Steven Zhou

George Mason University | GMU · Department of Psychology

Recent research on calling has highlighted its nature as a ‘double‐edged sword’ that—while conferring benefits generally—may create vulnerabilities in some cases. We suggest an explanation that complexifies our conceptualization of what calling is. Traditional conceptualizations of calling focus on differences in degree, measuring calling on some n...

Text from 990 job advertisements were downloaded from companies on the Fortune 500 2020 list of top companies. These job ads covered 32 different job titles from eight industries. The responsibilities and requirements sections were saved for each job, and, when available, city, state, salary, company size, and other offered text were saved. Data we...

In 2017, about 30% of all U.S. adults volunteered for a total of 6.9 billion hours. This raises the question, why do so many people volunteer? Extant research has produced highly variable estimates of the effect sizes of various motivating factors, and there has been little to no research on potential moderators (i.e., study-level covariates that m...

In the past two decades, there has been growing interest in workplace spirituality, why it matters, and how it impacts organizational outcomes. We examined how workplace spirituality interacts with elements of workplace teams (i.e., leadership and the surrounding organizational context) to impact important individual- and team- level outcomes. Usin...

Rogelberg and colleagues’ (2022) focal article makes a strong and effective plea for I-O researchers to do more in the realm of science communication, that is, communicating I-O science to a public audience. Topics such as work-life balance, telework, virtual teams, and employment law have become even more important to the public audience, thanks t...

In the focal article by Kraiger and colleagues (2022), the authors provide a review of online graduate education and raised a number of caveats and potential challenges of such programs. We take this opportunity to share an example of an online Master’s program in Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology that is addressing the challenges oulined...

Multiteam systems (MTSs) are complex organizational forms comprising interdependent teams that work towards their own proximal goals within and across teams to also accomplish a shared superordinate goal. MTSs operate within high-stakes, dangerous contexts with high consequences for suboptimal performance. We answer calls for nuanced exploration an...

Multidimensional forced choice (MFC) personality tests have recently come to light as important personnel assessments in industrial and organizational psychology. For developing MFC measures, researchers have recommended including heteropolar blocks (i.e., both negatively and positively keyed statements are mixed within a block) to improve the scor...

The purpose of this study was to explore how variables such as student demographics, pre-college leadership activities, and perceived pre-college parenting behaviors predict students’ leader self-efficacy (i.e., individuals’ confidence in themselves to lead and belief that others will support their leadership [Hannah et al., 2008]) in college and l...

Given the consistently high viewership of television (TV) by youth, the social, behavioral, developmental, and psychological impact of such viewing has been studied for decades. Yet, little research has focused on the connections between youth, the TV shows to which they are exposed, and the characterizations of leadership presented to them. This s...

The focal article by Murphy (2021) succinctly articulates the impressive advancements and improvements made in statistical methods over the past few decades, with the application of these complex tools appearing in many top-tier I-O psychology journals. No doubt, these methods are incredibly powerful and important to answer the complicated question...

In the focal article, Lefkowitz (2021) defined “ethical dilemma” as a situation in which an agent is faced with two or more valid choices. Although each choice can be considered “ethical,” selecting one generally means the remaining choices cannot be enacted, resulting in at least one moral failure. In other words, as opposed to incivility or corru...

In the focal article by Kath et al. (2021), the authors share several specific recommendations to incorporate knowledge from the field of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) psychology into the classroom. We would like to extend their discussion by sharing how their recommendations align with best practices in online education. Although we draw from ou...

The focal article by Kath and colleagues (2020) presents a clear and laudable argument for why and how I-O instructors should be demonstrating best practices of teaching in the classroom. Though they mention the importance of having non-I-O students benefit from I-O classes, implicit in their body of helpful resources and advice is the as-sumption...