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Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, — the fear instinct.
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Boris Sidis
Born:
October 12, 1867
Died:
October 24, 1923
(aged 56)
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Boris Sidis was a Ukrainian American psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education. Sidis founded the New York State Psychopathic Institute and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Known for:
The Psychology Of Suggestion (1897)
Philistine And Genius (1911)
An Experimental Study Of Sleep (1908)
Psychopathological researches (1902)
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