SPECIAL ISSUE -- CALL FOR PAPERS IN THE JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND PSYCHOLOGY
"EMBEDDING THE CONCEPT OF SUSPICION IN RESEARCH ON BUSINESS AND APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY"
The Journal of Business and Psychology announces a Special Issue and Call for Papers on the construct of suspicion. Both theoretical and empirical submissions are welcome. The complete call is available at http://newhouse-faculty.syr.edu/lhirshfield/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/suspicion-call-for-papers.pdf
This link includes (i) an associated invited article in the Journal of Business and Psychology by Bobko, Barelka, Hirshfield, and Lyons ("Invited Article: The Construct of Suspicion and How It Can Benefit Theories and Models in Organizational Science"; can also be obtained directly at http://newhouse-faculty.syr.edu/lhirshfield/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/BBHandL_JBP.pdf which provides an initial measure of state suspicion and (ii) a review of social science literatures on the concept of suspicion (Bobko, Barelka, & Hirshfield, 2014, Human Factors).
In that review, suspicion was defined as "a person's simultaneous state of cognitive activity, uncertainty, and perceived malintent about underlying information that is being [electronically] generated, collated, sent, analyzed, or implemented by an external agent." The notion of "external agent" was purposively left general; i.e., one might be suspicious about another individual, a competitor, a group/team of individuals, an organizational entity, or a system in general (computer or otherwise).
In the full Call for Papers we suggest that the under-represented concept of suspicion can have important links to many sub-disciplines in business and applied psychology. For example:
- What is the role of suspicion in leadership? What is the role of suspicion in decision making? If organizational systems incorporate automatized decision aides, will user suspicion of the aides influence decision making models?
- How might the concept of suspicion change (if at all) at the group/team level? Also, within groups, is suspicion contagious? What is the role of culture in theories of suspicion?
The above examples are illustrative, not exhaustive.
The final due date for any submission is:
- June 30, 2015: First complete draft of regular length manuscript (in APA style) is due. Submissions before that date are welcome. To submit, corresponding authors should first register in the Journal of Business and Psychology system (at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jobu/ ).
Again, please see the complete Call for Papers for more details (including links for associated papers).
Philip Bobko – Gettysburg College (pbobko "at"gettysburg.edu)
Alex Barelka – Illinois State University (ajbarel "at" ilstu.edu)
Leanne Hirshfield – Syracuse University (lmhirshf "at" syr.edu)
Joseph Lyons – US Air Force Research Laboratory (joseph.lyons.6 "at" us.af.mil)
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