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{"title":"The implications of pay range transparency on job application preferences and negotiations.","authors":"Alice J Lee, Tae-Youn Park, Sungyong Chang","doi":"10.1037/apl0001360","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001360","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pay range transparency laws, which require employers to disclose salary ranges in job postings, have gained traction as a strategy for narrowing the gender pay gap by strengthening workers' access to pay information. However, these policies often give employers considerable latitude in setting how wide or narrow those ranges are, raising questions about whether certain implementations might inadvertently sustain-or even exacerbate-existing wage disparities. Our research addresses this issue by examining how the <i>width</i> of disclosed pay ranges influences women's and men's job application and negotiation behaviors and whether providing more clarity around typical salary outcomes can mitigate these unintended consequences. Across four studies-encompassing a large archival data set (Study 1), surveys and field experiments with prospective and actual job seekers (Studies 2 and 3), and an experimental intervention (Study 4)-we consistently find that women exhibit a stronger preference for jobs with narrower pay ranges than men, largely driven by women's higher risk aversion. Moreover, choosing narrower pay ranges is associated with less assertive negotiation behaviors, suggesting a path through which pay range disclosures may perpetuate gender gaps in compensation. By providing explicit information about the typical starting salary and the criteria used to determine final offers, we show that organizations can reduce these effects and support more equitable outcomes, offering practical insights for policymakers and employers aiming to ensure that pay transparency fulfills its aim of closing, rather than reinforcing, the gender wage gap. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1484-1504"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146213274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethics of care leadership expressions during a high-strength event: A gendered analysis of combative versus constructive policy suggestions during the Israel-Hamas war.","authors":"Alexander D Stajkovic, Kayla S Stajkovic, Jenny M Hoobler, Frederick P Morgeson","doi":"10.1037/apl0001381","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001381","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Israel-Hamas war is a protracted high-strength event, marked by peaks of conflict and sustained tension, that tests how leaders function in a context with competing national interests, moral strain, and wide-reaching human and political consequences. Guided by event system theory and ethics of care leadership (ECL), we track how members of the Israeli Knesset express their leadership during this conflict. We analyze 5.2 million words spoken by 152 legislators across 140 Knesset plenary sessions over 16 months. Using natural language processing, we score and classify 4,143 discursive policy suggestions as constructive (repair oriented) or combative (zero sum). We find that (a) expression of ECL is associated with a higher likelihood of constructive suggestions, (b) women express more ECL than men, and (c) men's care expression rises during peak-strength months, narrowing-but not eliminating-the gender gap in ECL. These findings position ECL expression as both a stable orientation and a context-responsive discursive behavior, clarifying who is most likely to express ECL and when constructive suggestions are likely to emerge as event strength fluctuates. Results advance event system theory by specifying a morally grounded ECL response in high-strength contexts, and they inform practice by identifying care-led discourse as a lever for constructive policy during volatile times. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1522-1547"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148663873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The escalation of prosocial commitment: How the B corporation movement catalyzes social impact.","authors":"Garima Sharma, Joel Gehman, Leonardo Boni, 'Alim J Beveridge","doi":"10.1037/apl0001311","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001311","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Organizations have embraced sustainability certifications as a way of demonstrating their prosocial commitments. These certifications are often rigorous and resource-intensive, and yet some certified organizations increase their efforts beyond receiving the certification. To understand why, we revisit the literature on escalation of commitment to theorize the escalation of prosocial commitment. We test our framework by analyzing why B Corporations (B Corps)-businesses that have been certified for their prosocial commitments-would participate in an initiative that challenged them to improve their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices and whether their efforts have any effect. Our framework emphasizes three organization-level drivers of escalation of prosocial commitment: image and identity, internal and external context, and urgency to demonstrate impact. Our findings largely support these drivers. Furthermore, escalation of prosocial commitment leads to improvements in both DEI practices and sustainability practices more generally and has collective spillover benefits, including reduced certification attrition rates and a positive shift in the DEI profiles of new B Corps that certified for the first time after the conclusion of the initiative. We also find a surprising outcome-what we call a paradox of inclusivity: B Corps with less emphasis on DEI practices, despite being strong in other sustainability areas, were more likely to exit the B Corp movement after the initiative. Our research contributes to the escalation of commitment literature, reveals practice implications for certifying bodies and organizations seeking to foster social impact, and offers insights to policymakers about potential levers for remaking capitalism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1647-1669"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145212756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A meta-analysis of the dynamism of emergent states and team processes.","authors":"Andrew C. Loignon,Brent N. Reed,Andrew J. Knoblich,Karoline M. Summerville,Elizabeth Clayton,George C. Banks,Scott Tonidandel","doi":"10.1037/apl0001407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family socioeconomic status and job search: Pathways to job quality improvement