Department 12: Everything I-O Psych
From XO to IO, Following the Science, & the Downside of Service with a Smile
After 12 years as a Naval Aviator and Marine Corps Officer, Jonathan Noftsier transitioned to a career in I-O psych consulting. In this episode, we talk about Jonathan's transition from Executive Officer (XO) to I-O consultant, what civilians get wrong about the military, and how to translate military experience for civilian interviewers. Visit the episode page for a full transcript.
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On the science communication front:
…participants who trust science are more likely to believe and disseminate false claims that contain scientific references than false claims that do not…we conclude that trust in science, although desirable in many ways, makes people vulnerable to pseudoscience.
I had an interesting discussion with someone this week who cited a consultant’s whitepaper as satisfactory evidence to support a claim. It made me wonder if ordinary folks generally consider these marketing materials as “scientific evidence” and consider themselves to be “trusting science” when they do so.
From the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Most of us are worse at spotting liars than we think.
…we found that people (including online panelists, n = 4,983, and working professionals such as fraud investigators and auditors, n = 136) use suspects’ angry responses to accusations as cues of guilt. However, we found that such anger is an invalid cue of guilt and is instead a valid cue of innocence; accused individuals (university students, n = 230) and online panelists (n = 401) were angrier when they are falsely relative to accurately accused.
The study, from Psychological Science, may be worth passing along to your HR colleagues who conduct investigations.
If you work for tips and deliver “service with a smile,” you’re more likely to be sexually harassed. From the Journal of Applied Psychology.