Department 12: Everything I-O Psych
Qualitative Research, The Trouble with Too Much Free Time, and Corporate Psychopaths in Law Enforcement
I’m proud of this Qualitative Research Special with Julia McMenamin, Dr. Jennifer Pickett, Dr. Deborah DiazGranados, and Dr. Scott Davies. It was a lot of work compared to my usual one-on-one interview format, but I think it was worthwhile. I hope you get something from it, too.
Jindal Global University (JGU), the highest-ranked private university in India, just launched an M.A./M.Sc. in Applied Psychology, with an available specialization in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. The entire program is two years, with the first year reserved for foundational psychology classes. That means this master’s has only one year of I-O coursework.
Is there such a thing as too much free time? So it would seem. Here’s research on the curvilinear relationship between free time and subjective well-being and a write-up in the Washington Post.
Not Surprising: What with this COVID pandemic and all, we’re trying to put a little more space between ourselves and others.
Surprising: The preference holds in virtual reality.
In The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success, physicist Albert-László Barabási claims:
It’s possible to put actual monetary value on each citation a paper receives. We can, in other words calculate exactly how much a single citation is worth. . . . in the United States each citation is worth a whopping $100,000.
If the word “exactly” and the big round number of $100,000 haven’t already set off alarms, let Andrew Gelman dismantle this claim before your very eyes.
Note for instructors: If you can teach students to think critically about claims in TED Talks and Malcom Gladwell-style books, you’ll be performing a mitzvah for the future.
A law enforcement organization would be negligent if it did not remove these destructive personalities as quickly as possible—as abusive supervision creates an increased likelihood of poor community engagement and poor treatment of community members.
Lieutenant Brian N. O’Donnell of the Charlottesville VA Police Department writes on the Impact of Corporate Psychopath Traits in Police Leadership for Officer.com, a professional publication for law enforcement.