applied psychology

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any of several branches of psychology that seek to apply psychological principles to practical problems of education or industry or marketing etc.

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War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure. G. Stanley Hall

Applied psychology can, therefore, speak the language of an exact science ill its own field, independent of economic opinions and debatable partisan interests. Hugo Munsterberg

By the time Dewey moved to Chicago at the age of thirty-five, he had already published two books on psychology and applied psychology. Source: Internet

The novel shows what might happen to Christianity in the United States given mass communications, applied psychology, and a hysterical populace. Source: Internet

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