for young adults without college degrees.","authors":"Le Zhou, Borbala Csillag, Connie R Wanberg, Xuan Liu, Abdifatah A Ali","doi":"10.1037/apl0001362","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001362","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Improving job quality through job transitions is crucial in early adulthood. However, young adults without college degrees, particularly those from lower socioeconomic status (SES) families, can struggle to break out of lower quality jobs. Integrating socioeconomic and psychological perspectives, this research examines how family SES impacts job quality improvement through job search among young adults without college degrees when they transition from one job to another. We develop and test a model that explicates how family SES influences job quality improvement through constraints and resources for job search and self-regulated job search processes. Partnering with a Midwest state government agency, we collected data from young job seekers without college degrees through four longitudinal surveys over 6 months. Our findings revealed that job seekers from lower (vs. higher) SES families faced more basic needs constraints and had fewer college degree holders in their job search networks. These factors, in turn, influenced job seekers' wage increase goals and their job search metacognition. We also found that job seekers with higher wage increase goals achieved larger wage improvement between their previous and new jobs, and those who engaged in more job search metacognition were more likely to secure improvements in benefits, find new jobs with promotion opportunities, and perceive improvements in working conditions. These findings extend the literature on job quality, job search, socioeconomic mobility, and inequality and provide practical implications for multiple stakeholder groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1352-1378"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146165517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Roadblocks: Evaluating the impact of fines-related driver's license suspension on work-related outcomes for socioeconomically disadvantaged workers.","authors":"Maura J Mills, Matthew J Dolliver, Russell A Matthews, Leah Nelson, Peter A Jones, Marshall L White","doi":"10.1037/apl0001357","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001357","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Loss of transportation access is likely to compromise individuals' ability to get to work. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we triangulate across complementary methodologies to examine the far-reaching impact of driver's license suspension for nonpayment of court-ordered legal fees. Reflexive thematic analysis of preliminary qualitative interview data (<i>N</i> = 21) yielded themes related to compromised social mobility and well-being, with subthemes indicative of job/income loss and un(der)employment resulting from unpaid fines and license suspension, inability to afford additional fees, subsequent transportation challenges, resource acquisition beyond the formal workforce, and a desire for betterment. We build on this qualitative richness via a two-study approach. In Study 1, we draw on quantitative survey data (<i>N</i> = 879), evidencing a positive association between license suspension and unemployment, and indicating that this relationship is mediated by compromised access to transportation. License suspension was also positively associated with turning toward the informal shadow economy for employment, with some individuals reporting turning to sex work and crime to make ends meet. Data bore out a number of employment- and well-being-related consequences of nonpayment policies, and suggested that effects may function differentially by race, with Black individuals experiencing disproportionately negative effects. In Study 2, archival data indicated that enforcement of license suspensions is likely to result in a net loss to state revenue, incentivizing policy revision. Collectively, our data suggest that fine and fee imposition, and associated driver's license suspension, are likely to have a number of negative effects for individuals, employers, and society alike. We offer policy and practice implications related to reevaluating license suspension for nonpayment of court-ordered legal financial obligations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1264-1283"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146165471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Industrial-organizational science that matters: Social impact and policy implications in the Journal of Applied Psychology.","authors":"Wendy J Casper, Stephanie Brooke Escudero, Lillian T Eby, Tianjun Sun, Talya N Bauer, Bryan D Edwards, Allison S Gabriel, Jia Jasmine Hu","doi":"10.1037/apl0001425","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001425","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This introductory article to the special issue \"Social Impact Research\" examines the extent to which research published in the <i>Journal of Applied Psychology</i> has addressed pressing social issues related to work and employment. Using BERTopic modeling on 5,865 empirical articles published from the journal's inception in 1917 through June 2024, we identified 99 topics organized into 25 higher order themes, five of which directly reflect social impact: <i>workplace stress, health, and well-being; workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion; organizational justice, ethics, and legal issues; work and employment transitions across the lifespan; and social justice and labor opinions</i>. Trend analyses from 1980 to 2024 revealed growth in health and well-being research, relatively stable publication of diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarship, an inverted-U trajectory for justice and legal topics, and the disappearance of labor-related research. We then introduce the 19 special issue articles (appearing in the October and November 2026 issues) which address employment barriers facing marginalized and economically disadvantaged workers, medical benefits and leave policies, gender and women's employment, and macrolevel societal disruptions, each offering actionable implications related to work that can benefit the greater good. We conclude by proposing a future social impact research agenda that suggests industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologists conduct research that addresses key issues such as economic insecurity, immigrant and refugee workers, generative artificial intelligence, climate change, and political instability. