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Psychology and social sanity

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.

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  • "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."@en
  • ""This book speaks of psychology's possible service to social sanity. The field which I have approached this time demanded a different kind of treatment from that in the earlier books. There I had aimed at a certain systematic completeness. When we come to the social questions, such a method would be misleading, as any systematic study of these psychological factors is still a hope for the future. Many parts of the field have never yet been touched by the plow of the psychologist. The only method which seems possible to-day is to select a few characteristic topics of social discussion and to outline for each of them in what sense a psychologist might contribute to the solution or might at least further the analysis of the problem. The aim is to show that our social difficulties are ultimately dependent upon mental conditions which ought to be cleared up with the methods of modern psychology. I selected as illustrations those social questions which seemed to me most significant for our period"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)."@en
  • ""This book speaks of psychology's possible service to social sanity. The field which I have approached this time demanded a different kind of treatment from that in the earlier books. There I had aimed at a certain systematic completeness. When we come to the social questions, such a method would be misleading, as any systematic study of these psychological factors is still a hope for the future. Many parts of the field have never yet been touched by the plow of the psychologist. The only method which seems possible to-day is to select a few characteristic topics of social discussion and to outline for each of them in what sense a psychologist might contribute to the solution or might at least further the analysis of the problem. The aim is to show that our social difficulties are ultimately dependent upon mental conditions which ought to be cleared up with the methods of modern psychology. I selected as illustrations those social questions which seemed to me most significant for our period"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)."
  • "The author begins his preface to this 1914 work, "It has always seemed to me a particular duty of the psychologist from time to time to leave his laboratory and serve the outside interests of the community.""

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  • "Psychology and social sanity"
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  • "Psychology and social sanity, by Hugo Münsterberg"

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