Introduction
I am currently a doctoral candidate working toward my Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH). My primary research interests are (a) test/survey development and analysis and (b) judgment and decision-making methods in the workplace.
Master of Arts, Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Specialization: Psychological Measurement
Bowling Green State University
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
Minors: Business Administration and Organizational Communications
Central Washington University
I/O Psychology is a small field within the realm of psychology that deals with business principles and scientific methods to empirically study the work environment. In the words of Paul Spector,
...many I/O Psychologists are concerned with selecting people who can best perform a job, training people to do the job better, designing jobs so they can be done better, and designing organizations to function better overall. I/O Psychologists do not deal directly with employee emotional or personal problems. Instead, they research and draw conclusions about what types of things affect the relationship between organizations and employees.