Scott Morris named a SIOP Fellow

Scott Morris, professor of psychology, was recent named a fellow of the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Fellows of SIOP are distinguished industrial and organizational psychologists who have made outstanding contributions to the field of I-O psychology.

Morris is actively involved in research on applied statistics and personnel selection. Much of his work involves the development of statistical methods. This includes methods of meta-analysis for program evaluation research, statistics for assessing the adverse impact of employee selection systems, and methods to evaluate the measurement equivalence of questionnaires. He also conducts research exploring issues of validity and discrimination in employee selection systems. Morris recently published a book on data analysis in the context of equal employment opportunity enforcement called Adverse Impact Analysis: Understanding Data, Statistics and Risk.