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Department of Psychology

Dan Ispas

Professor
Psychology
Office
DEG Degarmo Hall 441
Office Hours
Fall 2024: On Sabbatical Leave
Office Phone
(309) 438-7358office
phone
Email
dispas@ilstu.eduemail
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Research

Current Courses

390.045Advanced Research Apprenticeship

499.045Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

375.001Personnel Psychology and People Analytics

485.001Personnel Psychology and People Analytics

498.001Professional Practice - Internship Industrial & Organization

138.006Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

138.007Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

138.008Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

138.009Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

138.010Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

138.011Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

138.012Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

426.001Research & Practice In I/O-Social Psychology

290.045Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship

291.045Special Projects:Undergraduate Teaching

138.001Reasoning In Psychology Using Statistics

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

Book, Chapter

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

Journal Article

Wesselmann, E. D., Ispas, D., Olson, M.D. , Swerdlik, M. E., & Caudle, N. M. (2018). Does perceived ostracism contribute to mental health concerns among veterans who have been deployed? PLoS ONE, 13, e0208438. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208438.
DeSouza, E. R., Wesselmann, E. D., & Ispas, D. (2017). Workplace Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities: Subtle and Not-so-subtle. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 34, 121-132. DOI: 10.1002/CJAS.1438
Ion, A., Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., & Ispas, D. (2016). The emic-etic approach to personality measurement in personnel selection. Personality and Individual Differences, 97, 55-60.
Iliescu, D., Ispas, D., Sulea, C., & Ilie, A. (2015). Vocational Fit and Counterproductive Work Behaviors: A Self-Regulation Perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100, 21-39.
Ispas, D., Iliescu, D., Ilie, A., & Johnson, R.E. (2014). Exploring the Cross-Cultural Generalizability of the Five Factor Model of Personality: The Romanian NEO PI-R. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45, 1074-1088.

Presentations

Cognitive Reflection Tests and Academic Performance.. Midwestern Psychological Association. (2024)
Ilie, A., Archos, H.C., White, E., Ispas, D., Iliescu, D., & Askew, K. (2016, April). Mindfulness in the relationship between workplace stressors and strains. Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Anaheim, CA.
Archos, H.*, Ispas, D., Ilie, A., & Iliescu, D. (2015, April). Age and gender differences in the FFM. Paper presented at the Illinois State University Graduate Research Symposium.
Gabka, K.*, Ispas, D., & Ilie, A. (2015, April). Workplace stressors and employee well-being: the roles of affect, boredom proneness, and counterproductive work behaviors. Paper presented at the Illinois State University Graduate Research Symposium.
Ilie, A., McCarthy, A.*, Perez, K. M.*, Ispas, D., & Iliescu, D. (2015, April). Mediators of the workplace bullying – job attitudes relationship. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Philadelphia, PA.
Ion, A., Iliescu, D., Ispas, D., & Ilie, A. (2015, April). Incremental validity of emic-etic personality dimensions in predicting job performance. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Philadelphia, PA.
Ion, A., Ispas, D., Ilie, A., & Iliescu, D. (2015, May). The emic-etic approach to personality measurement in personnel selection. Paper presented at the 17th European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, Oslo, Norway.
White, E.*, Ispas, D., Ilie, A., Iliescu, D. (2015, April). Individual differences as predictors of maximum academic performance. Paper presented at the Illinois State University Graduate Research Symposium.
Wolfe, D.*, Ispas, D., Ilie, A., Iliescu, D. (2015, April). Personality Test Faking Detection and Selection Rates. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Philadelphia, PA.
Wolfe, D.*, Ispas, D., Ilie, A., Iliescu, D. (2015, April). Personality test faking detection and selection rates. Paper presented at the Illinois State University Graduate Research Symposium.

Grants & Contracts

New Faculty Investigator Grant. Illinois State University. Illinois State University.
Pre-Tenure Faculty Grant. Illinois State University. Illinois State University.