Psychological research can contribute much toward the understanding of hu-man relations in industry and psycho-logical methods have real use in solving problems which arise involving people, so Miss Baumgarten has undertaken to point out these applications. It is her feeling that "previous publications in this field have been popular compila-tions, half-thought-out works of dilet-tanti, and have either represented a prejudiced point of view or dealt only with certain aspects of the problems . . . A great deal is continually being written about the subject but much of what is published borders on the irresponsible."