Review of Human personality and the environment

Abstract

Reviews the book, Human personality and the environment by C. Macfie Campbell (1934). The lectures in this book deal successively with food, oxygen and other basic supplies as they affect temperament; the glands, the autonomic system and the optic thalamus, structures intimately related to emotional life; genetics, and other basic physical factors. From genes and chromosomes Campbell shifts almost unnoticed into a discussion of childhood conditioning; from this point the book summarizes in a very readable and yet accurate way our knowledge and theoretical interpretation of the social development of personality. The reviewer recommends it to laymen with some knowledge of biology, and to students desiring a first introduction to the complex fields grouped as "personality." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)