ABSTRACT
During World War II, even more than during the first one, psychologists had an opportunity to make a contribution to wards meeting the national emergency. Their existing know ledge and methods could be applied to various military problems, and their war work was quite varied. One large problem, already worked at in industries before the war, was that of ‘fitting the man to the job and the job to the man*. The problem has several angles. The man is tested and inter viewed so as to discover his abilities and interests; and the job is analysed, or rather many jobs are analysed, to deter mine what abilities and interests are called for in each job. But the problem involves more than selecting the right man 1 Italicized numbers in parentheses refer to the References on pp. 631-55.
