The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.
The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.
In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.
Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
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