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Dan Ispas

Professor
Office
DEG Degarmo Hall 441
Office Hours
Fall 2024: On Sabbatical Leave
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Selected Research

Current Courses

PSY 499.045 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

PSY 498.001 Professional Practice - Internship Industrial & Organization

PSY 138.006 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.007 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.008 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.009 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.010 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.011 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.012 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.013 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 426.001 Research & Practice In I/O-Social Psychology

PSY 290.045 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship

PSY 291.045 Special Projects:Undergraduate Teaching

PSY 390.045 Advanced Research Apprenticeship

PSY 499.045 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

PSY 375.001 Personnel Psychology and People Analytics

PSY 485.001 Personnel Psychology and People Analytics

PSY 498.001 Professional Practice - Internship Industrial & Organization

PSY 138.006 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.007 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.008 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.009 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.010 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.011 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 138.012 Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

PSY 426.001 Research & Practice In I/O-Social Psychology

PSY 290.045 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship

PSY 291.045 Special Projects:Undergraduate Teaching

Teaching Interests & Areas

I/O Psychology, Statistics and Research Methods

Research Interests & Areas

Individual Differences: how and why individual differences impact attitudes and behaviors in employment and academic contexts
Job Performance/Personnel Selection: testing/test validation, rater motivation, cognitive and non-cognitive predictors, OCB, CWB.
Career and Employment Issues (especially in relation to voluntary turnover): overqualification – underemployment, idiosyncratic deals, employability, mentoring.

NOTE on Letters of Recommendation: Every semester I receive a considerable number of requests for letters of recommendation. I will only write letters if the following conditions are met:
Undergraduate Students: you take at least 2 courses with me and work with me on a PSY290/291/390/391 for at least two semesters.
Graduate Students: only if I supervised your thesis.

Ph D Industrial and Organizational Psychology

University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Illinois State University Research Initiative Award

Illinois State University
2013

S. Rains Wallace Best Dissertation Award

Society for Industrial and organizational Psychology (APA Division 14)
2013

Grants and Contracts

New Faculty Investigator Grant
Dan Ispas
Illinois State University. - 2011
Pre-Tenure Faculty Grant
Dan Ispas
Illinois State University. - 2012

Book, Chapter

Personnel recruitment, selection, and turnover
Hedge, J., Borman, W., & Ispas, D.
(2012), 475-489, Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Journal Article

