Browsing by Author "Mendoza, Jorge"
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Affect, Emotion Regulation, and Leader Effectiveness: Examining the Role of Trait Affect and Emotion Regulation on Leader Problem Solving Performance
Torrence, Brett (2016-08)Emotion-related constructs, such as affect and emotion regulation, have been identified as being critical to effective leadership. Prior research in both of these areas has tended to examine the role of these constructs ... -
Analysis of MEG as Related to Spatial Transformation and Top-Down Control of Saccade Behavior
Tate, Lindsey (2016-08)Preparatory brain activity can provide insight into goal-oriented action and inhibitory processes related to both motor and cognition. In the current study participants performed an interleaved prosaccade (PS) and antisaccade ... -
Application of Artificial Neural Networks, Gradient Boosted Decision Trees, and Multilevel Logistic Models in a Supervised Learning Environment to Investigate Differences in Classification Performance when Predicting College Enrollment
Christensen, Collin (2018-05)The use of data mining algorithms for applied practice is becoming commonplace in many industries. The application of these models to the domain of educational data and practice could provide significant gains in understanding ... -
Applying Hierarchical Non-Linear Modeling To Investigate The Influence Of High School Characteristics In Predicting First-Year College Retention
Pleitz, Jacob (2014-05)Student retention in higher education is an incredibly important social and psychological phenomenon. The impact of student retention reaches across multiple domains, influencing individual students, state and local ... -
ASSEMBLING THE BOX: THE ROLE OF CONSTRAINTS IN CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
Medeiros, Kelsey (2016-05-13)Although traditional conceptions of creativity argue for the benefits of a free and unconstrained creative process, recent research suggests that implementing constraints may enhance creative problem solving. Previous ... -
Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches for Factorial Invariance Test
Thompson, Yutian (2018-08-02)Measurement invariance test concerns with whether the group membership is related to the attributes of a test. In the framework of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), it is implemented by the multiple-group confirmatory ... -
Charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic leaders’ impact on creative performance: Person-supervisor, supervisor-goal, and person-goal fit
Partlow, Paul (2016-05-13)Research examining the compatibility between people and their work environment has been prevalent in the work behavior literature. Despite its rich history, questions remain as to the factors influencing, and the outcomes ... -
Child Care Quality and Foster Care Stability: A Time-to-Event Approach
Peters, Andrew (2017-12-13)Early Childcare and Education (ECE) frequently serve as the focus of efforts to improve the well-being of children in foster homes. This study uses archival data to explore the effects of ECE subsidy use, ECE type, and ECE ... -
CIP Leadership and Evaluation: The Influence on Causal Transmission and Creativity
Higgs, Cory (2021-05)While there are a variety of theories on outstanding leadership which differ in notable ways, the more recognized approaches all stress the importance of leader vision. One of the most critical aspects of leader’s mental ... -
Diffusion of innovation: Leveraging leadership networks in a regional context
Olive, Strawberry-Blue (2017-12-15)Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine how social innovation has developed and diffused within a regional context during the first five years of a new initiative. This is a timeframe where elite relationships ... -
Effective strategies for creative idea evaluation: The customer’s always right
Todd, Erin Michelle (2020-05-08)Idea evaluation has been identified as a critical step in the creative problem-solving process. Yet, it is unclear how exactly individuals evaluate and compensate for weaknesses in their creative ideas. In the present ... -
Employee Empowerment, Self-Determination Theory, And Employee Engagement: A Mediation Model
Fox Craig, Jean (2017-12-15)Even though employee engagement has been touted as a strategy to increase organizational performance, productivity, and employee retention, scant empirical data on the drivers of employee engagement exists. The current ... -
Errors in Creative Problem-Solving: Identify, Deliberate, and Remediate
Martin, Robert (2018)It is often assumed creative performance is error free. Even a cursory inspection of eminent, creative, individuals indicates errors permeate creative efforts. In the present effort, we examine the impact of error management ... -
Evaluating Whether Prepotent Awareness Predicts Effects of Cultural Disfluency
Green, Kevin (2019-12)Two studies assessed whether a single- or dual-prime design could be used to elicit Cultural Disfluency (Aim 1), and whether Prepotent Awareness would predict mean differences computed between Control and Experimental ... -
Examining charisma: The influence of leader emotions and contextual variables on follower perceptions and performance
Patel, Divya (2020-12-18)Charisma has historically been poorly conceptualized in the literature, making it difficult to advance research in the charismatic leadership domain. In addition, charisma is typically associated with a leader’s use of ... -
Fantasy Proneness and Responsiveness in Leaders: The Impact of Charismatic and Pragmatic Leaders
Higgs, Cory (2017-12-11)Charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic leadership have been identified as the three key styles of leadership. Leaders expressing each style are held to appeal to followers in different ways and through different mechanisms. ... -
Forecasting and Early Cycle Creative Processes: Effects on Complex Problem Solving
Gujar, Yash (2022-05)Prior research has identified a core set of early and late processes that make up creative problem-solving. Additionally, researchers have highlighted certain skills that further bolster creative output. The importance of ... -
Forecasting Errors in Creative Problem-Solving: Deliberating about the Future
Martin, Robert (2021-05-04)There are a number of key processes involved in creative thought, giving rise to the potential for errors to occur. Error management training has been shown to be more effective than error avoidance, suggesting the need ... -
Goal analysis training: Contextual influences on leadership performance
Fichtel, Mark (2020-12-18)Goal-setting theory is perhaps one of the most successful theories of motivation and performance that has been practically applied. However research has given little consideration to how individuals analyze goals that are ... -
Guided Reflexivity and the Importance of Strategy Change to Adaptive Team Performance
Arsenault, Matthew (2014-05-09)Theories describing team adaptive performance provide insight into the mechanisms that facilitate adaptive performance; however, these theories have yet to link these mechanisms to the nature of the novel demands teams ...