People
Faculty
Alex Harris-Watson
Email: aharrisw@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Personality and individual differences; applied psychometrics, selection, and assessment; collaborative interpersonal relationships (e.g., teams, leadership); human-AI collaboration, particularly socially interactive AI
Franki Y. H. Kung
Email: fkung@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Conflict management; goals and motivation; cultural diversity; mindsets; difficult conversations
Brooke N. Macnamara
Email: bmacnama@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Predictors (e.g., cognitive abilities, emotion-cognition traits, experience, task characteristics) of skill acquisition, expertise, and achievement; beliefs about achievement
Louis Tay
Email: stay@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Measurement; data science; well-being; organizational psychology
Sang Eun Woo
Email: sewoo@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Individual differences (e.g., personality); measurement, positive work psychology; career development and management behaviors; research methods
Graduate Students
Dante Bruno
Year: 3
Advisor: Dr. Franki Kung
Email: dbruno@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Goals and motivation; inclusion in the workplace; cultural mindset
Christine Cairoli
Year: 3
Advisor: Dr. Tara Behrend
Email: ccairoli@purdue.edu
Research Interests: People analytics; recruiting & selection; big data; text analysis; military personnel
Daphne Hou
Year: 5
Advisor: Dr. Louis Tay
Email: hou12@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Wellbeing; vocational interests; conflict management and culture
Mia Kendrick
Year: 3
Advisor: Dr. Melissa Robertson
Email: kendrim@purdue.edu
Research Interests: DEI; workplace relationships; wellbeing
Gloria Liou
Year: 2
Advisor: Dr. Louis Tay
Email: lioug@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Wellbeing; relationships; machine learning and big data
Jeffrey Masser
Year: 2
Advisor: Dr. Alex Harris-Watson
Email: jmasser@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Personality, teams, data analysis, selection
Brad Pitcher
Year: 6
Advisor: Dr. Tara Behrend
Email: bpitcher@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Technology in the workplace; future of work; measurement of individual differences; occupational stigma
Victoria Scotney Wang
Year: 6
Advisor: Dr. Louis Tay
Email: vscotney@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Prosocial giving and receiving; wellbeing; research methods; measurement
Meaghan Tracy
Year: 5
Advisor: Dr. Tara Behrend
Email: tracy15@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Individual differences; person-environment fit; remote work; occupational health; sustainable job performance
Rick Yang
Year: 5
Advisor: Dr. Franki Kung
Email: yang1895@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Goals and motivation; conflict; wellbeing; culture
Fanyi Zhang
Year: 4
Advisor: Dr. Melissa Robertson
Email: zhan3822@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Relationships; mentoring; wellbeing; research methods