Richard N. Landers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Primary Investigator of TNTLab
Old Dominion University
rnlanders@odu.edu

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Areas of Research:

• The Use of Technology to Improve Work
• Web-based Training and Educational Programs
• Unproctored Internet Testing
• Training through Augmented Reality
• Social Networks and Online Communities
• Virtual Worlds as Training Settings
• Web-based Mentoring Systems

Education:

• Ph.D. Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  Dissertation: Traditional, web-based, and hybrid instruction: A comparison of training methods. PDF
• B.A. Psychology, summa cum laude, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Online Project Pages:

• ODU-SLRF: The Old Dominion University Second Life Research Facility
• FILEDRAWER.ORG: An Unpublished Papers Database in Psychology
• PSYCHTESTING.ORG: Online Survey Research Tool
• The Research Explicator from oNline Databases (TREND) Tool (Software: Currently v1.21)
• A Quantitative Examination of Research Trends in I/O Psychology 2001 - 2005
• Pearson's r Correlation Simulator

Publications:

• Landers, R. N., Sackett, P. R., & Tuzinski, K. A. (R&R). Retesting after initial failure, coaching rumors, and warnings against faking in using personality measures for selection. Journal of Applied Psychology.
• Landers, R. N. (2009). A quantitative examination of trends in I/O psychology 2001-2005. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 9, 287-298.
• Zapata-Sola, A., Kreuch, T., Landers, R. N., Hoyt, T., & Butcher, J. N. (2009). Clinical personality assessment in personnel selection using the MMPI-2: A cross-cultural comparison. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 9, 287-298.
• Landers, R. N. (2008). Online social context does not imply social constructivism: A case for clear operationalization. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 1, 476-478.
• Landers, R. N. (2008). TREND: A tool for rapid online research literature analysis and quantification. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 665-672.
• Berry, C. M., Landers, R. N. & Sackett, P. R. (2007). Revisiting interview-cognitive ability relationships: Attending to specific range restriction mechanisms in meta-analysis. Personnel Psychology, 60, 837-874.
• Sackett, P. R., Lievens, F., Berry, C. M. & Landers, R. N. (2007). A cautionary note on range restriction and predictor intercorrelations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 538-544.
• Landers, R. N. & Lounsbury, J. W. (2006). An investigation of Big Five and Narrow personality traits in relation to Internet usage. Computers in Human Behavior, 22, 283-293.

Presentations:

• Landers, R.N. (2010, April). On the meta-analysis of non-random, quasi-experimental data. Poster presented at the 25th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
• Landers, R. N. (2009, October). Using social networking and learner-centered measurement in automated social mentoring systems. Poster to be presented at the 14th annual World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education, Vancouver, Canada.
• Landers, R. N. (2009, April). Quasi-experimentation masks the differences between web-based and traditional training. Poster presented at the 24th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
• Landers, R. N. & Sackett, P. R. (2009, April). Applicant pool increases counter cheating in unproctored Internet testing. Poster presented at the 24th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
• Landers, R. N. (2008, November). ViziStats: Instructor-less animated statistics instruction with real data in real time. Poster presented at the 38th annual conference of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Chicago, IL.
• Landers, A. K. & Landers, R. N. (2008, November). Synchronous vs. asynchronous discussion in a hybrid undergraduate course. Paper presented at the 13th annual World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education, Las Vegas, NV.
• Landers, R. N. (2008, November). Traditional and web-based instruction: An investigative follow-up to Sitzmann et al. (2006). Paper presented at the 13th annual World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education, Las Vegas, NV.
• Landers, R. N., Tobares, V., & Sackett, P. R. (2008, August). The many dimensions of assessment centers: Current design trends. Poster presented at the 116th annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
• Landers, R. N. (2008, April). Quantitative examination of trends in I/O psychology 2001 - 2005. Poster presented at the 23rd annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Francisco, CA.
• Landers, R. N. (2007, November). TREND: A tool for rapid online research literature analysis and quantification. Paper presented at the 37th annual conference of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Long Beach, CA. Winner of the 2007 Castellan Award for Outstanding Student Paper at the 2007 Conference.
• Landers, R. N., Tuzinski, K. & Sackett, P. R. (2007, August). Tracking the spread of blatant extreme responding: An expanding virus. Poster presented at the 115th annual conference of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
• Waters, S. N., Landers, R. N., Brenckman, N. & Sackett, P. R. (2007, April). Influence of Subject Matter Expert (SME) personality on job analysis ratings. Poster presented at the 22nd annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York, NY.
• Berry, C. M., Landers, R. N. & Sackett, P. R. (2006, April). Comprehensive meta-analysis of interview-ability correlations: Less related than we thought. Paper presented in the symposium, “New insights into constructs underlying structured interview performance and validity” (Kerri L. Ferstl, Chair) at the 21st annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas, TX.
• Berry, C. M., Sackett, P. R., Lievens, F., & Landers, R.N. (2005, April). A cautionary note on range restriction and predictor intercorrelations. Poster presented at the 20th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.

Professional Positions:

• Old Dominion University (2009 - present)
  Assistant Professor, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• Modern Survey, Inc. (2005 - present)
  Research Associate and Consultant
• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2006 - 2009)
  Instructor, Psychology 2801: Introduction to Statistics in Psychology
  Instructor, Psychology 3711: Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Affiliations:

• Academy of Management (AOM)
• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) (APA Div. 14)
• Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP)
• Division of International Psychology (APA Div. 52)
• American Psychological Association (APA)
• American Psychological Society (APS)