The 29th annual SIOP conference will be held at the crossroads of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii from May 15-17th. The conference will take place at the Hawaii Convention Center and Hilton Hawaiian Village. We hope to see you there!

Looking Forward to SIOP 2014!

Special points of interest:

x� New I/O Students

x� Meet Dr. Jesse Michel, Our Newest Faculty Member

x� Auburn @ SIOP

In this issue:

New Students 1-2

Welcome Our Newest Faculty Member!

3

Tiger Prints, Talks, Posters

4

Professional Accomplishments

5

Auburn @ SIOP 6

Elissa Hack

I am originally from Sahuarita, Arizona and attended the University of Arizona in Tucson. There I received my B.S. in Psychology and found my love for research. I am currently working under the guidance of Dr. Jinyan Fan concentrating on socially desirable responding on personality tests. A recently budding area of research interest includes the interplay of attachment styles, newcomer socialization, and social network building. After graduation, my hope is to gain valuable applied experience, which I can then carry forward into an academic setting.

MEET OUR NEW STUDENTS

Page 1

James Tornabene I grew up near Houston, TX and started fighting fire in Texas City, TX. I recently graduated with an MA in I/O Psychology from Louisiana Tech after resigning as the Fire Chief in Ruston, LA. Previously, I earned a Bachelor's Degree in Administrative Leadership from Texas A&M - Texarkana, and an AS in Fire Ser-vice Management from Southern Arkansas University. I currently work for the Personnel Board of Jefferson County in Birmingham and commute to class. My research interests include person - job fit and job stress. I hope to combine my education and experience into a consulting opportunity for the emergency response community.

Lu Zheng

I earned my M.S. majoring in social and organizational psychology from Zhejiang University, China, in 2013. Then, I came to the U.S. to pursue my PhD in an I/O program. I like the area of I/O because I believe this psychological branch can make employees more adaptive in their organizations. My current research interests include applicant faking in personnel selection, and how to apply attachment theory in the organizational field. For now, I am enjoying life as a graduate student, and I look forward to achieving my goal of becoming an I/O psychologist!

MEET OUR NEW STUDENTS

AUBURN I/OPENER Page 2

Welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Jesse Michel!

What are you most excited about as a new Auburn faculty member?

If I have to choose just one thing, I’m most excited to work with a terrific group of students and faculty. After all, the people make the place!

What are your academic research interests?

My research interests generally revolve around (1) the dynamics between work and nonwork domains (e.g., work-family conflict) and (2) the role of personality and individual differences in the workplace. I have published on other substantive (e.g., psychological and contextual processes underlying organizational deviance and workplace aggression) and methodological topics (e.g., meta-analytic structural equation modeling), but my primary focus is work-nonwork and individual differences.

What courses are you hoping to teach?

I’m really looking forward to teaching the I-O Research Methods course. I have a lot of experience teach-ing graduate courses over the last few years, including seminars on selection, leadership, motivation, work-family, organizational psychology, and quantitative methods. Of these I would most like to teach semi-nars on work-family (or a more general OHP course) and/or organizational psychology. Depending on student interest and departmental need, an applied meta-analysis course would also be fun.

What are some of your upcoming goals (academic or personal)?

My primary academic goal is to build my research program at Auburn. I’m looking forward to mentoring and conducting research projects leading to publication. As for personal goals, I want to provide a smooth transition to life in Auburn for my family. We are all very excited to make the move to a college town that better fits our needs and lifestyle.

What do you want students to know about you?

My door is always open if you ever need anything.

What are some of your extracurricular hobbies/activities?

I’ve found that as my number of life roles increase (e.g., spouse, parent), my extracurricular hobbies and activities change. My present hobbies and activities generally revolve around quality time with my wife and son (e.g., trips to state and national parks, historic home tours, concerts and plays).

Who is your new favorite football team (I’ll give you a hint: it better be Auburn)?

To be honest, I’ve never been a huge football fan, though I did enjoy attending games when I was an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota. However, my new favorite football team is clearly the Au-burn Tigers! My family and I are looking forward to attending occasional football games and other univer-sity events.

AUBURN I/OPENER Page 3

Page 4 AUBURN I/OPENER

TIGER PRINTS, PRESENTATIONS, AND POSTERS PUBLICATIONS

Beiler, A.A., Zimmerman, L.M., Doerr, A.J., & Clark, M.A (2014). An Evaluation of Research Productivity Among I-O Psychology

Doctoral Programs. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 51(3), 40-52.

Fan, J., & Lai, L. (2014). Pre-training perceived social self-efficacy accentuates the effects of a cross-cultural coping orientation

program: Evidence from a Evidence from a longitudinal field experiment. Journal of Organizational Behavior. doi: 10.1002/

job.1932

Froh, J. J., Bono, G., Fan, J., Emmons, R. A., Henderson, K., Leggio, H., & Wood, A. Nice thinking! An educational intervention that

teaches children how to think gratefully. (in press). School Psychology Review.

Liu, C., Liu, Y., Mills, M. J., & Fan, J. Job stressors, job performance, job dedication, and the moderating effect of conscientiousness: A

mixed-method approach. (in press). International Journal of Stress Management.

