EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Wayne State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Organizational behavior
• Union-management psychology
• Cross-level research
• Quasi-experimental designs

RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES

Mark, M.M., Reiter, R., Eyssell, K. M., Cohen,L., & Mellor, S. (in press). "I couldn't have seen it coming": The impact of negative self-relevant outcomes on retrospections about foreseeability. Memory.

Mellor, S., Kath, L. M., & Bulger, C. A. (2003). Bilingualism: Relationships with willingness to participate in union activities. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 25, 95-109.

Mellor, S., Holzworth, R. J., & Conway, J. M. (2003). Individual unionization decisions: A multilevel model of cost-benefit influences. Experimental Psychology, 50,142-154.

O'Shea, D. A., Mellor, S., Holzworth, R. J., & LaHuis, D. M. (2002). On becoming a replacement worker: Financial need in relation to vacated positions, strike publicity, number of strikers, and threat of violence. Journal of Threat Assessment, 2, 67-84.

LaHuis, D. M. & Mellor, S. (2001). Antiunion and prounion attitudes as predicctors of college students' willingness to join a union. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 135, 661-681.

Mellor, S., Mathieu, J. E., Barnes-Farrell, J. L., & Rogelberg, S. G. (2001). Employees' nonwork obligations and organizational commitments: A new way to look at the relationships. Human Resource Management Journal, 40, 75-88.

Mellor, S., Barnes-Farrell, J. L., & Stanton, J. M. (1999). Unions as justice-promoting organizations: The interactive effect of ethnicity, gender, and perceived union effectiveness. Sex Roles, 40, 331-346.

Mellor, S., & Mathieu, J. E. (1999). A discriminant validity study of aggregate level constructs and measures of local union formalization, centralization, and innovation. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 133, 1-14.

Mellor, S., Paley, M. J., & Holzworth, R. J. (1999). Fans' judgments about the 1994-95 Major League Baseball players' strike. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 34, 61-89.

ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW

Carlson, J. H., & Mellor, S. How to design a satisfying job: Self-Definition and gender in relation to ethic of care opportunity and self-actualization opportunity. Psychology of Women Quarterly.

Barclay, L. A., Mellor, S., Bulger, C. A., & Kath, L. M. Augmenting the effects of verbal persuasion and vicarious experience on self-efficacy to be a union steward: Gender similarity in a union environment. Journal of Applied Psychology.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Mellor, S., Bulger, C. A., & Kath, L. M. Becoming a union steward: Gender, ethnicity, and one-on-one contact with a steward.

Mellor, S. Crossing the picket line: The moderating effect of financial need on threat of retribution and the decision to cross.

Swody, C. A., & Mellor, S. A causal explanation for preference for interactive leadership: Managers¹ relational self-definition and fear of social isolation as a function of work involvement.