Greetings alumni, family, and friends of the CSU I-O Psychology doctoral program. I am pleased to share some updates about our program.  Many thanks to our current students, Ryan Lizerbram and Hannah Finch, for putting this newsletter together!

THE NEWS Spring 2023

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY | APRIL 2023

We are thrilled to share great news that we hired two outstanding new faculty, Drs. Kimberly French and Keaton Fletcher. They are   currently Assistant Professors at Georgia Tech and will be joining us at CSU this fall as part of the I-O psychology program as well as the  occupational health psychology concentration which is funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center. We are so thrilled to have them join us, and excited to see our program grow and thrive for years to come.  Please read on to learn more about Kim and Keaton. We hope to see many of you at the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP) annual conference Boston.

Please join us on THURSDAY 4/21 from 6:00- 8:00pm for the CSU party at Kings Dining and Entertainment – Back Bay, located at 50 Dalton Street in Boston. Awards will be announced at 7:00pm, including the JKL Work/Life Balance scholarship created by  our alumni (Jaclyn Menendez, Kyla Holcombe, and Lauren Wallace). We hope you will be able to join us! Guests and significant others are welcome!

Congratulations to one of our alumni, Dr. Lynn Shore, Partner for Excellence Professor in the Department of Management at Colorado State University, who received the Career Achievement Award for Scholarship Impact. This award recognizes that her scholarship has had a major national and international impact. Congratulations, Lynn!

I am pleased to announce a new award in our program: the Dr. Kevin R. Murphy Quantitative Methods Award. This award recognizes a  graduate student who excels in quantitative methods. Award criteria (informed by Dr. Murphy!) include demonstrating the ability to  communicate quantitative methods effectively about what data mean to a wide audience, using excellent data visualizations, and having a strong  understanding of descriptive statistics, and clearly and simply communicating what is learned by analyzing data.

The inaugural recipient of this award is Rosalyn (Roz) Stoa. Roz is a third year doctoral student who has been very active in leading multiple research projects, including an ambitious and successful longitudinal study about loneliness and isolation among graduate students and multiple scale development projects. In addition to demonstrated high levels of competence on the aforementioned criteria, Roz also initiated and led a data cleaning workshop to train and support other graduate students and create resources for our students to use for their research.

Two undergraduate students, Destiny Castro and Olivia Detry, received the Dr. Jeanette N. Cleveland Student Travel Award. Jan has always been a strong advocate and role model for attending conferences (especially SIOP!) and traveling.  They received financial support to present their research at conferences this year. We also continue to support our graduate students with travel to SIOP as part of the Dr. Cleveland Award.

Please read on for more program updates and information about SIOP presentations. We hope to connect with you in Boston!

Meet Drs. Keaton Fletcher and Kim French!

We are ecstatic to welcome two new faculty to the I-O psychology program in Fall 2023! Keaton Fletcher and Kim French will be joining us  after 4 years of service as Assistant Professors at Georgia Tech. Welcome to the RAMily!

Keaton Fletcher Personal Introduction                              

I’m a Colorado native (born and raised in Littleton). I received his BA in Psychology and BS in Neuroscience from Washington and Lee  University (Lexington, Virginia) in 2013 and my PhD in I-O psychology with a minor in Occupational Health Psychology from the University of  South Florida in 2018. I worked as a research scientist with the Work Science Center at Georgia Tech from 2018-2019, when I joined Georgia  Tech as an Assistant Professor of I-O. I cohost and produce the Healthy Work Podcast and am the SIOP trend champion for employee mental  health. I’m also a proud dad of two fun little dudes (Evan, aged 3, and August, aged 1).

“What are your research interests and some of your previous research projects?”
I study leadership from a biopsychosocial perspective. I am interested in the effects of leadership on team dynamics and employee wellbeing, but
also on the physiological experience of being a leader. For example, I’ve studied the impacts of cortisol and testosterone on leadership emergence, and am currently collecting data on a National Science Foundation funded project, examining physiological arousal predictors of
leadership emergence. I also explore how gender intersects with leadership, specifically the impacts of how these two social roles overlap
or conflict. Moving forward, I am looking to more explicitly examine the impacts of government policy on employee health and wellbeing, and the role that leaders play in this interaction.

“What are you most looking forward to at CSU, Fort Collins, and Colorado more broadly?”
I’m really excited to be part of a program and department with so many people with overlapping interests. I think some of the best ideas come
from casual discussions at happy hour with people that have complementary perspectives! Also, I was trained in a program that had an
ERC and it was such a great resource, so it will be really great to be part of an ERC again. As far as FoCo and Colorado in general, I’m really excited for all the sunshine, big blue skies, and no humidity. Nearly 15 years in the southeast and I’m still not used to grey winters, slivers of sky in between dense trees, or 100% humidity days. Also, it’ll be really great to be close to the mountains again. Maybe I’ll finally tackle a 14er.

