EDUCATION

Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology
University of South Florida- Tampa, FL

M.A., Industrial/Organizational Psychology
University of South Florida- Tampa, FL

B.A., Mathematics
University of South Florida- Tampa, FL

B.A., Studio Art
Florida State University- Tallahassee, FL

STATEMENT OF RESEARCH

Dr. Pace studies personality in the workplace, including development and validation of measures, administration of tests, and use of results for prediction of performance as well as development. Her research also examines individual, social, and organizational factors that affect employee career decisions about changing jobs, changing careers, and seeking promotion. Of particular applied interest are factors that contribute to turnover in healthcare fields and effects of employee turnover on patient care and satisfaction. Her previous experience includes work with Personnel Decisions Research Institutes (PDRI) and additional consulting.

SELECT COURSES TAUGHT

INP 5095 - Proseminar in Industrial Psychology
SOP 4522 – Social Motivation
SOP 4214C, 4214L – Experimental Social Psychology Lecture and Lab
PSY 2020 – Introduction to Psychology

 

SELECT PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Pace, V. L. & Borman, W. C. (2006). The Use of Warnings to Discourage Faking on Noncognitive Inventories. In R. Griffith (Ed.), A Closer Examination of Applicant Faking Behavior. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, Inc.

Rank, J., Pace, V. L. & Frese, M. (2004). Three avenues for future research on creativity, innovation, and initiative. Applied Psychology: An International Review. 53 (4), 518-528.

Pace, V. L. & Brannick, M. T. (2008, April). Similarity of Personality Measures: A Bare-Bones Look at Nomological Nets. Poster presented at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology annual conference, San Francisco, CA.

Brannick, M. T. & Pace, V. L. (2007, April). Qualitative methods: What, when, why, and are they publishable? Symposium presented at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology annual conference, New York, NY.

Pace, V. L. (2007, April). A Telephone Interview Study of Turnover Reasons and Perceptions of Diversity Climate among Minority Employees. Paper presented at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology annual conference symposium, New York, NY.

Pace, V. L. (2006, October). Predicting creative problem solving at work: The influence of context specificity of openness items on validity. Paper presented at Southern Management Association annual conference, Clearwater, FL.

Pace, V. L., Xu, X., Penney, L. M., Borman, W. C., & Bearden, R. M. (2005, April). Using warnings to discourage personality test faking: An empirical study. Paper presented at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology annual conference symposium, Los Angeles, CA.

Horgen, K.E., Pace, V. L., Lentz, E., & White, L. A. (2004, July). Development of a SJT to predict Army recruiter performance. Paper presented at American Psychological Association annual conference symposium, Honolulu, HI.

Pace, V. L., & Brannick, M. T. (2008, April). Similarity of Personality Measures: A Bare-Bones Look at Nomological Nets. Poster presented at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology annual conference, San Francisco, CA.

Pace, V. L., & Borman, W. C. (2006). The Use of Warnings to Discourage Faking on Noncognitive Inventories. In R. Griffith (Ed.), A Closer Examination of Applicant Faking Behavior. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, Inc.

Rank, J., Pace, V. L. & Frese, M. (2004). Three avenues for future research on creativity, innovation, and initiative. Applied Psychology: An International Review. 53 (4), 518-528.

 

MY COURSES AT FIU

Graduate
Proseminar in Industrial Psychology
Personality at Work

Undergraduate
Research Methods
Experimental Social Psychology (Senior Lab)
Social Motivation
Introduction to Psychology

AREAS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST

Personality: Scale Development and Validation, Person X Situation Interactions, Response Distortion and Faking
Employee Retention and Engagement
Creativity

CODE AND ANALYSIS (TO COME)

Feel free to contribute SAS, SPSS, LISREL, and AMOS programs that can be customized and I’ll try to test and possibly post in the future.
Basic SAS Programs
Meta-Analysis
Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Intraclass Correlation

OTHER STUFF I LIKE

Spending Time with Family and Friends
Walking on the Beach
Natural Discoveries (Shells, Sharks’ Teeth, Fossils, Gems and Minerals, Etc.)
Gardening
Art, Crafts, Dance, and Music (I have very eclectic tastes and mostly I like to take a participant rather than spectator role, but I really don’t have much musical talent.)
Ethnic Restaurants (Again, very eclectic tastes)
College Football (especially state university teams from Florida)
Boston Sports Teams (the city, too!)
Traveling
Connecting with God
And much more… (Openness to Experience is my favorite Big Five construct—can you guess why?)