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Be sure to check out the following WAVE Lab presentations at this year’s SIOP conference in Boston!

Thursday, April 20

8:00 A.M. in Room 203:

Callan, R. C. (Chair), Dahling, J. J., Hampton, C., Kalafut, C., Tomczak, D. L. (2023). Digital exhaust and employee surveillance ethics: If you can measure it, should you? [Panel].

1:00 P.M. in Exhibit Hall:

White, J. C. & Behrend, T. S. (2023). Rater perceptions of malfunctions in video interviews: A qualitative analysis [Poster].

Friday, April 21

9:00 A.M. in Room 309:

Pitcher, B. D. (Co-Chair), Ravid, D. M. (Co-Chair), & Blustein, D. L. (Discussant). (2023). Addressing challenges of dirty work in service jobs. [Symposium].

Saturday, April 22

10:00 A.M. in Room 313:

Pitcher,  B. D. & Yankov, G. (2023). Toward Synthetic Scoring of Assessment Center In-Basket Exercises. Featured in Hickman, L. (Co-Chair), Liu, M. (Co-Chair). Machine Learning for I-O 5.0: Advances in Organizational Applications [Symposium].

11:30 A.M. in Exhibit Hall:

Alge, B. J., Ravid, D. M., Behrend, T. S., & Pitcher, B. D. (2023). ‘Eyes On’: Body-worn Cameras, Visibility and Police Officer Emotional Labor [Poster].

WAVE lab Director Dr. Tara Behrend and Dr. Richard Landers of the University of Minnesota offer guidance for conducting psychological audits of artificial intelligence (AI) systems used to make high-stakes predictions about humans. By developing this guiding framework using a multidisciplinary lens, the paper also introduces an interdisciplinary shared understanding of fairness and bias of AI-systems. The paper can be found here.

Dr. Behrend has been elected President of SIOP. She will begin the role as President-Elect for the 2022-2023 term. Former WAVE lab member Nikki Blacksmith has been elected External Affairs Officer for the same term. See here for the press release from SIOP.

The WAVE Lab is excited to welcome three Purdue undergraduate research assistants for the Spring 2022 semester: Hunter Spalding, Katelyn Wasson, and Rachel Qi. They will play key roles in developing and executing new research projects. Below are short bios for each of these new lab members.

Hunter Spalding is a junior studying Psychological Sciences. He joined WAVE Lab because he wants to get hands-on experience in I-O psychology, as well as apply knowledge from courses and personal interests to the work that he is looking forward to being a part of.

Katelyn Wasson is a sophomore majoring in Applied Statistics and Brain & Behavioral Sciences. She joined the WAVE Lab because she is interested in attending graduate school and wants to learn more about research in the field of I-O psychology.

Rachel Qi is a sophomore majoring in Psychology. She decided to join WAVE Lab because she is interested in I-O psychology and wants to learn about how psychological research is conducted.

Congratulations to the following WAVE Lab members on their new jobs!

Brad Pitcher began working as a Quantitative Research Assistant in Engineering Education at Purdue University. In this role, Brad has been leading a portion of the quantitative analyses for two NSF-funded projects that are under the direction of Dr. Ed Berger. Both projects focus on understanding the overall culture and subcultures that exist within and across different engineering schools based on the consensus of cultural beliefs, or lack thereof, expressed by faculty and students. The projects ultimately seek to understand how cultural beliefs relate to engineering students’ educational and professional outcomes and how to influence culture in a way that improves these outcomes. Brad’s role involves executing data analysis of culture surveys, interpreting results, and communicating findings for journal submissions. For more information about this project, click here.

Ahleah Miles began working as a full-time Survey Research Analyst at The George Washington University (GWU). In this role, she conducts surveys of the university population. She cleans data and merges results to create comprehensive databases, generates reports, and designs visualizations to summarize data for use by senior leadership. This information directly supports program reviews, reporting to accrediting bodies, and national benchmarking of the student experience and postgraduate outcomes. She is also responsible for supervising and training student employees on survey design, data cleaning, and analysis. In addition to this role, Ahleah also teaches an introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology course for undergraduate students in psychology, organizational sciences, and business, where she can enjoy both teaching and learning from her students and better inform her work for the university.

Dr. Jon Willford began working as an Associate People Scientist at BetterUp. In this role, he’ll be supporting various product development teams through mixed-methods research and behavioral intervention development to build out and improve the BetterUp product. This includes driving in-product assessment and measurement strategy, iteration and experimentation, and partnering with product and engineering teams to create the product roadmap.

Dr. Ryan Horn began a new role as an Organizational Researcher at Intuitive Surgical on their People Analytics team. Ryan is focused on better understanding Intuitive’s employees throughout the employee lifecycle and delivering actionable insights to drive improvement.

Be sure to check out the following WAVE lab presentations at this year’s virtual SIOP conference!

Wednesday, April 14

11:00 A.M.

Pitcher, B. D., Mancarella, P. J., Ravid, D. M., Behrend, T. S. Exploring the Learning Affordances of Virtual Reality through Social Learning. (Poster)

12:00 P.M.


Pitcher, B. D., Behrend, T. S. Development of a Scale to Measure Willingness to Perform Dirty Work. (Poster)

5:00 P.M.

Shirase, L., McClure, T. K., Tomczak, D. L., Justenhoven, L. Selecting a Reliable Workforce: Validation of a Trustworthiness Model. (Poster)

Friday, April 16

12:30 P.M.

Ravid, D. M., Tomczak, D. L., White, J. C., & Behrend, T. S. (2021, April). An Incubator for Electronic Performance Monitoring and Work Privacy Research. (Synchronous alternative session)

5:00 P.M.

Fleck, C., Hendrickson, V., Jankovic, R., Pollak, R. H., Weintraub, J., Willford, J. C., Yu, H. Applied Nudges: All Shapes and Sizes. (Panel discussion)

Congratulations to WAVE lab alumna Maria Montgomery, who was recently accepted into Georgetown University’s Master of Professional Studies in Applied Intelligence program. We wish you the best and can’t wait to see all that you accomplish!

WAVE lab director Dr. Tara Behrend participated in in a webcast about the future of work hosted by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the webcast brought together researchers Tara Behrend, Louis Hyman, John Irons, Phyllis Moen, and Margaret as they consider a new future of work. Among others, topics of discussion included the role that government should play in raising living standards and creating economic security, the redesigning of careers and workplaces to promote organizational effectiveness, and the importance of the work-family interface. For more information about CASBS, please click here.

The WAVE Lab recently kicked off a new semester with its first virtual meeting of the fall. Though they are scattered across several states, the group is ready to work together on several exciting projects this semester. Stay tuned for more research updates!

Photo: WAVE Lab members Jerod White, Tara Behrend, Dan Ravid, Dave Tomczak, Ahleah Miles, Jon Willford, Brad Pitcher. Missing from photo is Pete Mancarella.

The recent and rapid shift to remote work has presented organizations with many challenges. On August 3 -5, 2020, Microsoft will host New Future of Work, a virtual symposium bringing together researchers from various fields to discuss these challenges, with topics ranging from virtual reality workspaces to remote worker wellbeing. Among these researchers are WAVE lab members Dan Ravid, Jerod White, Dave Tomczak, Ahleah Miles, and director Tara Behrend, who will discuss their work on electronic performance monitoring. Their study, titled A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Digital Surveillance of Workers: A Psychology Focused Approach, was selected as a featured presentation in the symposium. In quantitatively reviewing existing monitoring research, the authors consider the appropriate uses of the practice in the new future of work. To learn more about Microsoft’s New Future of Work symposium and see the complete list of accepted presentations, click here.

Above: Dan Ravid presents at Microsoft’s New Future of Work virtual symposium.