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1403, 2011

Faking It

March 14th, 2011|Categories: Psychology|Tags: |

As I/O psychologists we are extremely reliant on the accuracy of the data that is presented to us. Decisions are made on the basis that what is presented is indeed factual and accurate. But how much data is ever cross-examined? How much ‘faith’ can we put in data that is

2502, 2011

Studies You Should Know: The Curvilinear Relationship of Personality Traits & Job Performance

February 25th, 2011|Categories: Academia, Psychology|Tags: |

Le, H., Oh, I-S., Robbins, S.B., Ilies, R., Holland, E., & Westrick, P. (2011). Too much of a good thing: Curvilinear relationships between personality traits and job performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96, 1, 113-133. Abstract The relationships between personality traits and performance are often assumed to be linear. This

2202, 2011

Is Meta-Analysis All it is Cracked Up to Be?

February 22nd, 2011|Categories: Psychology|Tags: , |

As a student of psychology, I was taught that meta-analysis exceeded all other forms of research. However, his view has been brought into question by a series of papers such as: Hennekens, C.H., & DeMets, D. (2009). The need for large-scale randomized evidence without undue emphasis on small trials, meta-analyses,

1402, 2011

What Is Stopping The Changes Coming About: The Trouble With I/O

February 14th, 2011|Categories: Psychology|Tags: |

In response to my previous posts, people have asked what I see as the issues that are currently being faced by the I/O psychology discipline. I would say there are three interconnected issues that affect our discipline. The first two are internal and the second is external. My belief is

802, 2011

Response Style Indicators And The Concept Of Integrity

February 8th, 2011|Categories: Psychometrics|Tags: |

Two recent papers have questioned the assumption that validity scales in personality testing, such as social desirability, address inherent problems of self-report data. The argument is that the inclusion of a response bias indicator somehow provides a litmus test of the validity of a personality report. But like many assumptions

1312, 2010

Cognitive Science Can Be Career Damaging

December 13th, 2010|Categories: Psychology|Tags: , |

I have argued that the identification of a casual and biological link between personality and behaviour has ramifications for society. I have also noted how difficult it is for people to deal with any degree of determinism in the psychological sciences. As most I/O Psychologists know, cognitive ability is one

812, 2010

Hawthorne Effect (Being Watched May Not Effect Behaviour At All)

December 8th, 2010|Categories: Business, Performance, Psychology|Tags: , |

For those that don’t know the Economist is a fantastic newspaper. Not limited to economic news the Economist provides a synopsis across many disciplines of current topic research and findings. Often there is a section on Psychology and as a tribute to the Economist in my few short blogs, I

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