Dr Simon Moss

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Overview

  • Current position: Senior lecturer in psychology; leadership consultant
  • Email: simon.moss@med.monash.edu.au
  • Address: Dandenong Road, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Caulfield East, Australia, 3145

Information about his academic activities

Major publications

My primary research interest concerns how characteristics of organizations and societies, such as leadership, influence the psychological processes of individuals, such as their wellbeing, motivation, creativity, intuition, engagement, honesty, and altruism. To investigate these issues, I have published over 50 books and articles in the fields of leadership, wellbeing, motivation, integrity, perception, attention, and stress. These publications are presented in Appendix A below.

Current interests and goals

I am conducting research to understand how:

  • Contextual factors, such as leadership style, might affect the incidence of dishonesty and distortion, such as response biases in personality inventories

  • Contextual factors, such as workplace policies, influence wellbeing, resilience, and flexibility
  • Individual and workplace factors, such as relationships with parents during childhood, later determine the intuition, creativity, engagement, resilience, and vision of leaders

  • Individual and workplace factors, such as advertising messages, evoke enduring changes in behavior
  • Individual and workplace factors, including reward structures, influence spiritual beliefs and unconscious attitudes
  • individual, contextual, and workplace factors combine to foster altruism and cooperation rather than aggression or extremism

Current works

Dr Moss is completing two books, on the unintended and adverse consequences of positive thinking and coaching.

Knowledge about theories

Dr Moss has developed a breadth of knowledge in variety of domains in psychology, including organizational psychology, social psychology, personality, and emotions. This knowledge has primarily derived from his endeavor to collect every unintuitive scientific observation in psychology, management, and related fields--every finding that does not align with common practice or wisdom. He has developed knowledge in theories that integrate various facets of cognition, emotion, and social contexts, such as:

Knowledge about research methods

He has also developed some expertise in implicit measures and multivariate statistics including:

Achievements

Dr Moss, together with Alex Bahar-Fuchs and Dr Ogilvie, was the founder of Psychlopedia. He has collected over 1500 unintuitive scientific discoveries in the domain of psychology, management, and related fields. Many of these findings are summarized is his first book, co-authored with Ronald Francis, called "The science of management: Fighting fads and fallacies with evidence based practice ".

Dr Moss was also the founder of Top of Mind, a forum in which psychologists attempt to apply the latest unintuitive discoveries to facilitate social justice and human rights.

Information about his professional work

Products

Dr Moss has developed a variety of products including:

  • The consulting auditor: An instrument that evaluates consultants--a set of over 1500 questions that are intended to evaluate the knowledge, expertise, and intuition of consultants in a range of domains, such as management and leadership, recruitment and selection, health and safety, as well as advertising and marketing.
  • The Ethogram: A set of instruments and protocols that are designed to uncover the traits and behaviors that job applicants and employees attempt to conveal.
  • Unintuitive modules: The latest information on persuasion, negotiation, advertising, teamwork, diversity, aggression, conflict resolution, innovation, decision making, problem solving, efficiency, engagement, confidence, recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, feedback, counseling, retention, change management, and assessment

Services

Dr Moss provides advice and consulting on several issues including:

  • The latest techniques in assessment of workplaces and individuals. For example, he has developed methods that are diminish the likelihood of dishonesty in responses.
  • The latest advances in leadership development, especially approaches that override the limitations of many existing programs, such as advice that is intuitive rather than interesting or recommendations that compromise the confidence and flexibility of leaders.

  • Provides coaching, applying the latest, unintuitive advances in psychological research and practice.

Memberships

Dr Moss is a:

  • Registered psychologist

  • Member of the Australian Psychologists Society and the College of Organizational Psychologistys

Appendices

Appendix A: Refereed journal articles and books

Bardoel, E. A., Moss, S. A., Smyrnios, K., & Tharenou, P. (1999). Employee characteristics associated with the provision of work-family policies and programs. International Journal of Manpower, 20, 563-576.

Bardoel, E. A., Tharenou, P., & Moss, S. A. (1998). Organizational predictors of work-family practices. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 36, 31-49.

Bennington, L., & Moss, S. (2001). Self, peer and tutor assessments of oral presentations. International Journal of Management Literature, 1, 81-90.

Chambers C., Mattingley, J. B., & Moss, S. A. (2002). The octave illusion revisited: Suppression or fusion between ears. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 1288-1302.

Chambers C., Mattingley, J. B., & Moss, S. A. (2004). Reconsidering evidence for the suppression model of the octave illusion. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 642-666.

Chambers C., Mattingley, J. B., & Moss, S. A. (2004). The suppression model remains unsound: A reply to Deutsch. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 677-680.

Chambers C., Mattingley, J. B., & Moss, S. A. (2005). Does selective attention influence the octave illusion. Perception, 34, 217-229.

Davidson, A. C., & Moss, S. A. (2008). Examining the trauma disclosure of police officers to their partners and officers' subsequent adjustment. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 27, 51-70.

Davidson, A., Berah, E., & Moss, S. A. (2006). The relationship between the adjustment of Australian police officers and their partners. Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychological Medicine, 13, 41-48.

Davidson, A., C. & Moss, S. A. (2006). The effect of marital adjustment on the association between police officers' traumatic distress and trauma disclosure. Canadian Journal of Police & Security Services, 4, 35-45.

Edwards, R., Ahmad, A., & Moss, S. (2002). Export roles of MNC subsidiaries: Implications for subsidiaries in Malaysia. Journal of Asian Business, 17, 1-13.