Does perceived ostracism contribute to mental health concerns among veterans who have been deployed?
Wesselmann, E., Ispas, D., Olson, M., Swerdlik, M., & Caudle, N.
PLoS ONE, (2018), DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208438
Workplace Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities: Subtle and Not-so-subtle
DeSouza, PhD, E., Wesselmann, E., & Ispas, D.
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 34, 121-132, (2017), 10.1002/CJAS.1438
The emic-etic approach to personality measurement in personnel selection
Ion, A., Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., & Ispas, D.
Personality and Individual Differences, 97, 55-60, (2016)
Vocational Fit and Counterproductive Work Behaviors: A Self-Regulation Perspective.
Iliescu, D., Ispas, D., Sulea, C., & Ilie, A.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 100, 21-39, (2015)
Exploring the Cross-Cultural Generalizability of the Five-Factor Model of Personality The Romanian NEO PI-R
Ispas, D., Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., & Johnson, R.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45 (7), 1074–1088, (2014)
Revisiting the relationship between impression management and job performance
Ispas, D., Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., Sulea, C., Askew, K., Rohlfs, J., & Whalen, K.
Journal of Research in Personality, 51, 47–53, (2014)
A meta-analytic investigation of the relationship between state affect, discrete emotions, and job performance
Shockley, K., Ispas, D., Rossi, M., & Levine, E.
Human Performance, 20, 347-358, (2012)
Emotional Intelligence in Personnel Selection: Applicant reactions, criterion, and incremental validity
Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., Ispas, D., & Ion, A.
International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 20 (3), 347–358, (2012)
Emotional intelligence in personnel selection: Applicant reactions, criterion and incremental validity
Iliescu, D., Ispas, D., Ilie, A., & Ion, A.
International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 20, 347-358, (2012)
The role of trait anger in the stressor-CWB relationship: convergent findings from multiple samples and methodologies
Ilie, A., Penney, L., Ispas, D., & Iliescu, D.
Applied Psychology: An International Review, 61, 415-436, (2012)
Cross-national explorations of the impact of affect at work using the State-Trait Emotion Measure (STEM): A coordinated series of studies in three countries
Levine, E., Xu, X., Yang, L., Ispas, D., Pitariu, H., Bian, R., Ding, D., Capotescu, R., Che, H., & Musat, S.
Human Performance, 24, 1-38, (2011)
Examining the criterion related validity of the Employee Screening Questionnaire: A three sample investigation
Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., & Ispas, D.
International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 19, 222-228, (2011)
Tratamentul prin analiza de regresie a variabilelor de control în studiile non-experimentale [Control variables in non-experimental studies]
Ispas, D.
Psychology of Human Resources, 9, 107-110, (2011)
Moving beyond the challenges to make unproctored internet testing a reality
Gibby, R., Ispas, D., Mccloy, R., & Biga, A.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2 (1), 64–68, (2009)
Ponderarea relativa a predictorilor
Ispas, D.
Psihologia Resurselor Umane, 7 (2), 83-86, (2009)
The Romanian translation of the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity: internal consistency reliability, re-test reliability and construct validity among undergraduate students within a Greek Orthodox culture
Francis, L., Ispas, D., Robbins, M., Ilie, A., & Iliescu, D.
Pastoral Psychology, 58 (1), 49–54, (2009)
Beyond task performance: The concept of citizenship performance
Ispas, D., & Borman, W.
Psihologia Resurselor Umane, 4 (2), 16-26, (2008)
Inaccurate performance ratings are a reflection of larger organizational issues
HARRIS, M., Ispas, D., & SCHMIDT, G.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 1 (2), 190–193, (2008)
Person–environment fit or person plus environment: A meta-analysis of studies using polynomial regression analysis
Yang, L., Levine, E., Smith, M., Ispas, D., & Rossi, M.
Human Resource Management Review, 18 (4), 311–321, (2008)
Industrial/Organizational Psychology in Romania
Iliescu, D., Ispas, D., & Ilie, A.
The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 45 (1), 71–76, (2007)
VALIDAREA CHESTIONARULUI DE MASURARE A EMOTIILOR CA STARE SI TRASATURA (MEST-Ro) LA BASCHETBALISTE
Pitariu, H., Levine, E., Musat, S., & Ispas, D.
PSIHOLOGIA RESURSELOR UMANE, 16, (2006)
Analiza efectelor moderatoare: Cazul variabilelor categoriale in regresia ierarhica
Ilie, A., Ispas, D., & Iliescu, D.
Psihologia Resurselor Umane, 8 (2), 52-55
Emotional contagion in nonhuman working animals: Lessons from canine rescue teams.
Schneider, K., Ozkum, B., Ilie, A., & Ispas, D.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice
Examining the psychometric properties of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test: Findings from an Eastern European culture
Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., Ispas, D., & Ion, A.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 29, 121-128
Sex Differences in Intelligence: A Multi-Measure Approach Using Nationally Representative Samples from Romania
Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., Ispas, D., Dobrean, A., & Clinciu, A.
Intelligence, 58, 54-61

