Seth A Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3885230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth A Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLAN S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5976-6815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Measure-shortening techniques
Experience sampling methods are valuable for studying within-person personality dynamics but can burden participants and thus compromise data quality. While shortened versions of established measures can mitigate this burden, selecting items that maintain psychometric properties and content representativeness remains challenging. The present study evaluated three statistical techniques for item selection: confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) factor…
Good versus bad situational strength? The relationship of within-person situational strength shift and stability with affect and job performance
An examination of the daily relationship between job boredom and later burnout and turnover intentions along with mitigating strategies
Job boredom is one of the most prevalent aversive states experienced in the workplace. Although researchers have examined the impact of job boredom on important workplace outcomes, the day-to-day experience of job boredom and individual strategies to reduce its negative influence remain largely unexplored. Therefore, we examined the within-person relationships of job boredom with daily job burnout and turnover intentions, as well as two potential…
A Meta‐Analytic Review of the Within‐Person Relationship Between Affect and Job Performance
In recent years, there has been a shift from a between‐person, static view of trait affect and stable performance to a within‐person, dynamic view of state affect and episodic performance. However, these dynamic relationships have yet to be summarized. In this preregistered meta‐analysis, we tested Affect Events Theory—a within‐person theoretical framework that discusses how affect relates to job performance—across 123 independent samples, 14 717…
Affective Forecasts for the Experience Itself
The real-time and carry-over effects of injustice on performance and service quality in a ridesharing driver scenario
Police recruits' predicted and felt emotions during organizational socialization
Research on the honeymoon‐hangover effect suggests that newcomers experience an initial upward increase in job attitudes and motivation upon beginning a new job, followed by a subsequent decline. However, little empirical work has been done to investigate how newcomers feel during this period of adjustment. Despite its relevance, the affective forecasting literature has also not been incorporated in the context of newcomers. In this study, we exa…
What are We Working For? Comparing the Importance of Job Features for Job Satisfaction over the Career Span
On the subjective experience and correlates of downtime at work
In the current paper, we studied downtime at work. Downtime represents a unique aspect of work time, as employees have low workload and more discretion about their activities but are still paid to be at work. Despite its prevalence and potentially significant implications for productivity and well‐being, the experience of downtime has not been a focus in the literature. To study this phenomenon, we first used a qualitative method involving 15 foc…
Judgments of the Dark Triad based on Facebook profiles
Is “feeling good” good enough? Differentiating discrete positive emotions at work
Overwhelming evidence demonstrates the benefits of positive affect for various life and work outcomes. However, the relevant organizational research almost exclusively has focused on general positive affect, thereby implying that all positive affect has consistent and equal relationships with other work variables. The purposes of this theoretical paper are to review and highlight research from basic psychology demonstrating the unique nature and …
Test of a Web-Based Program to Improve Adherence to HIV Medications
The role of positive affectivity in team effectiveness during crises
Organizational efforts to improve team effectiveness in crisis situations primarily have focused on team training initiatives and, to a lesser degree, on staffing teams with respect to members' ability, experience, and functional backgrounds. Largely neglected in these efforts is the emotional component of crises and, correspondingly, the notion of staffing teams with consideration for their affective makeup. To address this void, we examined the…
Getting Older and Getting Happier with Work
On the role of positive and negative affectivity in job performance
Although interest regarding the role of dispositional affect in job behaviors has surged in recent years, the true magnitude of affectivity's influence remains unknown. To address this issue, the authors conducted a qualitative and quantitative review of the relationships between positive and negative affectivity (PA and NA, respectively) and various performance dimensions. A series of meta-analyses based on 57 primary studies indicated that PA a…
Modeling negative affectivity and job stress
Understanding the role of negative affectivity (NA) in relations between job stressors and resultant strains has been a major source of research interest in the organizational literature for almost two decades. In this study, we propose a contingency approach, whereby the role of NA depends on the nature of the strain construct under investigation. Specifically, we predicted that perceived job stressors would fully mediate the relationship betwee…
The Affective Underpinnings of Job Perceptions and Attitudes
Using psychometric meta-analysis, the authors present a quantitative and qualitative review (k = 205, total pairwise N = 62,527) of the literature relating trait and state positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) to job-related attitudes, including job satisfaction, organizational commitment, turnover intentions, and dimensions of job burnout. Results indicated substantial correlations, ranging in absolute value from -.17 (PA and turnover in…
The role of positive affectivity in team effectiveness during crises
Organizational efforts to improve team effectiveness in crisis situations primarily have focused on team training initiatives and, to a lesser degree, on staffing teams with respect to members' ability, experience, and functional backgrounds. Largely neglected in these efforts is the emotional component of crises and, correspondingly, the notion of staffing teams with consideration for their affective makeup. To address this void, we examined the…
Is “feeling good” good enough? Differentiating discrete positive emotions at work
Overwhelming evidence demonstrates the benefits of positive affect for various life and work outcomes. However, the relevant organizational research almost exclusively has focused on general positive affect, thereby implying that all positive affect has consistent and equal relationships with other work variables. The purposes of this theoretical paper are to review and highlight research from basic psychology demonstrating the unique nature and …
Modeling negative affectivity and job stress
