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View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article highlights the work of Black organizational psychologists and their considerable and ongoing contributions to industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology through scholarship, practice, and service. We focus our review on the influence of five Black scholar-practitioners who have earned the distinction of fellow in the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. We discuss how their work has enhanced our understanding of the integral role of diversity and inclusion across the employment cycle.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn late 2014, a series of highly publicized police killings of unarmed Black male civilians in the United States prompted large-scale social turmoil. In the current review, we dissect the psychological antecedents of these killings and explain how the nature of police work may attract officers with distinct characteristics that may make them especially well-primed for negative interactions with Black male civilians. We use media reports to contextualize the precipitating events of the social unrest as we ground our explanations in theory and empirical research from social psychology and industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology.
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