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Applied psychology   /əplˈaɪd saɪkˈɑlədʒi/   Listen
Applied psychology

noun
1.
Any of several branches of psychology that seek to apply psychological principles to practical problems of education or industry or marketing etc..  Synonym: industrial psychology.






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"Applied psychology" Quotes from Famous Books



... Applied Psychology. At the beginning of a subject it is legitimate to inquire concerning the possibility of applying the principles studied to practical uses, and it is very proper to make this inquiry concerning psychology. Psychology, being the science of human nature, ...
— The Science of Human Nature - A Psychology for Beginners • William Henry Pyle

... impairments so well described by Mumford. Anoci-association excludes fear, pain, shock, and postoperative neuroses. Anoci-association is accomplished by combining the special management of patients (applied psychology), morphin, inhalation ...
— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile

... I divide applied psychology into such various, separated books because they naturally address very different audiences. That which interests the lawyer does not concern the physician, and again the school-teacher has his own sphere of interests. Moreover the different subjects demand ...
— Psychotherapy • Hugo Muensterberg

... at last as a fit instrument for applied psychology, for the use of those delicate artists who are interested rather in what character is than in what it may chance to do. In the earliest fictions, whether in prose or verse, the hero had been merely a type, little more than a lay-figure capable of violent attitudes, a doer of ...
— A Manual of the Art of Fiction • Clayton Hamilton

... "That I may reject none of the benefits that Thy goodness bestows upon me," let us take possession of the entire benefit of autosuggestion, let us become this very day members of the "Lorraine Society of applied Psychology;" let us make members of it those who may be in our care (it is a good deed ...
— Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion • Emile Coue



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