In addition to success in the applied world, many of our students are actively engaged in conducting, publishing, and presenting research. Below are peer-reviewed publications and presentations with student co-authors.
Peer-Reviewed Publications (* = student coauthor)
Gray, C. E., *Skovera, I., Hughes, I. M., Kellman, D., & *Offermann, L. (In press). Help! We need a measure: Developing and evaluating a multidimensional coworker support scale (MCSS). Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Hughes, I. M., Gray, C. E., Bazzoli, A., & *Stavely, S. (2024). Why your help is unhelpful: A multi-stage mediation model exploring mechanisms linking unhelpful workplace social support to work engagement. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 29(4), 238-257.
*Offerman, L., Grey, C., Bragger, J. D, & Laguerre, R. A. (2024). It takes a (helpful) village: Recognizing and minimizing unhelpful help to better support female caregivers in academia. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on the Science and the Practice.
Laguerre, R. A., Bragger, J. D., *Cavalcanti, E., *Christodoulou, C., *Stavely, S., & *Russell, M. (2023). Serving decision-makers and their employees simultaneously: Adopting a balanced approach. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on the Science and the Practice, 16, 113–116
London M, Sessa V. I., & *Shelley L. (2023). Developing self-awareness: A learning process for self and interpersonal growth. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior (10), 261-288.
Bragger, J. D., *Alonso, N., & *D’Ambrosio, K. (2021). Developing Leaders to Serve and Servants to Lead. Human Resource Development Review.
Sessa, V. I., *Francavilla, J., London, M., & *Wanamaker, M. (2021). Learning in Multi-Team Systems: A Qualitative Study of Learning Triggers, Readiness to Learn, and Learning Processes. Team Performance Management.
Askew, K., Ilie, A., Bauer, J. A., Simonet, D. V., Buckner, J. E., & *Robertson, T. A. (2019). Disentangling how coworkers and supervisors influence employee cyberloafing: What normative information are employees attending to? Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 26(4), 526-544.
Bragger, J. D., *Reeves, S., *Toich, M. J., Kutcher, E., *Lawlor, A., *Knudsen, Q. E., & Simonet, D. (2019). Meaningfulness as a Predictor of Work-Family Balance, Enrichment, and Conflict. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 1-29.
Sessa, V. I., Alonso, N., *Farago, P., *Schettino, G., *Taachi, K., & Bragger, J. D. (2018). Leader possible selves: A new motivational construct to consider in college student leader development. Journal of Leadership, Accountability, and Ethics.
Sessa, V. I., London, M. & *Wanamaker, M. (2018). How Multiteam systems learn. Team Performance Management: An International Journal.
Bragger, J.D., Kutcher, E.J., *Schettino, G., *Muzyczyn, B., *Farago, P. & *Fritzky, E. (2017). The job interview and cognitive performance: Does structure reduce performance on selection batteries and can explanation of purpose improve it? Performance Improvement Quarterly 29(2), 97-124.
Sessa, V. I., Alonso, N., *Farago, P., *Schettino, G., *Taachi, K., & Bragger, J. D. (2017). Student organizations as avenues for learning and development. New Directions in Student Leadership, (155), 21-32.
Sessa, V.I., Ploskanka, J., *Alavarez, E., *Dourdis, S., *Dixon, C. & Bragger, J.D. (2016) The relationship between student leaders’ constructive development, their leadership identity, and their understanding of leadership. Journal of Leadership Education, 15(1).
Bragger, J.D., *Evans, D., Kutcher, E., & Sumner, K. (2015). Factors affecting the procedural fairness of downsizing: A policy capturing approach. Human Resource Development Quarterly.
Bragger, J.D., Kutcher, E.J., & *Torres, N. (2014). Against the de-selection of the stereotype threat agenda. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on the Science and the Practice, 7(3), 433-438.
Bragger, J.D., Kutcher, E.J., Sessa, V. & Sumner, K., *Menier. A. (2014). Giving nonselective downsizing a performance review. Human Resource Development Review, 13, 58-78.
Kutcher III, E. J., Bragger & *Masco, J. L. (2013). Assessing fit during the interview: How applicants detect and interpret available information from questions and context. International Journal of Selection & Assessment, 21, 294-308.
*Gai, S., Sumner, K.E., Bragger, J., & Nooner, K. (2011). Understanding experiences of Indian expatriates in the United States: Stress, satisfaction, social support and general health. International Journal of Strategic Management, 11(4), 245-255.
