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1863–1916 Germany
Hugo Münsterberg (June 1, 1863 – December 16, 1916) was a German-American psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in applied psychology, extending his research and theories to Industrial/Organizational psychology (I/O), legal, medical, clinical, educational and business settings.
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The knowledge of nature and the mastery of nature have always belonged together.
Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913)
Applied psychology can, therefore, speak the language of an exact science ill its own field, independent of economic opinions and debatable partisan interests.
Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913)
Only the subtle psychological individual analysis can overcome the superficial prejudices of group psychology.
Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913)
Applied psychology can... speak the language of an exact science ill its own field, independent of economic opinions and debatable partisan interests.
The theorists of scientific management seem to think that the most subtle methods are indispensable for physical measurements, but for psychological inquiry nothing but a kind of intuition is necessary.
Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913)
Our aim is to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be placed at the service of commerce and industry.
Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913)
The inner labor, the inner values, and the inner difficulties and frictions are too often unknown to those who decide for a vocation, and they are unable to correlate those essential factors of the life-calling with all that nature by inheritance, and society by surroundings and training, have planted and developed in their minds.
Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913)
WE have placed our psychotechnical interest at the service of economic tasks... The purpose before us was to find for every economic occupation the best-fitted personality, both in the interest of economic success and in the interest of personal development.
Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913)
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