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[Reprinted from The PsychologicAtSS^^w, Vol. 26, No. 2, March, 1919.I 



REPORT OF THE PSYCHOLOGY COMMITTEE 

 OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 



Respectfully submitted to Dr. George E. Hale, Chairman National Research Council 

 BY MAJOR ROBERT M. YERKES, 



Chairman of the Psychology Committee.^ 



I. Organization of the Psychology Committee 

 The Psychology Committee was organized in April, 1917, 

 at the request of the Chairman of the Research Council, be- 

 cause of the appearance of psychological military problems 

 and the formulation of plans for participation in the war by 

 the Council of the American Psychological Association. ^ 



The constitution of the Committee, together with such 

 changes as have occurred by reason of resignation or addi- 

 tional appointments, Is Indicated below: James R. Angell,^ 

 J. McKeen Cattell, Raymond Dodge, Shepherd I. Franz, G. 

 Stanley Hall, Walter Dill Scott, Carl E. Seashore, Edward 

 L. Thorndike, John B. Watson, G. M. Whipple, Robert M. 

 Yerkes, Chairman, and the late John W. Baird, Vice-chair- 

 man. 



Simultaneously with the organizing of the Psychology 

 Committee of the National Research Council, the Council of 

 the American Psychological Association authorized the ap- 

 pointment and designated the chairmen of twelve committees 

 of the Association to deal with various aspects of the rela- 



^ Grateful acknowledgment is made by the Chairman of the Committee to Cap- 

 tain Richard M. Elliott for his assistance in the preparation of this report. 



* An account of the events which preceded the organizing of this committee and of 

 its early activities was published under the title "Psychology in Relation to the War" 

 in the Psychological Review, 25, 85-115, March, 1918. 



^ Angell and Scott were appointed in October, 1917. Cattell resigned in October, 

 V 1917. Baird was appointed Vice-chairman in March, 1918. 



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