Todd Thorsteinson
Professor
Office
Student Health Center 006
Phone
208-885-4944
Email
Mailing Address
Department of Psychology & Communication
University of Idaho MS 3043
Moscow, Idaho 83844-3043
Todd Thorsteinson is an industrial-organizational psychologist, with research interests in decision making, personnel selection and recruitment.
- Ph.D., Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Bowling Green State University, 1998
- M.A., Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Bowling Green State University, 1995
- B.A., Psychology, University of Minnesota-Morris, 1993
Courses
- PSYC 416: Industrial-Organizational Psychology
- PSYC 430: Tests and Measurements
- PSYC 440: Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making
- PSYC 512: Advanced Research Methods
Todd Thorsteinson joined the University of Idaho after completing his doctorate in industrial-organizational psychology at Bowling Green State University (Ohio).
- Personnel selection and recruitment
- Judgment and decision-making
- Performance appraisals
- Thorsteinson, T.J. (2018). A meta-analysis of interview length on reliability and validity. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 91, 1-32.
Strawn, M.W., and Thorsteinson, T.J. (2015). Influence of response mode on order effects in the interview. Human Performance, 28, 183-19 - Thorsteinson, T. J. (2011). Initiating salary discussions with an extreme request: Anchoring effects on initial salary offers. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 41, 1774-1792.
- Thorsteinson, T. J., and Withrow, S. (2009). Does unconscious thought outperform conscious thought on complex decisions? A further examination. Judgment and Decision Making, 4 , 234-246.
- Thorsteinson, T. J., Breier, J., Atwell, A., Hamilton, C., and Privette, M. (2008). Anchoring effects on performance judgments. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , 107, 29-40.