Questions tagged [io-psychology]
For questions relating to the application and extension of psychological principles to humans operating within the context of business, industry, and other organizational structures.
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There is a seeming contradiction between interleaving and multitasking. One improves learning; the other hinders achievement. How to resolve this?
I have read in Barbara Oakley's texts and How Learning Works (Lovett et al.) that interleaving improves students' achievement. However, this seems to contradict the warning against multitasking that I'...
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Is the lack of eagerness to contribute to the group's goal a cause for diffustion of responsibility?
From Wikipedia:
Diffusion of responsibility is a sociopsychological phenomenon whereby a person is less likely to take responsibility for action or inaction when other bystanders or witnesses are ...
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Components of fairness in income/reward division
I'm looking for any analysis or research on how people tend to see fair division of income or reward for a given task or project.
On the market, political interventions aside, it seems to be the ...
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How Really Effective are the Measures of Psychological Tests in Jobs Interviews and Worker Performance After Inside the Workplace
Hello I work doing smalls gig with datasets and also sometimes I create for myself some infographics and data-visualizations of interesting topics for me. for example football, cryptos, virus, etc.
I ...
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State of research in productivity, work fatigue and workplace policies
I am interested in any kind of summary research that links workplace policies, productivity and fatigues. For example, if someone has worked 10 hours one day, will they be as productive the next day? ...
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Do solutions for complicated problems ripe during long breaks? [duplicate]
I often solve complicated problems by thinking about the problem for maybe 15 minutes, then taking a break for one or two hours, and then think for another 15 minutes. This often leads to much better ...
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Longitudinal consistency of StrengthsFinder
The StrengthsFinder survey is a personality assessment which finds strengths which an individual can contribute to an organization. What is the consistency of this assessment:
When a person takes the ...
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Hobbies / interests correlated with Big 5 scores?
Are there any established treatments (I'm going to leave the exact terms a little bit vague because my understanding is vague) of which hobbies and interests are most likely to be attractive to ...
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Choice of Occupation and Negative Childhood Experiences
Is there any evidence to suggest that individuals that were bullied in school as children select occupations that are a means of making people obligated to respect them? For example people that join ...
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How does the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument relate to the Big Five?
The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) is apparently quite popular in MBA classes and even in conflict negotiation practice:
The TKI is popular beyond the confines of negotiation classes....
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Definition of dominance (self-assessment manikin)
I'm using the self-assessment manikin to measure valence, arousal and dominance. Valence and arousal is clear to all participants but with the concept of dominance a lot of participants are struggling....
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Possible applications of the big five personality traits testing in human resource departments
I am a multimedia artist who is interning in a human resources department of a casino resort. In the department we have daily meetings to discuss updates to both the orientation and the performance of ...
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What tools exist to measure work meaningfulness?
Do you know of methods/tools/criteria used (in sociology, social psychology or occupational science) in order to evaluate how meaningful some particular work can be for a particular person?
I am not ...
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Implementing new procedures / guidelines in companies
I'm teaching evidence-based practice and implementation science to midwifery students, i.e. how to evaluate research findings e.g. regarding new therapies and diagnostics and how to plan the ...
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Predicting workplace performance of job applicants? [closed]
As an employer who interviews engineering candidates, I'm interested in using the state of the art findings in psychometrics/psychology to predict which candidates are the most likely to be successful....
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