Hugo Münsterberg: Legends in the History of Psychology
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Author(s)Hugo Münsterberg, William Stern
Publisherwww.all-about-psychology.com
ISBN / ASINB00LT7CV96
ISBN-13978B00LT7CV98
Sales Rank2,057,315
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
A Psychology Legend
Hugo Münsterberg was one of the most stimulating thinkers in the history of psychology. A psychological polymath he conducted pioneering research within industrial (I/O), experimental, applied and clinical psychology. Hugo Münsterberg was also a passionate advocate of forensic psychology, a field in which he carried out innovative research into such things as witness memory, false confessions and the role of hypnosis in court. One of his earliest experiments tested subjects’ ability to discriminate between sounds heard in quick succession, the findings of which almost sixty years later were included as part of the preparation for the trial (which for obvious reasons never actually took place) of Lee Harvey Oswald to help address the question of how many shots had been fired during the assassination of President Kennedy.
Included in this tribute to Hugo Münsterberg is a brief account of his life, work and legacy written by William Stern shortly after Münsterberg's death in 1916, Münsterberg's presidential address on the topic of psychology and history which he delivered to the American Psychological Association in 1898; and a full-text copy of Münsterberg's landmark publication On The Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime which was originally published in 1908.
Hugo Münsterberg was one of the most stimulating thinkers in the history of psychology. A psychological polymath he conducted pioneering research within industrial (I/O), experimental, applied and clinical psychology. Hugo Münsterberg was also a passionate advocate of forensic psychology, a field in which he carried out innovative research into such things as witness memory, false confessions and the role of hypnosis in court. One of his earliest experiments tested subjects’ ability to discriminate between sounds heard in quick succession, the findings of which almost sixty years later were included as part of the preparation for the trial (which for obvious reasons never actually took place) of Lee Harvey Oswald to help address the question of how many shots had been fired during the assassination of President Kennedy.
Included in this tribute to Hugo Münsterberg is a brief account of his life, work and legacy written by William Stern shortly after Münsterberg's death in 1916, Münsterberg's presidential address on the topic of psychology and history which he delivered to the American Psychological Association in 1898; and a full-text copy of Münsterberg's landmark publication On The Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime which was originally published in 1908.