Meng. H., Huang, P., Hou, N., & Fan, J. (accepted). Social self-efficacy predicts Chinese college students' first-year transition: A four-

wave longitudinal investigation. Journal of Career Assessment.

Mastropietro, L., Struempler, B. J., Parmer, S. M., Arsiwalla, D., & Bubb, R. (in press). Changes in fruit and vegetable consumption of

third grade students in Body Quest: Food of the Warrior, a 17-class childhood obesity prevention program. Journal of

Nutrition Education and Behavior.

Merkle, E., Fan, J., & Zeileis, A. (in press). Testing for measurement invariance with respect to an ordinal variable. Psychometrika.

Perdomo, B.L., Jones-Farmer, L. A., Edwards, B.D., and Svyantek, D. (2014). The Robustness of ME/I Evaluations to Among-Group

Dependence. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 21: 40-53. DOI:10.1080/10705511.2014.856695

Thomas, A., Vaughn, E. D., Doyle, A., & Bubb, R. (2014). Implicit association tests of attitudes toward persons with disabilities. Journal

of Experimental Education, 82(2), 184-204.

PRESENTATIONS

Bubb, R. (2014, January). How to identify and integrate content-neutral goals into psychology courses. Roundtable session at the

annual meeting of the National Institute of the Teaching of Psychology Conference, St. Pete Beach, Florida.

Merkle, E. C., Fan, J., & Zeileis, A. (2013, May). Testing for measurement invariance with respect to an ordinal variable. Paper present-

ed at the 2013 Modern Modeling Methods Conference, Storrs, CT.

Rice, T., Sailors, J., & Bubb, R. (2014, January). Development and validation of an Interpersonal Communications Assignment. Poster

session at the annual meeting of the National Institute of the Teaching of Psychology Conference, St. Pete Beach, Florida.

FEATURED ARTICLE

Fineburg, A. C. (2013). 2013 Teaching Excellence Award Winners. Teaching of Psychology, 40(4), 259-267. (Robert R. Bubb)

Page 5 AUBURN I/OPENER

Below: The Fan Lab at SIOP!

Katie Gunther is an advanced I/O graduate student in our program, under the supervision of Dr. Jinyan Fan. She received her doctoral degree Spring 2014. The title of her dissertation is, "Profile Analysis of Intercultural Sensitivi-ty." The dissertation committee consists of Jinyan Fan, Alejandro Lazarte, Ana Franco-Watkins, and Alan Walker

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Congrats, Dr. Katie Gunther!

Jinyan Fan. Finalist, Scholarly Achievement Award, the Human Resources Division, the Academy of Management, 2013.

Robert R. Bubb. 2013. Wilbert J. McKeachie Teaching Excellence Award, Society for the Teaching of Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Foundation Small Grant, 2013. Proposal is titled, “Testing the efficacy, psychology, and effectiveness of a Realistic Orientation Program for Entry Stress: An exploratory longitudinal field experiment.” Yao, X. (P.I.), Han, J. (Co-P.I.), Li, F. (Co-P.I.), & Hou, N. (Co-P.I.). 1-year duration. $7,000.

Ning Hou. Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Auburn University competition Winner, 2013

Left: Dr. Fan and Dr. Gunther at the graduation ceremony

Above: The Fan Lab having

a lovely I/O time!

Auburn @ SIOP

Be on the lookout for these awesome presentations and presenters at this year’s SIOP!

Fan, J., Zhao, G., Li, Y., Wang, M., & Meng, H. (2014, May). Personality scores across selection and develop-

ment contexts: Evidence for faking. Paper presented as part of the symposium by Fan, J. & Page, R. C.

(Chair), Does faking occur and matter? It’s about when, not whether at the 29th annual conference

of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Liu, C., Liu, Y., Mills, M., & Fan, J. (2014, May). Job stressors, job performance, and conscientiousness: A mixed-

method approach. Paper presented at the 29th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and

Organizational Psychology, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Yuan, Y., Liang, C., Hou, N., Peng, W. (2014, May). Self-deceptive enhancement and impression management

as moderators of personality-performance relationships. In J. Fan & R. Page (chairs), Does faking occur

and matter? It's about when, not whether. Symposium to be presented at the 28th annual conference

of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu, HI.

Page 6 AUBURN I/OPENER

I/O Psychology Program Department of Psychology 226 Thach Hall Auburn, AL 36849-5214

Tel: 334.844.4412

The objective of Auburn University's I/O psychology program is to produce psychologists well-trained in scientific methods applied to the industrial/organizational environment. Graduates of the program will be prepared for work in academic, research, and/or applied settings, depending on the objectives of each student.

The program features strong preparation in research methodology, statistics, measurement, and general psychology, as well as course work in the broad areas of industrial and organizational psychology. Elective courses are designed to allow students flexibility in developing their own areas of specialization. Practicum placements provide students with opportunities to gain research and applied experience in a variety of organizational settings.

Brandon Johnson, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Jinyan Fan, Faculty Advisor

Graduate students: Alexa Doerr Ning Hou Yuan Yuan A special welcome and thank you to Dr. Jesse Michel

Auburn University I/O Psychology Program

Some Fan Lab Camaraderie

Special Thanks to the following contributors:

Page 7 AUBURN I/OPENER

Top to Bottom: Lu Zheng, Yuan

Yuan, Ning Hou, and Elissa Hack