ich of the instincts are most concerned in making people work?

4. Show how self-assertion finds gratification in the life-work of

an actor.
a physician.
a housekeeper.
a teacher.
a railroad engineer.

5. Arrange the following impulses and emotions in the order of the
frequency of their occurrence in your ordinary day's work and play:

(a) Fear.
(b) Anger.
(c) Disgust
(d) Curiosity.
(e) Self-assertion.
(f) Submission.
(g) The tendency to protect or "mother" another.

6. How do "practical jokes" lend support to the view that laughter
is primarily aroused by a sense of one's own superiority?

7. Get together a dozen jokes or funny stories, and see how many
of them can be placed with the practical jokes in this respect.

8. Mention some laughter-stimuli that do not lend support to the
theory mentioned in Exercise 6.

9. What instincts find outlet in (a) dress, (b) automobiling, (c)
athletics, (d) social conversation?

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REFERENCES

McDougall's _Social Psychology_ gives, in Chapters III and IV, an
inventory of the instinctive equipment of mankind, and in Chapter V
attempts to analyze many complex human emotions and propensities into
their native elements.

Thorndike, in his _Educational Psychology, Briefer Course_, 1914,
Chapters, II-V, attempts a more precise analysis of stimulus and
response.

Watson's _Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist_, 1919,
attempts in Chapter VI to show that there are only three primary
emotions, fear, rage and love; and in Chapter VII gives a critical
review of the work on human instincts.

H. C. Warren, in Chapter VI of his _Human Psychology_, 1919, gives a
brief survey of the reflexes and instincts.

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CHAPTER IX

THE FEELINGS

PLEASANTNESS AND UNPLEASANTNESS, AND OTHER
STATES OF FEELINGS AND THEIR INFLUENCE UPON
BEHAVIOR

Feeling is subjective and unanalyzed. It is conscious, and an
"unconscious feeling" would be a contradiction in terms. But, while
conscious, it is not cognitive; it is not "knowing something", even
about your subjective condition; it is simply "the way you feel". As
soon as you begin to analyze it, and say, "I feel badly here or there,
in this way or in that", you _know_ something about your subjective
condition, but the feeling has evaporated for the instant. In passing
over into definite knowledge of facts, it has ceased to be feeling.

Feeling is an un