Advice for Applying to Terminal Master’s Programs
Dr. Butina,I have a few questions so I’ll begin to list them now, along with some brief context:I’m just now getting my feet wet in…
Articles by Ben Butina, Ph.D.
College Students vs. The World
For decades, social psychologists have collected data primarily from college undergraduates and, recently, from haphazard samples of adults. Yet researchers have routinely presumed that thusly…
Sad News
Sad news out of Italy. Blair John, a doctoral student in IO Psych at St. Mary’s University, was found dead in the Po River in…
Andrew Naber on Team Agility
Every commonly-accepted word or phrase was once a new-fangled buzzword (or buzzphrase, I guess) that caused people to roll their eyes. In this episode, Andrew…
Mike Morrison on the Better Poster
Suppose you found yourself in a living nightmare, and suppose you found yourself at a poster session, but I repeat myself. Mike Morrison, an IO…
Overqualification, Engagement, & Satisfaction
In this research conducted in Portugal, overqualified employees were less engaged in their jobs and less satisfied with them. The more overqualified they perceived themselves…
Hiring Managers Say They’ll Hire the Overqualified. But Do They?
In this qualitative research, managers said they were willing to interview and hire overqualified candidates. But would they? In other words, is there a gap…
Penalties for the Overqualified
This research suggests that hiring managers penalize overqualified candidates because they assume two things about them. First, they assume that overqualified candidates have less interest…
Weight Stigma & Personal Responsibility
…workplace health promotion programs highlighting individual responsibility induced employees with obesity to feel individually responsible for their health, but at the same time made them…
Gordon Schmidt on the Virtual Future of Leadership
In this episode, Dr. Gordon Schmidt discusses how virtual work and the gig economy may change how we look at leadership, team cohesion, and organizational identification….