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"111 10","pages":"1225-1239"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149182019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Offering paid sick and family leave is not enough: Leave supportive supervisor behavior training improves policy use, health, and work outcomes.","authors":"Ellen Ernst Kossek, Shalene J Allen, Katie M Lawson, Leslie B Hammer, Todd Bodner, Jiayun Xu, Courtney L Holladay, Amanda Woods Herron, Katelyn J Cavanaugh, MacKenna Perry","doi":"10.1037/apl0001395","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001395","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Paid sick and family leave policies provide employees the right to request paid time-off for personal illness or family demands. Yet, they can be underutilized, and their effects show mixed results. Research has underaddressed the disconnect between formal and informal work-family support, clarifying the role of supervisors as contextual resources supporting paid leave. Integrating research on job demands-resources theory, family supportive supervisory behaviors, and work-family policies, we evaluated training designed to increase supervisors' leave supportive supervisor behaviors (LSSB), defined as supervisor behaviors perceived as encouraging employees to access, use, and value paid leave as a resource for managing nonwork time-off demands. We conducted a 6-month field study at two U.S. universities, with random assignment to training (<i>N</i> = 293 managers, 630 employees), and wait-list control conditions (<i>N</i> = 252 managers, 293 employees). The intervention included voluntary online training, behavior self-monitoring, and a webinar. Compared to the control organization, employees in the trained organization reported higher LSSB, greater family leave use, higher job satisfaction, and stronger organizational commitment. Results showed that the intervention was more beneficial for women (higher commitment), employees with childcare demands (higher job satisfaction, improved general health, higher sick leave use), and sandwiched (both child and older adult/elder) caregivers (higher job satisfaction). Post hoc longitudinal analyses identified that the intervention increased supervisors' role modeling behaviors, which predicted higher employee job satisfaction and LSSB. We provide future implications on the criticality of pairing supervisor training with paid leave to strengthen supervisor support as a contextual resource to improve policy use, health, and work outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1405-1426"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13390771/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148520411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The cost of coping with infertility: Extending theory on stressor appraisal.","authors":"Natasha Poularikas, Alexiss Jeffers, Seoin Yoon, Joel Koopman, Nikolaos Dimotakis","doi":"10.1037/apl0001363","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001363","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite research on the workplace challenges of pregnancy, there has been notable inattention toward those struggling to become pregnant-women experiencing infertility (one of the most stressful and life-altering experiences women endure that affects around 13% of women of childbearing age). From the perspective of transactional stress theory, a coping response that addresses the cause of infertility (assisted reproductive technology treatment, ART) should reduce anxiety. However, for millions of working women coping with infertility via treatment, their anxiety persists, with consequences for occupational prestige and income. This divergence between scholarly consensus on coping and the lived experience reflects a puzzle with theoretical, practical, and societal implications. To reconcile this, we explain that the consensus is misaligned with the fundamental tenets of transactional stress theory. We posit that the cost of treatment creates a context whereby its efficacy for coping is hindered-a phenomenon called financial toxicity. We hypothesize that insurance may detoxify infertility treatment and reduce anxiety as predicted. Across two studies (an Australian longitudinal panel data set [<i>N</i> = 2,728] and a cross-sectional U.S. survey [<i>N</i> = 192]), we triangulate tests of our hypotheses and find support for our arguments. We discuss implications for transactional stress theory and illustrate how scholars can expand their conceptualization of coping to consider its potential toxicity. We further call attention to the critical societal and public policy implications of our findings, and we provide a roadmap with clear and actionable solutions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1427-1444"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146213232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effects of food insecurity on work outcomes.","authors":"Jason H Moy, Ussama Ahmad Khan, Wei Jee Ong, Christopher M Barnes","doi":"10.1037/apl0001361","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001361","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Food insecurity-insufficient access to safe and nutritious foods-is one of the most crucial societal grand challenges the world faces today. It affects 2.3 billion people globally, and addressing it is one of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals of 2030 (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations et al., 2025). Despite its prevalence and importance, the field of applied psychology has ignored this problem with the implicit assumption that food insecurity is not an issue relevant to the workplace. Contrary to this view, we hypothesize and demonstrate that food insecurity is detrimental to the three core work outcomes: task performance, work engagement, and organizational citizenship behaviors. To test our hypotheses, we employed a multimethod design across three empirical studies: (a) an experimental recall study, (b) a within-person diary study, and (c) a field experiment. Our findings consistently demonstrate that food insecurity leads to higher anxiety, which subsequently has a negative effect on task performance, work engagement, and organizational citizenship behavior. In our field experiment, we further demonstrated that providing food to those experiencing food insecurity can improve work outcomes. This research highlights that food insecurity is a significant issue with important implications for the workplace that requires greater attention from both researchers and business leaders. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1284-1300"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146226814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}