Ability in Social and Racial Classes

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, "To President Bryan An early worker (sp?) on the speed of reaction, who as president, continues interest in psychological investigation. Roland Davis". ASSOCIATION COPY. William Lowe Bryan (1860-1955), tenth President of Indiana University (1902-1937). The author was an Associate Professor of Psychology at Indiana University at that time. First Edition, matching dates to title page and copyright page. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and rules to the front and the spine. Near Fine. No dust jacket. Hints of edge wear. Top page edges lightly dust stained. Illustrated with twenty- seven illustrations and thirty-four tables .Published for the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences University of Virginia, being Monograph 14. Davis argued against prevailing ideas about inherent intellectual inferiority in lower classes (and by extension, races), pointing to environmental and cultural factors as key differentiators in achievement. He was a founding member of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR). SCARCE signed, and scarer still as an Association Copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.