Joseph Jastrow: 9 books

A group of problems that appears conspicuously in the present volume, and in so far contributes to the fitness of its title, has obtained a considerable interest on the part of the public at large. Such interest seems prone to take its clue from the activity of those who herald startling revelations...

This 1918 volume is concerned, as the author writes in his preface, "with the interaction of our logical and psychological nature" to create belief and conviction.  Numerous case studies are included to illustrate the author's arguments.  Chapters include "Belief and Credulity," "The Will to Believe...

We see with all that we have seen; we hear with all that we have heard; we learn with all that we have learned, and so on. In a country walk at night, an imaginative person constantly sees a ghost in what his more prosaic companion recognizes as a whitewashed tree. At a spiritualistic séance, it...

What is the nature of belief? What are the conditions under which it arises? and What are the causes for its appearance? The purpose of this book is to answer these questions and to investigate the nature of deception, of the formation of false beliefs leading to erroneous action. “No one allowed...

A group of problems that appears conspicuously in the present volume, and in so far contributes to the fitness of its title, has obtained a considerable interest on the part of the public at large. Such interest seems prone to take its clue from the activity of those who herald startling revelations...

Character and Temperament (1915) is a thoughtful, straightforward treatise, surveying the sources of human nature in light of modern psychology. It explores the foundations of human differences and includes an account of the emotional life and origins of those sentiments which sway human actions, both in their normal and abnormal expressions. 

“ The vital history of human development is to be sought in the history of beliefs. The inscriptions of Egypt or of Babylon, tho rendered in modern tongues, speak an imperfect message until illuminated by some insight into the beliefs which these cultures cherished. The amazing ruins of Copan, the...

“ If that imaginary individual so convenient for literary illustration, a visitor from Mars, were to alight upon our planet at the present time, and if his intellectual interests induced him to take a survey of mundane views of what is “in heaven above, or on the earth beneath or in the waters...

The Lapses of Speech and the Lapses of Consciousness. This book proposes to indicate such of the habits, and particularly of the lapses of speech, as reflect the subconscious processes that participate in its normal functioning. Psychologically, speech is but one of several modes of indicating...