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Burnout isn't interesting to organizational psychologists because it was relatively well-understood in 90s. There's only so much you can study in this space and all the low-hanging fruit is gone. It's still a popular topic for some, but the reason you don't see the actual research is probably because you expect it to be covered in blogs. Go to a university library, get on the wifi, and download some proceedings of organizational and cognitive psychology journals.


Or Google Scholar + Sci-Hub.

Seriously, for any research, an absolute godsend.

Thank you, Alexandra.


using google scholar, I don't see any hypothesis-driven research, just clinical accounts and non-hypothesis-based psychology.

This is probably the closest.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3796712/


Hypothesis driven psychology is tough to perform because of the difficulty of controlling external factors.


Well, it isn't the 70's anymore, even if you had an IRB that would let you induce burnout in a randomly assigned experiment you couldn't publish it.

I don't see how the study you linked is "hypothesis-based," exactly; it's just an imaging study and thus is likely wrong because of the fMRI bug.


that's why you would do a longitudinal study. Pick a cohort of individuals that are entering a high-risk-of-burnout field, and the control will be the pre-burnout individual and the experiment would be monitoring them over time. Of course this doesn't really fit funding/research promotion cycles in science.




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