“WE have placed our psychotechnical interest at the service of economic tasks… The purpose before us was to find for every economic occupation the best-fitted personality, both in the interest of economic success and in the interest of personal development.”

—  Hugo Munsterberg

Source: Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913), p. 141

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German-American psychologist, philosopher and agitator 1863–1916

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