psychotechnics

[ sahy-koh-tek-niks ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. the use of psychological techniques for controlling and modifying human behavior, especially for practical ends.

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychotechnics¹

1925–30; psycho- + technics

Example Sentences

The economic psychotechnics of the future will surely study with similar methods the effects of the living commercial agencies.

From Project Gutenberg

But when the hundreds of millions of customers in the civilized world want to satisfy their economic demands in the stores, the whole dissolves into a flood of talk, because no one has taken the trouble to examine scientifically the psychotechnics of selling and to put it on a firm psychological foundation.

From Project Gutenberg

For instance, the sportsman who climbs a glacier also performs such a fatiguing activity which demands the greatest effort of attention and will; and yet the psychotechnics of sport do not belong in economic psychology, because this mountain climbing does not satisfy economic desires.

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They are accordingly inaccessible to the point of view of experimental psychology, and nothing can be expected from such interpretative discussions of the economists for the psychotechnics at which the psychologist is aiming.

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The task of psychotechnics is accordingly to determine by exact psychological experiments how this mental effect, the satisfaction of economic desires, can be secured in the quickest, in the easiest, in the safest, in the most enduring, and in the most satisfactory way.

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