First Year Students
Yuliya Berger
Hometown: St. Petersburg, Russia
Undergraduate education: BA in Psychology; minor in English
Research interests: I am interested in personnel selection instruments, recruitment, and emotions in the workplace.
Jasmine Khosravi
Hometown: Mooresville, IN
Undergraduate education: Butler University
Graduate: University of West Florida
Research interests: Individual differences, occupational stress, selection, personality testing, positive psychology
Thaddeus Rada
Undergraduate education: Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
Research interests: I am primarily interested in how judgment and decision making processes impact personnel selection. In particular, I am interested in understanding individuals' resistance to structured selection methods, and in identifying ways in which their reactions to these methods might be improved.
Don Zhang
Hometown: Canton, MI
Undergraduate education:Michigan State University
Research interests: My research interest is in broadly defined as applied decision making. More specifically, I'm interested in cheating, risky decision making, search, and selection decisions. I'm also interested in the philosophy of the social sciences.
Second Year Students
Joseph Bochinski
Hometown: Warren, MI
Undergraduate education: I have a Bachelor of Science Degree with a Major in Psychology from Michigan State University
Research interests: I am broadly interested in the areas of personnel selection, psycho-metrics, and decision making.
Ashlie Britton
Hometown: Leroy, Ohio
Undergraduate education: Ohio Wesleyan University
Research Interests: Organizational culture, in particular how to influence it to promote or discourage certain work practices; motivation and leadership; and occupational health and safety.
Christopher Chang
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate Education: University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Personnel selection, performance appraisal, work motivation, emotional labor, and occupational health.
Josh Curry
Hometown: West Lafayette, IN
Undergrad: Purdue University
Research Interests: I am interested in research pertaining to Personnel Psychology, Job Recruitment, Selection, Performance Appraisal and Assessment. I am also interested in Motivation and Leadership within organizations.
Third Year Students
John Kostek
Hometown: Brooklyn Park, MN
Undergraduate education: University of Minnesota Duluth
Research interests: Selection, Recruitment, Judgment and Decision Making, Training and Development.
Email: jkostek@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/jkostek
Justin Sprung
Hometown: Osage, IA
Undergraduate education: University of Northern Iowa
Research Interests: I am interested in occupational health psychology issues, specifically work-family conflict and work-life balance. I am also interested in the process and validity of job interviews. Lastly, I am interested in relating I/O principles to the agricultural industry.
Email: jsprung@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/jsprung
Ryan Whorton
Hometown: Auburn, MA
Undergraduate education: Worcester State College
Graduate Education: Springfield College
Research interests: counterproductive workplace behaviors, psychological measurement, and leadership.
Email: rwhorto@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/rwhorto
Nicole Wood
Hometown: Clinton, IA
Undergraduate education: Coe College
Research Interests: I am interested in research on occupational health psychology issues. I am also interested in personality testing, training and development, and decision making.
Email: nlwood@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/nlwood
Fourth Year Students
Purnima Gopalkrishnan
Hometown: Mumbai, India
Undergraduate education: Temple University
Research interests: I am interested in Occupational Health Psychology topics such as recovery and incivility in the workplace and also in training and selection.
Email: purnimg@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/purnimg
Sarah Kirkendall
Hometown: Decatur, IN
Undergraduate education: Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne
Research interests: My research interests include judgment and decision making and
employee selection, in particular how employers make hiring decisions.
I am also studying methods of conveying validity coefficients to
people with a nonscientific background.
Email: skirken@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/skirken
Christopher Lake
Hometown: Spokane, WA
Undergraduate education: Central Washington University
Research interests: I am interested in psychological testing, measurement, and methodological issues in the social sciences. My thesis, for example, uses an Unfolding Item Response Theory (IRT) model to explore complex attitudes toward workplace policies. I am also interested in employee turnover and discrimination issues surrounding employment testing.
Email: lakec@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/lakec
Scott Withrow
Hometown: Sandpoint, ID
Undergraduate education: University of Idaho
Research interests: Judgment and Decision Making, Psychometrics, and Social Psychology in the Workplace
Email: scottaw@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/scottaw
Fifth Year Students
Dev Dalal
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Undergraduate education: Loyola University Chicago
Graduate Education: Loyola University Chicago
Research interests: My main areas of research include research methodologies, psychometrics, and judgment and decision making. In particular, I research new approaches to conducting research and new applications of psychometric theory including Item Response Theory. Finally, I also research selection-related issues including personality assessment, and scientific selection.
Email: ddalal@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/ddalal
Michael Daniels
Hometown: Warren, MI
Undergraduate education: Michigan State University
Research interests: I am primarily interested in motivation, specifically the self-regulation of goals and emotions at work. I am also interested in occupational health, stress, and well-being of employees. Additionally, I study judgment and decision making in the workplace.
Email: mdaniel@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/mdaniel1
Youngah Park
Hometown: CheongJu, South Korea
Undergraduate education: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Graduate education: Kwangwoon University
Research interests: General occupational health psychology issues, training & development, work-family conflict, stress, recovery, incivility.
Email: ypark@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/ypark
Michael Sliter
Hometown: Cleveland, OH
Undergraduate education: Hiram College
Research interests: My major area of research is Occupational Health Psychology, a field which identifies stressors and endeavors to ameliorate their negative effects. I largely focus on customer service interactions, as well as coworker and customer incivility. In addition, I am interested in emotional labor, which is the management of emotions while at work.
Email: msliter@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/msliter
Katherine Sliter
Hometown: Holt, MI
Undergraduate education: Central Michigan University
Research interests: My current research interests are personality assessment (with a focus on faking and impression management), applied psychometrics, and the effects of obesity in the workplace.
Email: wolfoka@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/wolfoka
Sixth Year Students
Erin Smith
Hometown: Delphos, OH
Undergraduate education: Ohio State University
Research interests: My primary research interest is in examining individual differences in decision making that affect learning and performance. I separately research the effectiveness of workplace interventions, job design and performance, and work-life balance.
Email: esmith@bgsu.edu
http://www.epsilen.com/esmith1
Seventh Year Students
Jason Adams
Hometown: Pontiac, MI
Undergraduate education: Oakland University
Research interests: My research interests include personality, judgment and decision-making, research methods, trust in organizations, and how the psychological processes of test takers can be used to guide survey development
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