... lectures, and meeting and talking to dozens of leading psychologists and other scientists; and gathered reports and clinical studies of abnormal and normal minds under hypnosis, drugs or stress. Over time James grew to dislike psychology and its study, so he shifted his focus towards the study of religion and philosophy. James interest in the ... in the importance of ideas (Smith, 2002). In his book "Principles of Psychology", James explained the principle of functionalism as relating to psychology, which gave people a new way of thinking about the traditional "branch of philosophy" and ...

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