I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management & Organization, Penn State University in State College, USA . I obtained my Ph.D. degree at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. I conduct research and teach in the areas of organizational behavior and human resources.
Research Identity
I am a POSITIVE organizational scholar on NEGATIVE work phenomena.
I study negative behaviors (e.g., workplace gossip), negative emotions (e.g., homesickness among migrant workers), and negative cognitions (e.g., employee death awareness). My work aims at uncovering their mitigators, solutions, and potential benefits with a variety of methods, such as experience samplings, meta-analyses, experiments, and narrative reviews. My research has been published in top-tier management journals, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Annals, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Management. For more information about my research, please click the following links: