HERO LAB
High-reliability, Emotion, and Risk in Organizations
Dr. Alexandra Dunn
Assistant Professor of Management
University of Mary Washington
Past Members
Dr. Chelsea Beveridge
Talent Assessment Manager
Sealed Air Corporation
Research interests include organizational socialization, identity, interpersonal motives, and non-standard work (e.g., contract work, internships).
When did you graduate?
2018
What is your Academic History?
Elon University
What was your favorite thing about HERO Lab?
The intersection of research and application - conducting research that directly impacts organizations and communities.
Dr. Sabrina Speights
Assistant Professor of Business and Management
Wheaton College
Sabrina Speights earned her B.A. at George Mason University in Psychology with a minor in Spanish and her M.A. at UNC Charlotte in Sociology. Sabrina’s research interests center around the work-nonwork interface, nonstandard work schedules, and emotions. Sabrina is also very committed to teaching and improving her pedagogical techniques. As such, she completed the Teaching Program for Doctoral Students (TPDS), is a member of the Active Learning Academy (ALA) through the Center for Teaching and Learning at UNC Charlotte.
When did you graduate?
2018
What is your Academic History?
George Mason University
What is your favorite thing about HERO Lab?
This is a truly interdisciplinary lab that has a lot of fun!
Dr. Sara J. Sagui-Henson
Postdoctoral Fellow in Integrative Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
My program of research explores the intersection of stress and emotion regulation and how these processes may influence behavioral and physiological health. Some of the questions that drive my work include: How are both general and health-specific emotion regulatory processes related to cardiometabolic health? Does the ability to regulate different emotions alter stress-related impairments to biobehavioral health? How can we design multifaceted interventions to improve emotion regulation, stress responding, and physical health?
When did you graduate?
2018
What is your Academic History?
B.A. from California State University, Long Beach in 2013 and M.A. from UNC Charlotte in 2015
What is your favorite thing about HERO Lab?
I love the collaborative culture that's encouraged in the HERO Lab. Our PIs respect our ideas and treat us as junior colleagues, which has led to some really awesome research projects!
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Dr. Alexandra Dunn
Assistant Professor of Management
University of Mary Washington
Alexandra M. Dunn, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of management at the University of Mary Washington. After receiving her undergraduate degree in psychology from Elon University, Alexandra received her master's in Industrial-Organizational psychology and her Ph.D. in Organizational Science program from UNC Charlotte. Her research interests include employee socialization, the dyadic relationships between newcomers and current employees at work, perceived organizational support, understanding high-reliability organizations (e.g., firefighters and police officers) and relationships within these organizations, and insufficient effort responding and its implications for survey research. She has published work in the Journal of Business and Psychology, Human Relations, and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
When did you graduate?
2017
What is your Academic History?
Elon University
What was your favorite thing about HERO Lab?
It is a great place to present ideas and get feedback from multiple disciplinary perspectives.