Webcast Lecture Series
Methodological Trends in the Study of Emotion Regulation and Emotions at Work
Dr. Allison Gabriel
Purdue University
November 15th, 12:00 PM ET
Lecture Abstract
Emotions—and emotion regulation—continue to be core topics within organizational behavior and applied psychology. Within this talk, based on a review with my colleagues (Gabriel, Thapa, Tay, & Dutli), I review three advancements that scholars have made in studying the complexities of emotion regulation: (1) dynamic approaches (i.e., applying experience sampling or continuous rating methods to the study of emotion regulation); (2) dyadic approaches (i.e., studying employee-customer, coworker-coworker, or supervisor-subordinate dyads); and (3) conjoint approaches (i.e., studying profiles of emotion regulation). I will highlight studies utilizing each of these approaches, followed by a discussion of analytic challenges and/or considerations as quantitative research on emotion regulation at work continues to grow. In so doing, I will also note methodological opportunities that still remain and/or analytical advances within each of these three categories, and will further recommend new study designs and/or analyses that can build upon each category in fruitful ways.
Meet the Presenter
Dr. Allison (Allie) Gabriel is the Thomas J. Howatt Chair in Management in the Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Area at Purdue University’s Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business. She also is the Director of Purdue’s Center for Working Well—a research hub in the school of business focused on well-being at work and home—and serves the field as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Applied Psychology. Dr. Gabriel received her B.A. in Psychology with honors and highest distinction from Penn State in 2008, and her Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Akron in 2013.
Broadly, Dr. Gabriel aims to understand how employees thrive and promote their well-being at work and home. To tackle this general aim, she studies emotions and emotion regulation in the workplace, recovery, motivation, interpersonal stressors/relationships, and experiences unique to women in the workplace—specifically as they pertain to women’s health and motherhood. Her research has been featured by CNN, Fast Company, Forbes, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and she is a contributor to Harvard Business Review. Dr. Gabriel was also a speaker at the 2022 Wharton Future of Work Conference.
For her research, Dr. Gabriel has received five early career awards, including three from the Organizational Behavior, Human Resources, and Research Methods divisions of the Academy of Management; the Distinguished Early Career Contributions-Science Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology; and the Ascendant Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management. For her teaching, she was recognized in 2018 by Poets & Quants as a Top 50 Undergraduate Business School Professor. Most recently, in April 2023, she was named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Outside of work, you can find Dr. Gabriel seeking ways to “work well” by learning to balance work, family, and leisure. She and her husband can often be found chasing their toddler (a true pandemic baby born March 2020) and their entourage of cats. You can also find Dr. Gabriel running, hiking, chasing the leaderboard on her Peloton, and rooting for Penn State sports.
