AbstractsPsychology

Psychology and war.

by Don. Spearman




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Psychology.
Degree: MA.
Year: 1943
Keywords: War  – Psychological aspects.; Psychology, Military.; War and society.
Record ID: 1579189
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile128130.pdf


Abstract

When men broke the rules of nature and fought each other they created a new form of action- War. That's where it all started. Animals do not make war, pack with pack, on their own kin, with one or two exceptions (and in the case of ants and bees the cause may be considered the same as in war). Man probably did not fight his fellow in early primitive history. Some say that war goes back but 20,000 years and that it is not a 1. fatal product of human nature - not something man can't resist as such. It is, to me, more the effect of their nature under certain human conditions. [...]