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Research Interests
My research touches on
several themes relevant to Industrial-Organizational, Social, and
Quantitative Psychology. This includes active interests in emotions and
affect at work, cohesion in work groups, and research methods.
Linking Affective
Affect at Work
The majority of my recent
work in this area is based on a model examining the numerous ways in which
emotions influence the performance-relevant processes of attention and
self-regulation (see Beal, Weiss, Barros, & MacDermid, 2005, below). One
stream of this research focuses on how emotional events give rise to
ruminative thoughts, and how the strategies we use to reduce such rumination
can be more or less effective in eliminating cognitive interference at work.
A second stream of research examines the nature of work breaks and their
influence on one's ability to regulate emotions at work as well as the more
general regulation of behavior. Finally, I am involved in several research
projects generally related to the topic of affect at work, including one
examining emotion regulation strategies and leader-member social exchanges,
another examining the affective components of organizational commitment, and
a third examining sources of mistreatment, affective reactions, and task and
contextual performance of restaurant waitstaff.
Group Cohesion
Another interest of mine is
group cohesion. In the past, I was primarily interested in the link between
group cohesion and performance. More recently, however, I have expanded this
area to include the affective and perceptual foundations of cohesion. This
project takes advantage of the perspectives of multiple disciplines to
formulate a new way of measuring and understanding group cohesion at work.
Research Methods
A final area of interest that
cuts across all of my research is a continuing fascination for improving the
methods used in psychological and organizational research. In the past these
topics have included: structural equation modeling, meta-analysis, experience
sampling (aka ecological momentary assessment or daily experience methods),
principal components analysis, and multilevel modeling. Current methods
projects include the topics of response biases, latent growth modeling, and
moderated multiple regression.
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Publications
- Trougakos, J.
P., Beal, D. J., Green, S. G., & Weiss, H. M. (in press). Making the
break count: An episodic examination of recovery activities, emotional
experiences, and performance of affective delivery. Academy of Management
Journal.
- Beal, D. J.,
& Dawson, J. F. (in press). On the use of likert scales in
multilevel data: Influence on aggregate variables. Special issue on
Multilevel Methods and Statistics.
Organizational Research Methods.
- Rupp, D. E.
& Beal, D. J. (2007). Checking in with the scientist-practitioner
model: How are we doing? The
Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 45, 35-40.
- Beal, D. J.,
Trougakos, J. P., Weiss, H. M., & Green, S. G. (2006). Episodic
processes in emotional labor: Perceptions of affective delivery and
regulation strategies. Journal of
Applied Psychology, 91, 1053-1065.
- Le, B., Choi, H. M., &
Beal, D. J. (2006). Pocket-sized psychology studies: Exploring ESM
software for Palm Pilots. Behavior
Research Methods, 38, 325-332.
- Schnake, S. B., Beal, D. J.,
& Ruscher, J. B. (2006). Modern racism and intergroup bias in causal
explanation. Race, Gender, &
Class, 13,133-143.
- Beal, D. J., Weiss, H. M.,
Barros, E., & MacDermid, S. M. (2005). An episodic process model of
affective influences on performance. Journal
of Applied Psychology, 90, 1054-1068.
- Dien, J., Beal, D. J., and
Berg, P. (2005). Optimizing principal components analysis of
event-related potentials: Matrix type, factor loading weighting,
extraction, and rotations. Clinical
Neurophysiology, 116, 1808-1825.
- Weiss, H. M. & Beal, D. J.
(2005). Reflections on Affective Events Theory. In N. M. Ashkanasy, W.
J. Zerbe, & C. E. Hrtel (Eds.), Research
on emotions in organizations: The effect of affect in organizational
settings (vol. 1, pp. 1-21). Oxford, UK: Elsevier, Ltd.
- Weiss, H. M., Ashkanasy, N.
M., & Beal, D. J. (2005). Attentional and regulatory mechanisms of
momentary work motivation and performance. In J. P. Forgas, K. D.
Williams, & W. Von Hippel (Eds.), Social motivation: Conscious and unconscious processes. (pp.
314-331) New
York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Weiss, H. M., Beal, D. J.,
Lucy, S. L., & MacDermid, S. M. (2004). Constructing EMA studies with PMAT: The Purdue Momentary
Assessment Tool user’s manual. Software manual available at
http://www.mfri.purdue.edu/pmat.
- Beal, D. J., Cohen, R., Burke,
M. J., & McLendon, C. L. (2003). Cohesion and performance in groups:
A meta-analytic clarification of construct relations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88,
989-1004.
- Beal, D. J. & Weiss, H. M.
(2003). Methods of ecological momentary assessment in organizational
research. Organizational Research
Methods, 6, 440-464.
- Beal, D. J., Corey, D. M.,
& Dunlap, W. P. (2002). On the bias of Huffcutt and Arthur’s (1995)
procedure for identifying outliers in the meta-analysis of correlations.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 87,
583-589.
- Beal, D. J., Ruscher, J. B.,
& Schnake, S. B. (2001). No benefit of the doubt: Intergroup bias in
understanding causal explanation. British
Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 531-543.
- Beal, D. J., O’Neal, E. C.,
Ong, J., & Ruscher, J. B. (2000). The ways and means of interracial
aggression: Modern racists’ use of covert retaliation. Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin, 26, 1225-1238.
- Landis, R.S., Beal, D. J.,
& Tesluk, P.E. (2000). A comparison of approaches to forming
composite measures in structural equation models. Organizational Research Methods, 3, 186-207.
- Weisbuch, M., Beal, D. J.,
& O’Neal, E. C. (1999). How masculine ought I be? Men’s masculinity
and aggression. Sex Roles, 40,
583-592.
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