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Where Has All the Psychology Gone? (Twenty Years Later)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

Michael J. Zickar*
Affiliation:
Bowling Green State University
Scott Highhouse
Affiliation:
Bowling Green State University
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Michael J. Zickar, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403. E-mail: [email protected]

Extract

Aguinis et al. (2017) contribute interesting analyses of cited sources in contemporary undergraduate industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology textbooks and continue their ongoing investigation into the long-term viability of I-O psychology as a unique discipline (see Aguinis, Bradley, & Brodersen, 2014). These analyses, conducted by authors who are members of business schools, attempt to answer questions related to the nature of work conducted by I-O psychologists, comparing the quality and importance of work conducted by faculty in business schools with that conducted by faculty in psychology departments. One of their general themes is that members of business schools are conducting important research that is influencing the future of I-O psychology by overtaking undergraduate textbooks. As such, the article has the feel of a conquering hero taunting its vanquished foe.

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2017 

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