He worked at the National Institute of Industrial Psychology during 1925–28, first as an investigator, then as assistant to the director, C.S.
He then spent a year as lecturer in Philosophy and Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, working with Alec Mace.
[4] During World War II he gave a weekly broadcast commentary for the Ministry of Information.
He was also attached to the War Office staff of the Directorate for Selection of Personnel.
He then married his second wife, Margaret Horsey, a fellow psychologist in 1936, and the couple collaborated in writing A Modern Introduction to Psychology, which was first published in 1948 and passed through many editions.