Cessante causa, cessat effectus (when the cause ceases, the effect ceases) is applicable for every existing type of social pathology. In Project for a Scientific Sociology, Joan Casser provides an operational overview of inter-individual behavior. He develops the research of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, Russian neurologist Ivan Pavlov, Swiss psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler, and others, for the purpose of examining energy transference in society. Prediction, motion, operant conditioning, punishment, crime, security and law-governed behavior are re-viewed in terms of social interaction. Casser commences with worked matter and ends with the state in this causal configuration of inter-individual behavior.