Citation

Strong Jr. EK. Psychol. Bull. 1916; 13(11): 430-433.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1916, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/h0070048

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Reviews 12 studies dealing with physical and mental fatigue, work, and inhibition (1914-1916). Fatigue and exhaustion are a result of spending the sum total of available potential energy. The effect of physical fatigue on mental efficiency, as expressed by addition and multiplication, is very irregular. Recovery from mental fatigue is very rapid, as compared to that from muscle repair, and thus, mental fatigue may seem to be rare. In order to understand the effects of inhibition, studies have been carried out on the simultaneous and alternating finger movements in tapping. The influence of climate on man's industry and culture has also been discussed.

Language: en

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".