Students
First Year Students

Lindsay Denecker
- Email: ldeneck@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
Undergraduate Education: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Research Interests: employee well-being, psychometrics, workplace bias and discrimination, leadership, teamwork, meaningful work, bridging the scientist-practitioner gap, artificial intelligence in the workplace

Alisha Silkey
- Email: asilkey@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Faribault, Minnesota
Undergraduate Education: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Research Interests: diversity, equity and inclusion, training and development, organizational justice

Melissa Sorensen
- Email: mbsoren@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Warsaw, Indiana
Undergraduate Education: Grace College
Graduate Education: Western Kentucky University
Research Interests: occupational health psychology, work-life balance, counterproductive work behavior, motivation

Barbara Warner
- Email: warnebm@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Swartz Creek, Michigan
Undergraduate Education: Central Michigan University
Research Interests: work-life balance, employee well-being, stress, workaholism, organizational citizenship behavior, counterproductive work behavior
Second Year Students

Clark Amistad
- Email: camista@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
Undergraduate Education: University of Waterloo
Graduate Education: University of Calgary
Research Interests: personnel selection, applicant reactions, AI and machine learning, data and decision making

William Lynch
- Email: whlynch@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Columbia, South Carolina
Undergraduate Education: University of South Carolina
Research Interests: occupational health psychology, stress, work-life balance, organizational culture

Aarti Polavarapu
- Email: aartip@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Delhi, India
Undergraduate Education: University of Delhi
Graduate Education: King's College London; Hofstra University
Research Interests: diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), occupational health psychology, leadership, organizational development, judgment and decision making

Pasquale Tosto
- Email: tostop@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Harrison, New York
Undergraduate Education: Skidmore College
Graduate Education: Montclair State University
Research Interests: personality and individual differences, personnel selection, bridging the scientist-practitioner divide, psychometrics, motivation

Lucas Wall
- Email: walll@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Sammamish, Washington
Undergraduate Education: Western Washington University
Research Interests: psychometrics, recruitment, selection, personality, performance, motivation
Third Year Students
Gaurangi Das
- Email: gdas@bgsu.edu
Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana
Undergraduate Education: Louisiana State University
Research Interests: stress, mental toughness, motivation, and mindfulness
Libby Furrow
- Email: furrowe@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Undergraduate Education: Santa Clara University
Research Interests: work motivation, training and development, team dynamics, and organizational justice

Bao Ho
- Email: hobg@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Undergraduate Education: Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: machine learning and AI, performance, recruitment and selection, psychometrics

Simon Michel
- Email: simmich@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Undergraduate Education: Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: psychometrics, personality and individual differences, and applicant decision making

Sabrina Yu
- Email: sbyu@bgsu.edu
Hometown: New York City, New York
Undergraduate Education: Baruch College
Graduate Education: Baruch College
Research Interests: recruitment and selection, personality, diversity and inclusion, training and professional development, gamification
Fourth Year Students
Carter Bonifas
- Email: carboni@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Pinckney, Michigan
Undergraduate Education: Central Michigan University
Research Interests: employee stress/well-being, judgment and decision making, OCB/CWB, and workplace interactions

Maxwell Box
- Email: boxm@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Education: Washington & Jefferson College
Research Interests: counterproductive work behavior, reactions to electronic surveillance, employee selection, workaholism, and personality

Seth Brooks
- Email: sethmb@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Hobart, Washington
Undergraduate Education: University of Washington
Research Interests: occupational health psychology, stress recovery, judgment and decision making, diversity and inclusion, counterproductive work behaviors

Zachary Levey
- Email: leveyzj@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Folsom, New Jersey
Undergraduate Education: Rowan University
Research Interests: employee selection, psychometrics, labor relations, and individual differences
Isabelle Ponce-Pore
- Email: iponcep@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Fort Collins, Colorado
Undergraduate Education: Colorado State University
Research Interests: AI and machine learning, the gig economy, employee wellbeing/stress, and neurodiversity

Grayson Sturgis
- Email: gdsturg@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Farmington Hills, Michigan
Undergraduate Education: Eastern Michigan University
Research Interests: measurement invariance, cross-cultural organizational psychology, psychometrics, expatriate adjustment, selection and assessment, occupational health psychology
Fifth Year Students

Andrew Lieman
- Email: liemana@bsgu.edu
Hometown: Ellicot City, Maryland
Undergraduate Education: Grinnell College
Research interests: Research-practitioner divide, personnel selection and assessment, and social support and mistreatment at work.
Sixth Year Students

Kate Den Houter
- Email: dkate@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Undergraduate Education: Michigan State University
Research Interests: My primary research interests include diversity and inclusion, high-risk occupations, career development, and occupational health psychology.

Lexi Hirvo
- Email: ahirvo@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Norton Shores, Michigan
Undergraduate Education: Elon University
Research Interests: Selection, Stress/Well-Being, Diversity/Discrimination, Recruitment, Work-Family Interface, and JDM

Michael Shea
- Email: mashea@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Massapequa, New York
Undergraduate Education: Marist College
Research Interests: International assignments, fun at work, judgment and decision making, and training and development
Seventh Year Students

Andrew Samo
- Email: asamo@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Montreal, Canada
Undergraduate Education: McGill University
Research Interests: I am broadly interested in the areas of performance, motivation, decision making, and individual differences.
8th Year Students

Susannah Huang
- Email: susannh@bgsu.edu
Hometown: Sunrise, Florida
Undergraduate Education: University of Florida
Research Interests: Work motivation, sleep, mindfulness, and stress
Department of Psychology
Dr. Carolyn J. Tompsett, Chair
Department of Psychology
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
419-372-2301
cjtomps@bgsu.edu
Department Phone: 419-372-2301
Department Fax: 419-372-6013
Updated: 09/13/2023 09:14AM