Lab Supervisor Biography

Dr. Alicia Grandey earned her doctorate in industrial-organizational psychology in 1999 and is now a Liberal Arts Professor of Psychology at Penn State University. Over the past 25 years, she has published over 60 articles with more than 30,000 citations, which puts her in the top 1% of for impact among business and management scholars. She directs the WELD research lab to conduct research on emotional labor – the managing of emotions while performing the work role – and workforce diversity (i.e., gendered, racial, political, cultural). To close the science-practice gap, Dr. Grandey conducts executive education workshops, writes translational articles for Harvard Business Review (HBR) and The Conversation, and recently founded Penn State’s Healthy-Inclusive-Productive (H.I.P.) Workplace Initiative with interdisciplinary scholars and industry advisory board. She is currently serving as Associate Editor (AE) for Journal of Applied Psychology, is a Fellow of SIOP and APS and can be found lurking on Twitter @AliciaGrandey.