Research

My research mostly focuses on how individuals experience and respond to their workplace and their interactions with others. I have a particular interest in affective processes and well-being.

More recently, I have developed a stream of research focusing on theory and models around change processes; the world is not static, and neither are people's responses to it. A selected set of publications is below.

Change in Experiences or Relationships

Dimotakis, N., Lambert, L. S., Fu, S., Boulamatsi, A., Smith, T., Runnals, B., Tepper, B., & Maurer, T. (in press). Gains and Losses: Week-to-Week Changes in Leader-Follower Relationships. Academy of Management Journal. Link

Dirks, K., Sweeney, P., Dimotakis, N., & Woodruff, T. (in press). Understanding the Change and Development of Trust and the Implications for New Leaders. Journal of Business Ethics. Link

Fu, S., Greco, L., Lennard, A., & Dimotakis, N. (2021). Anxiety responses to the unfolding COVID-19 crisis: Patterns of change in the experience of prolonged exposure to stressors. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106, 48-61. Link

Rosen, C., Dimotakis, N., Cole, M., Taylor, S., Simon, L., Smith, T., & Reina, C. (2020). When challenges hinder: An investigation of when and how challenge stressors impact employee outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105 , 1181-1206. Link

Affect and Well-Being

Koopman, J., Conway, J. M., Dimotakis, N., Tepper, B. J., Lee, Y. E., Rogelberg, S. G., & Lount, R. (2021). Does CWB repair negative affective states, or generate them? Examining the moderating role of trait empathy. Journal of Applied Psychology. 106 , 1493-1516. Link

Tepper, B., Dimotakis, N., Lambert, L. S., Koopman, J., Matta, F., Park, H. M. & Goo, W. G. (2018). Transformational leadership moments: An experience sampling examination of follower emotional and attitudinal reactions to daily exposure to transformational leadership. Academy of Management Journal, 61, 1343-1368. Link.

Leheta, D., et al. (2017). The view over one’s shoulder: Leader envy of followers. The Leadership Quarterly, 28, 451-468. Link.

Ilies, R., Savani, K., Peng, A. C., & Dimotakis, N. (2013). Guilty and helpful: An emotion-based reparatory model of voluntary work behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 1051-1059. Link.

Dimotakis, N., Conlon, D., & Ilies, R. (2012). The mind and heart (literally) of the negotiator: Personality and contextual determinants of cardiac arousal and tangible and intangible outcomes in negotiation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 183-193. Link.

Dimotakis, N., Davison, R. B., & Hollenbeck, J. R. (2012). Team structure and regulatory focus: The impact of regulatory fit on team dynamics. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 421-434. Link.

Ilies, R., & Dimotakis, N., & De Pater, I. E. (2010). Psychological and physiological reactions to high workloads: Implications for well-being. Personnel Psychology, 63, 407-436. Link.

Dimotakis, N., Scott, B. A., & Koopman, J. (2011). An experience sampling investigation of workplace interactions, affective states, and employee well-being. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32, 572-588. Link.

Performance, Motivation, and Behavior

Nederveen Pieterse, A., Hollenbeck, J., R., van Knippenberg, D., Spitzmuller, M., Dimotakis, N., Karam, E., & Sleesman, D. (2019). Hierarchical leadership versus self-management in teams: Goal orientation diversity as moderator of their relative effectiveness. The Leadership Quarterly, 30 (6), 1013-1043. Link.

Dimotakis, N. Mitchell, D., & Maurer, T. (2017). Assessment center feedback and future feedback seeking: Effects on career outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102, 1514-1527. Link.

Hannah, S. T., Schaubroeck, J. M., Peng, A., Avolio, B. J., Koslowski, S. W. J., Lord, R. G., Treviño, L. K., Dimotakis, N., & Doty, J. (2013). Joint influences of individual and work unit abusive supervision on ethical intentions and behavior: A moderated mediation model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 579-592. Link.

Schaubroeck, J. M., Hannah, S. T., Avolio, B. J., Koslowski, S. W. J., Lord, R. G., Treviño, L. K., Dimotakis, N., & Peng, A. (2012). Leader behavior and ethical culture influences on ethical thought and action. Academy of Management Journal, 55, 1053-1078. Link,

Spranger, J. L., Colarelli, S. M., Dimotakis, N., Jacob, A. C., & Arvey, R. D. (2012). Effects of kin density within family-owned businesses. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 119, 151-162. Link.

Judge, T. A., Ilies, R., & Dimotakis, N. (2010). Are health and happiness the product of wisdom? The relationship of general mental ability to educational and occupational attainment, health, and well-being. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95, 454-468. Link.

Research Methods

Dimotakis, N., Ilies, R., & Judge, T. A. (2013). Experience Sampling Methodology. In J.M. Cortina & R. Landis (Eds.), Modern Research Methods for the Study of Behavior in Organizations. New York: Routledge/Psychology Press. Link.