STUDY OF HUMAN CONDUCT

Evening Star, Issue 20140, 3 April 1929, Page 6

STUDY OF HUMAN CONDUCT

NEW “ OBJECTIVE ” OF YALE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK, March 20. An organisation for the study of human conduct is being created on an impressive scale at Yale University. It has already at its disposal a fund of T.000.000c10l (£1,500,000) in the form of gifts from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, and from Mrs Stephen V. Harkncss, whose husband has given many millions of dollars to both Yale and Harvard Universities. The Institute of Human Relations, as it is called, aims at bringing together psychologists, biologists, economists, and sociologists, who will join with their colleagues in the fields of applied science, such as law, medicine, and psychiatry, to correlate the knowledge of mind and body and of individual and group conduct. They will study the interrelations and factors of human behaviour.

Dr James Angell, president of the university, said that the study of human conduct would be made one of the major objectives of Yale’s existence, and to that end all the departments of social and natural science in the university would co-opcrate with the institute and with the graduate and research departments. There are to be about fifty members in the institute staff. Each will hold an appointment in a fundamental university department in order to articulate its work with 1 haC. of the university as a whole. It is hoped to have the institute in operation by October, 1930.