Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916)

Early Career Obtained his Ph.D. under Wundt in 1882 Directed the lab in Freiburg (Swirtzerland) --had the lab in his own house. In 1892, enticed by James to direct the Psychology lab at Harvard University In 1902, wrote American Traits

About the Münster lab http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Munster/Lab/ Go to the URL, look at the pictures, glance at the contents of the catalog, look at the experiments that were on-going. If you were in that lab, which of these experiements would interest you most?

Münsterberg's interests Industrial psychology Forensic Psychology

Industrial Psychology Go look at his writings on the topic at: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Munster/Industrial/ This is the first "official" applied psychology book. What does Münsterberg think of applied psychology? What are the areas of industrial psychology Münsterberg considers important? What do you think of his analysis?

Forensics Go look at his writings on forensics at http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Munster/Witness/illusions.htm Look at the content of his writings. Choose something to read. Summarize. What do you think?

Industrial Psychology Today APA division 14 http://www.apa.org/about/division/div14.html Go to the SIOP site. What seem to be some of the important issues today? What materials on there might be of special interest to students?

Forensics today APA Division 41 at http://www.apa.org/about/division/div41.html Go to the division site itself What material there is interesting to students? Go to their "links", explore some of the other organizations

Applied research relevant to forensics The work of Elizabeth Loftus. Look at her site at http://www.seweb.uci.edu/faculty/loftus/ Read one of her articles. A well-known article that has become a classic is that about creating false memories at http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/sciam.htm

Münsterberg and psychotherapy Wrote Psychotherapy in 1909 advocates a behavioral approach. There is no subconscious --though for a time, he did use hypnosis. Read a 1911 encyclopedia article on psychotherapy that uses Münsterberg as one of its sources. Go to http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12549a.htm

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