Below you will find the Journal of Business and Psychology (JBP) 2026 organizational research methods virtual issue part 1. All the methods articles below are free access for a couple of months. Enjoy.
Experimental Approaches for Testing Mediation Effects Models: A Review, Assessment, and Recommended Practices
Philip M. Podsakoff, Nathan P. Podsakoff, & Yiduo Shao
Advancing Organizational Science Through Synthetic Data: A Path to Enhanced Data Sharing and Collaboration
Pengda Wang, Andrew C. Loignon, Sirish Shrestha, George C. Banks, & Frederick L. Oswald
Gone Fishin': Addressing Completeness, Accuracy, and Representativeness in the Search and Coding Processes of Meta-Analyses in the Organizational Sciences
Ernest H. O'Boyle, Martin Götz, & Damian C. Zivic
Participant Interactions with Artificial Intelligence: Using Large Language Models to Generate Research Materials for Surveys and Experiments
Tara S. Behrend & Richard N. Landers
The Effects of Careless Responding Warnings on the Construct Validity of Self-Report Measures
Mark A. Roebke, Nathan A. Bowling, & Gary N. Burns
Simplifying Common Method Variance Mitigation: The Role of Additional Variables
Michael C. Sturman, Hettie A. Richardson, Marcia J. Simmering & Andrey Ukhov
AI-powered Automatic Item Generation for Psychological Tests: A Conceptual Framework for an LLM-based Multi-Agent AIG System
Philseok Lee, Mina Son & Zihao Jia
Game on, Faking off? Are Game-Based Assessments Less Susceptible to Faking Than Traditional Assessments?
Marie L. Ohlms, Klaus G. Melchers, Uwe P. Kanning & Ard J. Barends
How to Reduce Bias in the Life Cycle of a Data Science Project
George C. Banks, Scott Tonidandel, Wenwen Dou, Matthew J. Gerson, Depeng Xu & Jill E. Yavorsky
It is our utmost pleasure to announce the recipients of the 2025 JBP Reviewers of the Year Award. They are:
Xiaohong Xu, University of Texas at San Antonio
Edgar E. Kausel, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Jeff Vancouver, Ohio University
Lisa A. Marchiondo, University of New Mexico
Lawrence Houston, University of Houston
Neil Hauenstein, Virginia Tech
Big congratulations to James Beck (University of Waterloo)), for being the recipient of the 2025 JBP Stan Gully Award for Sustained Excellence in Reviewing. This is an award recognizing a JBP board member for 7 or more years of sustained excellence in reviewing. This is an award named to honor a dear colleague that passed away, Stan Gully. Stan, a former JBP award winner, epitomized this award with his fantastic reviews, which were delivered constructively and compassionately.
These papers received a 2025 Editor Commendation. Congrats to the authors of the following papers:
Goel, R., Game, A. M., & Sanz-Vergel, A. I. (2025). Are you secure enough to follow? The influence of follower attachment on transformational leadership perceptions and thriving at work. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10045-4
Graham, B. A. (2025). Fading silver linings: Financial stress trajectories and expectations of the future. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10043-6
Granger, S., Barling, J., & Turner, N. (2025). Pathways of affluence and adversity: Persistent early life socioeconomic status shaes leadership emergence via social capital. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10031-w
Hanna, A., Hoff, K. A., & Rounds, J. (2025). Interest in context: Using work tasks to measure occupational interests. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10034-7
Kim. T.-Y., Wang, J., Chen, J., Wu, W., & Wu. E. S. (2025). Curvilinearity in the task performance and citizenship behaviors relationship: The roles of felt responsibility and perceived prosocial impact. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10059-y
Lee, P., Son, M., & Jia, Z. (2025). AI-powered automatic item generation for psychological tests: A conceptual framework for an LLM-based multi-agent AIG system. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10067-y
Matić, J. J., Neumann, M., Kerscher, F., Linn, F. H., & de Vries, R. E. (2025). Balancing accuracy and acceptance of algorithmic hiring decisions: Put the human touch into the equation. Journal of Business and Psychology, 40, 1425-1443. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10026-7
Parker, S. K., Tims, M., & Sonnentag, S. (2025). Top-down and bottom-up work design: A multilevel perspective on how job crafting and work characteristics interrelate. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10010-1
Pluut, H., Ilies, R., Curşeu, P. L., & Savani, K. (2025). The things I do for you...and for myself: Dyadic and dynamic effects of social support in dual-earner couples. Journal of Business and Psychology, 40, 1337-1353. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10020-z
Ragland, E., Miller, B. K., Simmering, M. J., & Fuller, C. M. (2025). I caught it, now what do I do with it? Controlling for insufficient effort responding. Journal of Business and Psychology, 40, 1401-1423. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10025-8
Snoetink, M. J., Graham, B. A., Martinez, L. R., Robles-Saenz, F., & Solis, L. (2025). Trabajo Peligroso: Occupational segregation among Latino workers and the cycle of precarious work. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10084-x
Sturman, M. C., Richardson, H. A., Simmering, M. J., & Ukhov, A. (2025). Simplifying common method variance mitigation: The role of additional variables. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10074-z
Tan, H. H., Schoorman, F. D., Sharma, K., & Mayer, R. C. (2025). Towards a psychometrically sound and culturally invariant measure of propensity to trust. Journal of Business and Psychology, 40, 1135-1151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10006-x
Unger, D., Bika, Z., Debus, M. E., Hopp, C., & Klehe, U.-C. (2025). Scarred or spared? A review of micro- and macro-level unemployment's effects on children's education and careers. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10049-0
Vesper, D., Mönke, F. W., Regh, T. S., Schäpers, P., & König, C. J. (2025). Evaluating potential political bias in recruitment: Effects of extreme vs moderate party affiliation. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10096-7
Wang, Z., & Chen, H. (2025). When leader expectations inspire and when they overwhelm: The role of growth mindset and prior performance in employee emotional and engagement responses to leader high performance expectations. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-025-10040-9