Brandon Smit

Education

• Saint Louis University - Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Industrial/Organizational Psychology 2010 - 2014
• Saint Louis University - Master's Degree, Industrial/Organizational Psychology 2008 - 2010
• Saint Louis University - B.A., Psychology 2005 - 2008

Teaching Interests

Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management

Research Interests

Work-life balance, psychological detachment and recovery; stress and coping; pay secrecy

Awards and Honors

1. 2015, Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management - Organizational Behavior Division

Publications

Journal Articles

• Smit, B., Lawson, K. (2022). Growth Mindsets Increase Flexible Work Arrangement Attractiveness: A Policy-Capturing Study. Personnel Review.
• Smit, B., Stavrulaki, E. (2021). The efficacy of a mindfulness-based intervention for college students under extremely stressful conditions. Mindfulness. 12 1-15.
• Montag-Smit, T., Smit, B. (2020). What are you hiding? Employee Attributions for Pay Secrecy Policies. Human Resource Management Journal. (Link)
• Smit, B., Montag-Smit, T. (2019). The Pay Transparency Dilemma: Development and Validation of the Pay Information Exchange Preferences Scale. Journal of Applied Psychology.
• Smit, B., Montag-Smit, T. (2018). The Role of Pay Secrecy Policies and Employee Secrecy Preferences in Shaping Job Attitudes. Human Resource Management Journal.
• Smit, B. (2016). Successfully leaving work at work: The self-regulatory underpinnings of psychological detachment. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
• Smit, B., Barber, L. (2016). Psychologically detaching despite high workloads: The role of attentional processes. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
• Smit, B., Ryan, L., Nelson, C. (2016). Does job autonomy increase or decrease negative emotional displays from service workers? A test of competing hypotheses. Journal of Personnel Psychology.
• Smit, B., Maloney, P., Maertz, C., Montag-Smit, T. (2016). Out of sight, out of mind? How and when cognitive role transition episodes influence employee performance. Human Relations.
• Barber, L., Smit, B. (2014). Using the networked fire chief for ego-depletion research: Measuring dynamic decision-making effort and performance.. Journal of Social Psychology.

Book Chapters

• Barber, L., Smit, B., Shoss, M. (2014). The case of Mondays: Examining workplace rumors about stress In , (Eds.) Research in organizational sciences. Received wisdom, kernels of truth, and boundary conditions in organizational studies. IAP Information Age Publishing