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

EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY I98 The subject is then asked to arrange these cards in the order in which he considers the actions named most repre hensible, placing the least reprehensible first and the most reprehensible last. The value and significance of such a test are extremely doubtful. Without going into a detailed criticism of the efficacy of this test, it may be said that the core of its weakness consists in the fact that words and actions do not necessarily coincide. Intellectual morality and practical morality are two distinctly different things. For a time it did seem as though the word association tests, made famous by Hugo Muensterberg’s book “On the Witness Stand” could bridge these two realms of thought and action. However, it has been found since that the connection between them is so subtle as to make such tests entirely too ambiguous. Even if tests which require the subject to express himself in terms of deeds rather than opinions could be devised, the results would be extremely doubtful. Few individuals could be made to reveal their objectionable moral traits during the course of an interview or a psychological examination. And on the other hand there are few individuals who cannot, when the occasion demands, assume a virtue which they do not have. Whether looking for the negative qualities, such as dishonesty and laziness, or tracing the positive virtues, such as honesty and industry, the psychologist, in common with all other seekers of facts, is laboring under the great disadvantage of the ability of all in dividuals to minimize or to exaggerate their good and bad points. In none of the moral qualities are there the rela tively stable and measurable factors which are to be found in the more elementary activities to which tests have been so successfully applied. Since psychological tests are unable adequately to

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