FOLK-PSYCHOLOGY

an anthropological study of the psychology of races, nations, and social groups. Whilst folk-lore deals with the study of survivals, folk-psychology is concerned with the mental products in primitive peoples. It studies the effect of climate on mental endowments, and the evolution of national characteristics, and thus deals not only with the food conditions of a people and its habitat, but also with its somatology, esthetics, jurisprudence, and pathology. Folk-psychology is to be_distinguished both from social-psycholozy, and from race-psychology. In the study of mental development social psychology is concerned only with the part played by the social factor, whilst the term race-psychology has been applied by Spencer to the science of the evolution of mind in men and animals. Among students of folk psychology are Felix Adler, Baldwin, Lombroso, Wundt, and Lévy-Bruhl. —Cf. G. le Bon, Psychology of Peoples.