No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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