Selected Publications
Converse, P. D., Oswald, F. L., Gillespie, M. A., Field, K. A., & Bizot, E. B. (2004). Matching individuals to occupations using aptitudes and the O*NET: Issues and an application in career guidance. Personnel Psychology, 57, 451-487.
Converse, P. D., Oswald, F. L., Imus, A., Hedricks, C., Roy, R., & Butera, H. (2006). Forcing choices in personality measurement: Benefits and limitations. In R. L. Griffith & M. H. Peterson (Eds.), A closer examination of applicant faking behavior (pp. 263-282). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Converse, P. D., Wolfe, E. W., Huang, X., & Oswald, F. L. (2008). Response rates for mixed-mode surveys using mail and email/web. American Journal of Evaluation, 29, 99-107.
Converse, P. D., Oswald, F. L., Imus, A., Hedricks, C., Roy, R., & Butera, H. (2008). Comparing personality test formats and warnings: Effects on criterion-related validity and test-taker reactions. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 16, 155-169.
Converse, P. D., & DeShon, R. P. (2009). A tale of two tasks: Reversing the self-regulatory resource depletion effect. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 1318-1324.
Converse, P. D., Steinhauser, E., & Pathak, J. (2010). Individual differences in reactions to goal-performance discrepancies over time. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 138-143.
Griffith, R. L., & Converse, P. D. (2011). The rules of evidence and the prevalence of applicant faking. In M. Ziegler, C. MacCann, & R. D. Roberts (Eds.), New perspectives on faking in personality assessments (pp. 34-52). New York: Oxford University Press.
Converse, P. D., Pathak, J., DePaul-Haddock, A. M., Gotlib, T., & Merbedone, M. (2012). Controlling your environment and yourself: Implications for career success. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 80, 148-159.
Converse, P. D., Miloslavic, S. A., Lockamy, C. N., Sudduth, M. M., Piccone, K., Pathak, J., & DePaul-Haddock, A. M. (2013). Within-person variability in goal content and goal frame: Amount, patterns, antecedents, and consequences of variation in goal orientation over time. Human Performance, 26, 374-389.
Converse, P. D., & Oswald, F. L. (2014). Thinking ahead: Assuming linear versus nonlinear personality-criterion relationships in personnel selection. Human Performance, 27, 61-79.
Converse, P. D., Piccone, K., & Tocci, M. C. (2014). Childhood self-control, adolescent behavior, and career success. Personality and Individual Differences, 59, 65-70.
Converse, P. D., Thackray, M., Piccone, K., Sudduth, M. M., Tocci, M. C., & Miloslavic, S. A. (2016). Integrating self-control with physical attractiveness and cognitive ability to examine pathways to career success. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 89, 73-91.
Brown, R. D., Oswald, F. L., & Converse, P. D. (2017). Estimating operational validity under incidental range restriction: Some important but neglected issues. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 22(6).
Converse, P. D., Beverage, M. S., Vaghef, K., & Moore, L. S. (2018). Self-control over time: Implications for work, relationship, and well-being outcomes. Journal of Research in Personality, 73, 82-92.
Braun, M. T., Converse, P. D., & Oswald, F. L. (2019). The accuracy of dominance analysis as a metric to assess relative importance: The joint impact of sampling error variance and measurement unreliability. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104, 593-602.
Converse, P. D., Ponto, S. J., Merlini, K. P., Thackray, M., Desai, P., Tocci, M. C., & Beverage, M. S. (2019). Task type and resource allocation patterns in multiple‐task self‐regulation. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 68, 53-82.
Moon, N. A., Converse, P. D., Merlini, K. P., & Vaghef, K. (2020). The role of off-task thoughts and behaviors in linking self-control with achievement-related and well-being outcomes. Journal of Research in Personality, 86, 103935.
Vaghef, K., Converse, P. D., Merlini, K. P., & Moon, N. A. (2021). Ya gotta wanna: Shifting motivational priorities in the self‐control process. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 5, 564-575.
Merlini, K. P., Converse, P. D., Richard, E., & Belluccia, A. (2023). Pulled in two directions: How affect activation predicts resource allocation among multiple goals. In A.C. Troth, N.M. Ashkanasy, & R.H. Humphrey (Eds.), Research on emotion in organizations (Vol. 18, pp. 143-167). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Ponto, S. J., Converse, P. D., & Milosevic, M. (2023). Self‐concept and organizational citizenship behaviors from a self‐regulatory perspective. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 53, 355-367.
