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In pamphlet form the author has here reprinted four brief papers relating to psychological factors in vocational adjustment. They are entitled “A Study of Positive and Negative Attitudes Toward Common Occupations”; “Implications of Industrial Selection by Tests”; “Measuring Susceptibility to Accident in Street Car Operators”; and “An Analysis of Women's Vocational Interests”. The more pertinent conclusions relate mainly to changes in individual and social attitudes to various occupations; the values and deficiencies of mental tests in their present use and development in regard to personnel and employment selection; and inquiries as to the validity of specific tests. There is nothing in either the approach or the findings—both essentially abstract and restricted in nature as compared with an approach which considers but some of the dynamic factors basic to a consideration of the full interplay between the individual and his milieu—that is of direct interest to psychoanalysis.