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Jerel E. Slaughter

Associate Professor and
Assistant Department Head
Brian Lesk Faculty Fellow

• Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, 2000

Current Courses

Fall 2011: MGMT 486
Managerial Judgment and Decision Making

Spring 2012: MGMT 486
Managerial Judgment and Decision Making

Spring 2012: MGMT 432
Applied Topics in Bargaining and Negotiation

Research Interests

• Employee Personality
• Recruitment and Applicant Attraction
• Pre-Employment Selection Tests
• Decision Making in Recruitment and Selection

Recent Publications

Slaughter, J. E., Kausel, E. E., & Quiñones, M. A. (2011).  The decoy effect as a covert influence tactic.  Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 24, 249-266.

Christian, M. S., Garza, A. S, & Slaughter, J. E.  (2011).  Work engagement: A quantitative review and test of its relations with task and contextual performance. Personnel Psychology, 64, 89-136.

Kausel, E. E., & Slaughter, J. E.  (2011).  Narrow personality traits and organizational attraction: Evidence for the complementary hypothesis.  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 114, 3-14.

Becker, W. J., Connolly, T., & Slaughter, J. E.  (2010).  The effect of job offer timing on job acceptance, performance, and turnover.  Personnel Psychology, 63, 223-241.

Bonaccio, S., Dalal, R. S., Highhouse, S., Ilgen, D. R., Mohammed, S., & Slaughter, J. E. (2010, author response).  Taking workplace decisions seriously: This conversation has been fruitful!  Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 3, 455-464.

Dalal, R. S., Bonaccio, S., Highhouse, S., Ilgen, D. R., Mohammed, S., & Slaughter, J. E. (2010, focal article).  What if industrial-organizational psychology decided to take workplace decisions seriously? Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 3, 386-405.

Slaughter, J. E., & Kausel, E. E. (2009).  The neurotic employee: Theoretical analysis of the influence of narrow facets of neuroticism on cognitive, social, and behavioral processes relevant to job performance.  In J. Martocchio & H. Liao (Eds.), Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (vol. 28, pp. 265-341).  Bingley, UK: Emerald Insight.

Slaughter, J. E., & Greguras, G. J.  (2009).  Initial attraction to organizations: The influence of trait inferences.  International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 17, 1-18.

Slaughter, J. E., & Greguras, G. J.  (2008).  Bias in performance ratings: Disentangling the role of positive versus negative escalation.  Human Performance, 21, 414-426.

Goldman, B. M., Slaughter, J. E., Schmit, M. J., Wiley, J. W., & Brooks, S. M. (2008).  Perceptions of discrimination: A multiple-needs model perspective.   Journal of Management, 34, 952-977.

Slaughter, J. E. (2007).  Effects of two selection batteries on decoy effects in job-finalist choice.  Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37, 76-90.

Slaughter, J. E., *Bagger, J., & *Li, A. (2006).  Context effects on group-based employee selection decisions.  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 100, 47-59.

Slaughter, J. E., *Richard, E. M., & *Martin, J. H.  (2006).  Comparing the efficacy of direct estimates and policy capturing weights for predicting job choice.  Organizational Research Methods, 9, 285-314.

Slaughter, J. E., & Zickar, M. J.  (2006).  A new look at the role of insiders in newcomer socialization.  Group and Organization Management, 31, 264-290.

Current Projects and Working Papers

Slaughter, J. E., Christian, M. S., Podsakoff, N. P., & Sinar, E. F.  On the limitations of using situational judgment tests to measure interpersonal skills: The moderating influence of employee anger.  Revision requested at Personnel Psychology.

Slaughter, J. E., Kausel, E. E., Feldman, J., Stein, J., Evans, J. M., & Schmader, T.  How the 2008 U.S. presidential election increased post-preferential selection task performance for minorities and White women. Under first review at Applied Psychology: An International Review.

Harold, C. M., & Slaughter, J. E.  Antecedents of organizational attraction at different stages of the recruitment cycle.  Under first review at Human Resource Management.

Slaughter, J. E., Christian, M. S., & Kausel, E. E.  Personality moderators of the effect of feedback sign on performance. Analyzing data for second of two planned studies.

Slaughter, J. E., & Kausel, E. E.  Employee selection decisions.  To appear in S. Highhouse, R. Dalal, & E. Salas (Eds.), Judgment and decision making at work.  Book in SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series.

Various studies associated with integrity tests used for employee selection (with R. Cropanzano, S. Gilliland, & D. Cooper).

Joint influence of the work environment and personality in predicting deviant behaviors (with J. Anderson).

Positive influence of controlled motivation in the workplace. (with D. Cooper).

Professional Associations

• Academy of Management
• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Association for Psychological Science

Editorial Work

• Journal of Business and Psychology - Associate Editor (2009 - Present)
• Journal of Applied Psychology - Editorial Board (2008 - Present)
• Journal of Management - Editorial Board (2006 - 2009)
• Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology - Editorial Board (2009 - Present)
• Negotiation and Conflict Management Research - Editorial Board (2006 - Present)
• Personnel Psychology - Editorial Board (2011 - Present)

Awards and Honors

• Brian Lesk Faculty Fellowship, 2006-2009
• Outstanding Reviewer Recognition, AOM OB Division, 2006
• Recognition of Top-Rated Poster Submissions, SIOP, 2006
• Student Alumni Association Teacher Appreciation Award, 2004