Browsing by Author "Svyantek, Daniel"

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Gaze behavior during predictive and diagnostic reasoning

Duncan, Amegbletor (2019-08-16)

Many current theories of causal learning and reasoning offer causal structure as the answer to a long-standing question: what allows people to distinguish causal relationships from non-causal relationships? One component ...

A Grounded Theory of Employed Professional Role Identity: One Pathway to Understanding Professional-Organizational Relationships

Stevens, Gregory (2014-10-10)

An increasing amount of research has recently been devoted to the complex dynamics surrounding employed professionals, particularly from the standpoint of understanding the ways in which they identify with their roles in ...

Hands up, don't shoot: Decision factors underlying the use of deadly force

Willis, Julia (2018-07-24)

Making good decisions at work is an important facet of job performance. Understanding the cognitive processes underlying an individual’s decision making habits may improve the general comprehension of decision outcomes. ...

The Impact of Affective Mood States on Multitasking Performance

Beiler, Angela (2013-07-10)

Multitasking is a task performance phenomenon that has become extremely common among organizational employees (Gonzalez & Mark, 2004; 2005). Multitasking requires that individuals focus cognitive resources on different ...

The Impact of Flexible Work Arrangements on Employee Engagement

Brown, Victoria (2016-01-06)

A flexible work arrangement pilot program was implemented in the corporate office of a mid-size organization. To assess the impact of flexible work arrangements on employee engagement, surveys were administered prior to ...

Individual Differences in Stable Motivational Qualities and Skill Acquisition: Dispositional Goal Orientation and Self-Efficacy

Cullen, Kristin (2007-08-15)

The current study extends previous research on skill acquisition to develop a more complete picture of the motivational variables that influence task performance. Participants completed measures of cognitive ability, global ...

Individual differences in the stressor-strain relationship: The role of ability-based emotional intelligence

Cox, Brennan (2007-08-15)

Researchers have uncovered several individual characteristics and situational variables that help explain and predict how, why, when, and which individuals will be affected by a potentially stressful encounter. Still, there ...

Intellectual Humility and Arrogance and Their Relationship with Self-Awareness: A Longitudinal Analysis of Congruency Through Self/Other Evaluations

Conkey, Kate (2022-04-27)

Character and leadership have long coupled to show benefits to organizations and their personnel. During the near century of modern leadership study, psychologists have focused on dozens of leader traits with an infusion ...

Investigating Organizational Justice Perceptions in Promotional Exams

Scruggs, Ross (2014-08-05)

The present study investigated perceptions of organizational justice and workplace (in)civility in a promotional exam context. Specifically, it was proposed that perceptions of distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and ...

Investigating Social Exchange Relationships in Organizations: The Neglected Role of Gratitude

Li, Hairong (2019-12-05)

The study of gratitude has been missing from the literature of social exchange relationships in organizations. The present study aims to investigate the role of gratitude in social exchange processes within organizational ...

An Investigation of the Stability of Assessment Center Performance Consistency and Ratings of Job Performance

Hetzler, Julie M. (2009-08-05)

The consistent lack of evidence for the construct validity of assessment center (AC) performance dimensions has led some researchers to propose alternative approaches to investigating candidate performance in ACs (Lance, ...

Is Humor the Best Medicine? Sense of Humor as a Mediator of the Relation between Dimensions of Perfectionism and Social Anxiety and Depression in College Students

Hess, Courtney (2023-04-17) ETD File Embargoed

The diathesis stress model has been utilized to help clarify the association between aspects of perfectionism and psychopathology, as it emphasizes the role of poor coping skills. The current study aimed to explore the ...

“I’m Biased and so Are You”: The Effects of Gender, Race, Objective Organizational Performance, and Remote Work on Leader Evaluations

Kriletic, Ana (2023-08-08) ETD File Embargoed

Previous research has shown that implicit biases based on leader gender or race can influence leader evaluations, and that these biases may be moderated by contextual factors such as organizational performance. However, ...

Job Choice Under Uncertainty: The Mediating Roles of Prospective Job and Organization Fit

Acosta, Joshua (2020-07-27)

Better fitting work environments lead to elevated performance, greater organizational commitment, and higher levels of job satisfaction. As evidence of these and other desirable workplace outcomes, applicants and organizations ...

A lab study comparing several faking measures under a simulated selection context

Yuan, Yuan (2015-07-24)

Industrial and organizational psychologists have long been aware that faking is a concern in the personnel selection practices. In high-stakes selection context, applicants can be highly motivated to fake good on personality ...

A Longitudinal Examination of Individual Adaptability as an Antecedent of Training and Transfer Outcomes

Vaughn, Edwin, III (2011-07-27)

The current workforce faces increasingly complex work demands requiring high levels of individual adaptability. Utilizing Ployhart and Bliese’s (2006) conceptual framework, the current investigation empirically examined ...

A Longitudinal Study of the Predictors of Contextual Performance

Hetzler, Julie (2007-08-15)

The current study extends previous research on contextual performance by comparing data at two points in time to assess the temporal stability of contextual performance and the stability of the predictors of contextual ...

A Mediated-Moderation Model of Stereotype Threat and Performance Pressure Effects

Johnson, Jimmy (2012-07-27)

The present study examined the effectiveness of a model of stereotype threat and performance pressure effects. Specifically, it was proposed that stereotype threat and performance pressure are related to math test performance, ...

Moral Disengagement from an Organizational Justice Perspective: An Exploratory Study

Stevens, Gregory W. (2010-08-02)

The current study contributes to a growing understanding of the construct of moral disengagement, in particular the role of organizational justice and individual differences as antecedents. In a study of 272 undergraduate ...

Pathways of Dysregulation: The Influence of Lifetime Poly-Victimization on Therapy-Interfering Psychosocial Impairment in Adolescents Adjudicated for Sex Offenses

Harrelson, Megan, E. (2019-05-22)

The preset study examined the relationship between poly-victimization exposure, affective dysregulation, and three negative psychosocial outcomes: externalizing problems, posttraumatic stress, and suicidal behavior. ...