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1869–1955 United States
Walter Dill Scott (May 1, 1869 – September 24, 1955) was an American applied psychologist, Professor of Applied Psychology at the Kellogg School of Management and President of the Northwestern University. He applied psychology to various business practices such as personnel selection and advertising.
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Goods offered as means of gaining social prestige make their appeals to one of the most profound of the human instincts.
Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity.
Man has been called the reasoning animal but he could with greater truthfulness be called the creature of suggestion. He is reasonable, but he is to a greater extent suggestible.
Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity
to Walter Dill Scott in: Sterling W. Sill Benson (1974)
An efficient and contented employee has a positive money value to any employer. To hold him and keep him efficient, his personal comfort and needs should be considered in every way not detrimental to the company's interests.
The man with the proper imagination is able to conceive of any commodity in such a way that it becomes an object of emotion to him and to those to whom he imparts his picture, and hence creates desire rather than a mere feeling of ought.
The senses (the organs of sight, sound, taste, smell, temperature, and touch) are the guardians of the body, and whatever appears good to these sentinels is instantly desired, and ordinarily such things tend to the preservation and furtherance of the welfare of the body, but we choose them simply because they appear pleasing and not for ulterior ends.
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