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Applied psychology.

Münsterberg, Hugo

Pages: 3 –10

This chapter introduces the book, and provides a history of the psychological experiment. It is well known that the modern psychologists only slowly and very reluctantly approached the apparently natural task of rendering useful service to practical life. As long as the study of the mind was...

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The demands of practical life.

Münsterberg, Hugo

Pages: 11 –16

While the progress of psychology itself and the development of the psychology of individual differences favored the growth of applied psychology, there arose at the same time an increasing demand in the midst of practical life. Especially the teachers and the physicians, later the lawyers as...

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Means and ends.

Münsterberg, Hugo

Pages: 17 –24

The whole system of psychotechnical knowledge might be subdivided under either of two aspects. Either we might start from the various mental processes and ask for what end each mental factor can be practically useful and important, or we can begin with studying what significant ends are...

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Vocation and fitness.

Münsterberg, Hugo

Pages: 27 –36

Instead of lingering over theoretical discussions, we will move straight on toward our first practical problem. The economic task, with reference to which we want to demonstrate the new psychotechnic method, is the selection of those personalities which by their mental qualities are especially...

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Scientific vocational guidance.

Münsterberg, Hugo

Pages: 37 –48

It is fresh in every one's mind how during the last decade the economic conscience of the whole American nation became aroused. Up to the end of the last century the people had lived with the secure feeling of possessing a country with inexhaustible treasures. The last few years brought the...

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Scientific management.

Münsterberg, Hugo

Pages: 49 –56

Before we discuss some cases of experimental investigations, we may glance at that other American movement, the well-known systematic effort toward scientific management which has often been interpreted in an expansive literature. Enthusiastic followers have declared it to be the greatest advance...

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The methods of experimental psychology.

Münsterberg, Hugo

Pages: 57 –62

We now see clearly the psychotechnical problem. We have to analyze definite economic tasks with reference to the mental qualities which are necessary or desirable for them, and we have to find methods by which these mental qualities can be tested. We must, indeed, insist on it that the interests...

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Experiments in the interest of electric railway service.

Münsterberg, Hugo

Pages: 63 –82

The problem of securing fit motormen for the electric railways was brought to the author's attention. The accidents which occurred through the fault, or at least not without the fault, of the motormen in street railway transportation have always aroused disquietude and even indignation in the...

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Experiments in the interest of ship service.

Münsterberg, Hugo

Pages: 83 –96

Where the avoidance of accidents is in question, the test of a special experimental method can seldom be made dependent upon a comparison with practical results, as we do not want to wait until the candidate has brought human life into danger. For the study of motormen the conditions are...

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Experiments in the interest of telephone service.

Münsterberg, Hugo

Pages: 97 –115

The author's plan was to illustrate the possibility of applying psychological experiments to the selection of fit applicants also in cases in which not one characteristic mental function stands out, but in which a large number of relatively independent mental activities are in play. He chose as...

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