In 2018, we saw the collapse of a number of famous social psychology studies -- studies which had been regarded as the gold standard for understanding (and predicting) human behavior. Julia Rohrer of Max Planck Institute for Human Development, is trying to get her peers to publicly, willingly admit it when they are wrong. Brian Resnick … Continue reading The Importance of Knowing You Might be Wrong
Where Are All the Female Architects?
The Pipeline Is Not the Problem The tech field is not the only industry where women are unwelcome. This article from the New York Times reveals the difficulty. "The last major survey of the field found that women account for half of graduates from architecture programs in this country, but they make up about 20 … Continue reading Where Are All the Female Architects?
A New Incivility
The following commentary examines a tragic event that attracted global attention in late 2012. In December 2012, an on-air prank call was made to the United Kingdom hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge (Kate Middleton) was a patient. While seemingly without malice, the prank, a “wind-up call” carried out by two inexperienced Australian radio personalities, … Continue reading A New Incivility
Changing Organizational Culture from a Liability to an Asset
In a commentary on the OP-Ed page of the New York Times entitled “Failure Is Always an Option” (August 2003), Henry Petroski, a civil engineer on the faculty at Duke University, shined a spotlight on the organizational culture at NASA when he addressed the disastrous failure of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003. He described the existence of three unique subcultures within the organization – scientists, engineers, and managers – and the lens through which each viewed the Columbia mission and the 1986 Challenger loss.
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