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"This book presents certain facts and principles of psychology which students of sociology, economics, government, law, and other sciences of human affairs need to know. Psychology cannot as yet claim to be an adequate science of human thought, feeling, and action, upon which all the social sciences rest and with which they must agree. Indeed it probably has much more to learn from them, especially from anthropology and history, than they from it. But human biology and psychology make a substantial contribution. They settle certain questions outright and turn the balance for others"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

In approaching the contents of this book, the reader must not expect to find society or social groups considered as if they consisted of the sum of the individuals composing them. Wherever two or more people are functioning as a social group that group not only consists of those individuals, but, more important perhaps, if that is possible, than the individuals themselves and without which their functioning as a social group cauld not be expressed, are the relations which maintain between them. It is these intangible, imponderable and invisible aspects of the situation which enable the mathematical sum of a certain number of individuals to function as a social group. Dr. Moreno's book might he described briefly as a study of these relations between individuals. Dr. Moreno develops a technique for a process of classification which is calculated, among other things, to bring individuals together who are capable of harmonious inter-personal relationships, and so creating a social group which can function at the maximum efficiency and with the minimum of disruptive tendencies and processes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)

"This book looks at the social and biological significance of changing birth rates in the United States. The following topics are discussed: Population trends of American groups; Measurable characteristics of American groups; Influence of differential reproduction on the characteristics of the American people; Causes and control of population trends." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

"This book examines the social theory of nations. It looks at sciences, economics, human nature, government, society, and values. In addition, it strives to understand the dynamics and habits of these different pieces." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)

"The rising value of human life in America is one of the signs of our advancing culture. The evidence of its existence is all about us and it needs no argument. But the value of human living as contrasted with human life is not yet on a sound standard, although public health, education, theology, medicine, and social work have been expanding their interests, in morbidity, mortality, and casualties to encompass the more positive satisfying, effective, and productive living. An attempt is made in the pages that follow to show how reasonable are the quandaries of the veteran, considering what he has been through and how reasonable it is that we should not throw the whole burden of finding his way upon shoulders that are new to this type of responsibility, nor take from those shoulders loads that they can carry. It is not a matter of rewarding a man for work well done"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

"Every officer in the armed forces daily encounters numerous situations in which a more thorough knowledge of men and how to direct them would be of inestimable value. This text provides the officer with certain principles of action to which he may turn for the solution of those military problems pertaining to the human element. In other words, it shows how to work effectively with all superiors and subordinates. The method of procedure is as follows: First, those military problems frequently encountered by most officers are carefully studied. Second, the psychological principles and techniques possessing a direct bearing upon each of these problems are correlated with them. That other military problems may have been little stressed is granted. These problems, however, have been given every consideration prior to their exclusion. The criterion for inclusion in each instance has been the usefulness of the problem to the greatest number of officers in the several branches of the armed forces. Only those rules that definitely enhance human efficiency in training and in combat have been held acceptable for consideration. The authors, for example, have excluded material pertaining to the causes of armed conflict, to the rival social philosophies underlying the present war, and to the problem of camouflage and its obvious relationship to human observation, since it is believed that these and all other exclusions can be and have been more advantageously treated elsewhere"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)

"The problem of suicide has so many aspects and such far-reaching implications that no short treatise can possibly cover all of them. The subject is bound up with the values that the individual and the community attach to life, with existing attitudes towards death, with racial habits and customs, with prevailing standards of life and the variations from such standards. Any attempt to deal completely with a question that has so many ramifications would baffle the skill of the most thoughtful student of human affairs. It is a study that concerns equally the physician and the lawyer, the teacher and the social worker, the statesman and the moralist, the priest and the philosopher. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)"--Preface.

"This book attempts to analyze some of the mental health problems or psychiatric aspects of correctional institutional procedure. The authors of this book question by implication whether the present state of scientific knowledge concerning human conduct and behavior is being applied to penal and correctional procedure. A medical service for any penal and correctional system of given jurisdiction must bear a direct relationship to those agencies that minister to the physical and mental health of the general population. The place which correctional institutions and forensic and psychiatric medicine must occupy eventually in such a scheme remains to be determined. A formal recording of the psychiatric problems among prisoners, however, is a step in that general direction, and represents an effort to apply our scientific knowledge in terms of social values"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

"We should not allow the number of the unemployed, or evidences of political, economic and social unrest to increase our feeling of apprehension and fear about the course of human events. We have bungled through, as well as into, many difficult situations. But some day, when we are less egotistical than we are at present, we shall appreciate the significance of the fact that "we are unexperienced beings standing at the first flush of dawn of civilization." As soon as our eyes are fully open we shall be eager to learn to manage the human machine, running it more efficiently, with fewer accidents, and giving it better opportunities to do constructive and creative work. We shall also feel the enthusiasm of youth, not of barbaric youth afraid to face the past, but of youth prepared to learn how to live wisely and well. In time we shall also appreciate that "the virtue of holiness is the divine virtue of intelligence." Inspired and sustained by new hopes and new ambitions and no longer disturbed, depressed and made aggressive by the memories of the intemperate, insane and belligerent thoughts and acts which disorganize and terrify prohibiting minds, we shall acquire the confidence and genuine self-respect that is essential to stabilize the life of the individual citizen and to ensure the progress of civilization"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).