All Research

Below is a list of all research publications authored by Dr. Zhou and his colleagues. For more information on any study, and if you have trouble accessing the article, please contact us!

* graduate student co-author, ** undergraduate student co-author

2025

Zhou, S., Lebrecht, A. D.*, Pithayarungsarit, P.*, & Monke, C.** (2025). The gatekeepers of academia: Investigating bias in journal publication across topics, author backgrounds, and institutions. Learned Publishing. doi.org/10.1002/leap.2022

Zhou, S., & McCarron, G. P. (2025). From first job to career: Research and narratives. Cambridge University Press.

Lee, P., Son, M.*, Zhou, S., Joo, S., Jia, Z.*, & Cheng, V.* (2025). The journey of forced choice measurement over 80 years: Past, present, and future. Organizational Research Methods. doi.org/10.1177/10944281251350687

Zhou, S., Weiss, H.A., McCuskey, B., & Tay, L. (2025). College student well-being: Explaining academic and behavioral outcomes from a representative college student sample. Journal of Happiness Studies. doi.org/10.1007/s10902-025-00906-3

Zaccaro, S. J., & Zhou, S. (2025). Edwin A. Fleishman (1927-2021). In L. K. Bryan & A. J. Vinchur (Eds.), Key thinkers in industrial and organizational psychology. Routledge.

Ravi, N.**, & Zhou, S. (2025). Importance of pay on job satisfaction. Journal of Emerging Investigators. doi.org/10.59720/24-026

2024

Zhou, S., & Srivastava, A.* (2024). Investigating gender and racial-ethnic biases in sentiment analysis of language. Cogent Psychology. doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2024.2396695

Zhou, S., Hiller, N. J., Zaccaro, S. J., Campbell, L. N. P.*, McCauley, R.*, Parris, T., & Klimoski, R. J. (2024). The corporate Chief of Staff: Strategic leadership influence from outside the spotlight. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. doi.org/10.1177/15480518241267078

Zhou, S., Campbell, L. N. P.*, & Fyffe, S.* (2024). Quantifying the academic-practitioner gap: How do small business owners react to academic articles? [Focal article]. Industrial and Organizational Psychology. doi.org/10.1017/iop.2024.11

Zhou, S., Cheng, V.*, & Lee, P. (2024). What are you comparing it to? Investigating order effects in presentation of multidimensional forced choice personality items. Personality and Individual Differences. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112581

Zhou, S., Lee, P., & Fyffe, S.* (2024). Examining gender differences in the use of multidimensional forced-choice (MFC) measures of personality in terms of test-taker reactions and test fairness. Human Resource Development Quarterly. doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21521

2023

Zhou, S., Aitken, J.*, & Kuykendall, L. (2023). Callings can take different shapes: Scope, proximity, and duration as new complexifications of calling. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. doi.org/10.1111/joop.12459

Albritton, B. H.*, Meyer, K. A.*, Holladay-Sandidge, H. D.*, Zhou, S., Woznyj, H. M., & Rogelberg, S. G. (2023). Enhancing graduate student education through meaningful volunteer efforts [commentary]. Industrial and Organizational Psychology. doi.org/10.1017/iop.2023.67

Zaccaro, S. J., Zhou, S., & Resick, C. (2023). CEO characteristics and organizational agility. In S. J. Zaccaro, N. J. Hiller, & R. J. Klimoski (Eds.), Senior leadership teams and the agile organization (pp. 187-222). Routledge.

Zhou, S., & Klimoski, R. J. (2023). Creating the interpersonal context for enabling organizational agility: The underappreciated role of the chief of staff. In S. J. Zaccaro, N. J. Hiller, & R. J. Klimoski (Eds.), Senior leadership teams and the agile organization (pp. 166-186). Routledge.

2022

Zhou, S., Aitken, J.*, McEachern, P. J.*, & McCauley, R.** (2022). Data from 990 public real-world job advertisements organized by O*NET categories. Journal of Open Psychology Data. doi.org/10.5334/jopd.69

Zhou, S., & Kodama Muscente, K.* (2022). Meta-analysis of volunteer motives using the Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) to explain volunteer satisfaction, commitment, and behavior. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. doi.org/10.1177/08997640221129540

Zhou, S., & Lee, P. (2022). Spirituality in the context of teams and organizations: An investigation of boundary conditions using The Integration Profile workplace spirituality measure. Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion. doi.org/10.51327/AELL2802

Ahmad, A. S., Stagl, K. C., Zhou, S., & Zaccaro, S. J. (2022). Optimizing an online I-O program: Tips and lessons learned from launching an online Master’s program [commentary]. Industrial and Organizational Psychology. doi.org/10.1017/iop.2022.22

Zhou, S. (2022). Science communication: Eight perils, but one pearl to make it all worth it [commentary]. Industrial and Organizational Psychology. doi.org/10.1017/iop.2022.2

Campbell, L. N. P.*, Torres, E. M.*, Zaccaro, S. J., Zhou, S., Hedrick, K. N.*, Wallace, D. M., Luning, C. R., & Zakzewski, J. E.* (2022). Examining multiteam systems across context and type: A historiometric analysis of failed MTS performance. Frontiers in Psychology. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.813624

Lee, P., Joo, S.-H., Zhou, S., & Son, M.* (2022). Investigating the impact of negatively keyed statements on multidimensional forced-choice personality measures: A comparison of partially ipsative and IRT scoring methods. Personality and Individual Differences. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111555

McCarron, G. P., Zhou, S., Campbell, A.*, Kodama Muscente, K.*, & Schierbeek, E.* (2022). We’re not working with a blank slate: Students’ pre-college leadership activities and perceived parenting behavior as predictors of college-based leader emergence and leader self-efficacy. Journal of Leadership Education. doi.org/10.12806/V21/I1/R3

Maskell, S., McCarron, G. P., Cannon, J. A.*, Zhou, S., Zaccaro, S. J., & Goldstein, T. (2022). The leadership stories our children are told: An examination of the characteristics of leadership behaviors and orientations in popular youth TV shows. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01502-3

2021

Ahmad, A., & Zhou, S. (2021). Spreading the word: Equipping I-O students to use descriptive statistics for effective data visualization [commentary]. Industrial and Organizational Psychology. doi.org/10.1017/iop.2021.115

Zhou, S., & Field, J. G. (2021). Many forces at play: Ethical dilemmas in academic research [commentary]. Industrial and Organizational Psychology. doi.org/10.1017/iop.2021.75

2020

Ahmad, A. S., Zhou, S., & Ayers, T. (2020). The future of learning: Teaching industrial and organizational psychology in all modalities [commentary]. Industrial and Organizational Psychology. doi.org/10.1017/iop.2020.105

Zhou, S., & Ahmad, A. S. (2020). Who’s your audience? Expanding I-O teaching to non-I-O students [commentary]. Industrial and Organizational Psychology. doi.org/10.1017/iop.2020.98