Scientists Ignoring Social Networks
There is a noticeable lack of successful online social networks for scientists. But why?
Category: Community
Acronyms: SIOP’s Worst Enemy
I thought it might be a useful exercise to list the other organizations and techniques that share the new possible names for SIOP, courtesy of Acronym Finder. My favorites are “SWP: Socialist Workers Party” and “SWOP: Sex Workers Outreach Project.”
It’s Usually Just Clinical
PsyBlog, one of the more popular psychology blogs, has a piece up listing a variety of “superb psychology blogs” and surprise, surprise – it’s all clinical, cognitive, and social, with a dab of neuroscience, with not a dab of I/O to be found.
Scientist-Practitioners in Video Gaming
One of the trumpeted concepts in SIOP is the idea of the scientist-practitioner: the I/O psychologist with one foot in rigorous academic research and the other working with real organizations on real problems. It’s...
SIOP’s Identity Crisis: What’s In a Name?
My field’s principle organization, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, has been recently debating a name change. It’s a topic about which many feel passionately. I’ve been resisting joining the fray because I haven’t been...
Where Is the Divide: I vs O vs HR vs OB
A recent myriad of discussions across the I/O blogosphere on the status of I/O psychology as a science had led me to notice something peculiar about people in these discussions – the tendency of...