Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation by Alan Burdick

Author:Alan Burdick
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Science, Personal Memoirs, Time, General
ISBN: 9781451677010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2017-01-24T08:00:00+00:00

In 1892, William James, fifty years old and “disliking laboratory work,” he wrote, handed over the directorship of his Harvard psychology lab to Hugo Münsterberg, a German experimental psychologist whom he had befriended three years earlier in Paris, at the First International Congress of Psychologists. Münsterberg had studied in Leipzig under Wilhelm Wundt, James’s mentor, and is regarded by many historians as the first to embrace the application of psychology to industry and advertising. He developed psychological tests to help the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Boston Elevated Railway Company hire the safest engineers and streetcar drivers, and, after some study, he suggested that one way to increase worker productivity was to rearrange the office to make it harder for employees to talk to one another on the job. He was the author of numerous books, including Business Psychology and Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, as well as of popular articles such as “Finding a Life Work,” published in 1910 in McClure’s Magazine, which proposed that psychological experiments could help reveal “a man’s true calling” and so counter “the reckless choosing of careers in America.”

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