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The effects of contracting Covid-19 on cognitive failures at work: implications for task performance and turnover intentions by Beck, James W., Flow, Arden

“…Individuals who contract Covid-19 often experience problems with memory, attention, and concentration, even after recovering from the initial illness. In the…”
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Interpreting time-series COVID data: reasoning biases, risk perception, and support for public health measures by Harman, Jason L., Weinhardt, Justin M., Beck, James W., Mai, Ivy

“…Effective risk communication during the COVID-19 pandemic is critical for encouraging appropriate public health behaviors. One way that the public is informed…”
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Negative Relationships Between Self-Efficacy and Performance Can Be Adaptive: The Mediating Role of Resource Allocation by Beck, James W., Schmidt, Aaron M.

“…This research speaks to the ongoing debate regarding the role of self-efficacy in self-regulation. Specifically, we argue that both positive and negative…”
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Why Do You Ask? The Effects of Perceived Motives on the Effort that Managers Allocate Toward Delivering Feedback by Minnikin, Amy, Beck, James W., Shen, Winny

“…Although people are generally motivated to perform well at work, there is often ambiguity regarding whether they are meeting their organization’s standards. As…”
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Why Do People (Not) Take Breaks? An Investigation of Individuals’ Reasons for Taking and for Not Taking Breaks at Work by Phan, Vincent, Beck, James W.

“…Although breaks can help employees stay energized and maintain high levels of performance throughout the day, employees sometimes refrain from taking a break…”
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Goal Progress Velocity as a Determinant of Shortcut Behaviors by Phan, Vincent, Nishioka, Midori, Beck, James W., Scholer, Abigail A.

“…Employees often have a great deal of work to accomplish within stringent deadlines. Therefore, employees may engage in shortcut behaviors, which involve…”
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Moderation in all things, except when it comes to workplace safety: Accidents are most likely to occur under moderately hazardous work conditions by Beck, James W., Nishioka, Midori, Scholer, Abigail A., Beus, Jeremy M.

“…In this article, we argue that the relationship between workplace hazardousness and accidents is best characterized as an inverted‐U, such that accidents are…”
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The Effects of US Presidential Elections on Work Engagement and Job Performance by Beck, James W., Shen, Winny

“…We predicted that presidential election results would spill over to influence the work domain. Individuals who voted for the winning candidate were expected to…”
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Divergent Effects of Distance Versus Velocity Disturbances on Emotional Experiences During Goal Pursuit by Beck, James W, Scholer, Abigail A, Hughes, Jeffrey

“…Disturbances are factors outside of a person's control that influence goal progress. Although disturbances are typically included in theoretical accounts of…”
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State-Level Goal Orientations as Mediators of the Relationship Between Time Pressure and Performance: A Longitudinal Study by BECK, James W, SCHMIDT, Aaron M

“…Goal orientations-the degree to which individuals are concerned with developing new skills, demonstrating already developed skills, and avoiding appearing…”
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Efficient Proximal Resource Allocation Strategies Predict Distal Team Performance: Evidence From the National Hockey League by Beck, James W., Schmidt, Aaron M., Natali, Michael W.

“…To achieve long-term goals, individuals, teams, and organizations must engage in numerous short-term performance episodes. This creates a trade-off between…”
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Development and Validation of the State Regulatory Focus Scale by Gödöllei, Anna F., Beck, James W.

“…Promotion- and prevention-focused regulation influence a variety of workplace behaviors, including innovation and safety performance. Although regulatory foci…”
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Insecure or optimistic? Employees’ diverging appraisals of automation, and consequences for job attitudes by Gödöllei, Anna F., Beck, James W.

“…Automation may have varied consequences on individual workers, ranging from job loss to enhanced productivity. Although some of these disruptions may be…”
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Taken out of context? Cross-level effects of between-person self-efficacy and difficulty on the within-person relationship of self-efficacy with resource allocation and performance by Beck, James W., Schmidt, Aaron M.

“…► Two studies examined within-person self-efficacy effects on resource allocation. ► People with high vs. low absolute efficacy respond differently to efficacy…”
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On the Distribution of Job Performance: The Role of Measurement Characteristics in Observed Departures from Normality by Beck, James W., Beatty, Adam S., Sackett, Paul R.

“…In a recent article, O'Boyle and Aguinis () argued that job performance is not distributed normally but instead is nonnormal and highly skewed. However, we…”
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The Impact of Goal Progress Velocity on Affect While Pursuing Multiple Sequential Goals by Phan, Vincent, Beck, James W

“…Past research has identified velocity (i.e., rate of goal progress) as a determinant of individuals' affective experiences during goal pursuit. Specifically,…”
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Workload, Risks, and Goal Framing as Antecedents of Shortcut Behaviors by Beck, James W., Scholer, Abigail A., Schmidt, Aaron M.

“…Purpose Shortcut behaviors are methods of completing a task that require less time than typical or standard procedures. These behaviors carry the benefit of…”
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What have you done for me lately? Charisma attenuates the decline in U.S. presidential approval over time by Beck, James W., Carr, Alison E., Walmsley, Philip T.

“…Using archival data for a sample of U.S. presidents, evidence was found for a honeymoon and hangover effect in approval ratings over time. That is,…”
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Short-Term Effects of Hurricane Disturbance on Food Availability for Migrant Songbirds During Autumn Stopover by Dobbs, Robert C., Barrow, Wylie C., Jeske, Clinton W., DiMiceli, Jennifer, Michot, Thomas C., Beck, James W.

“…Understanding the consequences of hurricanes on the food resources available to neotropical-nearctic migrant songbirds may provide important insight into the…”
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Reconsidering the Trade-off Between Speed and Accuracy: The Role of Perceived Goal Progress Velocity by Beck, James W., Scholer, Abigail A., Hughes, Jeffrey, Phan, Vincent

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