Rather than focusing on their dynamic interplay, research in I/O psychology has mostly focused either person-level variables as predictors of work behaviors or the impact situational employees’ behaviors. By studying person and situation independently by treating fixed, previous studies have largely failed to capture active role employees take affect...

BACKGROUND Subspecialty fellows can serve as a tremendous educational resource to residents; however, there are multiple barriers to an effective resident-fellow teaching interaction in the setting of inpatient consultation. We designed and evaluated a resident-directed intervention to enhance communication and teaching during consultation on the general medicine wards. METHODS Five medical t...

We review the theory of public goods in biology. In the N-person prisoner's dilemma, where the public good is a linear function of the individual contributions, cooperation requires some form of assortment, for example due to kin discrimination, population viscosity or repeated interactions. In most social species ranging from bacteria to humans, however, public goods are usually a non-linear f...