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Investigating the (Neglected) Role of Personality in Testing
Institutional accountability assessments are common in higher education, and most have no personal consequences for students. Importantly, research has shown that in low-stakes testing environments, test-taking motivation is related to test performance (i.e., lower motivation
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A Stimulus/traits-organism-response (S/T-O-R) Model of Job Satisfaction
Over the years, situational and dispositional influences on job satisfaction has attracted much attention in the field of organizational behavior. Past research has yielded evidence that situational characteristics or environmental stimuli (S) affect job satisfaction
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If Your Shrink Is A Bot, How Do You Respond?
NPR: Her hair is brown and tied back into a professional-looking ponytail. She wears a blue shirt, tan sweater and delicate gold chain. It’s the first time she has met the man sitting across from
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Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation
The Atlantic: Millennials are the “ME ME ME GENERATION,” writes Joel Stein for the cover of Time magazine, which is apparently a marked departure from the Baby Boomers, who were the plain old “Me Generation” (one me, no
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How Can Identical Twins Turn Out So Different?
NPR: A study of genetically identical mice is providing some hints about humans. How can one identical twin be a wallflower while the other is the life of the party? The study of 40 young
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Hail to the Narcissist: POTUS And Personality
The Huffington Post: Looking back on U.S. history, certain presidents clearly stand out as larger than life. Andrew Jackson, TR, LBJ — these were flamboyant and domineering men, and also great leaders. Some might quibble