What a busy month? I have been teaching, travelling, and working away on revisions for potential publications. The invitations to revise submissions hasvebeen exciting. Hopefully these papers will appear in print soon. In spite of all of this work, I agreed to step in at the last minute to act as an examiner at a […]
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Over the last few days I have been preparing an invited response to a paper on cross cultural training. The authors investigated the relationship between goal orientation, cultural intelligence, and cross cultural adjustment. It was an interesting piece of work – with some limitations, but you can read the specifics in the paper when it […]
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Thursday was a cold, rainy day in San Diego. Luckily that kept me going to session after session instead escaping for a walk along the pier. And I am glad that I did. The fourth session I attended was a panel with I/O psychologists who are working within large organizations or consulting firms. The topic […]
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I am on a plane en route to the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. A large contingent from Southern Ontario’s Org Psyc/Management scholarship community is on the same plane including Gary Latham, Julian Barling, David Zweig, Sunjeev Patel, and a wack of graduate students. As always, it promised to be an interesting conference. First […]
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There was a really interesting piece in the New York Times today about the relationship between exercise and addictions. Neuroscientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that mice who regularly ran on a treadmill and were given liquid cocaine were more likely to become behaviourally addicted to the substance than mice who were […]
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I am still thinking a lot about storytelling as a way to present material. Thanks to those of you who read my earlier piece on reporting research through creative non-fiction writing. I appreciated the comments I received on the site and by email. More recently, I have considering the use of storytelling as a tool […]
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I just had a great moment! I opened up a dataset last night and started to ‘clean’ it up in preparation for analyzing the content. The process is slow and a little dull. You need to look at a large set of numbers, look for missing cells, add up rows to create overall measures, and […]
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I will be giving a fun, low stress presentation next week related to my research on modesty and income. I have 60 seconds to share an interesting research finding. I am going to present the research represented by the abstract below: A robust finding in social psychology research is that women under-represent their accomplishments to others whereas men consistently self-promote their […]
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I am experimenting with writing up my research in a creative format. The text below is based on some work I did back in 2007. Curious to hear what you think… When I sat down at the back of the room, it was their voices that I noticed first. Not what they were saying but […]
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At a supervision meeting with a Master’s student yesterday, Jules Richardson and I became very enthusiastic about the student’s proposed study of LinkedIn. The project is about the use of LinkedIn as a job search tool. Surveys indicate that recruiters are increasingly using social media to identify appropriate applicants. As a result, job seekers are […]
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