About Richard

My name is Richard N. Landers, and I am an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, USA.

This blog represents my state of mind as I dive into academic life.  It is about life.  It is about research.  But those are really the same thing anyway, right?

My home area is Industrial/Organizational Psychology, the application of psychological principles to the working world.  In particular, I’m interested in how the Internet has and will change the way work is conducted.  Training is my focus right now – using the web to deliver instruction is the likely future of most work-related training, and little research is available so far to help practitioners design web-based training effectively.  I think I can help.

My expertise is a peculiar one for an I/O psychologist.  I trained for my Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota under the brilliant Paul Sackett, but I also have a long history and strong background in computer science.  I’m a psychologist who knows how to write computer programs.  That puts you in the minority.

I have long been a fan of academic comics like Piled Higher and Deeper and academic blogs like Rate Your Students, and I strongly recommend both.  They helped me get through graduate school; maybe they’ll do the same for you.

You can find my regular professional website at rlanders.net and my laboratory at tntlab.org.