Students
First Year Students
Allison Guild
Hometown: Greensboro, North Carolina
Undergraduate Education: North Carolina State University
Research Interests: well-being, organizational culture, individual differences, motivation, teamwork
Anastasiya Kuzyk
Hometown: Middlesex, New Jersey
Undergraduate Education: The College of New Jersey
Research Interests: decision-making, cognition, ethics in the workplace, deviant behavior
Carlie Merriweather
Hometown: Carmel, Indiana
Undergraduate Educatinon:Ball State University
Graduate Education: Ball State University
Research Interests: work-family conflict, occuational stress, employee well-being, deviant work behavior
Sophie Nickel
Hometown: Traverse City, Michigan
Undergraduate Education: Macalester College
Research Interests: occupational health and well-being, team science, leadership development, high-risk occupations, burnout
Taylor Staves
Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri
Undergraduate Education: Drake University
Graduate Education: Avila University
Research Interests: job selection, satisfaction, retention, perceived power dynamics, well-being, benevolent sexism, burnout, discrimiantion, and intersectionality in the workplace
Second Year Students
Kristi Azali
Hometown: Katy, Texas
Undergraduate Education: Texas A&M University
Research Interests: diversity and inclusion, bias, employee well-being
Cameron Best
Hometown: Boise, Idaho
Undergraduate Education: Boise State University
Research Interests: AI and machine learning, psychometrics, personality, performance, personnel selection
Emmalee Diederichs
Hometown: Parker, Colorado
Undergraduate Education: Colorado State University
Research Interests: organizational culture, presenteeism, motivation, precarious work, hustle culture
Spencer Long
Hometown: Cambridge, Ohio
Undergraduate Education: The Ohio State University
Research Interests: personnel selection and assessment, performance, motivation, psychometrics, equity, bias mitigation
Sean Osborn
Hometown: Lebanon, Ohio
Undergraduate Education: The Ohio State University
Research Interests: work-life balance, productivity, burnout, organizational commitment, workers with intellectual disabilities
Jake Solka
Hometown: Cary, Illinois
Undergraduate Education: Illinois State University
Graduate Education: Illinois State University
Research Interests: stress recovery, workaholism, organizational citizenship behavior, impression management, gamification, workplace bias and discrimination, mental health stigma
Third Year Students
Searra Lippard
Hometown: Buena Vista, Virginia
Undergraduate Education: Regent University
Research Interests: employee well-being, interpersonal relationships and teamwork, organizational culture, prosocial behavior, employee fulfillment, individual differences
Sarah Rohr
Hometown: Rochester, Indiana
Undergraduate Education: Manchester University
Research Interests: employee attitudes and well-being, bias and discrimination, organizational culture
Hannah Thomson
Hometown: Roanoke, Indiana
Undergraduate Education: Manchester University
Research Interests: burnout, motivation, work-life conflict, impact of physical work environment on well-being, personnel selection and assessment in high-risk/high-stress occupations
Hongyu (Jung) Zheng
Hometown: Shanghai, China
Undergraduate Education: Pennsylvania State University, State College
Research Interests: employee motivation, personality inventories, human-robot teaming, leadership assessment and development
Fourth Year Students
Lindsay Denecker
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
Hometown: Faribault, Minnesota
Undergraduate Education: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Research Interests: diverse identities at work, judgment and decision-making, and artificial intelligence
Melissa Sorensen
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
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
Fifth Year Students
Clark Amistad
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
Hometown: Columbia, South Carolina
Undergraduate Education: University of South Carolina
Research Interests: occupational health psychology, stress, work-life balance, organizational culture
Pasquale Tosto
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, judgment and decision-making
Lucas Wall
Hometown: Sammamish, Washington
Undergraduate Education: Western Washington University
Research Interests: psychometrics, recruitment, selection, personality, performance, motivation
Sixth Year Students
Carter Bonifas
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
Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Education: Washington & Jefferson College
Research Interests: counterproductive work behavior, reactions to electronic surveillance, employee selection, workaholism, and personality
Isabelle Ponce-Pore
Hometown: Fort Collins, Colorado
Undergraduate Education: Colorado State University
Research Interests: AI and machine learning, the gig economy, employee wellbeing/stress, and neurodiversity
Seventh & Eighth Year Students
Alonzo Johnson
Hometown: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Undergraduate Education: Oklahoma State University
Research interests: diversity and inclusion, individual differences, psychometrics, recruitment, selection
Susannah Huang
Hometown: Sunrise, Florida
Undergraduate Education: University of Florida
Research Interests: Work motivation, sleep, mindfulness, and stress
Department of Psychology
Dr. Carolyn J. Tompsett, Chair
Psychological Services Center
Updated: 08/25/2026 02:40PM