Selection & Assessment Lab & PNU

Our Research

Personnel Selection

• Selecting job applicants on important psychological characteristics: e.g., job knowledge, conscientiousness, motivation, interest
• Helping organizations improve the accuracy, productivity, and fairness of selection decisions

Personality 

• Personality theory and understanding how personality affects people’s behavior in organizational settings
• Improving the accuracy and reliability of personality assessment, especially traits that are socially undesirable

Modern Methods of Assessment and Analytics  

• The theory, modeling, and measurement of psychological variables, and the practical implications of these issues on the use of psychological measures in applied settings (e.g., workplace, education, military)
• Examining the reliability and validity of modern assessment tools (e.g., facial recognition, NLP) for measuring psychological constructs that underlie effective job performance