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Dr. Burak Ozkum

Assistant Professor
Office
DEG Degarmo Hall 428
  • About
  • Education
  • Selected Research

Current Courses

PSY 390.048 Advanced Research Apprenticeship

PSY 475.001 Seminar In Personnel Psychology

PSY 290.048 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship

PSY 340.001 Statistics For The Social Sciences

PSY 340.002 Statistics For The Social Sciences

PSY 392.001 Senior Seminar

PSY 290.048 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship

PSY 340.001 Statistics For The Social Sciences

PSY 340.002 Statistics For The Social Sciences

PSY 416.001 Statistics For The Social Sciences

PSY 416.002 Statistics For The Social Sciences

Teaching Interests & Areas

Personality, Statistics, Testing and measurement, I/O Psychology

Research Interests & Areas

Personality, Teams, Assessment of individual differences, eSports

PhD Industrial and Organizational Psychology

University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK

MS Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey

BA Business Administration

Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey

Grants and Contracts

New Faculty Initiative Grant (NFIG)
Burak Ozkum
Illinois State University. July 1 2022 - June 30 2023

Conference Proceeding

Measurement invariance in burnout: A multicultural study
Ozkum, B., Narayan, A., & Lin, M.
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, (2020)
Personality and motivational job features: Fit beyond demands.
Tett, R., & Ozkum, B.
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, (2020)
The effect of social media information on recruiters’ hiring decision making processes: A policy capturing approach
Ozkum, B., & Sumer, C.
European Congress of Psychology, (2019)

Journal Article

Do selection tests “really” work better than we think they do?
Ozkum, B.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 17 (3), 283-287, (2024), 10.1017/iop.2024.19
Trait Activation Theory: A review of the literature and applications to five lines of personality dynamics research
Tett, R., Toich, M., & Ozkum, B.
Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 8, (2021), https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-012420-062228
Divergent reactions to COVID-19 exhibited in grandiose and vulnerable narcissism
Ozkum, B., Lannin, D., & Wu, S.
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

Presentations

Personality and performance in gaming teams
Burak Ozkum, Anupama Narayan
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Denver, CO, April, 2025
Trait-ability interactions in career success
Burak Ozkum
Industrial and Organizational Psychology Congress, Adana, Turkey, May, 2024
Individual differences in career success
Burak Ozkum, Robert Tett
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April, 2024
Factors affecting SD rho in personality-work outcome meta-analyses: A second-order analysis
Dan Simonet, Robert Tett, Fred Oswald, Ryan Barry, Neil Christiansen, Katherine Klein, Robert Loy, Burak Ozkum, Shane Sizemore, Margaret Judith Toich
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seattle, WA, April, 2022
The effect of leader personality on team trust and team effectiveness
Burak Ozkum, Anupama Narayan
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seattle, WA, April, 2022