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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.

— Hugo Münsterberg Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913)

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