technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
Landers, R. N. (2020). Calculating LongString in Excel to detect careless responders. Authorea. DOI: 10.22541/au.160590023.35753324/v1 Careless responding is one of the most fundamental challenges of survey research. We need our respondents to respond honestly and with effort,...
So, what’s the difference between industrial and organizational psychology? The difference these days is quite fuzzy, but it used to be much clearer. Let me tell you a little story. In the old and...
Just a few days ago, the new and very promising open-access I/O psychology journal Personnel Assessment and Decisions released its second issue. And it’s full of interesting work, just as I thought it would be....
One of the biggest challenges for psychologists is gaining access to research participants. We go to great lengths, from elaborate and creative sampling strategies to spending hard-earned grant money, to get random(ish) people to...
From my research on gamification, one of the major conclusions that I’ve come to is that gamification must be implemented for a reason. Blindly throwing game elements into a course without carefully considering why you’re...
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) has once again released its top ten list of anticipated top workplace trends for 2016 based upon a vote of the current SIOP membership. Here they are,...