I am reading " On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime" by Hugo Munsterberg (1908/1925). How do I find the references, using this site, to which he used to find his data and conclussions?

Thank you, Haruki

-- Haruki Nii (harukinii@hotmail.com), February 20, 2003

Answers

You can't. Munsterberg published the essay without references, so he was relying either on his own personal experience (which does qualify as "empirical data") or on what was common knowledge. Discovering what his sources may have been would be a nice "history of psychology" research project. I suspect some of his biographers may have had ideas on that. You might check the following books:

Human science and social order: Hugo Münsterberg and the origins of applied psychology. Hale, Matthew. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1980 States of belonging: German-American intellectuals and the First World War Keller, Phyllis. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1979

Hugo Münsterberg, his life and work. Münsterberg, Margarete Anna Adelheid. New York [etc.] D. Appleton and Co., 1922

But keep in mind that Munsterberg was a "founder" and thus made new contributions rather than relying on an existing body of literature.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), February 21, 2003.