Reflections on the Journal of Applied Psychology in times of change.
This editorial focuses on two major initiatives that we undertook during these turbulent times at the Journal of Applied Psychology: The Call for Papers on the COVID-19 Pandemic With a Rapid Review Process and the implementation of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines (https://www .cos.io/initiatives/top-guidelines) on November 1, 2021. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Applied Psychology)
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - January 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social support at work carries weight: Relations between social support, employees’ diurnal cortisol patterns, and body mass index.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 107(11), Nov 2022, 2101-2113; doi:10.1037/apl0000990Despite the preponderance of evidence documenting the benefits of workplace social support for employees, the link between social support and employees’ physiological functioning and physical health outcomes has received relatively less research attention. In particular, diurnal cortisol patterns and body mass index (BMI) are key indicators of physiological functioning and physical health, respectively, that can be used to illuminate how social support influences employee health. However, existing applied psychology research has yet to...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - January 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Promotive and prohibitive ethical voice: Coworker emotions and support for the voice.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 107(11), Nov 2022, 1973-1994; doi:10.1037/apl0001003Despite the importance of ethical voice for advancing ethics in organizations, we know little about how coworkers respond to ethical voice in their work units. Drawing on the fundamental approach/avoidance behavioral system and the promotive and prohibitive distinction in the voice literature, we distinguish between promotive and prohibitive ethical voice and propose that they engender different emotions—elevation (an approach-oriented moral emotion) and feelings of threat (an avoidance-oriented emotion), respectively, in coworkers. We...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - January 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
(Mitigating) the self-fulfillment of gender stereotypes in teams: The interplay of competence attributions, behavioral dominance, individual performance, and diversity beliefs.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 107(11), Nov 2022, 1907-1925; doi:10.1037/apl0000995We challenge the social categorization perspective in the team diversity literature by arguing that stereotypes and not favoritism for members of the same social category govern processes and dynamics in gender-diverse teams. We posit that team members’ gender and task stereotypes generate competence attributions that shape individual team members’ dominance behavior and performance in a self-fulfilling way: Team members who are attributed more competence behave more dominantly and outperform those who are attributed less competence....
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - January 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social support at work carries weight: Relations between social support, employees’ diurnal cortisol patterns, and body mass index.
Despite the preponderance of evidence documenting the benefits of workplace social support for employees, the link between social support and employees’ physiological functioning and physical health outcomes has received relatively less research attention. In particular, diurnal cortisol patterns and body mass index (BMI) are key indicators of physiological functioning and physical health, respectively, that can be used to illuminate how social support influences employee health. However, existing applied psychology research has yet to examine the dynamic nature of diurnal cortisol secretion and its long-term effect on B...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - January 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Promotive and prohibitive ethical voice: Coworker emotions and support for the voice.
Despite the importance of ethical voice for advancing ethics in organizations, we know little about how coworkers respond to ethical voice in their work units. Drawing on the fundamental approach/avoidance behavioral system and the promotive and prohibitive distinction in the voice literature, we distinguish between promotive and prohibitive ethical voice and propose that they engender different emotions—elevation (an approach-oriented moral emotion) and feelings of threat (an avoidance-oriented emotion), respectively, in coworkers. We propose that these emotions differentially influence coworker subsequent responses to ...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - January 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
(Mitigating) the self-fulfillment of gender stereotypes in teams: The interplay of competence attributions, behavioral dominance, individual performance, and diversity beliefs.
