The Personality Research Lab has received funding from grants or contracts from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Qualcomm, and the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI).
The research in this lab focuses on several topics. First, our research examines personality and other individual difference characteristics as predictors of a variety of workplace outcomes. Second, our research investigates person-centered relationships among cognitive and personality dimensions as predictors of performance outcomes.
Over the years, the topics investigated in this lab have included: Personnel Assessment and Selection, Polychronicity and Multitasking, Personality Predictors (including Big Five) of Job Performance, Type A Behavior Pattern, Time Urgency, Time Management, Stress and Stress Management, and the Measurement of Emotional Intelligence.
Current M.S. in I-O Psychology students in the lab:
Ethan Masiclat (Fall 2025 – Present)
Nathan Harris (Fall 2025 – Present)
Evan Abutin (Fall 2026 – Present)
Recently Graduated (M.S. in I-O Psychology Alumni):
Sarah Snyder (2026)
Amanda Kellaris (2025)
Marissa Morrison (2025)
Brianna Camacho (2024)
Andrew Tricarico (2023)
Representative publications from the Personality Research Lab:
Valley, H., Camacho, B., Kellaris, A., Cain, M., & Conte, J. (2024, April). Research translation on person-centered research. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 61(4).
Conte, J. M., & Harmata, R. K. (2023). Person-centered study of cognitive ability dimensions using latent profile analysis. Journal of Intelligence, 11(5), 1-12.
Conte, J. M., Robison, J. L., & Tricarico, A. J. (2022). In analyses of the gender pay gap, job analyses and O*NET don’t get a lot of respect, but they should. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 15(1), 46-50.
Conte, J. M., Aasen, B., Jacobson, C. J., O’Loughlin, C., & Toroslu, L. (2019). Investigating relationships among polychronicity, work-family conflict, job satisfaction, and work engagement. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 34(7), 459-473.
Conte, J. M., Heffner, T. S., Roesch, S. C., & Aasen, B. (2017). A person-centric investigation of personality, attrition, and performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 554-559.
Spring 2025 APSA Social – Lab Group Photo with Sarah Snyder, Amanda Kellaris, and Maxwell Cain
SDSU Social at SIOP 2018 conference in Chicago with Simona Evans (MS in 2017) and Caitie Jacobson Mikulis (MS in 2017)