Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.