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D. Lance Ferris

D. Lance Ferris

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Psychology

D-Index
34
Citations
10584
World Ranking
10017
National Ranking
696

Overview

D. Lance Ferris is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada and contributes to research primarily in the areas of organizational behavior, social psychology, and applied psychology. Their work focuses on themes such as job satisfaction, ethics in business and education, social and intergroup psychology, behavioral health and interventions, death anxiety and social exclusion, attachment and relationship dynamics, and management theory and practice.

The scientist has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals, with a notable presence in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Other publication venues include the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Group & Organization Management, Human Performance, and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ferris include the following:

  • The PCMT model of organizational support: An integrative review and reconciliation of the organizational support literature. (2021, Journal of Applied Psychology)
  • Can two wrongs make a right? The buffering effect of retaliation on subordinate well-being following abusive supervision. (2021, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology)
  • Does Value Similarity Matter? Influence of Ethical Leadership on Employee Engagement and Deviance. (2022, Group & Organization Management)
  • License to Retaliate: Good Deeds as a Moral License for Misdeeds in Reaction to Abusive Supervision. (2022, Human Performance)
  • My manager endorsed my coworkers' voice: Understanding observers' positive and negative reactions to managerial endorsement of coworker voice. (2024, Journal of Applied Psychology)

Frequent co-authors of Ferris include:

  • Russell E. Johnson
  • E. C. Poulton
  • James Garrett Matusik
  • Shereen Fatimah
  • Hun Whee Lee

Ferris's research spans several subfields of study, including organizational behavior and human resource management, social psychology, information systems and management, sociology and political science, and applied psychology.

The scientist's main topics of work cover:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Management Theory and Practice

Best Publications

  • A Review of Self-Determination Theory’s Basic Psychological Needs at Work

    Anja Van den Broeck;Anja Van den Broeck;D. Lance Ferris;Chu Hsiang Chang;Christopher C. Rosen

  • The Development and Validation of the Workplace Ostracism Scale

    D. Lance Ferris;Douglas J. Brown;Joseph W. Berry;Huiwen Lian

  • Core Self-Evaluations: A Review and Evaluation of the Literature

    Chu Hsiang Chang;D. Lance Ferris;Russell E. Johnson;Christopher C. Rosen

  • Does Power Distance Exacerbate or Mitigate the Effects of Abusive Supervision? It Depends on the Outcome

    Huiwen Lian;D. Lance Ferris;Douglas J. Brown

  • Does taking the good with the bad make things worse? How abusive supervision and leader–member exchange interact to impact need satisfaction and organizational deviance

    Huiwen Lian;D. Lance Ferris;Douglas J. Brown

  • Lost sleep and cyberloafing: Evidence from the laboratory and a daylight saving time quasi-experiment.

    David T. Wagner;Christopher M. Barnes;Vivien K. G. Lim;D. Lance Ferris

  • Antecedents and consequences of the frequency of upward and downward social comparisons at work

    Douglas J. Brown;D. Lance Ferris;Daniel Heller;Lisa M. Keeping

  • Ostracism, Self-Esteem, and Job Performance: When Do We Self-Verify and When Do We Self-Enhance?

    D. Lance Ferris;Huiwen Lian;Douglas J. Brown;Rachel Morrison

  • Organizational Supports and Organizational Deviance: The Mediating Role of Organization-Based Self-Esteem

    D. Lance Ferris;Douglas J. Brown;Daniel Heller

  • Abusive supervision and retaliation: A self-control framework

    Huiwen Lian;Douglas J. Brown;D. Lance Ferris;Lindie H. Liang

  • Ostracism and prosocial behavior: A social dilemma perspective.

    Daniel Balliet;Daniel Balliet;D.Lance Ferris

  • Interpersonal Injustice and Workplace Deviance: The Role of Esteem Threat

    D. Lance Ferris;Jeffrey R. Spence;Douglas J. Brown;Daniel Heller

  • Self-Love's Lost Labor: A Self-Enhancement Model of Workplace Incivility

    Yuanyi Chen;D. Lance Ferris;Ho Kwong Kwan;Ming Yan

  • APPROACH OR AVOIDANCE (OR BOTH?): INTEGRATING CORE SELF-EVALUATIONS WITHIN AN APPROACH/AVOIDANCE FRAMEWORK

    D. Lance Ferris;Christopher R. Rosen;Russell E. Johnson;Douglas J. Brown

  • Why Are Abusive Supervisors Abusive? A Dual-system Self-control Model

    Lindie H. Liang;Huiwen Lian;Douglas J. Brown;D. Lance Ferris

  • Blame it on the supervisor or the subordinate? Reciprocal relations between abusive supervision and organizational deviance.

    Huiwen Lian;D. Lance Ferris;Rachel Morrison;Douglas J. Brown

  • SELF-ESTEEM AND JOB PERFORMANCE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF SELF-ESTEEM CONTINGENCIES

    D. Lance Ferris;Huiwen Lian;Douglas J. Brown;Fiona X. J. Pang

  • When is success not satisfying? Integrating regulatory focus and approach/avoidance motivation theories to explain the relation between core self-evaluation and job satisfaction

    D Lance Ferris;Russell E Johnson;Christopher C Rosen;Emilija Djurdjevic

  • An approach-avoidance framework of workplace aggression

    D. Lance Ferris;Ming Yan;Vivien K. G. Lim;Yuanyi Chen

  • When does self-esteem relate to deviant behavior? The role of contingencies of self-worth.

    D. Lance Ferris;Douglas J. Brown;Huiwen Lian;Lisa M. Keeping

  • Self-Control at Work

    Huiwen Lian;Kai Chi Yam;D. Lance Ferris;Douglas Brown

  • RESEARCH REPORT Lost Sleep and Cyberloafing: Evidence From the Laboratory and a Daylight Saving Time Quasi-Experiment

    David T. Wagner;Christopher M. Barnes;Vivien K. G. Lim;D. Lance Ferris

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas J. Brown
Douglas J. Brown University of Waterloo
Russell E. Johnson
Russell E. Johnson Michigan State University
Vivien K. G. Lim
Vivien K. G. Lim National University of Singapore
Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Chu-Hsiang Chang
Chu-Hsiang Chang Michigan State University
Daniel Balliet
Daniel Balliet Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michelle Duffy
Michelle Duffy University of Newcastle Australia
David Watson
David Watson University of Notre Dame
Daan van Knippenberg
Daan van Knippenberg Rice University

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