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外文资料： THE NORMAL INFERIORITY COMPLEX It is almost a truism in modern psychology that abnormal behavior is merely an exaggeration of normal tendencies. The practical corollary of this proposition, that normal individuals may be understood in terms of abnormal conditions, has also been widely accepted. Indeed, this way of looking at human nature is by no means limited to strictly psychological discussions. Complexes, maladjustments, fixations, and neuroses are among the commonplaces of contemporary literature and everyday conversation. In general, the tendency has been to apply rather than to question the contributions of abnormal psychology. There are sceptical individuals, however, both professionally and non-professionally interested, who are dissatisfied with this uncritical attitude. They have suggested that the outstanding defect of many of the concepts of abnormal psychology is that they are lacking in empirical proof; that though suggestive and penetrating, they have rarely been submitted to the statistical analysis which would f give disinterested evidence of their applicability. A comparison of theoretical expectations and empirical findings would scarcely be out of order. It has been possible, in connection with the personnel work at I the University of Minnesota, to undertake an inquiry of this sort in particular, to ask the question: Does anything corresponding to the inferiority complex, as it is described by psychiatrists and psychologists, appear in normal individuals; and if so, what characteristies does it possess ? GENERAL PLAN OF THE STUDY The general plan of the study was as follows. It began by accepting the concept of the inferiority complex as it is given in the literature, especially as described by Adler .A rating scale was constructed, consisting of 137 traits which, according to this source, would be symptomatic of the condition in question. The scale was so arranged that sometimes the trait as stated, and sometimes its opposi