Steuart henderson britt biography of martin luther

STEUART HENDERSON BRITT
The George Washington University

IT SEEMS to me that social psychologists have spent a disproportionate amount of time discussing exact definitions and points of view, whereas the important thing is to go ahead and make empirical investigations.

I realize, of course, that a satisfactory definition is desirable; but to engage in any lengthy discussion of exact words or phrases will take time from our main business, namely, the subject matter and methods of social psychology.

Fay B. Karpf has written an excellent historical critique of social psychology, which presents the European background and then the development of

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( 463) social-psychological thought in the United States.[1] I have been appalled at the lack of either experimental or of observational material in this development of social psychology; instead the major emphasis has been on differences in points of view o