Citation

Strong Jr. EK. Psychol. Bull. 1915; 12(11): 416-419.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1915, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/h0071931

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Reviews 17 publications (1913-1914) on fatigue, work, and inhibition. E. L. Thorndike, in his study of the effects of continued work for 4 h on writing poetry, found that speed of work is not benefited by rest, but the satisfaction of the work gets greatly enhanced by rest. I. E. Ash found noticeable fatigue in steady adding for periods of even 1 hr. E. Weber's work shows that muscular work brings about an increase in the blood supply to the musculature of the body, at the expense of the blood supply in the viscera.

Cited in: Burnham JC (2009). Accident Prone: A history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08117-5. The book was favorably reviewed by David Hemenway in Injury Prevention (2011), doi: 10.1136/ip.2011.031658.



Special Thanks to Dr. Burnham for providing an electronic copy of the bibliographic notes that accompany each chapter. This greatly facilitated adding previously unidentified records to the SafetyLit database. SafetyLit users may obtain a listing of the book's references by searching using the following Textword(s) Exact query: "Burnham-Accident-Prone".

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