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WELD Lab

Workplace Emotional Labor and Diversity

Welcome to the Workplace Emotional Labor and Diversity (WELD) Lab at Penn State

The central focus of our research is the challenge of balancing one’s self and work demands, with implications for both employee health and performance. In particular, we study regulating emotions and coping with stereotypes and biases (i.e., diversity).

News

SIOP 2024 Presentations

WELD Lab had a great time presenting our research in Chicago at the 2024 SIOP Conference! Kayley...

Recent WELD Member News

Former undergraduate RA Morgan Zipfel accepted offer of admission to Baruch college’s I-O program!...

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.