Chapter 1 BETTER THEORY, METHODS, AND PRACTICE THROUGH COMPUTATIONAL MODELING

• Main Author: Vancouver, Jeffrey B. (auth)
• Other Authors: Weinhardt, Justin M. (auth), Wang, Mo (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2024
• Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics; The arts: general issues; Computational Modeling for Industrial-Organizational Psychologists; Jeffrey B. Vancouver; Mo Wang; Justin Weinhardt; Jeffrey Vancouver; SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series; SIOP; Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology; SIOP Organizational Frontiers; computational modeling; computerational models; I/O psychology; vocational psychology; work psychology; organizational psychology; human resource management; organizational behavior; organizational science
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This chapter is designed help motivate the current readers' interest in computational modeling as the authors provide a description of the myriad of values computational modeling can bring to our science. Readers are also given a brief history of computational modeling as it relates to the field of I-O psychology. This is followed by a more complete description of the goals for the book, as the authors describe the learning objectives for various levels of computational model afficionados, from the scholarly consumers to the computational model creators. Finally, an overview of the chapters is provided.