Presentations

Cognitive Reflection Tests and Academic Performance.
Alexandra Ilie, Dan Ispas, Taylor Flinn, Kimberly Schneider
Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, April, 2024
Mindfulness in the relationship between workplace stressors and strains.
Alexandra Ilie, Hannah Archos, Erin White, Dan Ispas, Dragos Iliescu, Kevin Askew
Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Anaheim, CA, April, 2016
The emic-etic approach to personality measurement in personnel selection.
Andrei Ion, Dan Ispas, Alexandra Ilie, Dragos Iliescu
17th European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, Oslo, Norway, May, 2015
Incremental validity of emic-etic personality dimensions in predicting job performance.
Andrei Ion, Dragos Iliescu, Dan Ispas, Alexandra Ilie
Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Philadelphia, PA, April, 2015
Mediators of the workplace bullying – job attitudes relationship.
Alexandra Ilie, Ashley McCarthy, K Perez, Dan Ispas, Iliescu Dragos
Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Philadelphia, PA, April, 2015
Personality Test Faking Detection and Selection Rates.
David Wolfe, Dan Ispas, Alexandra Ilie, Dragos Iliescu
Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Philadelphia, PA, April, 2015
Age and gender differences in the FFM.
Hannah Archos, Dan Ispas, Alexandra Ilie, Dragos Iliescu
Illinois State University Graduate Research Symposium, Normal, IL, April, 2015
Individual differences as predictors of maximum academic performance.
Erin White, Dan Ispas, Alexandra Ilie, Dragos Iliescu
Illinois State University Graduate Research Symposium, Normal, IL, April, 2015
Personality Test Faking Detection and Selection Rates.
David Wolfe, Dan Ispas, Alexandra Ilie, Dragos Iliescu
Illinois State University Graduate Research Symposium, Normal, IL, April, 2015
Workplace stressors and employee well-being: the roles of affect, boredom proneness, and counterproductive work behaviors.
Kamila Gabka, Dan Ispas, Alexandra Ilie
Illinois State University Graduate Research Symposium, Normal, IL, April, 2015
Personality and job performance: Emic and etic perspectives in a unique setting
D Iliescu, Alexandra Ilie, Dan Ispas, A Salmonson
Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, Houston, TX, USA, April, 2013
Vocational Interests and CWB
D Iliescu, Dan Ispas, C Sulea, Alexandra Ilie
Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, Houston, TX, USA, April, 2013
The incremental validity of personality in predicting job performance, voluntary turnover and career success in high-stakes contexts
D Iliescu, Dan Ispas, Alexandra Ilie, A Ion
6th Conference of the Romanian Psychological Association, Brasov, September, 2012
Equivalence of online and paper-and-pencil forms for three tests in Romania
D Iliescu, A Ion, Dan Ispas, Alexandra Ilie
8th Conference of the International Test Commission, Amsterdam, July, 2012
Incremental validity of CPAI-2 for Romanian and Chinese workers in Romania
D Iliescu, Dan Ispas, Alexandra Ilie, A Ion
8th Conference of the International Test Commission, Amsterdam, July, 2012
A psychometric analysis of the Romanian NEO PI-R
Alexandra Ilie, Dan Ispas, D Iliescu, J Rohlfs, K Whalen
Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA, April, 2012
Beyond the Big Five: Additional Personality Traits as Predictors of Workplace Behaviors
J Rohlfs, K Whalen, Dan Ispas
Illinois State University Graduate Research Symposium, Normal, IL, USA, April, 2012
Developing an Overall Perceived Overqualification scale
K Whalen, Dan Ispas, E Douglas, C Love
Illinois State University Graduate Research Symposium, Normal, IL, USA, April, 2012
Exploring temporal dimensions of overqualification
K Whalen, Dan Ispas, J Kahn
Illinois State University Graduate Research Symposium, Normal, IL, USA, April, 2012
Impression Management and Objective Performance: Criterion and Incremental Validity
J Rohlfs, Dan Ispas
Illinois State University Graduate Research Symposium, Normal, IL, USA, April, 2012
Improving applicant reactions to personality tests: The role of frame of reference
A Salmonson, Dan Ispas
Illinois State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Normal, IL, USA, April, 2012
Rater motivation in validation studies
Dan Ispas
OnlineJanuary, 2012
Rater motivation in validation studies
Dan Ispas
OnlineDecember, 2011
Differential Item Functioning in the GAMA Analogies Subscale
K Askew, Alexandra Ilie, Dan Ispas, D Iliescu
Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., August, 2011
Conscious and unconscious influences on the formation and use of justice judgments
R E Johnson, Dan Ispas, O Rodopman, U Akirmak, A Walvoord
The Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA, August, 2011