Following New Journal Articles Online As They Are Released
If you want to stay current with your research area, you need to read new journal articles as they come out. In the past, this was much more difficult; you needed to subscribe to...
Should You Personalize Mass E-mails?
In an upcoming issue of Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, Maslowska, van den Putte and Smit ((Maslowska, E., Putte, B., & Smit, E. (2011). The Effectiveness of Personalized E-mail Newsletters and the Role of...
Gladwell Was Wrong: High and Very High Ability Employees Perform Differently
In his 2008 book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell criticizes the traditional “top-down” selection method used by organizations hiring on the basis of cognitive ability (colloquially referred to as “intelligence”). By his argument, there is a...
Graduate Students Who Teach Are More Skilled at Research
According to recent research appearing in Science, the traditional advice to graduate students to minimize their time spent teaching and maximize their time spent on research may ultimately harm the development of their research...
Unfolding the IKEA Effect: Why We Love the Things We Build
The IKEA Effect refers to the tendency for people to value things they have created/built themselves more than if made by someone else – in fact, nearly as much as if an expert had...
Grad School: What Will My First Year of an I/O Master’s/Ph.D. Program Be Like?
Grad School Series: Applying to Graduate School in Industrial/Organizational Psychology Starting Sophomore Year: Should I get a Ph.D. or Master’s? | How to Get Research Experience Starting Junior Year: Preparing for the GRE | Getting Recommendations Starting Senior Year: Where to...