Prinzipien und methoden der kuntspsychologie

Abstract

Reviews the book, Prinzipien und Methoden der Kuntspsychologie by Paul Plaut. This monograph is one of a series on Methods of Experimental Psychology in Aberhalden's Handbook. The other most recent one was Giese's Wirtschaftspsychologie. As suggested by the title much of the emphasis is on methodology. It is a rather comprehensive effort and at least opens up many problems. The first main division takes up the psychology of the artist. The section on "methods of applied psychology" involves more definitely experimental results although the subjects were almost entirely children. There is a section on musical experience. The reviewer feels that the monograph will have little appeal to the general reader interested in the broad field of the psychology of art, but rather to one specializing in some minor aspect who wishes information about what has been done on that aspect and some of the methods and further problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)