I will not make any comments about Rachel Dolezal’s mental health, because unlike the thousands of people on social media who have rushed to diagnose her with a range of mental disorders, I do not have a degree in clinical psychology, and have not had an opportunity to meet her. Moreove...
Kahn (1990) has addressed what he called personal engagement in work, trying to evaluate to what degree workers would be engaged physically, cognitively, and emotionally in what they are producing. Work engagement is “characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption” (Schaufeli and Bakker, ...
she has worked with Unlimited Potential, an organization that has helped Esther obtain her GED, earn her community health worker license and eventually become the Director of Operations. Her primary focus is assisting the Latino and Hispanic community, connecting them...
“Why Do I Care What’s Similar?” Probing Challenges in AI-Assisted Child Welfare Decision-Making through Worker-AI Interface Design Concepts. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 454-470). Week 4 – Evaluating (individual) predictions and decisions Dawid,...
Based on the social cognitive model and on the psychology of working theory, this research aims to study the job and life satisfaction of apprentices, considering proactive personality, person-supervisor and person-group fit, occupational self-efficacy,
Those in the foresight condition were asked to rate the likelihood of a number of different outcomes, while those in the hindsight condition were provided an additional vignette which noted that the female character was sexually assaulted by a co-worker. In confirmation of hindsight bias, those ...
“Why Do I Care What’s Similar?” Probing Challenges in AI-Assisted Child Welfare Decision-Making through Worker-AI Interface Design Concepts. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 454-470). Week 4 – Evaluating (individual) predictions and decisions Dawid,...
Things that we experience as personal matters—a woman facing domestic violence, or a low-wage worker who cannot afford housing, or middle-class people stuck in daily traf- fic jams—are really about how our institutions function. Sociologists hold a mirror up to our society and help us see...
This process is grounded in a fundamental realization (and acceptance) that I don’t have the skills and assets that are most needed right now. I’m not a health care provider, or a farmer, or a social worker. If I worked in health care or social service, right now I’d value exped...
“Of course, this could conceivably be a case of near unbelievable luck: A flawed analysis based on wrong assumptions gave an unusually large causal effect estimate – but the misguided result just happened to be correct. We can imagine how the research team huddled nervously around the computer...