To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
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Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
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Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
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In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
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Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
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Man lives in a world of meaning.
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