“What are some of your hobbies and interests outside of work?”                                                                                   

I love going to musical theater productions and/or concerts. You can probably catch me in the gym listening to a podcast at an obscenely sped up  rate (how else am I going to stay caught up on all the different ones I subscribe to).  I used to bake a lot, but the kids have made that a bit  challenging these days. I plan to get back into it as they get older (though I’ll have to figure out those high altitude adjustments). I will say though, after years of practice and failure, I’m a pretty decent cook now (though you should confirm this with Kim). So, you may want to come  on over for dinner (if you don’t mind a little toddler-led chaos).

“Anything else you would like alumni, faculty, and current students to know?”
I’m just so grateful to be joining such an amazing program with enthusiastic and brilliant students and colleagues. CSU has always been one of the programs I’ve admired and felt a strong connection with, so it’s a dream come true to be continuing my career there. Also, the massive outpouring of support and excited welcomes from everyone in the program, alumni included, has meant the world to me, and really confirmed  that this is the right place to call home.

Kim French Personal Introduction

Hello! I earned my BA in Psychology from Illinois State University (2009). After taking a year off, I earned my MS in IO Psychology from  California State University, San Bernardino (2012). There I got more exposure to research, and worked with the amazing Mark Agars and Jan  Kottke, who helped me find my love of work-family, occupational health, and teaching. I pursued these interests while earning my PhD in IO  Psychology from University of South Florida (2017), where I was honored and fortunate to learn from the incomparable Tammy Allen. Since  then, I’ve been an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech, and I’m excited to transfer to CSU in the fall. My work focuses on the intersection of work,  family, and health. I also married my grad school sweetheart and best friend, Keaton Fletcher. We have two beautiful little boys, Evan and  August, and two cats, Remus (6) and Luna (3).

“What are your research interests and some of your previous research projects?”
I am interested in how people manage their work and family responsibilities, and how work-family issues impact our health and the health of our family members. My work often looks at physical and physiological aspects of health, explores questions of timing and dynamics, and focuses on  specific experiences of underrepresented groups. For example, my collaborative NSF study monitors work and nonwork experiences of  individuals over 28 days using surveys, actigraphy, and heart rate monitors to understand the dynamic interplay between resilience and  recovery. Moving forward, I’m exploring how family and personal factors shape work experiences and decisions such as how couples jointly  navigate the job market, decisions prioritizing work vs. family, and attitudes and intentions toward organizational policies.

“What are you most looking forward to at CSU, Fort Collins, and Colorado more broadly?”
I am looking forward to synergy between my interests and interests of students and faculty in the department. Everyone is doing such exciting  and inspiring work; I’m excited to learn more about and contribute to all of it. As a team, I think we all make a really interesting and exciting hub of DEI/OHP focused scholarship. I am also excited to get involved in the ERC in a leadership capacity. The Sunshine ERC was a huge boon for  my training and opportunities. I’m very much looking forward to fostering those interdisciplinary opportunities for myself and my future  students. Of course the beautiful location doesn’t hurt either! I am looking forward to being close by mountains and hiking again, and maybe
trying out some new snow sports.

“What are some of your hobbies and interests outside of work?”
These days I mostly chase around our children during my off time. They certainly keep me busy!  We love to walk to the library and the park, and  we are members of the zoo and the aquarium. When I’m looking to unwind, I love watching trashy and dramatic TV, and taking work out  classes. Kickboxing and spin are favorites, although these are much more difficult to keep up with post-babies! I also enjoy music, musicals, and  concerts and baking the occasional sweet treat.

“Anything else you would like alumni, faculty, and current students to know?”
I’ve always felt a sort of kinship with the program and the students at CSU when we were in graduate school, and it is such an honor to be joining the team. I can’t wait to make new exciting connections, new memories, and new research contributions.

Please join us for an evening
of fun and connecting!
Light appetizers will be provided!

Only a 3-minute walk from Hynes Convention Center!
Guests can choose to pay to bowl if they wish.
Significant others and colleagues are welcome!
Awards will be announced at 7:00pm.

Comprehensive Exams Passed:

• Julia Beckel (2022, Fall)

Masters Thesis Defended:

• Brittany Lynner: “The Student Affairs Burnout Epidemic: Relationships
  among LMX, Racial Identity, and Burnout.”

