Current Members

Rebecca Garden

Becca Garden is a doctoral candidate who is originally from Philadelphia. After graduating from Vanderbilt University in 2011, Becca spent two years working as a Research Coordinator in the Neurology Department at Thomas Jefferson University; during that time she headed more than a dozen clinical drug trials for experimental epilepsy medications. Her RAD Lab research includes the examination of relational dynamics and positive affect in the workplace. In her spare time, Becca loves to sing, read, and travel.

She currently lives in the D.C. area and works for Booz Allen Hamilton as a Senior Human Capital Consultant.

Arianna White

Arianna is a doctoral student in ODU's Educational Psychology Program. Arianna received her B.S. from William Smith College in Geneva, NY in 2014 with a major in Psychology and minors in both Music and Cognition/Logic. Her research interests center around employee well-being and mindfulness as well as on task and contextual performance. Arianna has led a NIH grant proposal and collaborated on several empirical and theoretical papers for both publication and presentation at conferences. Her master’s thesis examines the influence of both leader and follower trait mindfulness on employee outcomes. In her free time, Arianna loves to cook and bake for friends, read novels, listen to podcasts, and try new restaurants and bars.

Chad Kenneally

Chad is a doctoral student. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 2015 with his B.S. in Psychology, as well as a minor in Statistics. As an undergraduate, Chad helped with many different projects as a research assistant in the Center for Applied Behavior Systems (CABS) under Dr. E. Scott Geller. Chad’s research interests include leadership, motivation, and safety within the workplace, which he will explore under Dr. Xiaoxiao Hu. He’s currently working on his master’s thesis which deals with optimism in employees and its effects.

William Jimenez

Wil is a third-year doctoral student. He is the graduate teaching assistant for Cross-Cultural Psychology (PSYC 420). In January 2016, Wil received his B.A. in Psychology from the George Washington University (Raise High!) where he concentrated on Industrial-Organizational Psychology and minored in Organizational Sciences. As a Colonial, he was an undergraduate member of the Workplaces and Virtual Environments (WAVE) Lab, and he was involved in the research design, data collection, and data management of several I-O psychology research projects spanning several topics such as decision-making competence, implicit theories of leadership, and electronic performance monitoring. During his last two summers in D.C., Wil was a human resources intern at SaaS startup Aquicore and defense contractor Gryphon Technologies. Wil is originally from the Chicagoland area, and he plays several instruments including guitar, bass, and ukulele.

In June, Wil successfully defended his master's thesis titled Grateful Beneficiaries and Proud Benefactors: A Moderated Mediation Model Relating Supervisors' Gratitude Expression to Employees' Organizational Citizenship Behavior.

Daroon Jalil

Daroon is second-year doctoral student from Harrisonburg, VA. She attained her B.S. in Psychology at James Madison University where she also studied statistics and special education. During her time at JMU, Daroon served as a research assistant for the Justice Studies Department, the Sleep and Actigraphy lab, and the Cognitive Psycholinguistics Lab. She was also a Diversity Educator for the Center for Multicultural Student Services, where she was responsible for creating spaces and facilitating conversations around difficult topics related to diversity.

Her current research interests include discriminatory work practices and policies, work-life balance, and stress. Her research projects consist of meta-analyses on gender, organizational support, and affect. She served as an intern for the Education Department at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) during the summer of 2018. While at SHRM, Daroon developed a 2-day training seminar on diversity and inclusion and also conducted several research projects on educational seminar, participant demographic, and survey data.