“Studies on fatigue. Contributions to psychotechnics in Argentina"

KLAPPENBACH, HUGO

Berlín, Alemania

Congreso; XXIX International Congress of Psychology. IUPsyS Invited Sympium “History of applied psychology in different countries”; 2008

International Union of Psychologycal Science (IUPsyS)

The paper analyzes the reception in Argentina of fatigue's research, produced both in Europe and United States (Dockeray, 1920; Strong, 1913, 1914, Seashore, 1904; Squire, 1903; Thorndike, 1900a, 1900b, 1912; Viteles, 1926; Whiting & English, 1923). Then, original research on fatigue in Argentina are examined, specially the contributions of Alfredo Palacios and Horacio Rimoldi. Those works are analyzed in the context of the development of psychotechics, which strongly increased in the whole country and which reached its majors contributions in the decade of 1940.