A 2024 debate in organisational psychology asks whether selection tests are being systematically undervalued due to how their effectiveness is calculated. One side says yes, and proposes a correction that makes the numbers look considerably more impressive. The other side agrees with the conclusion but argues the correction answers the wrong question.
Attention is widely assumed to decline with age. A 2024 study testing older and younger adults across 11 attention tasks finds the reality is far more complicated, and that the general decline narrative does not hold up under careful scrutiny.
Situational judgment tests and assessment centres are both widely used in selection. A 2024 head-to-head comparison finds they are not interchangeable: one predicts thinking performance well, the other is needed for interpersonal and leadership performance. The right question is not which is better, but better at predicting what.
Studies You Should Know: General Cognitive Ability and Job Performance: A Contemporary Reassessment The Question Few findings in industrial and organisational psychology have
Studies You Should Know Why Preregistration Is No Stop to Poor Science The Question Psychology's replication crisis prompted a wave of proposed remedies.
Passion at work is almost universally celebrated. A 2024 study tracking nearly 34,000 daily observations finds a less comfortable truth: passion is also associated with overconfidence about how well you are actually performing.
Psychology has been studying wisdom for decades, mostly on its own terms. A 2023 paper by Robert Sternberg argues the field has been missing something: two and a half thousand years of philosophical thinking about exactly this question.
What personality traits do people who live to 100 tend to share? A Spanish study interviewing 19 centenarians found eight recurring characteristics, and several of them point toward something more actionable than genetics.
Is there a real connection between physical attractiveness and personality? A 2026 study replicates and extends earlier findings, using longitudinal data to examine whether the two are more meaningfully linked than most people assume.
Could an AI infer your personality just from the way you write and speak? A 2023 study put the idea to a rigorous psychometric test. The results are more nuanced than either enthusiasts or sceptics might expect.
