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Crisis-Ready Teams by Seth Kaplan, Department of Psychology, and Mary Waller, was featured in the Wall Street Journal’s list of 2024 holiday gift books for business.

George Mason researcher Lauren Kuykendall is working to define the relationship between out-of-office availability and organizational culture to help employees and employers be better about taking vacation time. Read some of her tips for work–nonwork balance.

Kuykendall, an associate I/Onprofessor at George Mason, is studying the link between out-of-office availability and organizational culture to promote better vacation habits for employees and employers.

A new article has been published by John A. Aitken, a Ph.D. student in I/O, along with co-authors Jessie A. Cannon, Seth A. Kaplan & Heekyung (Jenna) Kim. The article examines the effect of employment on an individual's psychological well-being compared to unemployment while emphasizing the psychological and monetary advantages of employment.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Afra Ahmad BA Psychology '08, MA '12, PhD '16, with the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award Faculty. Ahmad is currently the director of the online master of professional studies in applied industrial and organizational psychology.

Released earlier this week, U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2024 ranks Mason at #51 among all public universities and #105 among all universities nationwide. Several degree programs in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences earned high-profile rankings as well. U.S. News & World Report ranked Mason’s graduate program in Criminology as the best in Virginia (#10 nationally), while the Industrial-Organization Psychology graduate program came in at #4 among public universities and #5 nationally.

Reeshad Dalal, Seth Kaplan, and I-O PhD students conducted research on adaptive interventions for emotion regulation based on an NSF-funded grant.

For years, Saylor Bane longed to study abroad in Antarctica, only to have numerous trips canceled as an undergrad. Her dream finally materialized as a first-year graduate student in Mason’s Industrial Organizational Psychology program. Here, she writes about her long-anticipated trip to Antarctica.

Psychology professor Todd Kashdan is noted in a Harvard Business Review article for the development of the skillset known as psychological flexibility, which is described as turning difficult emotions into greater focus and dedication.