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Journal Articles (Please email me for pre-press versions of any of the papers below)

  • Chiang, J. T., Liu, H., Fehr, R., Wang, Z., & Huang, Q. 2023. Leaders and the punishment of misconduct: Examining the roles of leader moral identity and cognitive load. Journal of Applied Psychology. [link]

  • Heng, Y. T. & Fehr, R. 2022. When you try your best to help but don't succeed: How self-compassionate reflection influences reactions to interpersonal helping failures. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. [link]

  • Yam, K. C., Goh, E.-Y., Fehr, R., Lee, R., Soh, H., & Gray, K. 2022. When your boss is a robot: Workers are more spiteful to robot supervisors that seem more human. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. [link]

  • Xi, M., He, W., Fehr, R., & Zhao, S. 2022. Feeling anxious and abusing low performers: A multilevel model of high performance work systems and abusive supervision. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43: 91-111. [link]

  • Wee, E. X. M. & Fehr, R. 2021. Compassion during difficult times: Team compassion behavior, suffering, supervisory dependence, and employee voice during COVID-19. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106: 1805-1820. [link]

  • Fehr, R., Gupta, A., & Guarana, C. 2021. Rewarding morality: How corporate social responsibility shapes top management team compensation votes. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 167: 170-188. [link]

  • Fehr, R., Fulmer, C. A., & Keng-Highberger, F. T. 2020. How do employees react to leaders’ unethical behavior? The role of moral disengagement. Personnel Psychology, 73: 73-93. [link]

  • Lemay, E., Ryan, J., Fehr, R., & Gelfand, M. J. 2020. Validation of negativity: Drawbacks of interpersonal responsiveness during conflicts with outsiders. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119: 104-135. [link]

  • Fehr, R., Welsh, D., Yam, K. C., Baer, M., Wei, W., & Vaulont, M. 2019. The role of moral decoupling in the causes and consequences of unethical pro-organizational behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 153: 27-40. [link]

  • Watkins, T., Fehr, R., & He, W. 2019. Whatever it takes: Leaders’ perceptions of abusive supervision instrumentality. Leadership Quarterly, 30: 260-272. [link]

  • Yam, K. C., Fehr, R., Burch, T. C., Zhang, Y., & Gray, K. 2019. Would I really make a difference? Moral typecasting theory and its implications for helping ethical leaders. Journal of Business Ethics, 160: 675-692. [link]

  • Fehr, R., Yam, K. C., He, W., Chiang, J., & Wei, W. 2017. Polluted work: A self-control perspective on air pollution appraisals, organizational citizenship, and counterproductive work behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 143: 98-110. [link]

  • Fehr, R., Fulmer, C. A., Awtrey, E. C., & Miller, J. A. 2017. The grateful workplace: A multilevel model of gratitude in organizations. Academy of Management Review, 42: 361-381. [link]

  • Liu, H., Chiang, J. T., Fehr, R., Xu, M., & Wang, S. 2017. How do leaders react when treated unfairly? Leader narcissism and self-interested behavior in response to unfair treatment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102: 1590-1599. [link]

  • He, W., Fehr, R., Yam, K. C., Long, L. R., & Hao, P. 2017. Interactional justice, leader-member exchange, and employee performance: Examining the moderating role of justice differentiation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38: 537-557.

  • Kim, P. H., Mislin, A., Tuncel, E., Fehr, R., Cheshin, A., & van Kleef, G. A. 2017. Power as an emotional liability: Implications for perceived authenticity and trust after a transgression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146: 1379-1401.

  • Yam, C. K., Fehr, R., Keng-Highberger, F.T., Klotz, A., & Reynolds, S. 2016. Out of control: A self-control perspective on the link between surface acting and abusive supervision. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101: 292-301.

  • Fehr, R., Yam, K. C., & Dang, C. T. 2015. Moralized leadership: The construction and consequences of ethical leader perceptions. Academy of Management Review, 40: 182-209.

  • Zheng, M., Fehr, R., Tai, K., Narayanan, J., & Gelfand, M. 2015. The unburdening effects of forgiveness: Effects on slant perception and jumping height. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6: 431-438.

  • De Bolle et al. 2015. The emergence of sex differences in personality traits in early adolescence: A cross-sectional, cross-cultural study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108: 171-185 (cross-cultural collaboration of 49 researchers).

  • Yam, K. C., Fehr, R., & Barnes, C. 2014. Morning employees are better employees: Employees’ start times influence supervisor performance ratings. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99: 1288-1299.

  • Fehr, R., & Gelfand, M. J. 2012. The forgiving organization: A multilevel model of forgiveness at work. Academy of Management Review, 37: 664-688.

  • Fehr, R., Gelfand, M.J., & Nag, M. 2010. The road to forgiveness: A meta-analytic synthesis of its situational and dispositional correlates. Psychological Bulletin, 136: 894-914.

  • Fehr, R. & Gelfand, M. J. 2010. When apologies work: How matching apology components to victims’ self-construals facilitates forgiveness. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 113: 37-50.

  • Gelfand, M. J., Leslie, L, & Fehr, R. 2008. In order to prosper, organizational psychology…should adopt a global perspective. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29: 493-51.

Book Chapters and Commentaries

  • Fehr, R., & Gelfand, M. J. 2019. Organizational forgiveness. In E. L. Worthington & N. G. Wade (Eds.), Handbook of Forgiveness. New York: Routledge.

  • Fehr, R. 2012. Is retirement always stressful? The potential impact of creativity. American Psychologist, 67: 76-77.

  • Fehr, R. 2012. Creativity in retirement. In M. Wang, (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Retirement (pp. 588-602). New York: Oxford Press.

  • Fehr, R. 2009. Why innovation demands aren't as conflicted as they seem: Stochasticism and the creative process. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 2: 344-348.

  • Gelfand, M. J., Imai, L., & Fehr, R. 2008. Thinking intelligently about cultural intelligence: The road ahead. In S. Ang & L. Van Dyne (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Intelligence: Theory, Measurement, and Application (pp. 375-387). Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.