Biography
Nathan A. Bowling (Ph.D. 2005, Central Michigan University) is a Professor of Psychology in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology doctoral program at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include (a) occupational stress, (b) counterproductive work behavior, and (c) research participant carelessness. Dr. Bowling has authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles, many of which have appeared in top-tier journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His research was featured in Joireman and Van Lange’s (2015) book How to Publish High-Quality Research, he was included in Aguinis et al.’s (2017) list of the top 2% of most cited authors in I/O psychology textbooks, and since 2020 he has consistently appeared in Stanford University’s annual list of the world’s most cited scientists. Dr. Bowling is a fellow of two professional organizations—the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS). His research is currently funded by the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Bowling is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Stress Management, which is published by the American Psychological Association.
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Recent Publications
Bowling, N. A., Sessa, V. I., Banks, G. C., & Shaffer, J. A. (2026). Read my lips: No new constructs! Construct proliferation as a threat to the future of I-O psychology. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 19(2), 186-202
Ramsey, M. C., & Bowling, N. A. (2025). Building a bigger toolbox: The construct validity of existing and proposed measures of careless responding to cognitive ability tests. Organizational Research Methods, 28(2), 245-268.
Bowling, N. A., Michel, J. S., Islam, M. R., Rotch, M. A., Wagner, S. H., & Zelazny, L. (2024). What’s holding you back? Development of the Multi-Facet Organizational Constraints Scale (MOCS). Journal of Business and Psychology, 39(6), 1211-1238. Of 1,633 JBP eligible submissions, this article was one of 22 to receive an Editor Commendation.
Huang, J. L., Bowling, N. A., McLarty, B. D., Kluemper, D. H., & Wang, Z. (2024). Confounding effects of insufficient effort responding across survey sources: The case of personality predicting performance. Organizational Research Methods, 27(4), 681-712. Recipient of the 2026 Joyce and Robert Hogan Award for Personality and Work Performance (awarded by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology)
Bowling, N. A., & Zelazny, L. (2022). Measuring general job satisfaction: Which is more construct valid—global scales or facet-composite scales? Journal of Business and Psychology, 37, 91-105.
Active Grants
Office of Naval Research (2023-2026). Role: PI. Project title: Assessment, prediction, and prevention of destructive behaviors: Scale validation and extension to narrow behaviors. Total amount awarded: $545,922.
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation; 2023-2026). Role: Cooperation Partner (i.e., Consultant). Project title: Advancing and evaluating the applicability of latent response models for identifying careless and insufficient effort responding in survey data. Total amount awarded: 261,191 € (~$276,225).
