December 2025 IOP Issue Now Available

The latest issue of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (IOP) is now available. Volume 18 Issue 4 December 2025 includes one commentary and 10 focal articles.

The commentary, Defining who is a worker: Why I-O psychology should extend consideration to nonhuman animals that labor for humans, by Ivan Hernandez, Arturia Melson-Silimon, and Michael J. Zickar, calls for a more inclusive field of I-O psychology that extends its consideration toward all workers—including nonhuman animal workers—as worthy of study and advocacy.

This commentary is followed by 10 focal articles:

• Animals as more than just workers: Considering the role of pets as facilitators of nonwork–work processes by Ian M. Hughes, Halle Gold, Elizabeth L. Curtis, and Charlotte Stewart
• Advancing nonhuman animal worker assessment through I-O psychology by Anoop A. Javalagi, Felix Y. Wu, and Harrison J. Kell
• If it looks like a worker and quacks like a worker, is it a worker? Initiating the development of a precise and robust definition of a worker by Christopher Huynh and Emily Kim
• Why potential is not performance: Psychological bonds as a missing link by Janice C. Molloy
• Beyond anthropomorphism: A market-based approach to animal welfare in I-O psychology by Paresh Mishra
• Emotional contagion in nonhuman working animals: Lessons from canine rescue teams by Kimberly T. Schneider, S. Burak Ozkum, Alexandra Ilie, and Dan Ispas
• Behaviorally anchored rating scales for animal workers: Advancing inclusive assessment by Katrisha M. Smith, Alicia C. Virthe, and Michelle P. Martín-Raugh
• Animals laboring for humans: Integrating animal dignity into I-O psychology by William C. Scott, P. Matthijs Bal, and Mehmet A. Orhan
• When constructs fall short: A justice-based lens for animal workers by Edileide N. Oliveira, Maryam Baloch, and Pallavi Nimbappa Honkanadavar
• I-O psychology should not be extended to animals by Roger Sansom and Mindy E. Bergman

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PS: Don’t forget, focal articles for the September 2026 issue are due by Feb. 1, 2026. For more information, visit the IOP Submissions webpage.