Some aspects of intention in English law in relation to psychology

Abstract

Psycology, as the science which takes human nature as its special object of study, is or should be the basis of all the sciences and arts which have to do with human conduct. This statement does not require a detailed proof. Workers in the Social Science have at all times Indirectly recognised the dependence of their studies upon psychology. In the past they were compelled to make certain rough and ready assumptions as to the springs of human action. Such assumptions usually contained enought truth to be plausible, but were erroneous because made under the bias of some preconceived point of view. Yet they clearly illustrated the dependence of social studies upon psychology, and the rise of modern scientific psychology has provided a scientific basis for the social sciences where previously there was none.