ABSTRACT
Popular books and “courses of study” are widely advertised and widely sold to gullible people who wish to develop this mystic thing called personality, which, may be acquired by practice and for a consideration. To the Mims man in the street the personality is some special, largely mysterious, quality of an individual which attracts the attention of others. The serious and informed student of human behavior recognizes the superficiality and the incompleteness of this man-in-the-street conception of personality. A careful analysis of one’s dealings with his fellows shows that aspects other than physique, walk, clothes, speech, and gestures are important. A consideration of expectancy and consistency leads directly to the topic of the co-ordination or integration of motives and other internal elements with words and overt acts to form some sort of harmonious totality. The self provides the center round which a whole congeries of elements, internal and external, revolves.
