Katie Ehrlich

Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program and Health Psychology, Developmental Psychology

Dr. Ehrlich will not be accepting applications for a graduate student for Fall 2026.

 

Health and Development Lab

Education:

Postdoc, Northwestern University (2012 - 2015)

Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park (2012)

M.S., University of Maryland, College Park (2008)

B.A., Washington & Lee University (2006)

Research Interests:

My research focuses on how children's social experiences shape their mental and physical health across the lifespan. My colleagues and I utilize a variety of research methods to evaluate social and emotional functioning, including structured behavioral observations, clinical interviews, self-reports, and performance-based tasks. In addition, we incorporate a number of health assessments, including clinical health measures and indices of cellular function.

Selected Publications:

Ehrlich, K. B., Lyle, S. M., Corallo, K. L., Brisson, J. B., Wiggins, E. R., Yu, T., Chen, E., Miller, G. E., & Brody, G. H. (2024). Socioeconomic disadvantage and high-effort coping in childhood: Evidence of skin-deep resilience. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 35, 358-364.

Ehrlich, K. B., Celia-Sanchez, M., Yu, T., Heard-Garris, N., Chen, E., Miller, G. E., & Brody, G. H. (2024). Exposure to parental depression in adolescence and proinflammatory phenotypes 20 years later. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 117, 196-203.

Ehrlich, K. B., Miller, G. E., Rogosch, F. A., & Cicchetti, D. (2021). Maltreatment exposure across childhood and low-grade inflammation: Considerations of cumulative exposure, timing, and sex differences. Developmental Psychobiology, 63, 529-537.

Ehrlich, K. B. (2020). How does the social world shape health across the lifespan? Insights and new directions. American Psychologist, 75, 1231-1241.

Other Affiliations:
Center for Family Research
Health and Development Lab

Kristen Shockley

Adjunct Associate Professor, Industrial-Organizational Program

My main area of research focuses on understanding the intersection of employees’ work and family lives. Specifically, I have conducted research aimed at understanding organizational initiatives to help employees managing competing life demands (i.e., flexible work arrangements); research that explores the relationship between work-family conflict and health outcomes, including eating behaviors and physiological indicators of health; research that addresses the theoretical foundations of work-family interactions; and research targeted at understanding how dual-earner couples balance work and family roles.

My secondary area of interest is in career development, with a specific focus on workplace and academic mentoring, people’s idiosyncratic definitions of career success, and the consequences of career compromise.

I am NOT accepting PhD students for Fall 2023.

 

Education:

Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of South Florida, 2010

M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of South Florida, 2007

B.S. in Psychology, University of Georgia, 2004

Selected Publications:

Recent Publications (see CV for full list and lab website for more information)

* indicates current or previous graduate students

Shockley, K.M., Allen, T.D.*, Dodd, H., Waiwood, A. (in press). Remote worker communication during COVID-19: The role of quantity, quality, and supervisor expectation-setting. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Way, J., Conway, J., Shockley, K.M., Lineberry, M. (in press; published online first). Predicting teamwork attitudes using Optimal Distinctiveness Theory. Small Groups. https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964211044812.

Hirschi, A., Zacher, H., Shockley, K.M. (in press; published online first). Whole-life career self-management: A conceptual framework. Career Development International. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845320957729

Shockley, K.M., Gabriel, A.S., Robertson, D., Chawla, N., Rosen, C.C., Ganster, M.L., & Erezins, M.E. (2021). The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings: A within-person field experiment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106 (8), 1137-1155.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000948.

Rudolph, C., Blake, A., Clark, M., Hertel, G., Hirschi, A., Kunze, F., Shockley, K., Shoss, M., Sonnentag, S., Zacher, H. (in press). COVID-19: Implications for research and practice in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.

            Author order was determined alphabetically (except the first author)

Shockley, K.M., Clark, M.A., Dodd, H.*, & King, E.B. (2021). Work-family strategies during COVID-19: Examining gender dynamics among dual-earner couples with young children. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106, 15-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000857

Eby, L.T, Shockley, K.M., Bauer, T., Edwards, B., Homan, A.C., Johnson, R.E., Lang, J., Morris, S., & Oswald, F.L. (in press). Methodological checklists for improving research quality and reporting consistency. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.

