Review of Psychology for the armed services

Abstract

Reviews the book, Psychology for the armed services by E. G. Boring (Ed.) (1945). The reviewer states that this book aims to outline with a minimum of technical language, but geared to college level, what the whole body of psychological knowledge holds for the military man. It is offered as a textbook and as a handbook of psychology, not simply for instruction but for individual reading and reference. The level of presentation is distinctly higher than the companion volume Psychology for the fighting man , both in presentation of principles and in the development of their applications, yet it retains the readable qualities of the latter. The volume impresses the reviewer as a most commendable achievement for several reasons and distinctly to the credit of psychology as a science and as a profession. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)