The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
PSYCHOLOGISTS MEET.
Third Annual Convention Of the
American Association at
Princeton.
speciol to the Jersey City Ne,cs.

PRINCETON, Dec. %, 1S94.-The third
| annual meeting of the American Psyche
logical Association was opened here yes
terday morning by President James.
Psychologists from all parts of the coun-
try are in attendance. the more promi-
nent among these being Profs. James
and Boyce of Harvard. Prof. Ladd of
Yale, Prof. w. R. Newbold of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Profs. Charles
A. Strong and G. H. Mead of the Uni
versity of Chicago. Prof. Titchenor of
Cornell, Prof. E. B. Delabarre of Brown,
Prof. E. C. Sanford of Clark University,
Prof. j. McKeenH Cattell of Columbia,
and Brother Chrysostom of Manhattan
College.
The sessions are being held in Geo
logical Hall. The closing sessions will
be held today at $50 A. NJ. and 2 P. M.
Prof. E. c.. Sanford of Clark Univer-'
sity, read the opening paper, in which
he gave the result of experiments on
100 college girls and also the results of
the horizontal hndi vertical arrange-
ments of dress goods.
THE PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT.
DR.. T. Wesley Mills, MeGill University,
Montreal, presented a paper on 1.-THE
Psychic Development of Young Animals
and its Physical Correlation" in which
he outlined a comparative psychology
to be worked out on the same lines as
comparative anatomy. DR.. Mills has
spent eight years in comparative psyche
logical work on the dog, cat, rabbit,
guinea pig and birds, and expects soon
10 publish his result i'll book form.
Prof. j. McKeen Cattell of Column
bia, the Secretary OF the association,
read an article on 1.-The Distribution
OF Exceptional Ability" using the data
presented by the lives of a thousand
great men, who, the Professor thought,
were the thousand greatest men in the
history of the world. Prof. Cattell's re-
suit from a psychological standpoint
was hat a man eminent in one depart
ment is much more likely to be emil
nent in another department than a
man of ordinary ability, also that while
military men are increasing in impor-
lance theological thought will not oc-
cupy the same prominence in the future
that it has in the past.
SENSITIVENESS TO PAIN.
DR.. Mcdonald. of the Bureau of Ed
dtalASil,4 W III Aohs pi SVHh ~ -
suit of experiments conducted upon peo-
pie of all nations as to their sensitive
ness regarding pain. He found hat
American professional men were more
sensitive TO pain thar American BUSH
ness men. While English and German
professional men were sensitive in an
equal degree, neither one was as sensi-
tive as the American. The slum men in
Chapel Rouge, Paris, were the least SEN
sitive to pain. Brother Chrysostom pre-
scented a paper on the freedom of the
will, a subject which was handled very
carefully by the Congress after the pres
entation.
DIR. Patton delivered. the address of
welcome at the opening of the afternoon
session, and Professor Ladd read a paper
on 1.-The Consciousness of Identity and
So-Called Double Consciousness" in
which hypnotism was explained by the
laws of normal consciousness. Professor
C. S. Pierce, of John Hopkins University,
presented a. paper on the Different
Theories of the Mechanism of the Con-
nection Between Body and Soul"
Professor Josiah Royce brought the af-
ernoon session to a close will a pre-
liminary report and observations on a
research into Psychology Imitation"
The address of President James Upon
the Unity of Consciousness was de-
livered before the association this even
ing, after which the association adjourn
ed and DR.. and Mrs. Patton rendered it
a recention.