Sherry Liao

Graduate Research Assistant

Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Organizational Justice, Workplace Diversity, Team Functioning, and Occupational Health

Xueyi Sherry Liao is a first-year PhD student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at George Mason University, advised by Dr. Deborah Rupp. Her research focuses on organizational justice, workplace diversity, team functioning, and occupational health, with a particular interest in supporting disadvantaged groups, including workers with disabilities and racial minorities. She is passionate about leveraging data analytics to promote employee engagement, workplace inclusion, and overall well-being.

Selected Publications

Basore, C., Mohammed, S., Tirrell, B., Marhefka, J., Hamilton, K., Zhang, T., Davis, C., Hong, H., Liao, X., & Miller, G. (2025). Post-award grant collaboration: facilitators and hindrances to cross-disciplinary authorship. Frontiers in Education (Lausanne), 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1400595

Education

M.A. in I-O Psychology, George Mason University. 2025

B.S. in Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, 2023

Recent Presentations

Liao, X., Kuykendall, L., McEachern, P. J., Mendis, T. N., Bartlett, A. N., (2025, April). How Workgroup Norms Impact Vacation Experience via Social Evaluative Threat [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Denver, CO, United States.

Kuykendall, L., McEachern, P.J., O'Sullivan, L., Liao, X., & Wu., M. (2024, April). How Workgroup Availability Norms Impact Signaled Availability & Vacation Experiences. [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, United States.

Basore, C., Mohammed, S., Tirrell, B., Hamilton, K., Marhefka, J., Davis, C., Hong, H., Zhang, T., Liao, X., & Miller, G. (2023, July). What factors facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration after NSF awards? Presentation to the Fourteenth Annual International Science of Team Science Conference, Bethesda, MD.

Mohammed, S., Tirrell, B., Davis, C., Zhang, T., & Basore, C., Liao, X., & Miller, G. (2023, April). To stay or not to stay: Multidisciplinary collaboration after NSF Funding. Poster presented to the annual meeting of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS), Washington DC. Doi:10.1017/cts.2023.473

Liao, X. (2023, April). What Can Universities and the National Science Foundation Do to Improve Multidisciplinary Collaboration? Poster presentation at Psi Chi’s Annual Research Conference, University Park, PA. [Most Ground-breaking Poster Award]