Hugo Münsterberg – Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913)
MÜNSTERBERG, Hugo. Psychology and industrial efficiency. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1913. Disponível em: Gutemberg, Archive
Eis mais um livro ao mesmo tempo “famoso” e “esquecido” em Psicologia. Münsterberg é um dos inauguradores da “psicologia aplicada” e coloca no livro três motes que perdurarão nas décadas e no século seguinte na área do trabalho: “o melhor homem possível” relacionado ao “melhor trabalho possível” e sob “o melhor efeito possível”.
Aparentemente, a edição americana, publicada em 1913, é diferente da edição publicada na Alemanha no ano anterior. Münsterberg a respeito dela escreve o seguinte:
This book corresponds to a German book, which I published a few months ago, under the title Psychologie und Wirlschaftsleben: Ein Beitrag zur angewandten Experimental-Psychologie (Leipzig: J.A. Barth). It is not a translation, as some parts of the German volume have been abbreviated or entirely omitted and other parts have been enlarged and supplemented. Yet the essential substance of the two books is identical.
Índice
I. APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
II. THE DEMANDS OF PRACTICAL LIFE
III. MEANS AND ENDS
I. THE BEST POSSIBLE MAN
IV. VOCATION AND FITNESS
V. SCIENTIFIC VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
VI. SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
VII. THE METHODS OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
VIII. EXPERIMENTS IN THE INTEREST OF ELECTRIC RAILWAY SERVICE
IX. EXPERIMENTS IN THE INTEREST OF SHIP SERVICE
X. EXPERIMENTS IN THE INTEREST OF TELEPHONE SERVICE
XI. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MEN OF AFFAIRS
XII. INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS
II. THE BEST POSSIBLE WORK
XIII. LEARNING AND TRAINING
XIV. THE ADJUSTMENT OF TECHNICAL TO PSYCHICAL CONDITIONS
XV. THE ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT
XVI. EXPERIMENTS ON THE PROBLEM OF MONOTONY
XVII. ATTENTION AND FATIGUE
XVIII. PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON THE WORKING POWER
III. THE BEST POSSIBLE EFFECT
XIX. THE SATISFACTION OF ECONOMIC DEMANDS
XX. EXPERIMENTS ON THE EFFECTS OF ADVERTISEMENTS
XXI. THE EFFECT OF DISPLAY
XXII. EXPERIMENTS WITH REFERENCE TO ILLEGAL IMITATION
XXIII. BUYING AND SELLING
XXIV. THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC PSYCHOLOGY
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Marcio L. M. (22 de Abril de 2024). Hugo Münsterberg – Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913). áskēsis. Recuperado em 12 de Maio de 2025 de https://doi.org/10.58079/w99l