Tact and technology

In this project I study the role of tact in practices that aim at controlling, manipulating, changing or influencing behaviour or society. Tact is defined as the ways of preventing or dealing with resistance against control. I use a mixture of historical and qualitative methods.

Researchers and partners

Education

Courses connected to this project

• PSBA1-26 Geschiedenis van de Psychologie
• PSMPK-1 Boundaries of Psychology

Results

Publications

• Derksen, M. (2017). Histories of Human Engineering: tact and technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.