Abstract

The International Congress of Experimental Psychology

In this age of congresses, literary, theological, and scientific, it is not strange that the workers in the new science of psychology should want a congress. Congresses may be said to have two main functions, one scientific and the other social. There are those who say that they should have only one function, the scientific, and there are those who claim that, as a matter of fact, they have only one function, the social. The present International Congress of Experimental Psychology, while successful in most respects, yet lacked one thing which, in most gatherings of the kind, has been an important stimulative feature. The programme was allowed to grow to such length that altogether too little time was given to discussion and criticism.