French, K.A. & Shockley, K.M. (in press). Formal and informal supports for managing work and family. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Allen, T.D., French, K. A., Dumani, S., & Shockley, K.M. (in press). A Cross-national meta-analytic examination of predictors and outcomes associated with work-family conflict. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Hirshi, A., Shockley, K.M., Zacher, H. (2019). An action regulation model of work-family management. Academy of Management Review, 44(1), 150-171.

*McMillan, J., Shockley, K.M., & Carter, D. (2018). Gender differences in SIOP research fellows’ publication networks. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 11(3), 439-448.

French, K.A., Dumani, S., Allen, T.D., & Shockley, K.M. (2018). A meta-analysis of work-family conflict and social support: Examining support source, support type, and national context. Psychological Bulletin, 144(3), 284-314.

Shockley, K.M. & Allen, T.D. (2018). It’s not what I expected: The association between dual-earner couples’ met expectations for the division of paid and family labor and well-being. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 104, 240-260.

Shockley, K.M., Shen, W., Denunzio, M.M.*, Arvan, M.L., & Knudsen, E.A.* (2017). Disentangling the relationship between gender and work-family conflict: An integration of theoretical perspectives using meta-analytic methods. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102 (12), 1601-1635.


****Designated as a Journal of Applied Psychology Monograph [Website states: “Monographs are substantial and significant contributions (as determined by the editorial team)”].

 ****Awarded 2018 Saroj Parasuraman Award (outstanding publication on gender and diversity in organizations) from the Gender and Diversity Divisions of the Academy of Management

 

Interested undergraduates or potential graduate students should contact me via email to discuss research opportunities.

Wendy Ruona

Part-time Clinical Assistant Professor
Industrial-Organizational Master's Program
Adjunt Instructor
Associate Professor, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, College of Education

Wendy E.A. Ruona, Ph.D. is currently a part of the Organization Development team at The Home Depot (corporate/Store Support Center) where she serves an internal consultant, partnering with business leaders to facilitate both small- and large-scale change that supports strategic alignment and high performance. Dr. Ruona began this role in 2022 as she follows her passion back into full-time practice after nearly 25-years as a faculty member at The University of Georgia, including teaching in the IOMP program since it was established.

Wendy’s work is devoted to developing (1) aligned organizational systems that are poised to achieve strategy, foster optimal organizational effectiveness, and be amazing places for employees to work and (2) the leaders needed to enable that. Her consulting and scholarly work has focused on: strategic planning, alignment, and implementation in organizations, the systems that support performance, talent management, organization development and change, and building the HRD profession (foundations and what is required for strategic alignment and contribution). She has published over 50 articles, chapters, and papers and received numerous awards recognizing her scholarship and service in HRD, including the Richard A. Swanson Research Award for Excellence and the Early Career Scholar Award.

Dr. Ruona served as President of the Academy of Human Resource Development (2016-2018) (Incoming President 2014-2016 and Past President 2018-2020) and was the Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Developing Human Resources.

Dr. Bonney Reed-Knight Receives 2016 APA Early Career Achievement Award

The psychology department would like to extend a big contratulations to one of our PhD alumni, Dr. Bonney Reed-Knight, for being awarded the 2016 APA Early Career Achivement Award. Dr. Reed-Knight is a pediatric psychologist of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University's School of Medicine. Great work, Dr. Reed-Knight!

Josh Miller Awarded the Theodore Millon Award in Personality Psychology

Congratulations to Dr. Josh Miller, who recently won the prestigious Theodore Millon Award in Personality Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation. This annual award honors an outstanding early- to mid-career psychologist engaged in advancing the science of personality psychology including the areas of personality, personality theory, personality disorders and personality measurement, according to the foundation. Click here to read more about this award and Dr.

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