News

• Amy Barron and Muriel Tang presented their research at the 83rd Annual National Convention of Canadian Psychological Association in June 2022.
• Midori Nishioka will present her research at 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in August 2022

• Amy Barron was awarded the Outstanding TA Award from the Council of Canadian Departments of Psychology (CCDP) and a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. Amy also won CSIOP’s RHR Kendall award. Congratulations, Amy!
• Taylor Carroll received the CPA Student Section Research Grant, the Pat Rowe Graduate Scholarship, and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS). Congratulations, Taylor!
• Midori Nishioka and co-authors published an article on shortcut behaviors at work in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
• Ramona and colleagues from Europe published an article on reducing cynicism through fairness in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
• Ramona also received the 2022 University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching and was awarded a multi-year SSHRC Insight Grant.

Very proud to announce student degrees and new jobs!

• Frank Mu successfully defended his PhD in October 2020. He accepted a full-time research position in industry, as Assessment Research Manager at CodeSignal.

• Lauren Holt, who successfully completed her MASc in Fall 2020, accepted a full-time position as Consultant, People & Change, in Management Consulting at KPMG.

The lab will be very busy this summer sharing our research at several virtual conferences:

• Amy Barron will present her research on gender bias in how managers explain bad news in a student symposium at the annual meeting of Canadian Psychological Association (June, 2021)

• Igor Mitrovic will present his research on perceptions of discrimination in a poster session at the meeting of the CPA (June, 2021)

The Fairness at Work Lab had 15 papers accepted for presentation at various conferences in Canada, the US, and Europe in 2020. Unfortunately most of the papers could not be presented due to the lockdowns.

Two new MA students joined the Lab:  Taylor Carroll and Muriel Tang. Welcome!

On Saturday, November 16, 2019, the 14th Annual Southwestern Ontario Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behaviour (I/O & OB) Graduate Student Conference was held at the University of Waterloo.

Graduate student Frank Mu had a paper accepted for publication. This is a 4-study project that began with his undergraduate honours thesis research. Congratulations Frank!  (See Mu & Bobocel, under publications.)

Ramona and graduate student Lauren Holt traveled to NYC to participate in the 2^nd  Distances in Organizations Workshop.  Ramona and colleagues from Amsterdam and Queensland presented some recent research, and Lauren learned a lot!  She also got to see a lot of NYC in the evenings!