Kelsey Merlo
Kelsey Merlo
Assistant Professor
Contact
Office: PCD 4151
Phone: 813/974-0354
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Bio
Kelsey L. Merlo, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology program at the University of South Florida. Her research captures the day-to-day psychological experience of working as it unfolds in the moment and across time. In particular, she explores the influence of emotions on worker functioning in the moment, the accumulation of emotional experiences to the end of the day, and the reflection over emotional events in the form of self-defining memories. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed outlets (e.g., Journal of Business and Psychology, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology) and featured in popular press outlets like Psychology Today.
Education
Ph.D., Industrial – Organizational Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018
M.S., Industrial – Organizational Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015
B.S., Psychology, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, 2012
Professional Experience
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, U.S. Army Research Institute, 2018 - 2019
Teaching
Research methods, Motivation, Organizational Behavior
Research
Emotion episodes
Emotion regulation
Worker health and well-being
Recovery
Self-defining memories
Specialty Area
Industrial-Organizational