James M. Diefendorff
Ph.D. University of AKron

Assistant Professor: Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Contact Information

Office: Arts and Science Building, room 318
Phone: (330) 972-7317
E-mail: jdiefen@uakron.edu

Dr. Diefendorff received his Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from The University of Akron in 1999. His research interests include self-regulation, motivational traits, emotional display rules, and emotion management at work. His publications have appeared in leading journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Human Performance. Dr. Diefendorff is on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Organizational Behavior, and is an associate editor of Journal of Business and Psychology. Dr. Diefendorff is currently an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Akron. Prior to joining the faculty at The University of Akron, Dr. Diefendorff served on the faculty in the Psychology Department at Louisiana State University and in the Business School at The University of Colorado at Denver. He also was a visiting assistant professor of organizational behavior at Singapore Management University in the Summer of 2007.

Recent Publications

Diefendorff, J. M., & Chandler, M. M. (In press). Motivating employees. In S. Zedeck (Ed.). Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Diefendorff, J. M., & Greguras, G. J. (In press). Contextualizing emotional display rules: Examining the roles of targets and discrete emotions in shaping display rule perceptions. Journal of Management.

Greguras, G. J., & Diefendorff, J. M. (In press). Different fits satisfy different needs: Linking person-environment fit to employee attitudes and performance using self-determination theory. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Yang, J., & Diefendorff, J. M. (In press). The relations of daily counterproductive workplace behavior with emotions, situational antecedents, and personality moderators: A diary study in Hong Kong. Personnel Psychology.

Diefendorff, J. M., & Croyle, M. H. (2008). Antecedents of emotional display rule commitment. Human Performance, 21, 310-332.

Diefendorff, J. M., & Richard, E. M. (2008). Not all emotional display rules are created equal: Distinguishing between prescriptive and contextual display rules. In. N. M. Ashkanasy, & C. L. Cooper (Eds.). Research Companion to Emotion in Organizations (pp. 316-334). Northampton, CT: Edward Elgar.

Diefendorff, J. M., Richard, E. M., & Yang, J. (2008). Emotion regulation at work: Linking strategies to affective events and discrete negative emotions. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 73, 498-508.

Diefendorff, J. M., & Lord, R. G. (2008). Self-regulation and goal striving processes. In R. Kanfer, G. Chen, & R. Pritchard (Eds.). Work Motivation: Past, Present, and Future (pp. 151-196). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.

Diefendorff, J. M. (2007). Motivational Traits. In S. G. Rogelberg (Ed). Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press.

Copeland, A. L., Diefendorff, J. M., Kendzor, D., Rash, C., Patterson, S., & Williamson, D. A. (2007). Measurement of Smoking Outcome Expectancies in Children: Development of the Smoking Consequences Questionnaire-Child. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 21, 469-477.

Diefendorff, J. M., & Mehta, K. (2007). The relations of motivational traits with workplace deviance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 967-977.

Diefendorff, J. M., Richard, E. M., & Croyle, M. H. (2006). Are emotional display rules formal job requirements? Examination of employee and supervisor perceptions. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 79, 273-298.

Diefendorff, J. M., Richard, E. M., & Gosserand, R. H. (2006). Examination of situational and attitudinal moderators of the hesitation and performance relation. Personnel Psychology, 59, 365-393.

Richard, E. M., Diefendorff, J. M., & Martin, J. H. (2006). Revisiting the within-person self-efficacy and performance relation. Human Performance, 19, 67-87.

Small, E. E., & Diefendorff, J. M. (2006). The impact of contextual self-ratings and observer ratings of personality on the personality-performance relationship. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36, 297-320.

Dr. Diefendorff's Vita



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