HOWARD M. WEISS


Current Position       

 

Department Head, Department of Psychological Sciences

Professor of Psychological Sciences

 

Co-Director, Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University

Education

 

Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, New York University 

Contact Information

Address:

Purdue University 
Department of Psychological Sciences
703 Third Street
Rm. PRCE 389
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2081

Phone:

(765) 494-6061

Fax:

(765) 496-1264

E-mail:

weiss@psych.purdue.edu


RESEARCH INTERESTS

In a very general sense, my research focuses on the immediate, episodic experiences of people while at work. So, we have been studying people’s emotional states at work, what influences these states and how they in turn influence immediate work behaviors and longer term work attitudes. This has led us to begin studying “off task thinking” or attentional focus at work, encompassing such topics as daydreaming, rumination, stimulus independent thought, etc. Our research questions are how off-task thinking interferes with performance, how such thinking is driven by emotional states, and how people are or are not able to regulate their thought content when working on tasks.


SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Faber, A., Eillerton, E., Clymer, S., MacDermid, S. & Weiss, H. M. (in press).  Ambiguous absence, ambiguous presence: A qualitative study of military reserve families in war.  Journal of Family Psychology.

Trougakas, J. P.; Beal, D. J.; Green, S. G. & Weiss, H. M. (in press).  Making the break count: An episodic examination of recovery activities, emotional experiences, and positive affective displays.  Academy of Management Journal.

Trougakas, J. P., Bull, R. A., Green, S. G., MacDermid, S. M. & Weiss, H. M. (in press).  Influences on Job Search Self-Efficacy of Spouses of Enlisted Military Personnel.  Human Performance.

Beal, D. J., Trougakas, J. P., Weiss, H. M. & Green, S. G. (2006).  Episodic processes emotional labor: Perceptions of affective delivery and regulation strategies.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 1053-1053.

Beal, D. J., Weiss, H. M., Barros, E. & MacDermid, S. M. (2005).  An episodic process model of affective influences on performance.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, 1054-1086.

Weiss, H. M., Ashkanasy, N. M. & Beal, D. J. (2005).  Cognitive and regulatory mediation of relationships between affective states and momentary work performance.  In J. P. Forgas, K. D. Williams & S. M. Laham. (Eds.) Social motivation: Conscious and unconscious processes.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Weiss, H. M. & Beal, D. J. (2005).  Reflections on Affective Events Theory.  In N. M. Askanasy, W. Zerbe & C. E. J. Hartel (Eds.)  Research on Emotion in Organizations: The effect of affect in organizational settings. (vol. 1, pp. 1-21).  Oxford, UK: Elsevier, Ltd.

Weiss, H. M. (2003).  Connecting levels in the study of emotions in organizations.  F. Dansereau and F. Yammarino (Eds.)  Research in Multilevel Issues.  Vol. 2: Multi-Level Issues in Organizational Behavior and Strategy.  Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.  pp. 63-69.

Beal, D. J. & Weiss, H. M. (2003). Methods of ecological momentary assessment in organizational research.  Organizational Research Methods, 6, 440-464. Abstract

Weiss, H. M. (2002).  Deconstructing job satisfaction: Separating evaluations, beliefs and affective experiences.  Human Resource Management Review, 12, 173-194.

Weiss, H. M. & Brief, A. P. (2001).  Affect at work: An historical perspective.  R. L. Payne and C. L. Cooper (Eds.)  The Psychology of Work: Theoretically Based Empirical Research.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 


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