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Dr. Burak Ozkum

Assistant Professor
Office
DEG Degarmo Hall 428
  • About
  • Education
  • Selected Research

Current Courses

PSY 390.048 Advanced Research Apprenticeship

PSY 475.001 Seminar In Personnel Psychology

PSY 290.048 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship

PSY 340.001 Statistics For The Social Sciences

PSY 340.002 Statistics For The Social Sciences

Teaching Interests & Areas

Personality, Statistics, Testing and measurement, I/O Psychology

Research Interests & Areas

Personality, Teams, Assessment of individual differences, eSports

PhD Industrial and Organizational Psychology

University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK

MS Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey

BA Business Administration

Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey

Grants and Contracts

New Faculty Initiative Grant (NFIG)
Burak Ozkum.
Illinois State University. July 1 2022 - June 30 2023

Journal Article

Do selection tests “really” work better than we think they do?
Burak Ozkum.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 17 (3), 283-287, (2024), 10.1017/iop.2024.19
Trait Activation Theory: A review of the literature and applications to five lines of personality dynamics research
Robert P Tett, Margaret J Toich, Burak Ozkum.
Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 8, (2021), https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-012420-062228
Divergent reactions to COVID-19 exhibited in grandiose and vulnerable narcissism
Burak Ozkum, Dan Lannin, Shengtian Wu.
Emotional contagion in nonhuman working animals: Lessons from canine rescue teams.
Kimberly Schneider, Burak Ozkum, Alexandra Ilie, Dan Ispas.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice

Presentations

Personality and performance in gaming teams
Burak Ozkum, Anupama Narayan.
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Denver, CO, April, 2025
AI-Based Personality Scale Development
Emily Budik, Olivia Earll, Burak Ozkum.
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 12, 2025
Effects of Job Ads on Personality Testing
Yonca Toker Gültaş, Burak Ozkum, Munkhjin Bat-Ireedui, Fuat Çıkan, Zeynep Işıl Demircioğlu, Sıla Sarsın, Dilek Dursun, Emel Erarslan.
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 12, 2025
Trait-ability interactions in career success
Burak Ozkum.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology Congress, Adana, Turkey, May, 2024
Individual differences in career success
Burak Ozkum, Robert Tett.
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April, 2024
Factors affecting SD rho in personality-work outcome meta-analyses: A second-order analysis
Dan Simonet, Robert Tett, Fred Oswald, Ryan Barry, Neil Christiansen, Katherine Klein, Robert Loy, Burak Ozkum, Shane Sizemore, Margaret Judith Toich.
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seattle, WA, April, 2022
The effect of leader personality on team trust and team effectiveness
Burak Ozkum, Anupama Narayan.
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seattle, WA, April, 2022