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Method Diversity Is The Basis of Theory Testing

More than a century ago, a Swiss patent clerk presented a theory that revolutionized physics. Einstein’s relativity theory continues to … Continue reading >Method Diversity Is The Basis of Theory Testing

Last week I attended the Teaching and Learning with AI conference, organized by the University of Central Florida Division of … Continue reading >How Educators Can Make the Most of AI

I was reading Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Dear Cloud Support column in the May/June Wired magazine where she made the point that … Continue reading >Information Management is the New Time Management

Hospitals sometimes hire nurses from out-of-town (travel nurses) on a temporary basis to fill vacancies when permanent staff nurses are … Continue reading >Travel Nurse Versus Staff Nurse Experience

I have been working as a part-time contractor at an academic hospital and one of my roles is to help … Continue reading >Why Soft Nursing Is Important?

As medical science became politicized during COVID-19, a new catch phrase of “follow the science” emerged in the media. People … Continue reading >Scientific Skepticism Is a Smart Thing

No two statistical concepts are more often confused than mediator and moderator variables. Both are “third” variables that affect the … Continue reading >What Is the Difference Between Mediator and Moderator Variables?

When I was a graduate student in the1970s, articles were focused on problems of organizations, and statistical methods were simple. … Continue reading >Statistical Modeling Methods Are the Real Trojan Horse

When I was a graduate student, there were only a handful of peer-reviewed journals in my field of industrial-organizational (I-O) … Continue reading >How To Pick An Outlet for Academic Publishing

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the Academia Meets Practice (AMP) conference at the Muma College of Business in … Continue reading >AI Is the Latest Disruptive Technology

When we collect data on people, those people are members of groups. Employees, for example, are members of teams and … Continue reading >What Is the Ecological Fallacy Definition?

Last week I was browsing the posters at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference in Chicago. A … Continue reading >Populations Are Important In Research Reports

I study how people feel about their jobs, so I was intrigued the other day when I came across the … Continue reading >What Is Employee Resenteeism in the Workplace?

With rising college costs and limited career prospects for many majors, there has been a sharp decline in the number … Continue reading >It Is Time We Started Studying Skilled Trades Workers

We see are seeing increasing numbers of media stories about problems with peer-reviewed scientific research. Whether it is a story … Continue reading >Why the Media Has Lost Faith in Science

Has a supervisor ever asked you to do something unethical–something that made you uncomfortable? Did you do it or did … Continue reading >Supervisor Requests for Unethical Actions: New Research

I have been around the I-O psychology/management field long enough to see things evolve from its origins in behaviorism where … Continue reading >Theory Salting in the Organizational Sciences

Academic journals maintain rigor by soliciting evaluations by two or more experts who serve as peer reviewers for each paper … Continue reading >A Peer Reviewer Crisis in the Organizational Sciences