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Program Milestones
DuBois Barnes successfully defended her thesis titled “Illegitimate Tasks and Negative Spillover: The Roles of Positive Work Reflection and Job Security” and passed her doctoral exam and is now officially a doctoral candidate.
Jordan Everett successfully defended her thesis titled “From Small Talk to Smart Talk: Development of an AI Chatbot to Infer Intellect and Cognitive Ability” and passed her doctoral exam and is now officially a doctoral candidate.
Joseph Himmler successfully defended his thesis titled "Balancing the benefits and challenges of AI: Understanding its impact on employee work engagement and Burnout" and passed his doctoral exam and is now officially a doctoral candidate.
Soonyoung Kim successfully defended her thesis titled “Measuring Performance-based Emotional Intelligence through an AI Chatbot” and passed her doctoral exam and is now officially a doctoral candidate. She has also received approval for her dissertation proposal.
Isabella Lehman successfully proposed her thesis titled “Transformational Leadership Mitigates Race-based Biases in Social Pain and Support Gaps at Work”.
Philip Nguyen successfully proposed and defended his thesis titled “The Double-Edged Sword of AI for Employee Recovery: Understanding Its Dual Impact Through Competence Satisfaction and Frustration”.
Awards and Grants
Dr. Jonathan Kunstman: NIH R15: Using event momentary assessment and actigraphy to investigate mediating and moderating processes of discrimination’s negative effect on sleep ($460,920).
General Program News
Auburn’s Online Master’s in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, directed by Dr. John Schmidt, ranked Nation’s Best by Forbes: https://cla.auburn.edu/news/articles/forbes-ranks-io-psychology-program-best-in-nation
Dr. Christopher Dishop joined Auburn’s I-O psychology program as an assistant professor in Fall 2025. His RocMob lab broadens the program’s research strengths in cooperation, teamwork, and the future of work.
Dr. Gargi Sawhney now serves as the Section Editor for Stress & Health; Associate Editor for the International Journal of Stress Management; and Consulting Editor for Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
Dr. Jesse Michel will serve as the incoming Editor-in-Chief at Occupational Health Science.