*Sadovnik, A.S., Sumner, K.E., Bragger, J. & Pastor, S.S. (2011). Effects of expressive writing about workplace events on satisfaction, stress, and well-being. Journal of Academy of Business and Economics, 11(4), 231-237.
Kutcher, E., Bragger, J.D., Rodriquez, O., & *Masco, J.L. (2010). The role of religiosity in stress, job attitudes, and organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Business Ethics, 95(2), 319-337.
Masco, J.L., *Simoes, J., *Long, S., *Benevides, K., *Insabella, J., & Bragger, J.D. (2010). The influence of equity sensitivity on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. International Journal of Business and Economics, 10(3), 226-232.
Sumner, K., Bragger, J., *Om, E., & *Malandruccolo, D. (2010). Studying Personnel and Organizational Judgments as Judgments Requires Training. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on the Science and the Practice (3), 448–451.
Conference Presentations (* = student coauthor)
*Johnson, W., *Vinal, F., Baloch, M., *Renman, D., *Shelley, L., *Oliveira, E., *Mohan, N., & Sessa, V. (January, 2025). Rock n’ role: Investigating enacted leadership structures in rock bands [Presentation]. Midyear virtual meeting of Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGroup).
*Vinal, F., & Sessa, V. (March, 2025) Sports teams as multiteam systems: An organizational science perspective [Poster presentation]. Tri-State Regional Sport Psychology Conference: South Orange, NJ.
*Bajwa, N., Askew, K., & Bixter, M. (April, 2025). Why some creatives learn to use generative AI (and others do not) [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Denver, CO.
*Breaux, J. B., & Bixter, M. T. (April, 2025). Team cognitive bias susceptibility in simulated managerial decisions [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Denver, CO.
*DeFabiis, M., Askew, K., & Sessa, V. (April, 2025). Can AI enhance VR training? A systematic review of AI-VR training research [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Denver, CO.
*Figueiras, D., & Bixter, M. (April, 2025). Influence of parsimony in predicting turnover intention: ML vs regression [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Denver, CO.
*Hollow, H., & Bixter, M. T. (April, 2025). Are two heads better than one? Reward-maximizing decision making in individuals vs. dyads [Poster presentation]. Montclair State University Student Research Symposium: Montclair, NJ.
*McGinley, A., *Breaux, J., & Bixter, M. T. (April, 2025). Pro-self or pro-others? The investigation of social value orientation on group satisfaction in group decision-making [Poster presentation]. Montclair State University Student Research Symposium: Montclair, NJ.
*Mejia, N., *Katlabi, D., *Kassim, C., *Ivy, A., *Notari, C., & Sessa, V. (April, 2025). Defining the differences: Examining the scope of job satisfaction measurement [Poster presentation]. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists: Denver, CO.
Sessa, V., Bragger, J., *Shelley, L., Dishaw, E., *Oliveira, E., *Honkanadavar, P., & *Eckert, J. (April, 2025). Leadership experiences and self-efficacy development during college and early career [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Denver, CO.
*Shelley, L., *Dishaw, E., *Oliveira, E., *Honkanadavar, P., *Eckert, J., Sessa, V., & Bragger, J. (April, 2025). Leadership experiences and self-efficacy development during college and early career [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Denver, CO.
*Skovera, I. R. & Gray, C. E. (April, 2025). Drinking the company kool-aid: A systematic literature review of organizational identification and employee well-being [poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Denver, CO.
*Skovera, I. R. (Chair), Gray, C. E., Kessler, S. R., Newlin, A. B., & Rosen, C. C. (April 2025). Turns out researchers are human: Experiences making and disclosing mistakes in I-O Psychology research [Panel discussion]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Denver, CO.
*Sijan, M. A. I., & Bixter, M. T. (April, 2025). Delay discounting as a latent variable [Poster prsesentation]. Montclair State University Student Research Symposium: Montclair, NJ.
*Stavely, S. M., Gray, C. E., & *Bajwa, N. (April, 2025). Examining employees’ perceptions of received support during bereavement. In Hughes, I. M. (Co-Chair) & Gray, C. E. (Co-Chair), Support received: Exploring the nuanced effects of received social support at work [Symposium presentation]. Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Denver, CO.
*Helisch, R., *Sherman C., & Bragger, J. (May, 2025). Does "it depend"?: How contextual STEM/service leadership experiences influence ToM ability [Poster presentation]. Annual Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Leadership Symposium.
