Comments on: It’s Usually Just Clinical http://neoacademic.com/2009/07/21/its-usually-just-clinical/ technology, education and training research from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist in the ivory tower Sat, 04 May 2013 15:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: George A Guajardo http://neoacademic.com/2009/07/21/its-usually-just-clinical/#comment-156 George A Guajardo Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:51:36 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=340#comment-156 I can’t say I’m surprised. I/O flies so under the radar that many psychologists don’t even know about it.

I suspect that a name change won’t fix the problem, though I am not entirely sure it would hurt either. Perhaps the easiest thing to do is include it in Intro Psychology Courses and text books. I taught this course as recently as two years ago and many of the textbooks I had available did not include a chapter on I/O psychology. Even when they did, many other instructors did not cover the chapter because it was not a curriculum requirement.

]]> By: Fletcher http://neoacademic.com/2009/07/21/its-usually-just-clinical/#comment-151 Fletcher Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:21:24 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=340#comment-151 I never understood that. To me, the “traditionally interesting” subdomains of psychology are nigh on deathly boring. They don’t say much beyond what’s intuitively obvious, they’re replete with poor research practices and pseudoscience, etc. etc.

I don’t get why anyone would think dredging through the DSM-IV is more interesting than designing an employee selection system. Clinical psychology just seems like so much wasted effort to me.

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