technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
Without a clear rationale for doing so, statistical significance testing on sample-level statistics can mislead and confuse. Schmidt (2010) provides a clear explanation of how to avoid this problem through psychometric meta-analysis.
An upcoming paper in Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking examines participant drop out rates in online surveys. I even made a handy chart!
I began today by drafting a comment response to this article by Rey Junco about “why educators must become hackers,” but after I started writing, it became obvious that this deserved a much more complete response.
Getting rid of performance reviews only tells your employees and your customers that the performance level of your employees doesn’t matter. That’s not the message most organizations want to communicate, is it?
A recent article in Psychological Science investigates the use of violent video games by people to experience catharsis – a “release” associated with pent-up aggressive energy. They found that when angered, people are more likely to seek violent video games for an emotional release, despite the fact that playing violent video games does not seem to actually provide that release.
I am normally a fan of articles from Mashable, but a recent article by Sharlyn Lauby on Foursquare’s use in the workplace struck me as absolutely ridiculous.