*Breaux, J., & Bixter, M. T. (April, 2024). Judgmental biases in teams and individuals [Poster presentation]. Montclair State University Student Research Symposium: Montclair, NJ.
*Breaux, J., Nemeh, M., & Bixter, M. T. (April, 2024). Development and validation of the financial status social comparison scale [Poster presentation]. Montclair State University Student Research Symposium: Montclair, NJ.
*Oliveira, E., Sessa, V., *Notari, C., Mogrovejo, A., *Stavely, S., Paulino, N., & Bowling, N. (April, 2024). Navigating construct proliferation in organizational bonds literature: A comparative meta-analysis [Symposium presentation]. In B. B. Belwalkar & V. I. Sessa (Chairs). Too Many Constructs Spoil the Broth: A Recipe for Simplifying the Psychological Stew. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Chicago, IL.
*Sijan, M. A. I., & Bixter, M. T. (April, 2024). Using NLP to predict job satisfaction and turnover intention [Poster presentation]. Montclair State University Student Research Symposium: Montclair, NJ.
*Skovera, I. R., Gray, C. E., Hughes, I. M., & *Offermann, L. (April, 2024). Help! We need a measure: Developing a multidimensional measure of coworker support [Symposium presentation]. In Hughes, I. M. (Co-Chair) & Keith, M. G. (Co-Chair), Helping revisited: Research on alternative workplace social support perspectives. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Chicago, IL.
Bragger, J., *Helisch, R., *Buczek, E., *Hunt, L., *Sijan, M., *Abbasi, F., *Filstein, T., *Myszko, Z., *Sherman, C., & Lakusta, L. (May, 2024). Neurodiversity in leadership: The relationship between theory of mind and leadership roles, and possible implications for neurodivergent workers [Poster presentation]. Annual Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Leadership Symposium.
Sessa, V. I., Bragger, J., *Shelley, L., *Oliviera, E., & *Stavely, S. (May, 2024). From high school to high leader self-efficacy: Unraveling the early leadership development journey. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium: Thessaloniki, Greece.
*Sijan, M. A. I., & Bixter, M. T. (November, 2024). Using natural language processing to predict job satisfaction and turnover intention [Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society: New York, NY.
*Alonso, N., Porter, C., Ng, V., & Bragger, J. (March, 2023). Trauma-informed compassionate leader behaviors: Compassion in the workplace for traumatized employees [Poster presentation]. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology: Katowice, Poland.
Bragger, J., *Hunt, L., *Helisch, R., *Mysko, Z., *Stone-Taylor, J., *Morales, S., *Kozas, L., *Parlitsis, K., *Abbasi, F., & Lakusta, L. (March, 2023). Cognitive antecedents of servant leadership: A look at theory of mind in leadership [Poster presentation]. International Leadership Association: Vancouver, CA.
*Smith, D., *Stavely, S., *Williams, C., *Skovera, I., *Shelley, L., *DeJesus, J., Sessa, V., & Bragger, J. (March, 2023). Leader development programs in college: Are they worth it? [Poster presentation]. International Leadership Association: Vancouver, Canada.
*Notari, C., Sessa, V., Aquino, A., Novais Cavalcanti, E., & Bowling, N. (April, 2023). Jangleland: Construct proliferation in workplace psychological constructs [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Boston, MA.
Sessa, V. I., Lee, I., Notari, C., DePietro, M., Cavalcanti, E., Mejia, N., Mogrovejo, A., Morales, S., Pitamber, D., Simmen, C., & Bowling, N. A. (April, 2023). It’s a jangle out there: Reconciling constructs within the organizational bonds literature [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Boston, MA.
*Shelley, L., *Skovera, I., *Offermann, L., *Breaux, J., Sessa, V., & Bixter, M. (April, 2023). Diversity and team enacted leadership structure: Mediators and moderators [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Boston, MA.
Bragger, J. D., *Hunt, L., *Helisch, R., & Lakusta, L. (July, 2023). Adults’ event representations: Categorizing servant leadership [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Science Society: Sydney, Australia.
*Offermann, L., *Breaux, J., *Shelley, L., *Skovera, I., Sessa, V. I., & Bixter, M. (July, 2023). Exploring the moderating effect of team heterogeneity on the relationship between leadership structure and team outcome performance [Poster presentation]. Meeting of Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGroup): Bellevue, WA.
