Canadian psychologists and the aerodrome of democracy.

Describes the role of Canadian psychologists in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) and suggests possible effects on postwar Canadian psychology. Some of Canada's most prominent psychologists were deeply involved in the field of aircrew selection and training between 1939 and 1945. E. A. Bott (1941), S. N. Chant (1943), and C. R. Myers (1972) all worked on human resource aspects of the BCATP for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Some of their most significant work was the development of selection procedures that culled over 150,000 aircrew candidates of which 131,553 graduated as qualified aviators. By introducing scientific methods (based on the behavioral sciences) to the RCAF, Canadian psychologists had a profound effect on the Commonwealth's aircrew production system. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)