Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1028407564

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-47263

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Link, Henry Charles; Thorndike, Edward L. http://d-nb.info/gnd/118802127

Title:: Employment psychology

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: MacMillan

Year of publication:: 1924

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 440 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Psychological tests

Collection:: Economics Books

I EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY DEFINED Few words in the English language have been more frequently used and more often misused during the past few years than the word psychology. The term psychology is on almost every tongue and page. It is impossible to talk or read for more than a few minutes before running into a reference to the “psychology of this” or the “psychol ogy of that”. No problem to-day but has its psychological solution, at least in the minds of psychology’s ambitious friends. A new soprano electrifies her audience with the beautiful art of her song; the musical critic on the follow ing morning attributes her success to the psychic quality of her voice. The speaker of the evening wishes to ex plain a social phenomenon which to most people, including himself, is an unfathomable mystery; he succeeds very nicely with an allusion to the psychology of the mob. An enterprising newspaper wishes to solve one of the most vexed questions of the day, the question of prohibition; it calls upon psychologists to discuss what it is pleased to term: “Alcohol—a soul hunger”. A well-known poet ess writes a doggerel on “achievement” and calls it “The Psychology of Action”. The nature of the problem matters little. Be it financial, political, military, or social, when all other explanations have failed, the psychological solution is the final and hopeful appeal. Professional psychologists should feel complimented at this wholesale advertising, this widespread confidence S

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