Faculty

Industrial-Organizational Faculty

Michael Gasser (Ph.D., U. of Minnesota)
Associate Professor, Coordinator of Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program
Michael.Gasser@uni.edu
Research focuses on gender and ethnic differences in pay expectations, predicting complex skill acquisition, and predicting success in a cross-cultural work setting. Which foreign workers will adjust and perform well in a new culture? Who will succeed in acquiring complex skills?

Adam Butler (Ph.D., U. of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Associate Professor
Adam.Butler@uni.edu
Research interests are how dispositional (personality) factors interact with the situational context to affect creative problem-solving, and how individuals and organizations cope with work-family conflict. How do people balance work and family demands?

Robert Hitlan (Ph.D., U. of Texas at El Paso)
Assistant Professor
Rob.Hitlan@uni.edu
General research interests include workplace stressors, broadly conceptualized. Specific interests include the effects of social ostracism, focusing on how social ostracism affects both interpersonal and intergroup interactions with a particular focus on social ostracism in the workplace. An additional area of interest involves examining the antecedents and consequences of sexual, ethnic, and bystander harassment experiences. How does social exclusion affect individuals and groups? What are the antecedents and consequences of various types of workplace stressors including sexual, ethnic, and bystander harassment?

Dave Whitsett (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve U.)
Professor (partially retired)
How can organizations successfully manage large scale change?

Faculty with related interests

Frank Barrios (Ph.D., U. of Cincinnati.)
Professor, Department Head, and Director of Clinical Training
Frank.Barrios@uni.edu
General research interests include cognitive-behavior therapy and health rehabilitation psychology. Specific research focuses on assessment and treatment of chronic pain and work-related disability, and development and maintenance of self-regulation and self-control.

Helen C. Harton (Ph.D., Florida Atlantic U.)
Associate Professor, Coordinator of Graduate Studies, and Coordinator of Social Psychology Program
Helen.Harton@uni.edu
Primary research areas are attitudes and social influence, particularly using dynamical systems approaches. Specific research projects include attitude change for important vs. unimportant issues, the effects of thought, information, and discussion on attitude extremity, and the effects of personality on influencing and being influenced at both the individual (attitude change) and group (social influence and emergence of subcultures) levels. Other research interests include attraction, relationship satisfaction, prosocial behavior, cooperative learning, and attitudes toward immigrants. How does attitude change occur for individuals and groups?

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