ABSTRACT
The Complications of American Psychology would never occur to the naive European to regard the psychology of the average American as particularly complicated or even sophisticated. As Professor Boas maintains, there are even measurable anatomical changes in many American immigrants, changes which are already noticeable in the second generation. The American laugh is most impressive. Laughing is a very important emotional expression and one learns a lot about character from a careful observation of the way people laugh. There are people who suffer from a crippled laughter. The style of 'good' American writing is a talking style. Almost every great country has its collective attitude, which one might call its genius or spiritus loci. The most amazing feature of American life is its boundless publicity. And the most interesting of all is that this childlike, impetuous, 'naive' America has probably the most complicated psychology of all nations.
