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Douglas J. Brown

Douglas J. Brown

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Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
15037
World Ranking
6809
National Ranking
455

Overview

Douglas J. Brown is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research spans several fields with a primary focus on psychology and medicine. Within these domains, their work concentrates notably on social and organizational psychological aspects.

The main fields of study reflected in Brown's research include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Specific subfields of study where they have contributed research are:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Applied Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Their research covers key topics such as:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Thermal Regulation in Medicine

Douglas J. Brown has published papers in various academic venues, with some frequent publication outlets being:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
  • Human Performance
  • Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
  • Journal of Business and Psychology

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Are You Gossiping About Me? The Costs and Benefits of High Workplace Gossip Prevalence" (2020), Journal of Business and Psychology
  • "I can, I am: Differential predictors of leader efficacy and identity trajectories in leader development" (2020), The Leadership Quarterly
  • "Can two wrongs make a right? The buffering effect of retaliation on subordinate well-being following abusive supervision." (2021), Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
  • "Subordinate poor performance as a stressor on leader well-being: The mediating role of abusive supervision and the moderating role of motives for abuse." (2021), Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
  • "License to Retaliate: Good Deeds as a Moral License for Misdeeds in Reaction to Abusive Supervision" (2022), Human Performance

Frequent collaborators in Brown's research include:

  • Lindie H. Liang
  • Huiwen Lian
  • Winny Shen
  • Claudie Coulombe
  • Dan Ni

Best Publications

  • The Development and Validation of the Workplace Ostracism Scale

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

  • Leadership Processes and Follower Self-identity

    Robert G. Lord;Douglas J. Brown

  • Understanding the Dynamics of Leadership: The Role of Follower Self-Concepts in the Leader/Follower Relationship.

    Robert G Lord;Douglas J Brown;Steven J Freiberg

  • Leadership, values, and subordinate self-concepts

    Robert G Lord;Douglas J Brown

  • Examining the roles of job involvement and work centrality in predicting organizational citizenship behaviors and job performance

    James M. Diefendorff;Douglas J. Brown;Allen M. Kamin;Robert G. Lord

  • Contextual constraints on prototype generation and their multilevel consequences for leadership perceptions

    Robert G Lord;Douglas J Brown;Jennifer L Harvey;Rosalie J Hall

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

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

  • Proactive personality and the successful job search: A field investigation with college graduates.

    Douglas J. Brown;Richard T. Cober;Kevin Kane;Paul E. Levy

  • 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

  • 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

  • Organizational Web Sites: Web Site Content and Style as Determinants of Organizational Attraction

    Richard T. Cober;Douglas J. Brown;Paul E. Levy;Alana B. Cober

  • 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

  • Recruitment on the Net: How Do Organizational Web Site Characteristics Influence

    Richard T. Cober;Douglas J. Brown;Lisa M. Keeping;Paul E. Levy

  • Female first, leader second? Gender bias in the encoding of leadership behavior

    Kristyn A. Scott;Douglas J. Brown

  • Are Attention Check Questions a Threat to Scale Validity

    Franki Y.H. Kung;Navio Kwok;Douglas J. Brown

  • Abusive supervision and retaliation: A self-control framework

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

  • Elaborating the construct of transformational leadership: The role of affect

    Douglas J. Brown;Lisa M. Keeping

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

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

  • Moving beyond assumptions of deviance: The reconceptualization and measurement of workplace gossip.

    Daniel L. Brady;Douglas J. Brown;Lindie Hanyu Liang

  • 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

  • The Quest for the Qualified Job Surfer: It's Time the Public Sector Catches the Wave

    Richard T. Cober;Douglas J. Brown;Alana J. Blumental;Dennis Doverspike

Frequent Co-Authors

D. Lance Ferris
D. Lance Ferris University of Ottawa
Robert G. Lord
Robert G. Lord Durham University
Paul E. Levy
Paul E. Levy University of Akron
David Watson
David Watson University of Notre Dame
Russell E. Johnson
Russell E. Johnson Michigan State University
Michelle Duffy
Michelle Duffy University of Newcastle Australia
Bennett J. Tepper
Bennett J. Tepper The Ohio State University
Jiing-Lih Farh
Jiing-Lih Farh China Europe International Business School
James M. Diefendorff
James M. Diefendorff University of Akron

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