*Offermann, L., Bragger, J., *Farago, P., Gray, C. E., & Sessa, V. I. (August, 2023). When is business necessity a necessity: How status and limitation influence accommodations [Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Boston, MA.
*Breaux, J., *Offermann, L., *Skovera, I., *Shelley, L., Bixter, M., & Sessa, V. I. (October, 2023). The relationship between personality composition, team performance, and enacted leadership structures [Poster presentation]. Emerging Scholars Research Consortium, International Leadership Association Annual Conference: Vancouver, BC (Virtual).
Sessa, V. I., Smith, D., *Stavely, S., *Williams, C., *Skovera, I., *Shelley, L., DeJesus, J., & Bragger, J. (October, 2023). Leader development programs in college: Are they worth it [Poster presentation]. International Leadership Association Annual Conference: Vancouver, Canada.
*Breaux, J., & Bixter, M. T. (November, 2023). Heuristics and biases in dyads vs. individuals [Poster presentation]. Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Conference: San Francisco, CA.
*Offermann, L., Gray, C. E., *Hunt, L., *Shelley, L., & *Elhouar, W. (November, 2023). How do supervisors support employees with mental health conditions? What works & what doesn’t [Poster presentation]. Biennial Meeting of Work, Stress, & Health: Virtual Conference.
*Alonso, N., Bragger, J., Templeman, A., *Tosto, P., Coulter, A., *Steinhour, B., Williams, N., *Sobel, D., & *Lakusta, L. (March, 2022). Establishing effective leadership development: Developing leaders by focusing on followers [Poster presentation]. Eastern Academy of Management International.
*Sobel, D., & Bragger, J. B. (April, 2022). A systematic review of servant leadership outcome categories [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Seattle, WA.
Williams, N., *Coulter, A., *Tosto, P., *Sobel, D., *Habib, J., *Norton, R., *Bracken, A., *Vrushi, C., *Quevedo, Y., Bragger, J., & Lakusta, L. (April, 2022). Using the match-to-sample technique to assess understanding of leadership [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Seattle, WA.
*Notari, C., Ritz, A., & Sessa, V. I. (June, 2022). An examination of construct proliferation in workplace psychological construct literature and measurement [Poster presentation]. Eastern Academy of Management: Lyon, France.
*Notari, C., & Sessa, V. (October, 2022). I’m the leader! How shared leadership leads to territoriality [Poster presentation]. International Leadership Association Conference: Washington, DC.
*Breaux, J., & Bixter, M. T. (November, 2022). Heuristics and biases in dyads vs. individuals [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting: Boston, MA.
*Toich, M., *Knudsen, Q. E., Bragger, J. D., & Simonet, D. V. (April, 2021). Examining congruence in meaningfulness of work and family in dual-earner couples [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Virtual.
*Alonso, N., *Francavilla, J., & Sessa, V. I. (October, 2021). Pathways to leader identity formation: The experiences of military service members [Poster presentation]. International Leadership Association Annual Conference: Virtual.
*Notari, C. M., Sessa, V. I., Bragger, J., *Yang, L., & *Sobel, D. (October, 2021). Leadership principles inventory: Developing an instrument for evaluating college students’ beliefs about the nature of leadership [Poster presentation]. International Leadership Association Annual Conference: Geneva, Switzerland.
Williams, N., *Sobel, D., Bragger, D., Lakusta, L., *Bracken, A., *Tosto, P., *Vrushi, C., Yang, L., Rodwell, D., & Patel, N. (October, 2021). Identifying leadership using match-to-sample: An alternative to self-report in leadership [Poster presentation]. International Leadership Association Annual Conference: Geneva, Switzerland.
*Sobel, D., & Sessa, V. I. (March, 2020). Shared leadership approaches in teams: How understanding leadership impacts the presence of shared leadership [Poster presentation]. International Leadership Association Annual Conference: Virtual.
*Milorova, K., Bragger, J. D., & Simonet, D. (May, 2020). Servant leaders as facilitators of couple’s meaningfulness at work and home [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Virtual.
*Francavilla, J., & Sessa, V. I. (June, 2020). Leadership conceptualization. Paper presented in D. M. Wallace’s symposium “Who am I? Changing Leader Self-Conceptualizations”. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Virtual.
Sessa, V. I., *Francavilla, J., *Wanamaker, W., & *Toich, M. (July, 2020). Learning in a music festival multiteam system: A case study of learning triggers, readiness to learn, and learning processes [Symposium presentation]. INGroup Annual Conference: Virtual.
