“Comprehensiveness, thoroughness, clear definitions, elaborate classifications and an open-minded, progressive outlook are what characterize this work. And it is not only comprehensive, in that it covers the entire field of descriptive psychology, but it is comprehensive in its grasp of the subject.” F. W. C.
+ Boston Transcript p8 Je 19 ’20 800w
“Professor Warren’s book is interesting not only in itself, but also in the indication which it gives of the phases of psychology which may be expected to survive after this period of devotion of the science to its practical applications.”
+ El School J 20:392 Ja ’20 480w
“In sum, this is a most scholarly work, which in the beginning, and generally in outward semblance, gives promise of breaking fairly away from the traditions that produced the behavioristic schism, but which is found to be still heavily burdened with the inheritance of formalism, only partially offset by its clearness, criticism, humor, and tolerance.” F. L. Wells
+ − Mental Hygiene 4:982 O ’20 660w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
Nation 111:15 Jl 8 ’20 90w
“Professor Warren’s work as a whole would be an excellent introduction for beginners in psychology, though it is, of course, a work of interest for advanced students also.”