Category: Professorship

Copyright:Academia :: Oil:Water

Through this post at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, I learned Dr. Steven Shavell, director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business has written a piece on whether copyright should be abolished for academic works and how realistically that might happen (available as a PDF). It’s an interesting read, also laying out the motivations for academic publishing in such a way that it’s very depressing but also illuminating to a lay audience (which is, I imagine, his purpose).

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.

GRE: The Personality Test

There is much to consider in the traditional graduate school application, and ETS thinks it has the perfect supplement: a standardized personality test.

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...

Online Essay Mills Undermine Education

Essay mills like Essay Writers are, in my mind, an enabler of the worst type of academic fraud that can be perpetuated by an undergraduate. These mills employ freelance writers to produce essays on-demand...