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Brian Connelly

Brian Connelly

Title: Assistant Professor
Departmental Program: Industrial/Organizational
E-mail: Brian.Connelly@uconn.edu
Office:BOUS 142
Phone: (860) 486-3521
Web site: http://www.iopsychology.uconn.edu/connelly.htm

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

 

Research Interests:

  • Personality measurement in applied and cross-cultural settings
  • Accuracy and distortion in self-assessment
  • Counterproductive work behaviors
  • Measurement of skills and abilities in assessment centers
  • Quantitative methods

Undergraduate courses:

  • The study of personality
  • Psychological testing
  • Industrial/organizational psychology

Graduate courses:

  • Personnel selection
  • Personality
  • Quantitative Measures in the Behavioral Sciences (Statistics: Regression)

Representative Publications:

  • Connelly, B. S., Ones, D. S., Ramesh, A., & Goff, M. (2008). A pragmatic view of dimensions and exercises in assessment center ratings. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice , 1 , 121-124.
  • Vinson, G. A., Connelly, B. S., Ones, D. S. (2007). Relationships between personality and organization switching: Implications for utility estimates. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 15, 118-134.
  • Sackett, P. R., Borneman, M. J., & Connelly, B. S. (2008). High stakes testing in higher education and employment: Appraising the evidence for validity and fairness. American Psychologist, 63, 215-227.
  • Ellingson, J. E., Sackett, P. R., & Connelly, B. S. (2007). Do applicants distort their responses? Personality assessment across selection and development contexts. Journal of Applied Psychology , 92 , 386-395.