Psychology and Social Sanity

A series of essays applies psychological research and analysis to a range of public concerns, examining sex education (critiquing loud publicity and advocating restraint in sexual instruction), socialism, the intellectual underworld, thought-transference claims, jury decision-making, farm efficiency, advertising abuses, investor psychology, social dancing, and naïve psychology. Some chapters draw on experimental methods while others trace psychophysiological roots; together they argue that clearer knowledge of mental processes can clarify causes, inform policy choices, and guide more effective methods for improving social welfare, separating moral aims from the practical means to achieve them.