Journalist and bestselling science author, Chris Mooney, will give a keynote address at the SPSSI/Div. 9 program of the 2012 APA Convention in Orlando. There is growing interest in many fields of science in creating more effective information programs to convey findings of science to educators, the government, the non-government sector, industry, and the general public. It is a big task with many audiences and numerous psychological and practical obstacles. In his talk, Chris Mooney, an experienced science communication trainer, will offer his take on how psychologists can use their considerable expertise to take some steps in the right direction. He will exhort psychologists to communicate their research much more broadly, and to make the most of its dramatic relevance to policymaking and to our understanding of resistance to science and it applications.
Think back to a typical workplace in 1992, twenty years ago. What were the hot I-O topics then? Now imagine 10, 20, or even 50 years from now. What will the new hot topics be? The Jan-Feb 2012 issue of The Futurist, a magazine from the World Future Society (WFS), and a YouTube video from odesk.com called The Future of Work pose some interesting possibilities.
Compared to workers today, workers of the future might be…
Sorry, the title has a typo. I accidentally added a “wo” into the quote I just heard on NPR. My mistake, it should have read “the most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized,” (NPR PSU Scandal presented on 7-12-2012).
I am sports agnostic myself. Paterno, shpaterno- never heard of him before this scandal broke out. So when I heard the story, I did not care about the main points of the piece as presented. It moved me, though, because it is a powerful example of what can happen when an organization does not practice the ethical principles taught by the field of I-O.
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