Reeshad S. Dalal

Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Job performance, judgment and decision-making, work situations, personality, job attitudes and job-related mood/emotions, and psychological approaches to the study of cybersecurity.

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Dr. Dalal is a Professor of Industrial and Organizational (I-O) Psychology at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in I-O Psychology (with a minor in Quantitative Psychology) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003, following which he spent four years as an assistant professor at Purdue University before joining Mason in August 2007.

Dr. Dalal has obtained over four million dollars in external funding as Principal or Co-Principal Investigator, primarily from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (and its Swedish and Dutch counterparts), and the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. His research has been published in top-tier journals such as the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He has also co-edited two books, one on judgment and decision-making in organizational settings and the other on organizational science approaches to cybersecurity. 

Dr. Dalal's major programs of research are: (1) employee performance (primarily counterproductive/deviant and citizenship behavior), (2) decision-making (primarily advice-taking processes and individual decision-making skill and style), (3) the interplay of personality and job situations, (4) job attitudes and mood/emotions, and (5) organizational science approaches to studying cybersecurity. A theme running through much, though not all, his research involves the examination of changes within a given person over time and across situations.

Dr. Dalal is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), where he additionally serves on the Executive Board, and the Association for Psychological Science (APS). He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Business and Psychology and on the editorial board of the Journal of Management. He also previously served (2013-17) as the Chair of the Psychology Department at George Mason University. Currently, he serves as the I-O MA student coordinator. Last but not least, he serves as the faculty advisor for Mason's chapter of the Volunteer Program Assessment.