Psychology and Individuals

My Preface declared my target for study: collectivities and social behavior. What can psychology, given its ordinary focus on the individual, tell us about population groups of one kind or another? My aim in this first chapter is to identify points of similarity between the individual and the collectivity, with the hope of transferring psychology's insights about the former to the latter. This we commonly do in discussing national character or stereotypes of a class, ethnicity, occupation, or the like

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