ABSTRACT
This volume in the SIOP Frontiers series clearly takes the series title seriously! It expands the science and practice of what has traditionally been thought of as the realm of the field of industrial-organizational psychology in many directions. When one first hears about studying and applying I-O psychology principles as usual outside of the traditional business and military contexts, it is easy to assume that little will change, that we will not learn anything new, and that training will not change—that we are just dealing with different samples. After all, validity is validity. However, the point is made in several instances that to examine the role of I-O psychology in the greater good requires the development of a new field (e.g., Gloss and Foster Thompson on humanitarian work psychology) or a paradigm shift (e.g., Lefkowitz’s scientist-practitioner-humanist model) suggesting big changes. So what is new here?
