IMPEDEMOL – Page 4 – Implicit personality, decision making and organizational leadership

New paper “The Eyes Chico, They Never Lie: Using Eye-Tracking to Examine the Process of Faking on the Conditional Reasoning Test for Aggression” accepted for publication in Journal of Personnel Psychology

We’re happy to announce that our newest article titled “The Eyes Chico, They Never Lie: Using Eye-Tracking to Examine the Process of Faking on the Conditional Reasoning Test for Aggression” was just accepted for publication in the Journal of Personnel Psychology. Couple of highlights on what we did in the paper. We conducted three studies to test the fakeability of […]

New paper “A reflection on cognitive reflection” published in Judgment and Decision Making

Our article “A reflection on cognitive reflection” has just been published in Judgment and Decision Making. So, what is it about? Cognitive reflection test (CRT) and belief-bias syllogisms (BBS) are supposed to measure cognitive reflection, i.e. the ability and/or disposition to resist reporting a first response that comes to a mind and, instead, to think more carefully before coming up […]

New paper “Measuring the motive for power using conditional reasoning: some preliminary findings” published in the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Our research team published a paper in the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. The paper describes six studies that explored the feasibility of using conditional reasoning to measure the motive for power (CRT-P). Main findings: CRT-P is less fakeable compared to traditional self-report surveys and it correlates both with organizational leadership occupancy and leadership effectiveness ratings. You can […]

Work visit to the Vrije University Amsterdam

Last week, our PI Zvonimir Galić spent several days on a work visit to Vrije University Amsterdam. There he gave a lecture titled „Assessing the unconscious: Contribution of implicit personality measures to the understanding of organizational behaviour“ and met with another member of our team, Janneke Oostrom, to discuss the topic of Situational judgment test that is being developed within […]

Congratulations to dr. Mitja Ružojčić

We are proud to announce that, as of Friday, November 29, 2019, the number of PhDs in our team has increased by one. Our colleague Mitja Ružojčić has successfully defended his thesis named “The role of implicit aggressiveness in explaining counterproductive work behavior” and deservedly earned his PhD. Congratulations to Mitja!

Research visit to the Penn State University

As a part of a working plan, Zvonimir Galić and James LeBreton met at the Penn State university to work on a conditional reasoning test for a power motive. They developed new and revised current items of the test, allowing the test to be used and validated in future studies done within this project.

Symposium at the 19th Eawop Congress in Turin

Our research group led by a PI Zvonimir Galić organized a symposium “Measuring unconscious: Opportunities of implicit personality measures for work and organizational psychology” 19th EAWOP congress held in May, 2019 in Turin, Italy. Within the symposium, six papers were presented describing studies that explored the usefulness of Implicit Associations test (IAT) and/or Conditional Reasoning (CR) paradigms in W/O psychology realm. […]

Keynote lecture at the 24th DRZB conference

One of the keynote speakers on 24th Days of Ramiro and Zoran Bujas conference in Zagreb was our principal investigator Zvonimir Galić. He talked about the opportunities and challenges of using implicit personality measures in organizational context. In his presentation, he described the conditional reasoning and implicit associations tests as well as the main findings of our research program where […]

Maja Parmač Kovačić

Maja Parmač Kovačić is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Occupational Psychology and Ergonomics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She mentored a dozen of master thesis and one student research paper that was awarded the Rector’s Award. She has actively participated in the implementation of several scientific and professional projects in the field of […]

Mitja Ružojčić

Mitja Ružojčić graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2014 and is currently a doctoral student at the same faculty. From 2015-2016. he was employed as a project assistant at the Study Center for Social Work at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Psychology at […]

Nataša Trojak

Nataša Trojak graduated in 1996 and defended her master’s degree in 2009 at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, studying Organization and Management. She is currently pursuing a PhD in psychology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, where she focuses on the field of organizational psychology. She has gained work experience at several companies, among them […]

Tomislav Hernaus

Tomislav Hernaus is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Zagreb, Croatia) and a Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Business (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia). He was also a Visiting Scholar at the Marshall School of Business (University of Southern California, USA). His multi-level research interests include: organisation design, business process management, HR organisation, […]

Željko Jerneić

Željko Jerneić is a full professor and head of the Department of Occupational Psychology and Ergonomics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. His scientific interests include measurement of cognitive and psychomotor abilities, construction of tests and questionnaires, selection process, motivational aspects of work, lying in personality questionnaires, examination of work performance and ergonomic design problems. He […]