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Associate Professor, Department of Management, Monte Ahuja College of Business

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Present	Associate Professor, Management & Labor, Cleveland State University ‐ Monte Ahuja College of Business
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Business, Human Resources Management, and Organizational Behavior and Theory

The most powerful variable in social science (IQ). The structure of general intelligence. The cognitive science of general mental ability. The role of GMA in work settings. GMA as a predictor of work and societal outcomes.

Dept: Management & Labor
Office: BU 439
Phone: 216-687-4749
Email: B.PESTA@csuohio.edu
Address: 2121 Euclid Ave. BU 439, Cleveland, OH 44115

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Articles (8)

Nonverbal Emotion Recognition and Performance: Differences Matter Differently

Journal of Managerial Psychology (2011)

Susan F Storrud-Barnes, William H. Bommer and Byran J. Pesta

Purpose - This paper aims to explore and test the relationship between emotion recognition skill and assessment center performance after ...

Toward an index of well-being for the 50 U.S ...

Intelligence (2010)

We can't get no (life) satisfaction: Comment on Oswald ...

Intelligence (2010)

The Wonderlic Personnel Test and elementary cognitive tasks as predictors ...

Intelligence (2009)

The inspection time and over-claiming tasks as predictors of MBA ...

Personality and individual differences (2009)

Black-White differences on IQ and grades: The mediating role of ...

Intelligence (2008)

Sex differences on elementary cognitive tasks despite no differences on ...

Personality and individual differences (2008)

Are emotionally charged lures immune to false memory?

Putting Spearman's Hypothesis to Work: Job IQ as a ...

Open Differential Psychology (2016)

Bryan J. Pesta and Peter Poznanski

Job complexity and employee intelligence covary strongly. Likewise, race differences exist on mean IQ / g scores. Spearman’s hypothesis predicts ...

Discounting IQ's Relevance To Organizational Behavior: The "Somebody Else ...

Open Differential Psychology (2015)

Bryan J. Pesta, Michael A. McDaniel, Peter J. Poznanski and Timothy DeGroot

We hypothesize the existence of a “somebody else’s problem” in management education for the subdiscipline of organizational behavior (OB). The ...

Big Data And The Well-Being Nexus: Tracking Google Search Activity ...

Intelligence (2015)

Michael A. McDaniel, Bryan J. Pesta and Allison S. Gabriel

In the era of “big data,” internet search activity can provide interesting insight into human behavior. Here we used the ...

Only In America: Cold Winters Theory, Race, IQ, And Well-Being

Intelligence (2014)

Bryan J. Pesta and Peter J. Poznanski

ColdWinters Theory (CWT; Lynn, 1991) offers a viable explanation for race differences in intelligence. It proposes that IQ gaps exist ...

State IQ, Well-Being and Racial Composition as Predictors of U ...

Intelligence (2014)

Bryan J. Pesta and Michael A. McDaniel

We report state-level relationships between measures of well-being (e.g., IQ, income) and racial minority composition as predictors of this century's ...

Differential Epidemiology: IQ, Neuroticism, And Chronic Disease By The 50 ...

Intelligence (2012)

Bryan J. Pesta, Sharon Bertsch, Michael A. McDaniel and Christine B. Mahoney

Current research shows that geo-political units (e.g., the 50 U.S. states) vary meaningfully on psychological dimensions like intelligence (IQ) and ...

Job Performance And The Aging Worker

The Oxford Handbook of Work and Aging (2012)

Michael A. McDaniel, Bryan J. Pesta and George C. Banks

This chapter begins by discussing commonly held stereotypes people have about older workers. To gauge whether these stereotypes are accurate, ...

Nonverbal Emotion Recognition and Performance: Differences Matter Differently

Journal of Managerial Psychology (2011)

William H. Bommer, Bryan J. Pesta and Susan F. Storrud-Barnes

PURPOSE: This paper aims to explore and test the relationship between emotion recognition skill and assessment center performance after controlling ...

The Assurance of Learning Tool as Predictor and Criterion in ...

Journal Of Education for Business (2011)

Bryan J. Pesta and Robert F. Scherer

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business incorporates program assessment as an integral part of the accreditation process. Assessment ...

We Can't Get No (Life) Satisfaction? Comment On Oswald ...

Intelligence (2010)

Bryan J. Pesta, Michael A. McDaniel and Sharon Bertsch

Oswald and Wu (2010; Science) recently reported life satisfaction ranks for residents of the 50 U.S. states. Their rankings were ...

Toward an Index of Well-Being for the Fifty U.S ...

Intelligence (2010)

Bryan J. Pesta, Michael A. McDaniel and Sharon Bertsch

Well-being is a construct spanning multiple disciplines including psychology, economics, health, and public policy. In many ways, well-being is a ...

The Inspection Time and Over-Claiming Tasks as Predictors of MBA ...

Personality and Individual Differences (2009)

Bryan Pesta and Peter J. Poznanski

Elementary cognitive tasks (ECTs) are typically used in laboratory settings for basic research on the structure of intelligence. More recently, ...

Black-White Differences on IQ and Grades: The Mediating Role of ...

Intelligence/ Science Direct (2008)

Bryan Pesta and Peter J. Poznanski

The relationship between IQ scores and elementary cognitive task (ECT) performance is well established, with variance on each largely reflecting ...

Sex Differences on Elementary Cognitive Tasks Despite No Differences on ...

Personality and Individual Differences (2008)

Bryan Pesta, S. Bertsch, Peter J Poznanski and W.H. Bommer

Whether males and females differ in general mental ability (GMA) remains an open question. Complicating the issue is that standardized ...