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During the decade and a half since it was taken off an airy diet Of instincts and put on a nourishing diet Of factual data, social psychology has been the child prodigy and the problem. Child Of the social sciences. Growing awkwardly and sometimes randomly, but always growing at a tremendous. Rate, it was bold and meek by turns. Roundly cursed by some for the havoc its virile concepts caused in the elder disciplines, it was just as roundly praised by others for What it contributed to these disciplines.
Social psychology still retains its youthful vigor, but it has now passed its troubled adolescence and has arrived at a mature understanding of its phenomena. That understanding, briefly stated, is that the personality Of the human being is acquired in the course Of social interactions with other human beings.
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