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Commercial air flight, mass manufacturing, ergonomic design -- many cornerstones of twenty-first century life have been made possible through the study of industrial efficiency and human factors. In Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, pioneering researcher Hugo Munsterberg elucidates many of the core concepts of this field of study.
Though the two terms are often used interchangeably today, "psychology" and "psychotherapy" actually refer to two related but fundamentally distinct concepts. This volume, penned in the era when the two fields of practice were just beginning to branch away from one another, helps to clarify the differences and similarities between psychology and psychotherapy.
As one of the most significant figures in the development of the field of applied psychology, German-born Hugo Munsterberg emphasized the importance of bringing psychology out of the laboratory and into the real world. In Psychology and Social Sanity, he addresses a number of pressing social problems that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century in the context of then cutting-edge research about mental health and cognition.
...In the early years of the twentieth century, both psychology and motion pictures were just beginning to emerge as significant cultural forces. Published in 1916, this fascinating work from prominent psychologist Hugo Munsterberg analyzes early films from a psychological point of view.
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