Experimental Psychology Its Scope and Method: Volume V

First published in English in 1968, the first chapter, on Motivation by Joseph Nuttin, discusses various aspects of the motivational process. Such as incentives, conflict, social motivation, and negative motivation, and describes the mechanism of the process. The second chapter, by Paul Fraisse, examines the nature of the emotions, both on the behavioural and on the neurophysiological levels. Richard Meili writes on the Structure of the Personality, showing the importance of the idea of trait in the psychology of personality. He describes the use of the factorial method in the analysis of personality, and gives an account of the beginnings of personality.