The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered many aspects of work and nonwork life, with both short-term and likely long-term effects. There are many potential ways that the science of applied psychology can contribute to the public good and enhance our understanding of how COVID-19 has affected employees, leaders, teams, families, organizations as well as the communities in which these groups reside in. The faster that we can bring our scientific evidence to others, the more we can help.

Dear Colleagues,

My graduate student, Karen Gilbert, and I are conducting a meta-analysis on the association between economic status and avoidance motivation. Our aim is to include as many published and unpublished studies in our meta-analysis as possible, and we are hoping that researchers who have collected data on these constructs will contribute estimates to our meta-analysis.

The SIOP 2020 Program Emergency Task Force is working hard to bring you a new way to experience the SIOP Conference and access the latest cutting-edge research. Preliminary details about the virtual conference and an FAQ page are available at https://0-www-siop-org.library.alliant.edu/Annual-Conference and will continue to be updated.

Here are the basics:

1. The conference will be virtual and asynchronous, so the presentations will be online for you to access as your schedule permits in mid-June
2. You will be able to interact with presenters and other attendees using the popular Whova app
3. You will be able to access the sessions and Whova only if you are registered for the conference. Not registered yet? You will be able to register soon, and at the early conference registration rate!
4. Accepted conference submitters are being contacted soon to invite them to participate by sharing their research and session materials in the virtual event.

Working together and making the most of technology, we can make SIOP 2020 a different but exciting and informative event!

A volume in Research in Human Resource Management Series Editors: Dianna L. Stone, Universities at New Mexico, Albany, & Virginia Tech, & James H. Dulebohn, Michigan State University

Copies can be obtained through Information Age Publishing about May 15, 2020.

The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences is the Army’s lead agency for the conduct of research, development, and analyses for the improvement of Army readiness and performance via research advances and applications of the behavioral and social sciences that address personnel, organization, training, and leader development issues.  Interested offerors are encouraged to submit white papers prior to submitting proposals. 

The full research announcement and application instructions for both white papers and proposals may be viewed at beta.SAM or Grants.gov under opportunity number W911NF-18-S-0005.  White papers and proposals may be submitted under the general topics of the Broad Agency Announcement at any time through 29 April 2023.  Specific calls for white papers are published on beta.SAM under opportunity number W911NF-18-S-0005.