We challenge the social categorization perspective in the team diversity literature by arguing that stereotypes and not favoritism for members of the same social category govern processes and dynamics in gender-diverse teams. We posit that team members’ gender and task stereotypes generate competence attributions that shape individual team members’ dominance behavior and performance in a self-fulfilling way: Team members who are attributed more competence behave more dominantly and outperform those who are attributed less competence. We further argue that pro-diversity beliefs may prevent this self-fulfilling tendency ...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - January 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Leadership emergence: An integrative review.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 107(11), Nov 2022, 2069-2100; doi:10.1037/apl0000997Despite significant scholarly attention and practical importance regarding who emerges as informal and formal leaders in organizations, an integrative framework of the leadership emergence literature remains elusive. The presence of such a framework proves integral for the advancement of work in this area due to the complexity of the field, coupled with its sprawling nature across multiple disciplines (e.g., management, communication, education, economics). Accordingly, in this review, we utilize a database of 270 primary studies to put ...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Revisiting meta-analytic estimates of validity in personnel selection: Addressing systematic overcorrection for restriction of range.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 107(11), Nov 2022, 2040-2068; doi:10.1037/apl0000994This paper systematically revisits prior meta-analytic conclusions about the criterion-related validity of personnel selection procedures, and particularly the effect of range restriction corrections on those validity estimates. Corrections for range restriction in meta-analyses of predictor–criterion relationships in personnel selection contexts typically involve the use of an artifact distribution. After outlining and critiquing five approaches that have commonly been used to create and apply range restriction artifact distributions,...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Times are changing, bias isn’t: A meta-meta-analysis on publication bias detection practices, prevalence rates, and predictors in industrial/organizational psychology.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 107(11), Nov 2022, 2013-2039; doi:10.1037/apl0000991Effect misestimations plague Psychological Science, but advances in the identification of dissemination biases in general and publication bias in particular have helped in dealing with biased effects in the literature. However, the application of publication bias detection methods appears to be not equally prevalent across subdisciplines. It has been suggested that particularly in I/O Psychology, appropriate publication bias detection methods are underused. In this meta-meta-analysis, we present prevalence estimates, predictors, and time...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
On the assessment of predictive bias in selection systems with multiple predictors.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 107(11), Nov 2022, 1995-2012; doi:10.1037/apl0000996There is a long history of examining assessments used in college admissions or personnel selection for predictive bias, also called differential prediction, to determine whether a selection system predicts comparable levels of performance for individuals from different demographic groups who have the same assessment scores. We expand on previous research that has considered predictive bias in individual predictor variables to (a) examine magnitudes of differential prediction in multipredictor selection systems and (b) explore how differe...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Consequences of perceiving organization members as a unified entity: Stronger attraction, but greater blame for member transgressions.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 107(11), Nov 2022, 1951-1972; doi:10.1037/apl0000992Are Uber drivers just a collection of independent workers, or a meaningful part of Uber’s workforce? Do the owners of Holiday Inn franchises around the world seem more like a loosely knit group, or more like a cohesive whole? These questions examine perceptions of organization members’ entitativity, the extent to which individuals appear to comprise a single, unified entity. We propose that the public’s perception that an organization’s members are highly entitative can be a double-edged sword for the organization. On the one han...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A meta-analytic examination of the gender difference in creative performance.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 107(11), Nov 2022, 1926-1950; doi:10.1037/apl0000999Studies examining gender and creative performance ratings have offered mixed results. The current meta-analysis integrates insights from gender role theories (Eagly, 1987; Eagly & Karau, 2002) with Woodman et al. (1993) interactionist perspective of creativity to identify factors that explain these observed inconsistencies across studies. Cumulating decades of research from 259 independent studies (N = 79,915), we find a male advantage in creative performance (δ = .13). An examination of contextual moderators reveals that this gender ga...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dynamic team composition: A theoretical framework exploring potential and kinetic dynamism in team capabilities.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 107(11), Nov 2022, 1889-1906; doi:10.1037/apl0001004Organizations are increasingly called upon to solve complex problems in changing conditions that require the combined knowledge, skills, perspectives, and efforts of multiple individuals. These dynamic situations often require dynamic team composition. Dynamic team composition is sometimes thought of as synonymous to changes in membership, however, we contend that it also can occur through other means including team member development, the alignment between team member capabilities and the team’s tasks, and changes in the accessibility...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Leadership emergence: An integrative review.
Despite significant scholarly attention and practical importance regarding who emerges as informal and formal leaders in organizations, an integrative framework of the leadership emergence literature remains elusive. The presence of such a framework proves integral for the advancement of work in this area due to the complexity of the field, coupled with its sprawling nature across multiple disciplines (e.g., management, communication, education, economics). Accordingly, in this review, we utilize a database of 270 primary studies to put forth a distal–proximal framework of leadership emergence. In particular, we systemat...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
