Robert G. Lord
Ph.D. Carnegie-Mellon University

Distinguished Professor: Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Industrial/Gerontology Specialty

Contact Information

Office: Arts and Science Building, room 313
Phone: (330) 972-7018
Email: rlord@uakron.edu

Dr. Lord received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1975. Research interests include information processing and social perceptions; motivation, goal setting and control theory; leadership and group behavior; and self-directed learning. Courses typically taught include information processing, leadership, and motivation. His publications have appeared in leading I/O journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Leadership Quarterly, and he is an editorial board member of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Leadership Quarterly, and the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychology Association and the American Psychological Society.

Recent Publications

Diefendorff , J. M., & Lord, R. G. (In press). Goal striving and self-regulation processes. In R. Kanfer et al. (Eds). Work motivation: Past, Present, and Future San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Ritter, B. A., & Lord, R. G. (in press). The impact of previous leaders on the evaluation of new leaders: An alternative to prototype matching. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Lord, R. G. (2008). Beyond transformational and transactional leadership: Can leaders still lead when they don’t know what to do? In M. Uhl Bien, & R. Marion (Eds.) Complexity and leadership volume I: Conceptual foundations. (pp. 155-184). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Naidoo, L. J., & Lord, R. G. (2008). Speech imagery and perceptions of charisma: The mediating role of positive affect. Leadership Quarterly.

Hogue, M., & Lord, R. (2007). A complex explanation gender bias in leadership emergence. Leadership Quarterly, 18, 370-390.

Moon, S. M., & Lord, R. G. (2006). Individual differences in automatic and controlled regulation of emotion and task performance. Human Performance, 19, 327-356.

Johnson, R. E., Chang, C-H. D., & Lord, R. G. (2006). Moving from cognition to behavior: What the research says. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 381-415.

Johnson, R.E., Selenta, C., & Lord, R. G. (2006). When organizational justice and the self-concept meet. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 99, 175-201.

Dr. Lord's Vita



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