'Would you condemn me that you may be justified?'

Would you please stop that!?

Purpose – Meetings are ubiquitous in organizational life and are a great source of frustration and annoyance to many employees in the workplace, in part due to counterproductive meeting behaviors (CMBs). CMBs include engaging in irrelevant discussion, complaining about other attendees, arriving to the meeting late, and other similar, disruptive behaviors. Consistent with conservation of resourc...

Who would you like to be when you grow up?

In February 2005, the Annals of Internal Medicine, a highly respected journal, published a systematic review of 59 manuscripts covering a total of 62 samples that reported on the relationship between medical knowledge/healthcare quality and years in practice/physician age. The implication of the data presented is that throughout their careers, physicians fail to upgrade their knowledge to keep ...

You Validate Me , You like Me , You ’ Re Fun , You

The proposition that similarity breeds attraction has received longstanding theoretical and empirical support. Still, the processes that guide this effect remain relatively unexamined. In this study, with a large sample of college students, we tested four variables proposed in prior literature to theoretically account for the similarity-liking link: consensual validation, certainty of being lik...

What Would You like to Be When You Grow Up?

Statistical Perspectives Do as you would be done by: write as you would wish to read

• Good experiments should be planned in advance • Planning includes • Generating a firm plausible testable hypothesis • Avoiding confounding factors and other forms of bias • Understanding the “experimental unit” • Understanding the principles of the test you use • Presenting convincing positive and negative results • It helps to have some idea of what the data will be like • If you can first i...