Excerpt from Source Book for Social Psychology The purpose of. This book is to present pertinent materials in the field Of social psychology which are not easily available either for the student or for the general reader. N o apology need be Offered for particular aspects Of the field which perhaps have been omitted or slighted. The present compilation with its accompanying interpre tation is selective rather than exhaustive. If this work assists in bringing about a better understanding Of social behavior, it will have well served its purpose; if it stimulates genuine thinking upon cur rent problems of social control, it will have doubly fulfilled its func tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.