This year's Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference will be held in New Orleans, overlapping with the New Orleans Jazz Festival.

I rarely have commitment issues, but this situation may manifest some.

#siop2026 #jazzfest #neworleans #iopsych

Fear of AI replacing you at work may have less to do with the labor market than with how AI is portrayed in the media.

Our new preprint provides the first experimental evidence that vicarious exposure to narratives framing AI as in control is what triggers replacement anxiety.

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/exg7t_v1

#AIAnxiety #HumanAIInteraction #WorkPsychology #AIatWork #IOpsych

OSF

Why do some workers fear AI far more than others, and what does it cost them?

Despite growing interest, the field still lacks a validated, theory-driven framework for workplace AI anxiety. Our ongoing research program is building one across a growing number of studies combining experiments, cross-sectional surveys, and psychometrics, grounded in Fear Acquisition Theory and the Technology Acceptance Model.

OSF (open data & preprints): https://osf.io/yrjg4/

#psychology #IOpsych #AI #AIatWork

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The results of workplace #diversity / sensitivity trainings are *at best* weak & short-lived, & often result in backlash attitudes & behavior toward those values. However, non-mandatory trainings & structural accountability has better results. #iopsych #hr

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:whavwxob7rts4am7egixfpxj/post/3mi5ijbv4ms2s

I'm always impressed by the messiness of organizational psych topics. Economic stress is a mess. Social support is a big mess. Social cohesion is a shit show.

I love psychology.

#hottake #iopsych #orgpsych

New preprint about AI anxiety in the workplace and its emergence.

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/exg7t_v1

#IOpsych #IOPsychology #IOpsychologyresearch

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AI might not be taking jobs at the moment — but many people already fear it.

In our new preprint (experiment + large panel study), we examine why.

Drawing on Integrated Fear Acquisition Theory and the Technology Acceptance Model, we show that simply framing AI as being “in control” increases job replacement anxiety — especially when AI is seen as highly useful (ease of use didn’t matter).

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/exg7t_v1

#AI #FutureOfWork #AIAnxiety #NewResearch #IOPsych #IOpsychology

This week, I attended a lab meeting where we discussed the need for AI contribution statements for academic writing. (Albada & Woods, 2024)

This is fraught. While most people are talking about plagiarism and losing the ability to write without using AI, the real discussion is happening somewhere else—how to stay relevant in a world where AI will do everything.

AI’s threat to white-collar jobs just got more real | Eric Levitz | Vox
https://www.vox.com/politics/478794/ai-economy-claude-code-jobs-openai-anthropic

#ai #iopsych #orgpsych

AI’s threat to white-collar jobs just got more real

You’ve become increasingly replaceable.

Vox