Article archive / October 2019
Originally published: . Volume 10, No. 10. Source pages: 11, 14.
Dr. Courtland Chaney spoke at the Psychology Department's Brown Bag event held September 13 at the Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Campus. Professor Emily Elliot arranged for Chaney, an industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, to speak at the event involving both the cognitive-brain sciences and I-O psychology faculty and graduate students.
Dr. Chaney’s presented, “Thinking and Decision- Making: Can Two Complex, But Fundamental Psychological Processes Explain All Rational Behavior,” based on his experiences teaching disaster and crisis management at LSU and conducting safety leadership training in industrial settings.
“Since my current professional activities exclusively involve working with people in organizational settings, it’s great to interact with the scholars continuing to engage in psychological research,” commented Chaney.
About 40 psychology faculty and graduate students attended the session and a dozen graduate students from both Industrial- Organizational psychology and cognitive disciplines stayed after the presentation for a question and discussion session.
“I think it is so very important for psychologists who are primarily working in private practice to interact with research psychologists. We can all benefit from the contact. […] "Dr. Chaney is Co-Chair of Public Affairs for the Louisiana Psychological Association.
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