The Psychology of Self-Esteem

To clarify this metaphor: if a man has never had the experience of sight, there is no way to communicate the experience to him. ...

In the light of the foregoing, it is appropriate to comment briefly on a curious phenomenon in modern psychology: the doctrine o ...

product of a locomotive), and that conscious events have no causal efficacy, neither with regard to bodily events nor to other m ...

sciences; it should, like physics, study the actions of material entities, i.e., study observable behavior. This program has led ...

account of his behavior. If the behaviorist is unequal to the task of formulating scientific epistemological principles for the ...

judgment is unreliable and nonobjective, because it is his own, a hundred unreliable, nonobjective judgments will not yield a re ...

Chapter Two— 2. Man: A Living Being Needs and Capacities From the simplest unicellular animal to man, the most complex of organi ...

Through the process of nutrition, the raw materials the organism needs are brought into its system; through respiration (oxidati ...

Just as man possesses specific psychological capacities, by virtue of his distinctive form of consciousness, his conceptual facu ...

announce themselves through signals of pain, illness, and death. (If, somehow, a need were always and everywhere satisfied autom ...

be a conformist, to deprecate oneself, to boast, to murder, to suffer pain. These so-called needs, it must be emphasized, are he ...

state of things which was disturbed by the emergence of life," is to be guilty of the crudest violation of logic: an organism do ...

ulty, and to account for his behavior without reference to the fact that man can reason or that his mind is his basic means of s ...

"define instinct as an inherited or innate psycho-physical disposition which determines its possessor to perceive, and to pay at ...

either: (a) not universal to the species, but a product of particular men's acquired attitudes or beliefs, as in the case of pug ...

Man is born with needs, but he is not born with a knowledge of those needs and of how to satisfy them. Some of his simpler, vege ...

think—if he chooses to risk his life in senseless dangers, to close his eyes rather than open his mind at the sight of any probl ...

Chapter Three— 3. Man: A Rational Being Mind "Consciousness," in the primary meaning of the term, designates a state: the state ...

Yet the behavioristic or physicalistic or "guillotine" approach to man is profoundly antibiological. In the study of a living sp ...

It has been an issue of controversy whether or not any animals under man have the ability to rise above the perceptual level and ...