Burns, Gary
Gary Burns
Professor | College of Psychology and Liberal Arts: School of Psychology
Organizational Leadership Program Chair
Contact Information
Personal Overview
Gary Burns earned his Ph. D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Central Michigan University in 2006. Gary’s research focuses on measuring and predicting individual differences and developing a better understanding of how these differences are related to organizational behavior and decision-making. Applied projects focus on refining and developing performance management systems, developing leader-culture fit, and calibrating trust in human-machine teams. Gary is the director of the Social Cognitive and Sociotechnical Behavior Modeling Laboratory and the Workplace Personality Project. The purpose of the Workplace Personality Project is to promote research into the diverse roles of personality in the workplace to better inform practitioners about how to measure and account for personality. Gary previously as an associate editor with the European Journal of Psychological Assessment and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business and Psychology and the Journal of Personnel Assessment and Decisions.
Educational Background
Ph.D. Central Michigan University 2006
Professional Experience
Professor, School of Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, 2018 – Present
Organizational Leadership MA Program Chair, 2022 – Present
Head, School of Psychology, 2022 – 2023
Industrial and Organizational Psychology MS & PhD Program Chair 2018 – 2022
Current Courses
PSY 2512 Psychology Research Methods and Statistics 1
PSY 5101 Statistical Research Methods 1
PSY 5102 Statistical Research Methods 2
PSY 6405 Multivariate Statistics
PSY 6414 Hierarchical Linear Modeling
PSY 6415 Statistical Analysis with R
Selected Publications
Christiansen, N. D., Robie, C., Jeong, Y. R., Burns, G. N., Haaland, D. E., Kung, M., & Kinney, T. B. (In press). Departures from linearity as evidence of applicant distortion on personality tests. International Journal of Selection and Assessment.
Harrell, C. E., Burns, G. N., King, M. C., Ridgway, W. B., Vangara, K., Hesson, Z. B., Edkins, V. A., & Morgan III, C. A. (2024). Investigating the overlapping concepts of the Dark Core and the General Factor of Personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 225, 112650.
Burns, G. N., DeGennaro, M. P., Harrell, C. E., Morrison, P. J., Soda, L. M., & Walters, R. (2024). Emotional manipulation in the workplace: An investigation into the indirect effects of Machiavellianism on counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs). Personality and Individual Differences, 221, 112568.
Bowling, N. A., Eschleman, K. J., Zelazny, L., & Burns, G. (2023). Are curmudgeon personality scales resistant to response distortion?. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 31(1), 163-174.
Kinney, C., Weatherly, N., Burns, G., & Nicholson, K. (2023). Improving visual inspection, interrater agreement, and standardization with the graphic variability quotient. The Psychological Record, 73(1), 75-96.
Research
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Business and Psychology
Editorial Board Member, Personnel Assessment and Decisions
Advisor Board Member, Meta-Psychology