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Teaching Schedule:

Course Number	Section	Course Name	Time	Room Number
PSY290.0	45	Special Projects,Research Apprenticeship
PSY291.0	45	Special Projects,Undergraduate Teaching
PSY340.0	2	Statistics for the Social Sciences	T R 12:35 - 13:50	DEG 0013
PSY340.0	3	Statistics for the Social Sciences	T R 14:00 - 15:15	DEG 0013
PSY390.0	45	Advanced Research Apprenticeship
PSY441.0	1	Experimental Design	T R 17:30 - 18:45	DEG 0013

Teaching Interests: Now recruiting Teaching and Research Assistants for Fall 2012 and Research Assistants for Summer 2012. If interested, send me an email. Research Interests: My research interests are focused on several related and sometimes overlapping areas: Job Performance/Personnel Selection: rater motivation, cognitive and non-cognitive predictors, OCB, CWB. Career and Employment Issues (especially in relation to voluntary turnover): overqualification – underemployment, psychological contract, employability, mentoring. Understanding and Improving Survey Research: identified employee surveys, study design features that reduce common method variance, reducing social desirability biases in employee surveys. Test Adaptation and Validation: translating, adapting, and validating psychological tests. Education: Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology - minor coursework in Statistical Methods and Occupational Health Psychology, 2010, University of South Florida M. A. Industrial/Organizational Psychology - Statistical Methods, 2008, University of South Florida

Teaching Interests:

Now recruiting Teaching and Research Assistants for Fall 2012 and Research Assistants for Summer 2012. If interested, send me an email.

Research Interests:

My research interests are focused on several related and sometimes overlapping areas:

Job Performance/Personnel Selection: rater motivation, cognitive and non-cognitive predictors, OCB, CWB.
Career and Employment Issues (especially in relation to voluntary turnover): overqualification – underemployment, psychological contract, employability, mentoring.
Understanding and Improving Survey Research: identified employee surveys, study design features that reduce common method variance, reducing social desirability biases in employee surveys.
Test Adaptation and Validation: translating, adapting, and validating psychological tests.

Education:

Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology - minor coursework in Statistical Methods and Occupational Health Psychology, 2010, University of South Florida
M. A. Industrial/Organizational Psychology - Statistical Methods, 2008, University of South Florida

Selected Publications:

Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., Ispas, D., & Ion, A. (accepted). Emotional Intelligence in personnel selection: Applicant reactions, criterion and incremental validity. International Journal of Selection and Assessment

Shockley, K.M., Ispas, D., Rossi, M.E., & Levine, E.L. (accepted). A meta-analytic investigation of the relationship between state affect, discrete emotions, and job performance. Human Performance

Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., Ispas, D., & Ion, A. (in press). Examining the psychometric properties of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test: Findings from an Eastern European culture. European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Ilie, A., Penney, L., Ispas, D., & Iliescu, D. (in press). The role of trait anger in the stressor-CWB relationship: convergent findings from multiple samples and methodologies. Applied Psychology: An International Review

Ispas, D. (2011). Variabilele de control in studiile non-experimentale [Control variables in non-experimental studies]. Psychology of Human Resources, 9, 107-110.

Levine, E.L., Xu, X.,Yang, L.Q., Ispas, D., Pitariu, H.D., Bian, R., Ding, D., Capotescu, R., Che, H.S., & Musat, S. (2011). Cross-national explorations of the impact of affect at work using the State-Trait Emotion Measure (STEM): A coordinated series of studies in three countries. Human Performance, 24, 1-38.

Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., & Ispas, D. (2011). Examining the criterion related validity of the Employee Screening Questionnaire: A three sample investigation. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 19, 222-228.

Ispas, D., Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., & Johnson, R.E. (2010). Examining the criterion related validity of the General Mental Ability Measure for Adults: A two sample investigation. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 18, 224-227.

Ispas, D., Ilie, A., Iliescu, D., Johnson, R.E., & Harris, M.M. (2010). Fairness reactions to selection methods: A Romanian study. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 18, 102-110.

Ilie, A., Ispas, D., & Iliescu, D. (2010). Analiza efectelor moderatoare: Cazul variabilelor categoriale în regresia ierarhică [Analyzing moderating effects for categorical variables]. Psychology of Human Resources, 8(2), 52-55.