Here in the PAWW Lab, we are an eclectic bunch when it comes to research. Put differently: we are "professional dabblers". Here is a non-exhaustive list of the topics under investigation by members of the PAWW Lab.
The Work-Nonwork Interface
Helping and Harming Behavior at Work
Workplace Stressors
Technology Use and Work
Leadership
Human-Animal Interaction
National Politics and Work
Neurodiversity and Work
Identity and Work
Chronic Pain at Work
Select Peer-Reviewed Publications (Within 2 Years)
* = Graduate Student
+ = Undergraduate Student
Curtis, E. L.*, Russell, J. P.*, Trost, Z., & Hughes, I. M. (2026). The Impact of Chronic Pain at Work. The Journal of Pain, 41.
Russell, J. P.*, Teotia, A., Kalmbach, D. A., Drake, C. L., & Cheng, P. (2026). Digital insomnia therapeutic as a workplace performance solution for improving productivity. Sleep medicine, 108896.
Hughes, I. M., Bowling, N. A., Keith, M. G., Brossoit, R. M., & Bazzoli, A. (2026). The work-related consequences of employees’ media-based political information consumption: A nine-wave weekly study during the 2024 US Presidential Primary Season. Computers in Human Behavior, 109118.
Hughes, I. M., Gold, H.*, Curtis, E. L.*, & Stewart, C. (2025). Animals as more than just workers: Considering the role of pets as facilitators of nonwork–work processes. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 18(4), 415-419.
Bazzoli, A., & Hughes, I. M. (2025). Money comes, money goes—does stress follow suit? A longitudinal and nonlinear perspective on workers’ financial stress. Journal of Business and Psychology, 1-20.
Hughes, I. M., Guild, A.+, Lamb, K.+, LaRoche, R.+, & Stewart, K.+ (2024). Pet your cat, walk your dog: The spillover effects of morning quality time with pets on outcomes during and after the workday. Stress & Health, 40(5), e3443.
The lab's first paper with undergraduate research assistant co-authors!
Hughes, I. M., & Gray, C. E. (2024). When help is draining: Investigating the importance of various unhelpful workplace social support exchanges to psychological strain. International Journal of Stress Management, 31(2), 167.
Hughes, I. M., Gray, C. E., Bazzoli, A., & Stavely, S. M. (2024). Why your help is unhelpful: A multistage mediation model exploring mechanisms linking unhelpful workplace social support to work engagement. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 29(4), 238-257.
Hughes, I. M., Keith, M. G., Lee, J., & Gray, C. E. (2024). Working, scrolling, and worrying: Doomscrolling at work and its implications for work engagement. Computers in Human Behavior, 153.