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Title: Power of Mental Imagery
Being the Fifth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the
Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and
Business Efficiency

Author: Warren Hilton

Release Date: September 2, 2007 [EBook #22489]

Language: English

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Applied Psychology

POWER OF
MENTAL IMAGERY

_Being the Fifth of a Series of_
_Twelve Volumes on the Applications_
_of Psychology to the Problems of_
_Personal and Business_
_Efficiency_

BY

WARREN HILTON, A.B., L.L.B.

FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

ISSUED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
THE LITERARY DIGEST
FOR
The Society of Applied Psychology
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1920

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COPYRIGHT 1914
BY THE APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO

(_Printed in the United States of America_)

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CONTENTS

Chapter

I. IMAGINATION AND RECOGNITION Page

RECOGNIZING THE PAST AS PAST 3
IMAGINATION, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE 5

II. KINDS OF MENTAL IMAGES

VISUAL IMAGERY 9
AUDITORY IMAGERY 11
IMAGERY OF TASTE AND SMELL 12
MUSCULAR AND TACTUAL IMAGERY 13
PERSONAL DIFFERENCES IN MENTAL IMAGERY 14
INVESTIGATIONS OF DOCTOR GALTON 15
INVESTIGATIONS OF PROFESSOR JAMES 16
INVESTIGATIONS OF PROFESSOR SCOTT 21

III. HOW TO INFLUENCE OTHERS THROUGH MENTAL IMAGERY

A RULE FOR INFLUENCING OTHERS