The digital revolution has produced a wide range of new tools for making quick and cheap inferences about human potential and predicting future work performance. However, there is little scientific research on many of these new assessment methods, which leaves human resources managers with no evidence to evaluate how useful they actually are.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, David Winsborough, Ryne A Sherman, and Robert Hogan
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
The “wisdom of the crowd” effect is the finding that the average estimate of a group can be more accurate than the estimate of an expert. This study discovered that even mild social influence can undermine the wisdom of the crowd effect in simple estimation tasks.
Jan Lorenz, Heiko Rauhut, Frank Schweitzer, and Dirk Helbing
This paper argues that as a field, industrial and organizational psychology (I-O) is failing at its central purpose of providing evidence-based solutions to real-world management problems.
Deniz S. Ones, Robert B. Kaiser, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, and Cicek Svensson
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
This study is the first to empirically assess the value of discretion in hiring. The results were consistently worse job outcomes where managers exercised more discretion.
This study examines the implicit beliefs that keep organizations from adopting tools to help them make hiring decisions—aids like tests, personality assessments, and other performance predictors.
Scott Highhouse
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology