Browsing by Author "Connelly, Shane"
Now showing items 81-92 of 92
-
Socioeconomic Status and Leader Behavior: Impacts on Team Performance
Gujar, Yash (2020-05)Although socioeconomic status (SES) was found, in early studies, to be strongly related to leader emergence, in recent years the impact of SES on leadership has received little attention. In the present study, 48 teams ... -
THE SOLACE OF EXTREMISM: AN EXAMINATION OF EXISTENTIAL MOTIVATION AND THE PERSUASIVENESS OF EXTREME GROUPS
Massey, Zachary (2019-05-10)This dissertation examines the persuasive appeal of extreme groups under conditions of self-uncertainty. The guiding theoretical framework, uncertainty-identity theory (UIT; Hogg, 2007) argues self-uncertainty motivates ... -
Stimulating Exploration in Complex Task Learning via Pre-Practice and Intermittent Knowledge Enrichment
Westlin, Joseph (2019-08)A growing body of scholarly literature points to the importance of exploratory behavior in the acquisition of complex skills. The purpose of this laboratory study, in which 257 undergraduate students (64% male) learned to ... -
Supervisor Responses to Subordinate Social Issue Advocacy: The Motivating Role of Anticipated Gratitude and Guilt
Whitney, Jacob (2024-05-10)Social issues are a frequent topic of discussion in organizations today. Given that many employees view their organizations as a place to initiate change on such issues, recent work has examined how employees sell social ... -
Taking the good with the bad: The impact of forecasting timing and valence on idea evaluation and creativity
McIntosh, Tristan (2018-05)Forecasting is an integral component to idea evaluation and has been shown to positively impact creative performance. However, less is known about what set of conditions, namely forecasting timing and valence, maximizes ... -
Team Viability’s Outcome-Input Role in Team Effectiveness: A Meta-Analytic Attempt to Disentangle the Confounding Nature of Commonly Used Scales
Rockwood, Justine (2024-05-10)The purpose of this study is to examine the unique role of team viability within an input-mediator-output-input (IMOI) framework of team effectiveness. Using meta-analytic estimates, I empirically tested the relationships ... -
Testing an Integrated Social-Cognitive Career Theory Model among STEM Students: Model fit across Gender and Race/Ethnicity
Johnston-Fisher, Jessica (2021-08)The current study tested the full model of the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994, 2000) using a longitudinal sample of 1,314 Native American, Asian, and White undergraduate students majoring ... -
Unmasking the Effects of Social Identity, Polarization, and Anger on Information Processing and Attitudes: An Exploration into the ‘Mask Debate’ of COVID-19 on Twitter
Strasbaugh, Keith (2022-05)The ‘mask debate’ surrounding COVID-19 (i.e., whether or not to wear a mask) has generated contention in online forums such as Twitter, where observed division of perspectives often runs along lines of social identity ... -
Was that Rudeness or Racism? Exploring the Moderating Effect of Attribution to Racism on Experiences of Incivility
Delafield, Cooper (2022-08)Incivility is a typical way that subtle discrimination manifests in academic contexts and may be a key contributor to racial and ethnic disparities in student wellbeing and achievement. Research testing ethnic identity as ... -
Where was I? Distractions during information gathering
Fichtel, Mark (2023)The literature on creativity has long held that one of the most central processes central to the success of any creative problem-solving endeavor is the gathering of information that is pertinent for task completion, most ... -
Wisdom and Leadership: Do wise people perform more efficiently?
Standish, Colleen (2020)Many scholars have argued that wisdom might be an important skill contributing to leader performance. Although some support is available for this proposition, strong empirical evidence bearing on this proposition is not ... -
“You know so and so is not right”: Black women leaders combating mental health stigma within Black churches
Cobb, Tianna (2021-08)Black communities are greatly affected by barriers that negatively impact their mental health. One of the significant barriers is that of stigma. Leaders of Black churches are in a position to shift the narrative. Black ...