Askew, K., *Tarantino, D., & Sumner, K. (April, 2019). A step-by-step guide to creating a simple, effective higher education assessment system using only commonly available software [Poster presentation]. New Jersey Day of Assessment: Piscataway, NJ.
Sessa, V. I., London, M., & *Wanamaker, M. (April, 2019). How multiteam systems learn [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Baltimore, MD.
Askew, K., Bauer, J., Simonet, D., *Angelbeck, A., Ilie, A., & Ispas, D. (July, 2019). The factors that lead employees to believe they can “get away” with personal computer use at work [Poster presentation]. International Conference on Education, Psychology, and Social Studies: Sapporo, Japan.
*Alonso, N., Bragger, J. D., D’Ambrosio, K., Sessa, V. I., & Morgan, J. P. (August, 2019). Born to lead or developed to serve? [Poster presentation]. Academy of Management International Conference: Boston, MA.
*Toich, M. J., Sessa, V. I., Bragger, J. D., & Patel, N. (August, 2019). You can go your own way: Examining the pathways of college student leaders [Poster presentation]. Academy of Management Annual Conference.
*Wanamaker, M., & Sessa, V. I. (April, 2018). Young seasonal employees: How work conditions and burnout contribute to turnover intentions [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Chicago, IL.
*Lawler, A., *Perez, A., Bragger, J. D., Kutcher, E. J., *Knudson, Q., *Toich, M., & *Reeves, S. (May, 2018). Otherwise engaged: The effects of individual and spouses’ work and family engagement on work-family outcomes [Poster presentation]. Eastern Academy of Management.
*Reeves, S., Bragger, J. D., Kutcher, E. J., *Knudson, Q., *Toich, M., *Lawler, A., & *Perez, A. (May, 2018). Meaningfulness of work and family in working parents as a predictor of work-family balance, enrichment, and conflict [Poster presentation]. National Conference for Eastern Academy of Management.
*Knudsen, Q., *Toich, M., Sessa, V., & Bragger, J. (July, 2018). Leadership developmental readiness: Furthering our understanding of this multi-dimensional construct [Poster presentation]. Association of Leadership Educators Conference: Chicago, IL.
*Alonso, N., Sessa, V. I., & Bragger, J. D. (October, 2018). Leadership or participation: How do college students get involved and what are the outcomes? [Poster presentation]. International Leadership Association Annual Conference: West Palm Beach, FL.
*Knudsen, Q. E., Sessa, V. I., Bragger, J. D., & Toich, M. J. (October, 2018). Readiness to enact leadership in college students: The development of a construct [Poster presentation]. International Leadership Association Annual Conference: West Palm Beach, FL.
*Farhat, J., Donoghue, C., Askew, K., Sumner, K., & Raia-Hawrylak, A. (May, 2017). Sleep and the prediction of academic investment and achievement in adolescents [Poster presentation]. Association for Psychological Science Convention: Boston, MA.
*Wiraman, H., Simonet, D., Askew, K., & Sumner, K. (May, 2017). Charisma, voice pitch, and information richness impacts leader perceptions and performance [Poster presentation]. Association for Psychological Science Convention: Boston, MA.
*Alonso, N., Sessa, V., & Bragger, J. (July, 2017). Who participates? Who leads? What are the outcomes? [Poster presentation]. Association of Leadership Educators Conference: Charleston, SC.
Sessa, V., Bragger, J., *Alonso, N., & *Knudsen, Q. (October, 2017). Exploring leader possible selves: Antecedents and consequences in college freshmen [Poster presentation]. International Leadership Association Global Conference.
Askew, K., Ilie, A., Bauer, J., Ispas, D., & *Helms, G. O. (April, 2016). Deconstructing the relationship between social norms and cyberloafing [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference: Anaheim, CA.
Sessa, V. I., *Alonso, N., & Bragger, J. D. (July, 2016). How students learn and develop leadership: A framework and preliminary data [Poster presentation]. Association of Leadership Educators Meeting: Sacramento, CA.
Awards and Grants (* = student coauthor)
*Offermann, L. (PI), Gray, C. E. (Co-PI), & Spector, P. E. (Co-PI). (2024–2025). Supervisor mental health awareness training 2.0: Evaluating the utility of a self-paced web-based program (Grant No. T42 OH008422). Pilot Projects Research Training Program of the NY/NJ (Region II) Education and Research Center, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). $11,934.00.