Graduate students in the University of Akron's I/O department present their research at a wide
range of conferences. Recent student presentations are listed below.
Students' names are in bold. I/O faculty names are underlined.
Aiken, K., Petkova, Z., Lord, R. (2009, March). Cohort Differences on Perceptions of Leadership Effectiveness: An Implicit Leadership Theory Perspective. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Industrial/Organizational Organizational Behavior Conference, Chicago, IL.
Aiken, K, Sterns, H.L., Snell, A., Nakai, Y., Chang, B. (2009, April). The Changing Workforce: Older Workers’ Values and Desired Organizational Characteristics. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Meetings of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Beck, J. W., Saluan, C. M., & Usher-Perez, A. L. (2009, August). Top-down and Bottom-up Activation of Goal Orientation. Poster presented at the 117th Annual American Psychological Association Convention, Toronto, Canada.
Beck, J. W., & Schmidt, A. M. (2009, August). The Role of Goal Orientation in Goal Directed Behavior. In M. Horvath’s Multilevel and Longitudinal Perspectives on Goal Orientation. Symposium presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.
Beck, J. W., & Schmidt, A. M. (2009, March). Using After-Event Reviews to Foster Optimal Levels of Trainee Self-Efficacy. Symposium presented at the 30th Annual Industrial Organizational and Organizational Behavior Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, IL.
Becker, C.J., & Diefendorff, J.M. (2009, April). Indirect assessment of the fit between emotional demands and abilities. In E.M. Richard & J.M. Diefendorff (Chairs), The fit between emotional demands and abilities. Symposium presented at the 24th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Dahling, J.J., Chau, S.L., & Gregory, J.B. (2009, August). When good intentions go astray: A study of pro-social rule breaking and ethical fading. Symposium submitted to the 69th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.
Diefendorff, J. M., Saluan, C., & Greguras, G. J. (2009, April). Emotional display rules at work and outside of work: An international comparison. In A. A. Grandey (Chair), Contextualizing emotion display requirements and their outcomes. Symposium to be conducted at the 24th Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Diefendorff, J., Morehart, J., & Gabriel, A. (2009, April). The influence of power and solidarity on emotional display rules. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Diefendorff, J.M., Yang, J., & Becker, C.J. (2009, August). A multilevel investigation of display rules, emotional labor, and employee well-being in China. In S.D. Pugh (Chair), Emotion Regulation: Theoretical and Methodological Advances. Symposium presented at the 69th Annual Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Gabriel, A., & Grandey, A. (2009, April). Waiting for service: Can fast and friendly service improve reactions? Interactive poster presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Gregory, J.B., & Levy, P.E. (2009, April). Coaching in a performance management context: A review and research agenda. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Harrison, C., & Lam, A. (2009, March). Risk Perceptions and Motivation on Counterproductive Work Behaviors: A Model. Symposium presented at the 30th Annual Industrial Organizational and Organizational Behavior Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, IL.
Harrison, C., & Lam, A. (2008). Understanding Primed Risk Perceptions on Counterproductive Work Behaviors: An Empirical Study. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Conference on Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research, Akron, OH.
Beck, J., Kozlowski, S., & Schmidt, A. (2008).
Effects of previous experience on transfer of computer-based training.
Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
San Francisco, CA.
Chang, B., Cox, C., & Shively, S. (2008).
Leader-subordinate chronic self-concept fit and justice perceptions.
Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
San Francisco, CA.
Diefendorff, J., Greguras, G., Fleenor, J., & Chandler, M. (2008).
Distinguishing perceived emotional demands-abilities fit from other fit perceptions.
Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
San Francisco, CA.
Donnelly, D., Coughenour-Cahoon, D., Hall, R., & Harrison, C. (2008).
Perceptions of counterproductive work behavior and organizational citizenship behavior situations.
Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
San Francisco, CA.
Elicker, J.D., Thompson, M.N., Snell, A.F., & O’Malley, A.L. (2008).
Training for multiculturally sensitive teaching: Is believing that we are emphasizing diversity enough?
Poster to be presented at the Eastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Staunton, VA.
Gregory, J.B., & Levy, P.E. (2008).
Integrating performance appraisal and development: A model for the future.
Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
San Francisco, CA.
Gregory, J.B., & Levy, P.E. (2008).
Supervisor feedback orientation: Its effect on the feedback environment.
Symposium presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
San Francisco, CA.
Kohari, N. E., Lord, R. G., Elicker, J. D., Ash, S., & Hruska, B. (2008).
Antecedents of learners' mental model development.
Paper presented at the 23rd Annual COnference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
San Francisco, CA.
Kohari, N. E., McConnell, N. M., & Lord R. G. (2008).
Modification of Leadership Prototypes by Gender:
An Example of Within Person Modeling of Leadership Perception Processes.
Paper presented at the 29th Annual Conference for Industrial Organizational and Organizational Behavior Graduate Student
Conference, Denver, Co.
Lord, R. G. & Shondrick, S. J. (2008). Leadership and knowledge:
Symbolic, connectionist, and embodied perspectives.
Paper presented at the Wharton/INSEAD Conference, Fontainebleau, France.
Muller, W. M. (2008).
