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On the Psychology of Subjective and Objective Personality 



But unerring as are the differentiating marks on the 

 physical side, such marks are few as compared with those 

 on the psychical side. Noting first certain merely physico- 

 psychical differences think of the manners of speech and of 

 hand writing, to mention only two items ! Undoubtedly these 

 differences are to a considerable extent physical but no one 

 would seriously question that psychical factors come in all 

 along the line. This is perhaps most obvious in speech as 

 evidenced by voice modulations, intonations, gesticulations, 

 and facial and bodily expressions. Again, differentials are 

 everywhere recognizable in responses to sensory stimuli, 

 especially in the matter of reaction-time. There are the 

 quick and accurate persons, and the quick and inaccurate 

 ones ; and there are the slow and accurate and the slow and 

 inaccurate types, to go only a step in description and classi- 

 fication on this basis. 



Then we proceed to compare the unequivocal psychical 

 phases of life: the feeling, the emotional, the esthetic, the 

 religious, and the intellectual phases. Here we pass into 

 a realm of what might properly be called objective privacy 

 in psychology, individuals for the study of which would be 

 largely the student's most intimate and most enduring friends 

 and associates, human and animal. Such a psychology would 

 be undeniably so particular and intimate that much of it 

 would be unpublishable even if it had an interest beyond 

 the few persons concerned. At the same time there are some 

 portions of it of great public importance, one such por- 

 tion being exactly what we are in need of in the present dis- 

 cussion. I refer to the exceedingly familiar but scientifically 

 much neglected definite and sustained psychical differences 

 of individuals who by reason of being members of the same 

 household or same small community are subject to nearly 

 identical influence so far as concerns such fundamental en- 