Awards:

• Julia Beckel: George C. Thornton, III Greatest Graduate Student of the Congratulations!
  Year 2022
• Roz Stoa: Kevin R. Murphy Award for Excellence in Quantitative
  Methods
• Brittany Lynner & Julia Beckel : Spring 2023 Kraiger Research Award
• Kinjal Chheda: New Graduate Student Research Top Scholar at the
  Graduate Student Showcase 2022
• Shelby Davis: Mountain & Plains Education and Research Center Best
  Poster in Occupational Health Psychology
• Destiny Castro & Olivia Detry: Jeanette N. Cleveland Undergraduate
  Student Travel Award
• Lynn Shore (Department of Management): Colorado State University
  Scholarship Impact Award: Career Achievement
• I-O Graduate Student Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) Award
  – Will be announced at SIOP!
• JKL Scholarship – Will be announced at SIOP!

Recent Publications:

• Benson, A., Colley, K., Prasad, J.J., Willis, C.^, & Powell-Rudy, T. (2023).
  Contextualizing cases for neuroatypical inclusion in the workplace.
  Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 16(1), 70-73.
  doi:10.1017/iop.2022.108
• Briggs, C. Q., Gardner, D. M., & Ryan, A. M. (2023). Competence-
  Questioning Communication and Gender: Exploring Mansplaining,
  Ignoring, and Interruption Behaviors. Journal of Business and Psychology,
  1-29. (online first)
• Brossoit, R. M^., Crain, T. L., Stevens, S. C.^, Wong, J. R., & Guasta, L.
  (2022). Alert at work? Perceptions of alertness testing and
  recommendations for practitioners. Occupational Health Science.
• Brossoit, R. M.^ & Wong, J. R. (In Press). Instilling ethics in I-O: The
  responsibility of I-O graduate training programs. The Industrial and
  Organizational Psychologist (TIP).
• Chheda, K.J., Beckel, J.L.O., Gardner, D.M. (In Press). When equal isn’t
  equal: Contrasting equity and equality perspectives in supporting women
  professors. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on
  Science and Practice.
• Gardner, D. M., Ali, A. A., & Ryan, A. M. (In Press). Reparative impression
  management for ex-offender applicants: Understanding mechanisms,
  race/ethnicity and disclosure timing. Journal of Business and Psychology.
• Leong, F. T., Gardner, D. M., Nye, C. D., & Prasad, J. J. (2022). The Five-
  Factor career adapt-abilities scale’s predictive and incremental validity
  with work-related and life outcomes. Journal of Career Development, 1-
  22.
• Perpich, R. A., Brossoit, R. M.^, Fisher, G. G., Kath, L. M., & Kunz, J.
  (2022). Going upstream: Recommendations for training the Next
  Generation of I-O Influencers. Industrial and Organizational Psychology:
  Perspectives on Science and Practice, 15(2), 294-297.
• Tetrick, L.E., Fisher, G.G., Ford, M.T., & Quick, J.C. (Eds.) (in press)
  Handbook of Occupational Health Psychology, 3rd edition. Washington,
  D.C.: American Psychological Association. Available July, 2023.

^ indicates CSU I-O Psychology PhD alumnus

Pictured (from upper left):
Julia Beckel, Roz Stoa, Brittany Lynner, Shelby Davis, and Kinjal Chheda
graduate students who each recently either
defended their thesis, passed the program’s comprehensive
exam or won an award. Congratulations!

Recent Presentations:

• Stoa, R: Met with members of Congress in Washington D.C. to discuss
  occupational health research and practice conducted by faculty,
  students, and organizations affiliated with the NIOSH Mountain and
  Plains Education and Research Center.
• Stoa, R. (2023, April). I get by with a little help from my friends:
  Addressing newcomer adjustment through social support and selfdetermination
  theory. [Poster]. MAP ERC Research Day Symposium,
  Denver, CO.
• Detry, O., & Stoa, R. (2023, April). Lab interaction, mentoring, and
  loneliness in STEM doctoral students. [Poster]. Rocky Mountain
  Psychological Association, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
• Banister, A., Lynner, B.N., Finch, H.M., & Detry, O. (2023, April). When
  Does Involvement Become Too Much? A New Scale to Measure
  Undergraduate Student Overinvolvement. Oral presentation at Rocky
  Mountain Psychological Association Convention, Albuquerque, NM.
• Finch, H. M. (2023) Red, White, and Who?: An investigation on how
  political identities impact safety behaviors in the workplace. Mountain &
  Plains Education and Research Center Research Day, Denver, CO.
• Kath, L.M., Little, J., Lizerbram, R., Coffey, M., Lyren, A. (2023, April).
  Pediatric hospital healthcare workers’ psychological harm associated
  with patient physical aggression (patient behavioral events). [Poster].
  Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Washington, D.C., United States.