hollingworth spent most of his career doing applied research in what, at that time, was termed business psychology, and would be better characterized today as industrial psychology. although he was a pioneer in the fields of industrial and applied psychology, hollingworth had no particular passion for this kind of research. rather, hollingworth’s career took the course it did because the financial rewards offered by applied research appealed to a man struggling to make a living (benjamin, 1996; benjamin, rogers & rosenbaum, 1991).