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  • Author(s): Hankins, F. H.
  • Source:
    Nation. 8/26/1925, Vol. 121 Issue 3138, p238-239. 2p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      INSTINCT: A Study in Social Psychology (Book); BOOKS; BERNARD, L. L.; INSTINCT (Behavior); PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL sciences
    • Abstract:
      This article focuses on the book "Instinct. A Study in Social Psychology," by L.L. Bernard. Instinct, Bernard seems to say, must logically be defined as the unlearned but definite response of an inherited structure to a particular stimulus. But if one eliminate those simple neuro-muscular reactions best called reflexes, there are no real instincts. Bernard's survey and criticism of the current usage of the term instinct is a genuinely valuable contribution. His exposure of the superficiality and the extravagances of those instinctivists who find a definite inherited instinct behind nearly everything that man does is a wholesome corrective for a lot of loose thinking.