Man lives in a world of meaning.

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

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.