Excerpt from The Psychological Bulletin, 1913, Vol. 10: Containing the Literature Section of the Psychological Review The third Chief Characteristic Of our year is to be found in the in creasing confidence in the scientific validity of applied psychology, and in the labors to perfect the procedures in seeking solution for many problems in other sciences and in the art of living. Sometimes thisapplication means only a common-sense use of psychological insight; at other times a direct treatment of particular problems by the psychologist. At the twentieth meeting (1911) of the American Psychological Association, indication of this interest was notably shown in the presidential address, the symposium on psychology and medical education, and the section on educational psychology. The Fifth Congress for Experimental Psychology (berlin, 1912) was Characterized by a Special manifestation of interest in the method and results of the applications of psychology, about one third of the forty papers presented being concerned with this field. This branch of the science was taken by Miinsterberg as the theme for his Ichabod Spencer lectures early in the year. Meunier's (i6) and Stern's (26) views belong no less to this field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.