Industrial/ Organizational Psychology, MA
Sherry Liao
Sherry Liao
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Organizational Justice, Workplace Diversity, Team Functioning, and Occupational Health
Xueyi Sherry Liao is a second-year Master's student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at George Mason University (GMU), currently serving as a Graduate Research Assistant under Dr. Lauren E. Kuykendall. She will begin her I-O Psychology PhD at GMU in Fall 2025, working with Dr. Deborah Rupp.
Her primary research interests include Organizational Justice, Workplace Diversity, Team Functioning, and Occupational Health, emphasizing support for disadvantaged groups such as disabled workers and racial minorities. Sherry is interested in leveraging data analytics to improve employee engagement, inclusion, and workplace 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]