE, Outlines of Psychology. Large 8vo, $2.60 net. Translated by E. B. TITCHENER. Introduction to Philosophy. 8vo, $1.60 net. Translated by W. B. PILLSBURY and E. B. TITCHENER. W. WUNDT, J. E. Lectures on Human CREIGHTON and E. B. and Animal Psychology. TITCHENER. Second edition, Translated by revised. Large 8vo, $2.60 net. Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Translated by J. H. GULLIVER, E. B. TITCHENER, and M. F. WASHBURN. Vol. I, The Facts of the Moral Life. Large 8vo, $2.25 net. Vol. II, Ethical Systems. $1.75 net. Vol. Ill, The Principles of Morality and the Sphere of their Validity. $2.00 net. WUNDT, Principles of Physiological Psychology. Translated by E. B. TITCHENER. Vol. I, Introduction: The Bodily Substrate of the Mental W. WUNDT, Moral Life. W. Life. Large 8vo, $3.00 net. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York LECTURES ON THE ELEMENTARY PSYCHOLOGY OF FEELING AND ATTENTION BY EDWARD BRADFORD TITCHENER Nrfn gorfe THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1908 All rights reserved 589731 COPYBIGHT, 1908, BT THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published July, 1908. Norfooob Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. J. 8. Gushing Co. tro EDMUND CLARK SANFORD PREFACE THE eight lectures which make up book were read during my this little tenure of a non- resident lectureship in psychology at Columbia I have printed University, February, 1908. them as they were written for delivery, except that quotations from the French and German have, for accuracy's sake, been restored from 1 English translation to their original form. I have not been able, either in the lectures themselves or in the appended notes, to take account of all that is important in the current psychology of feeling and attention. Indeed, my sins of omission are obvious. I can only say that they weigh heavily upon my scientific conscience, and that, were it not for other and imperative claims upon my time, I should have delayed publication until I had done what I could to correct them. My thanks are due to league, Professor I. M. my wife; to Bentley, who my col- has read Professor Pillsbury's English work on Attention reached me too late for reference in the text, though I have cited it in the