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

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EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY DEFINED 7 philosophically was to solve all the problems of life. The mathematician and physicist also had their day. Archi medes could have pried the globe out of its orbit if he had had the necessary fulcrum. Medicine was a universal remedy for all maladies of the flesh and spirit long before it had passed the blood-letting stage. All of these pan aceas, however, survived their initial greatness, and to-day are contributing their modest bit to the collective progress of the race. Psychology, too, when the furor of its debut is over— if one may speak of it in such frivolous terms—will settle down into a less dazzling, but certainly more constructive, existence. It is difficult to predict how soon this will be. It is safe to predict that many fingers will be burned be fore it does happen. However, psychology will assume its distinct place among the applied sciences. It will also develop that professional caste and dignity which give to medicine and all other well-established professions their standing in the eyes of the world. But what is psychology? Having made the broad statement which most people will readily admit, that few of those who talk so glibly about psychology have an adequate conception of what it is—we must now answer the question: What is it? Psychology may perhaps be more clearly defined if it is compared with a similar science, for example, the science of medicine. The general nature of medicine is reason ably well understood, and there are no great illusions as to its powers. Nevertheless, medicine has passed through the same stage of nebulosity through which psychology is passing to-day. A thousand years ago, medicine was an art with almost unlimited powers. There was no ill of flesh or spirit for which the ancient healer did not

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