Understanding the role of negative affectivity (NA) in relations between job stressors and resultant strains has been a major source of research interest in the organizational literature for almost two decades. In this study, we propose a contingency approach, whereby the role of NA depends on the nature of the strain construct under investigation. Specifically, we predicted that perceived job stressors would fully mediate the relationship betwee…
What are We Working For? Comparing the Importance of Job Features for Job Satisfaction over the Career Span
On the subjective experience and correlates of downtime at work
In the current paper, we studied downtime at work. Downtime represents a unique aspect of work time, as employees have low workload and more discretion about their activities but are still paid to be at work. Despite its prevalence and potentially significant implications for productivity and well‐being, the experience of downtime has not been a focus in the literature. To study this phenomenon, we first used a qualitative method involving 15 foc…
Judgments of the Dark Triad based on Facebook profiles
Getting Older and Getting Happier with Work
The Affective Underpinnings of Job Perceptions and Attitudes
Using psychometric meta-analysis, the authors present a quantitative and qualitative review (k = 205, total pairwise N = 62,527) of the literature relating trait and state positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) to job-related attitudes, including job satisfaction, organizational commitment, turnover intentions, and dimensions of job burnout. Results indicated substantial correlations, ranging in absolute value from -.17 (PA and turnover in…
Modeling negative affectivity and job stress
Understanding the role of negative affectivity (NA) in relations between job stressors and resultant strains has been a major source of research interest in the organizational literature for almost two decades. In this study, we propose a contingency approach, whereby the role of NA depends on the nature of the strain construct under investigation. Specifically, we predicted that perceived job stressors would fully mediate the relationship betwee…
On the role of positive and negative affectivity in job performance
Although interest regarding the role of dispositional affect in job behaviors has surged in recent years, the true magnitude of affectivity's influence remains unknown. To address this issue, the authors conducted a qualitative and quantitative review of the relationships between positive and negative affectivity (PA and NA, respectively) and various performance dimensions. A series of meta-analyses based on 57 primary studies indicated that PA a…
Getting Older and Getting Happier with Work
The role of positive affectivity in team effectiveness during crises
Organizational efforts to improve team effectiveness in crisis situations primarily have focused on team training initiatives and, to a lesser degree, on staffing teams with respect to members' ability, experience, and functional backgrounds. Largely neglected in these efforts is the emotional component of crises and, correspondingly, the notion of staffing teams with consideration for their affective makeup. To address this void, we examined the…
Test of a Web-Based Program to Improve Adherence to HIV Medications
Is “feeling good” good enough? Differentiating discrete positive emotions at work
Overwhelming evidence demonstrates the benefits of positive affect for various life and work outcomes. However, the relevant organizational research almost exclusively has focused on general positive affect, thereby implying that all positive affect has consistent and equal relationships with other work variables. The purposes of this theoretical paper are to review and highlight research from basic psychology demonstrating the unique nature and …
On the subjective experience and correlates of downtime at work
In the current paper, we studied downtime at work. Downtime represents a unique aspect of work time, as employees have low workload and more discretion about their activities but are still paid to be at work. Despite its prevalence and potentially significant implications for productivity and well‐being, the experience of downtime has not been a focus in the literature. To study this phenomenon, we first used a qualitative method involving 15 foc…
Judgments of the Dark Triad based on Facebook profiles
What are We Working For? Comparing the Importance of Job Features for Job Satisfaction over the Career Span
Affective Forecasts for the Experience Itself
The real-time and carry-over effects of injustice on performance and service quality in a ridesharing driver scenario
Police recruits' predicted and felt emotions during organizational socialization
Research on the honeymoon‐hangover effect suggests that newcomers experience an initial upward increase in job attitudes and motivation upon beginning a new job, followed by a subsequent decline. However, little empirical work has been done to investigate how newcomers feel during this period of adjustment. Despite its relevance, the affective forecasting literature has also not been incorporated in the context of newcomers. In this study, we exa…
An examination of the daily relationship between job boredom and later burnout and turnover intentions along with mitigating strategies
Job boredom is one of the most prevalent aversive states experienced in the workplace. Although researchers have examined the impact of job boredom on important workplace outcomes, the day-to-day experience of job boredom and individual strategies to reduce its negative influence remain largely unexplored. Therefore, we examined the within-person relationships of job boredom with daily job burnout and turnover intentions, as well as two potential…
A Meta‐Analytic Review of the Within‐Person Relationship Between Affect and Job Performance
In recent years, there has been a shift from a between‐person, static view of trait affect and stable performance to a within‐person, dynamic view of state affect and episodic performance. However, these dynamic relationships have yet to be summarized. In this preregistered meta‐analysis, we tested Affect Events Theory—a within‐person theoretical framework that discusses how affect relates to job performance—across 123 independent samples, 14 717…
Measure-shortening techniques
Experience sampling methods are valuable for studying within-person personality dynamics but can burden participants and thus compromise data quality. While shortened versions of established measures can mitigate this burden, selecting items that maintain psychometric properties and content representativeness remains challenging. The present study evaluated three statistical techniques for item selection: confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) factor…
Good versus bad situational strength? The relationship of within-person situational strength shift and stability with affect and job performance
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (9 works) · Job satisfaction (6 works) · Personality (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Job performance (5 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (5 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)