Industrial / Organizational Psychology
David J. Stanley
Associate Professor · Department of Psychology
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
About
I am an Associate Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Guelph, where my work joins applied organizational research with a strong methodological core.
Much of my research uses Monte Carlo simulation to ask a deceptively simple question: do the beliefs researchers hold about statistics and the research process actually hold up? Often they do not — or they hold only under boundary conditions that quietly limit how far our conclusions generalize. Alongside this methodological work, I study organizational commitment, teamwork, and the role of emotion in workplace behavior.
Research
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Methods
Replication & research methods
Simulation-based study of replicability — what realistic expectations for replication actually look like, and where common statistical intuitions break down.
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Organizations
Organizational commitment
Antecedents, correlates, and consequences of commitment — including how affective, continuance, and normative commitment vary across cultures.
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Teams
Teamwork & workplace dynamics
How teams function and respond to change, including cynicism and resistance during organizational change.
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Affect
Emotions at work
The role of emotion in shaping workplace attitudes and behavior.
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Selected publications
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2002
Affective, continuance, and normative commitment to the organization: A meta-analysis of antecedents, correlates, and consequences
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2012
Affective, normative, and continuance commitment levels across cultures: A meta-analysis
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2014
Expectations for replications: Are yours realistic?
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2005
Employee cynicism and resistance to organizational change
Teaching
I teach research design, statistics, and quantitative methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
- Graduate Advanced Research Methods
- Graduate Psychological Applications of Multivariate Analysis
- Both Research design · Statistics · Quantitative methods
Education
- PhD & MA — University of Western Ontario
- BA — University of Waterloo