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Applied psychology can... speak the language of an exact science ill its own field, independent of economic opinions and debatable partisan interests.

— Hugo Münsterberg

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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)

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)

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