In The Media

Researchers from Rice, Texas A&M, and George Mason examine a workplace problem that has received relatively little research attention.

Kuykendall discusses the psychology behind why some employees don't use all their vacation leave.

Kuykendall comments on the potential benefits of UK companies offering fertility benefits as part of their employee packages.

Crisis-Ready Teams by Seth Kaplan, Department of Psychology, and Mary Waller, was featured in the Wall Street Journal’s list of 2024 holiday gift books for business.

“Employees who utilize policies that enable them to spend more time away from work – such as parental leave and remote work – often worry that they will be perceived as less devoted to their job,” [Dr. Lauren Kuykendall] says. “When offering these policies, organizations must also create a climate in which employees are not fearful of their utilization.”

However, the problem is that data sets are not infallible. Specifically, the presentation of data in the form of visualizations shouldn’t be considered as undeniable truth. Numbers can lie as well, and poorly done visualizations can easily mislead readers.

Reeshad Dalal, Professor, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Seth Kaplan, Professor, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, are conducting two studies in which participants will repeatedly be randomly (re-)assigned to different cognitively focused emotion reappraisal interventions or to no intervention (control condition) over the course of several work weeks.

Seth Kaplan, faculty member in the Department of Psychology, contributes to a CNN article about negative experiences and environments at work.