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Kevin R. Murphy
Professor of Psychology

Ph. D., Pennsylvania State University, 1979

Mailing 
Address 
Department of Psychology
The Pennsylvania State University
415 Moore Bldg and
431 Beam Bldg
University Park, PA 16802-3106
Phone  814 863-3373
814 865-4818
Fax  814 863-7002

Research Interests

Dr. Murphy's areas of research include personnel selection and placement, performance appraisal and honesty in the workplace. Current research projects focus on the role of contextual factors and rater goals on performance evaluations. Kevin is the Editor of Journal of Applied Psychology, and serves as a member of the editorial boards of Human Performance, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Industrial Psychology, International Journal of Management Reviews and International Journal of Selection and Assessment.


Recent Publications

Campion, M.A., Outtz, J.L., Zedeck. S., Schmidt, F.L., Kehoe, J.F., Murphy, K.R. & Guion, R.M. (2001). The controversy over score banding in personnel selection: Answers to 10 key questions. Personnel Psychology, 54, 149-186.

Beaty, J.C., Cleveland, J.N. & Murphy, K.R. (2001). The relationship between personality and contextual performance in "strong" versus "weak" situations. Human Performance, 14, 125-148.

Tziner, A., Murphy, K.R. & Cleveland, J.N. (2001). Relationships between attitudes toward organizations and performance appraisal systems and rating behavior. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 9, 226-239.

Murphy, K., Cleveland, J. & Mohler, C. (2001). Reliability, validity and meaningfulness of multisource ratings. In D. Bracken, C. Timmreck and A. Church (Eds). Handbook of MultiSource Feedback (pp. 130-148). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

Murphy, K. (2002). Using power analysis to evaluate and improve research. In S. Rogleberg (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (pp. 119-137). Malden, MA: Blackwell

Murphy, K. (2002). Can conflicting perspectives on the role of "g" in personnel selection be resolved? Human Performance, 15, 173-186.

Tziner, A., Murphy, K. & Cleveland, J. (2002). Does conscientiousness moderate the relationship between attitudes and beliefs regarding performance appraisal and rating behavior? International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 10, 218-224.

Murphy, K. (2003). Validity generalization: A critical review. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Murphy, K. & Myors, B. (2003) Statistical power analysis: A simple and general model for traditional and modern hypothesis tests (2nd Ed). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Murphy, K.R., Cronin, B. & Tam, A.P. (In press). Controversy and consensus regarding the use of cognitive ability testing in organizations. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Murphy, K.R., Cleveland, J.N., Skattebo, A.L. & Kinney, T.B., (In press). Raters Who pursue different goals give different ratings. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Dr. Kevin Murphy

krmurphy@psu.edu

Industrial/Organizational Area