Frases de Hugo Münsterberg

Hugo Münsterberg , psicólogo germano-estadounidense. Pionero de la psicología aplicada, estableció las bases de la psicología industrial.

Discípulo de Wilhelm Wundt en Leipzig, obtuvo su doctorado en 1885. En 1891 participó en el primer Congreso internacional de psicología, celebrado en EE. UU., en el que William James le invitó a trabajar en el laboratorio de psicología de la Universidad de Harvard.

Tras tres años de estancia en EE. UU., regresó a Friburgo, Alemania. Dos años más tarde, en 1897, regresó a Harvard, donde permaneció hasta su muerte en diciembre de 1916. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. junio 1863 – 19. diciembre 1916
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“Our aim is to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be placed at the service of commerce and industry.”

Fuente: Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913), p. 3-4 ; Introduction, lead paragraph
Contexto: Our aim is to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be placed at the service of commerce and industry. So far we have only scattered beginnings of the new doctrine, only tentative efforts and disconnected attempts which have started, sometimes in economic, and sometimes in psychological, quarters. The time when an exact psychology of business life will be presented as a closed and perfected system lies very far distant. But the earlier the attention of wider circles is directed to its beginnings and to the importance and bearings of its tasks, the quicker and the more sound will be the development of this young science. What is most needed to-day at the beginning of the new movement are clear, concrete illustrations which demonstrate the possibilities of the new method. In the following pages, accordingly, it will be my aim to analyze the results of experiments which have actually been carried out, experiments belonging to many different spheres of economic life. But these detached experiments ought always at least to point to a connected whole; the single experiments will, therefore, always need a general discussion of the principles as a background. In the interest of such a wider perspective we may at first enter into some preparatory questions of theory. They may serve as an introduction which is to lead us to the actual economic life and the present achievements of experimental psychology

“The knowledge of nature and the mastery of nature have always belonged together.”

Fuente: Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913), p. 6

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