Emotional labor and cognitive processes: Can automaticity reduce negative outcomes of emotional labor?
Presented at the 29th Annual Conference for Industrial Organizational and Organizational Behavior Graduate Student
Conference, Denver, Co.
Nakai, Y. (2008).
Identity levels and context dependency: Implications for leadership.
Paper accepted for the 68th Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, CA.
O’Malley, A.L., Ritchie, S.A., Lord, R.G., Gregory, J.B., & Young, C. (2008).
Embodied emotional processes and leadership: A new perspective on following the leader.
Symposium presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
San Francisco, CA.
O’Malley, A.L., Ritchie, S.A., Lord, R.G., Gregory, J.B., & Young, C.M. (2008).
Incorporating embodied cognition into sensemaking theory:
A theoretical examination of embodied processes in a leadership context.
Paper to be presented at the 2008 Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA.
Ritchie, S., & Schmidt, A. (2008).
Changing the focus of autonomy: The role of regulatory focus.
Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
San Francisco, CA.
Schmidt, A., Gillespie, M., Kotrba, L., Ritchie, S., & Denison, D. (2008).
Profiles of organizational culture: The variable effects of consistency.
Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
San Francisco, CA.
Beck, J.W., Imus, A., Schmitt, N., Oswald, F., Sinha, R., Friede, A., & Merritt, S. (2007).
Predicting College Student Success: New Measures and New Directions.
Poster presented at the 115th Annual American Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Gianvito, M. A., Chang, B., Levy, P. E., & Muller, W. M. (2007).
Translating Feedback into Outcomes: The Role of Feedback Discounting.
Presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, New York, NY.
Muller, W. M. (2007).
Predicting Who Stays: An Examination of the Intent to Continue Volunteering.
Presented at the 115th Annual American Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, CA.
O’Malley, A.L., Ritchie, S.A., Gregory, J.B., & Young, C.M. (2007).
Making sense of leadership through embodiment: When what you see is what you get.
Poster presented at the Industrial Organizational & Organizational Behavior Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
O’Malley, A.L., & Levy, P.E. (2007).
The prevalence of self-enhancement in an organizational assessment context.
Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York, NY.
Sterns, R., Smolen, L., & Lax, G.A. (2007).
Building on Success: Improving an Intervention Program for Better Communication in Long Term Care.
In H.L. Sterns and R. Browdie (Chairs),
Bridging the Communication Gap in a Global Environment:
When Long Term Care Workers and Residents Do Not Share a Common Language.
Symposium conducted ah the 60th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Chang, B., Gianvito, M. A., Muller, W. M., & Levy, P. E. (2006).
Further defining the relationship between justice and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors:
An investigation of feedback discounting as a process variable.
Presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Dallas, TX.
Lax, G.A., Sterns, H.L., & Sterns, A.A. (2006).
Psychosocial Interventions: Imagining a Better Future Through Staff Education on Interventions
in Long-Term Care. In R. Sterns and S.H. McFadden (Chairs), Imagination in Interventions:
Transforming Resident/Staff Expectations and Outcomes through Education in Long-Term Care.
Symposium conducted at the 59th Annual Scientific Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, TX.
Naidoo, L. J., Kohari, N. E., Lord, R. G., & DuBois, D (2006).
Seeing is retrieving: recovering emotional content in leadership processes.
Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, New York, NY.
Schmidt, A. M., Dolis, C. M., & Tolli, A. P. (2006). Goal framing, individual differences,and temporal dynamics in multiple-goal self-regulation. Submitted for presentation in a symposium at the 2006 Annual Conference for the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists.
Sterns, H.L., Sterns, R., & Lax, G. (2006).
Psychosocial interventions to improve the quality of life for people with dementia and their caregivers.
Poster session conducted at the 14th Annual Alzheimer’s Association Dementia Care Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Sterns, H.S., Chang, B.I, Hall, R.J. & Lax, G. (2006).
Factors influencing worker well-being: The relationships of age and work-life conflicts with self-esteem.
In J. James and M. Smyer (Chairs), Age, work, and psychological well-being.
Symposium conducted at the 114th Annual Scientific Meetings of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.
Tolli, A. P., & Schmidt, A. M. (2006). Influences of Discrepanices, Attributions, and Self-efficacy in explaining goal revision. Submitted for presentation in a poster session at the 2006 Annual Conference for the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists.
Schmidt, A. M., DeShon, R. P., Dolis, C. M., & Tolli, A. P. (2005). Another look at the relationship between self-efficacy and performance: The moderating effects of performance ambiguity. Submitted for presentation in a symposium at the 2005 Annual Conference for the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists.
O’Malley, A., & Morris, K. (2004).
The impact of the gender composition of an organization’s management on prospective employee attitudes.
Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.
Sterns, H.S., & Lax, G. (2004).
Issues in Career Self-Management and Training.
In B.A. Fritzsche & R.E. DeRouin (Chairs), The aging workforce:
Advancements in training, development, and lifelong learning.
Symposium conducted at the 19th Annual Meetings of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.
Sterns, H.S., & Lax, G. (2004).
Issues in Physical Change and the Ability to Work.
Symposium conducted at the 56th Annual Scientific Meetings of the Gerontological
Society of America, Washington, DC.