Go back

Dr. David R. Earnest

Dr. David Earnest
Assistant Professor of Psychological Science & Counseling &
M.S. Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program
Austin Peay State University
earnestd@apsu.edu 
I-O Psychology at APSU

I received my Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with a concentration in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from The University of Memphis in 2010. Before joining APSU as an adjunct faculty member in the I-O Master’s program, I taught undergraduate and graduate courses for 9 years in the Psychology department at Towson University in Maryland. My teaching interests include courses in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Behavioral Statistics, Research Methodology, and Study Abroad. Applied experiences have included recruitment and selection procedures, program evaluation, and experimental methodology across business, health care, education, civil service, and military environments. My research interests include recruitment and selection, intercultural competencies, and teaching pedagogy.

 

Teaching

I currently teach:

I am accepting students to work with me on research projects and am willing to serve on thesis committees.

Publications

Schmidt, C. K., Earnest, D. R., Miles, J. R. (In Press). Expanding the reach of Intergroup Dialogue: A quasi-experimental study of two teaching methods for undergraduate multicultural courses. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.

Katz, E. C., Earnest, D. R., Lewis, C. (2018). Impact on negative mood and craving of a classroom policy prohibiting mobile technology use. Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s41347-017-0042-2

Stansbury, J. A., & Earnest, D. R. (2017). Meaningful gamification in an industrial organizational psychology course. Teaching of Psychology, 44(1), 38-45. doi: 10.1177/0098628316677645

Earnest, D. R., Rosenbusch, K., Wallace-Williams, D., Keim, A. C. (2016). Study Abroad in Psychology: Increasing cultural competencies through experiential learning. Teaching of Psychology, 43(1), 75-79. doi: 10.1177/0098628315620889

Rosenbusch, K., Cerny, L., & Earnest, D. R. (2015). The impact of stressors during international assignments. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, 22(3), 405-430. doi: 10.1108/CCM-09-2013-0134

Earnest, D. R. (2014). Realistic Job Previews. In D. Guest, & D. Needle (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopedia of Management: Human Resource Management. (3rd ed., Vol. 5).

Earnest, D. R., & Landis, R. S. (2014). The importance of applicant perceptions when recruiting employees to teams. International Journal of Business and Social Sciences, 5(2), 81-91.

Keim, A. C., Landis, R. S., Pierce, C. A, & Earnest, D. R. (2014). Why do employees worry about their jobs? A meta-analytic review of predictors of job insecurity. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 19(3), 269-290. doi: 10.1037/a0036743

Landis, R. S., Earnest, D. R., & Allen, D. G. (2013). Realistic Job Previews: Past, Present, and Future. In K. Y. T. Yu, & D. Cable (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Recruitment (pp. 423-436). New York: Oxford University Press.

Earnest, D. R., Allen, D. G., & Landis, R. S. (2011). Mechanisms linking realistic job previews with turnover: A meta-analytic path analysis. Personnel Psychology, 64, 865-897. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2011.01230.x

Earnest, D. R., & Dwyer, W. O. (2010). In their own words: An online strategy for increasing stresscoping skills among college freshmen. College Student Journal, 44(4), 888-900.