Brian Connelly

Bio

Brian Connelly is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management in the Department of Management at the University of Toronto-Scarborough, with a cross-appointment to the Organization Behavior and HR area at Rotman.  His research examines how organizations can best use personality measures to solve workplace challenges, particularly in employee selection and development. In current and on-going research, he has used personality ratings from others (e.g., one’s peers, friends, or family) to study the limitations of self-knowledge, how first impressions are formed, the way people “fake” personality measures and the structure of personality.

###Academic Positions###

2016 - present  Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Integrative Perspectives on Personality; University of Toronto

2015 - present  Associate Professor; University of Toronto

2010-2015  Assistant Professor; University of Toronto

2008-2010  Assistant Professor; University of Connecticut

Honors and Awards

2016  Canada Research Chair (Tier II)

2015  Early Career Award; Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation

2011  Joyce and Robert Hogan Award for the Best Paper on Personality and Work Performance; Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

2010  S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Award; Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

2009  J. S. Tanaka Personality Dissertation Award; Association for Research in Personality

Selected Publications - Papers

A multi-rater framework for studying personality: The Trait-Reputation-Identity Model McAbee, S. T. & Connelly, B. S. Psychological Review

Introducing the special issue on Openness to Experience: Review of Openness taxonomies, measurement, and nomological net Connelly, B. S., Ones, D. S., & Chernyshenko, O. Journal of Personality Assessment 2014

Balancing treatment and control groups in quasi-experiments: An introduction to propensity scoring Connelly, B. S., Sackett, P. R., & Waters, S. Personnel Psychology 2013

A Narrower Scope or a Clearer Lens for Personality? Examining Sources of Observers’ Advantages over Self-Reports for Predicting Performance Connelly, B. S. & Hülsheger, U. R. 2012

Mechanical versus clinical data combination in selection and admissions decisions Lievens, F., Buyse, T., Sackett, P. R., & Connelly, B. S. Journal of Applied Psychology 2012

Separating Method Factors and Higher Order Traits of the Big Five: A Meta-Analytic Multitrait–Multimethod Approach Chang, L., Connelly, B. S., & Geeza, A. A. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2012