Psychology Is about People

In this book Eysenck presents a solution to modern social problems, namely that his own particular branch of behaviourist psychology can offer modern civilization a way out of its social dilemmas. Education , psychiatry, sexuality, pornography and political attitudes are considered in turn. Social action, Eysenck argues, should take account of inborn differences of personality and intelligence. Thus, the selective principle should govern schooling, political attitudes should be recognised as partly unmodifiable, and introverts and extroverts as having different sexual needs. Within such limits, however, the manipulation of stimulus and reward (conditions) could eliminate undesirable behaviour in schools, psychiatric hospitals and even failing mariages.