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all of them twice and most of them, three times over a period of three years. 

 The groups can be differentiated as 



Christian Mentally superior 



Jewish Neurotic 



Mentally subnormal Physically defective 



There are observable differences in the behaviour manifested by the 

 members of some of the different groups, and it seems that further study of 

 this kind should result in the development of a useful diagnostic test. 



Afternoon. 

 Excursion to Royal Eastern Counties Institution, Colchester. 



Visit to works of the Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd. 



Tuesday, August 23. 



Prof. J. C. Flugel. — The Hormic Theory (lo.o). 



If, with most modern psychologists, we distinguish between feeling and 

 conation as separable aspects of orectic experience, it behoves us to determine 

 the relation between them. The doctrine of psychological hedonism, widely 

 held in the nineteenth century, maintains that conation is determined by 

 feeling, while the hormic theory, which is most in favour to-day, reverses 

 this relationship. Many contemporary psychologists, however, do not 

 hold the hormic theory consistently, and indeed it is pretty generally 

 admitted that, in particular, the pleasures and unpleasures connected with 

 sensory experience are at first sight difficult to reconcile with this theory. 

 McDougall has endeavoured to champion the hormic theory even in this 

 sphere, but there is a dearth of experimental evidence directly bearing on 

 the problem. A great many researches, however, have indirectly pro- 

 duced strong evidence in favour of the theory, including those on will, 

 choice, involuntary movement, aesthetic attitude, as well as those more 

 specifically dealing with feeling experience. Washburn and Grose, in a 

 limited field, attacked the problem more directly with the same result, 

 and recently Yuan Pan, though in general confirming the hormic theory, 

 has shown that the nature of sensory feeling and its relation to conation are 

 more complicated than might at first appear. 



Joint Discussion with Section L (Education) on The educational signifi- 

 cance of the cinema and wireless (ii.o). See under Section L. 



Mr. R. C. Steele. 

 Dr. P. B. Ballard. 

 Dr. S. J. F, Philpott. 

 Miss L. M. Holt. 



Afternoon. 

 Dr. Tom A. Williams. — Assisting mental hygiene by literature (2.0). 



The case method to convey principles is used through inner situations 

 of characters chiefly fictional, e.g. : 



