technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
College students everywhere, heed this metaphor: Imagine you’re a server in some sort of fern-filled bar/restaurant – let’s say Applebee’s. You’re serving 20 people in a single group, all by yourself. You in fact...
One of the most difficult aspects of studying cheating on selection/promotion/training tests and otherwise dishonest behavior in either work or school is figuring out what percentage of employees/students actually engage in such behavior.
In the first paper I’ve seen using social media (like Twitter) to tie to a real world monetary outcome, Asur and Huberman (2010) at the Social Computing Labs in Palo Alto, CA use Twitter activity to predict film box office sales. Taking all 24 major film releases between November 2009 and January 2010, the number of tweets on new films predict sales even better than the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX), an online prediction game (think fantasy football for film success) that is described as the “gold standard” for predicting box office revenues.
Just imagine how memorable military training would be where getting shot in the simulator gave you a real physical reminder that you could have been dead in the real world.
A recent article in Newsweek discussed the use of online games like Farmville and virtual worlds like Second Life for studying human behavior when buying and selling goods, a field called behavioral economics. Consider...
Reports have been surfacing recently claiming Facebook usage enables the spread of syphilis. This is mostly based on irresponsible reporting.