Meet the Team

  • Steven Zhou, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor of Psychological Science
    Lab Director

  • Julie Chung ('28)

    Major: Psychology & Literature
    Currently working on projects in development of vocational calling pre-college and in early career

  • Nelson Hernandez (Pomona '28)

    Major: Mathematics & Computer Science
    Currently working on using natural language processing to assess team performance using Survivor TV show transcripts

  • Amy Mo ('29)

    Major: Government & Economics
    Currently working on exploring the use of AI for gamification and simulation as an organizational research method

  • Jordan Nguyen ('28)

    Major: Psychology & Data Science
    Currently working on launching our escape room data collection to study leadership and teamwork in real life

  • Joomi Park (CGU PhD Student)

    PhD Student in Positive Organizational Psychology
    Currently working on a systematic review of critiques of leadership research

  • Elis Shen (Pomona '28)

    Major: Psychology & Politics
    Currently working on development of an empirical experimental study of shared leadership succession planning

Additional Collaborators

I’m fortunate to work with a number of collaborators — both faculty and students — at other universities. Some of my collaborators are listed below:

  • Dr. Louis Tay, Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Purdue University

  • Dr. Nathan Hiller, Professor of Global Leadership and Management, Florida International University

  • Dr. Bryan Acton, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Leadership, Binghamton University

  • Dr. Daphne Hou, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of South Florida

  • Dr. Dorothy Carter, Associate Professor of Management, Michigan State University

  • Dr. Leslie DeChurch, Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University

  • Dr. Lauren Munoz, Research Scientist at George Washington University’s Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity

And, of course, the faculty and students at George Mason University’s industrial-organizational psychology program: https://io.gmu.edu/people/all_faculty