Jason Huang Receives SIOP Award for Research on Personality and Work Performance

Dr. Jason L. Huang

HRLR professor Jason L. Huang has received the 2026 Joyce and Robert Hogan Award for Personality and Work Performance from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

The Joyce and Robert Hogan Award recognizes the written work that best exemplifies excellence and innovation in applied personality research and significantly advances understanding of the relationship between personality and job performance. The award is part of SIOP's annual Achievement and Best Paper Awards, which honor the most impactful research contributions in industrial and organizational psychology.

Dr. Huang was recognized for his lead-authored article, "Confounding effects of insufficient effort responding across survey sources: the case of personality predicting performance," published in Organizational Research Methods (2024). The paper addresses a critical methodological issue in personality research by demonstrating how insufficient effort responding (careless responding) in survey data can inflate observed relationships between personality measures and job performance outcomes. The findings provide important guidance for improving research design, measurement validity, and interpretation in applied organizational research.

SIOP is the leading professional association for industrial and organizational psychology. Award recipients are formally recognized at the organization's annual conference. For more information about the SIOP Achievement and Best Paper Awards, visit the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology website.