PhD in Applied Organizational Psychology

Faculty

Core Faculty

Yuliya Cheban-Gore

Assistant Professor
PhD, City University of New York, The Graduate Center, 2024
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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


Shani Pindek

Associate Professor
PhD, Bar-Ilan University, 2013
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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