Core Faculty
Yuliya Cheban-Gore
Assistant Professor
PhD, City University of New York, The Graduate Center, 2024
Email | Bio
Research Interests:
Employee recruitment and selection procedures, job seeker and applicant reactions to recruitment and assessment processes, measurement and item analysis/differential item functioning
Teaches: Selection, Research Methods, Multivariate Statistics, Workplace Psychology (undergraduate)
Rebecca Grossman
Associate Professor
Program Director of the PhD in Applied Organizational Psychology Program
PhD, University of Central Florida, 2014
BA, Florida International University, 2006
Room 105C Hauser Hall
Phone: 516-463-5026
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Research Interests:
Teams (team processes and emergent states, team diversity, measurement of team constructs), training (individual and team training, transfer of training, instructional features), and complex settings (multicultural, virtual, and/or distributed teams, extreme and/or high-risk environments, multilevel and multi-team systems)
Teaches:
Teams Seminar
Research Methods
Kevin Nolan
Associate Professor
Program Director the Master's in Industrial Organizational Psychology Program
PhD, Bowling Green State University, 2012
Room 105-D Hauser Hall
Phone: 516-463-6350
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Research Interest:
Decision-Making: Job Seekers’ Evaluation of Employment Opportunities, and Employers’ Resistance to Standardized Decision-making Practices
Teaches:
Statistics, Research Methods, Psychometrics
Research Interests:
Occupational health and well-being (e.g., work stressors, coping mechanisms, and overqualification, and their effect on employee health and well-being across different occupational groups)
Teaches: Occupational Health Psychology Seminar
Nicholas Salter
Associate Professor
PhD, Bowling Green State University, 2009
Room 105B Hauser Hall
Phone: 516-463-6349
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Research Interests:
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Job experiences (including workplace discrimination but also positive aspects of work life) of minority employees, broadly including race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability, among other groups, as well as the intersections of multiple minority statuses on one’s job.
Teaches:
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace; Qualitative Research Methods
Comila Shahani-Denning
Professor
PhD, Rice University, 1988
West Library Wing 200
Phone: 516-463-6343
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Research Interest:
Employee Selection: Selection Interview, Applicant Reactions to the Selection Process, Biases in the Processing of Online Applicant Information, and Attractiveness Biases in Selection
Cross-Cultural Issues: Perception of Selection Procedures and Use of Applicant Information in Selection Decisions
Teaches:
Research Methods, Internship
Affiliated Faculty
Seymour Adler
Adjunct Professor
Senior Vice President, Aon PLC: Aon Consulting
Fellow:
Society of Industrial Organization Psychology (SIOP);
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ph.D., New York University, 1975
(212) 441-2065
Bio
Research Interest:
Personality and Organizational Behavior, Social Influence Processes in Organizations and Selection
Teaches:
Current Literature in Industrial Organizational Psychology
Sayeed Islam
Ph.D., Hofstra University, 2012
MBA/MA., Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2008
631-420-2581
Email
Research Interests:
Customer Service, Self-efficacy, Training and Development, and Proactive Personality
Daniel Meltzer
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., Hofstra University, 2016
Research Interests:
Occupational Health Psychology
Sarah Novak
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2004
Research Interests:
Healthy Habits
Evelyn Rogers
President, E. Rogers Associates, Inc.
Ph.D., Hofstra University, 1982
Research Interests:
Executive Coaching, Executive Assessment, Leadership Development; Career and Succession Planning, Competency Modeling, Performance Management; and Team Development and Effectiveness
Myia Williams
Adjunct Professor
PhD, Hofstra University, 2017
Research Interests:
Occupational Health Psychology