Edwards, R., & Moss, S. A. (2000). Negative country of origin events: The case of French nuclear tests. International Journal of Business Studies, 8, 23-36.

FitzGerald, P., Moss, S., & Sarros, J. C. (in press). Sustainable coaching: A primer for executive coaches. Tilde Press.

Flaherty, S., & Moss, S. A. (2007). The impact of personality and team context on the relationship between workplace injustice and counterproductive work behaviour. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37, 2549-2575.

Garivaldis, F. J., & Moss, S. A. (2007). The effect of familiar music on the perception of other individuals. Psychomusicology, 19, 13-31.

Gullone, E., Moore, S., Moss, S. A., & Boyd, C. (2000). The adolescent risk-taking questionnaire (ARQ): Development and psychometric evaluation. Journal of Adolescent Research, 15, 231-250.

Haslett, T., Moss, S. A., Osborne, C., & Ramm, P. (2000). Local rules and fitness landscapes: A catastrophe model. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 4, 67-86.

Millen, R., Sohal, A., & Moss, S. A. (1999). Quality management in the logistics function: An empirical study. International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, 16, 166-180.

Moss, S. A. (2002). The impact of environmental clues in problem solving and incubation: the moderating effect of ability. Creativity Research Journal, 14, 207-211.

Moss, S. A. (2009). Cultivating the regulatory focus of followers to amplify their sensitivity to transformational leadership. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 15, 241-259.

Moss, S. A., & Davidson, A. C. (in press). The negative side of positive thinking. ARESTA.

Moss, S. A. McFarland, J., Ngu, S. & Kijowska, A. (2007). Maintaining an open mind to closed individuals: The effect of leadership style and resource availability on the association between openness to experience and organizational commitment. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 259-275.

Moss, S. A., & Duck, N. (in press). Psychological origins of workplace aggression: Fragility of self esteem and implicit theories of human malleability. Journal of Business and Psychology.

Moss, S. A., & Ngu. S. (2006). The relationship between personality and leadership preferences. Current Research in Social Psychology, 11, 70-91.

Moss, S. A., & Ritossa, D. (2007). The impact of goal orientation on the association between leadership style and follower performance, creativity, and work attitudes. Leadership, 3(4), 433-456.

Moss, S. A., & Wilson, S. (in press). Integrating the most unintuitive empirical observations of 2007 in the domain of personality and social psychology into a unified framework. New Ideas in Psychology.

Moss, S. A., Callanan, J., & Dowling N. (2009). Towards an integrated model of leadership and self regulation. Leadership Quarterly, 20, 162-176.

Moss, S. A., & Francis, R. (2007). Fads and fallacies in the name of management. Australian Academic Press.

Moss, S. A., Garivaldis, F. J., &. Toukhsati, S. R. (in press). The perceived similarity of other individuals: The contaminating effects of familiarity and neuroticism. Personality and Individual Differences.

Moss, S. A., Novatsis, E. K., & Kijowska, A. (in press). The insidious evolution of excessive workloads from the drive to enhance self-esteem: The role of personal control and self-construal. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources.

Moss, S. A., Ritossa, D. & Ng, S. (2006). The effect of employee regulatory focus and extraversion on the prevalence and consequence of leadership behaviors: The role of emotional intelligence. Journal of Individual Differences, 27, 93-107.

O'Shea, R., MacKenzie, W., & Moss, S. A. (2007). Writing psychology reports: Thompson.

Pike, K. E., Savage, G., Villemagne, V. L., Ng, S. Moss, S. A., Maruff, P. Mathis, P. A., Klunk, W. E., Masters, C. L. & Rowe, C. C. (2007). ?-amyloid imaging and memory in non-demented individuals: evidence for preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Brain, 130, 2837-2844.

Pike, K. E., Rowe, C. C., Moss, S. A., & Savage, G. (2008). Memory profiling with paired associate learning in Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and healthy aging. Neuropsychology, 22, 718-728.

Rankins, D., Bradshaw, J., Moss, S. & Georgiou-Karsitianis, N. (2004). Inhibition of Return in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder . Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 10, 54-59.

Reid, C. E., Moss, S., & Hyman, G. (2005). Caregiver reciprocity: The effect of reciprocity, carer self-esteem and motivation on the experience of caregiver burden. Australian Journal of Psychology, 57, 186-196.

Rinehart, N. J., Bradshaw, J. L., Moss, S. A., Brereton, A. V., & Tongue, B. J. (2000). Atypical interference of local detail on global processing in high-functioning Autism and Asperger's disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41, 769-778.

Rinehart, N. J., Bradshaw, J. L., Moss, S. A., Brereton, A. V., & Tongue, B. J. (2001). A deficit in shifting attention present in high functioning autism but not Asperger's disorder. Autism, 5, 67-80.

Rinehart, N. J., Bradshaw, J. L., Moss, S., Brereton, A. V., Tongue, B. J. (2006). Pseuo-random number generation in autism and Asperger's disorder: A neuropsychological measure of repetitive and stereotypical behaviour. Autism, 10, 70-85.

Sohal, A. S., Millen, R., Maggard, M., & Moss, S. A. (1999). Quality in logistics: A comparison of practices between Australian and North American/European firms. International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 29, 267-280.

Sohal, A. S., Millen, R., & Moss, S. A. (2002). A comparison of the use of third-party logistics services by Australian firms between 1995 and 1999. International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 32, 59-68.

Sohal, A. S., Moss, S. A., & Ng, L. (2000). Using IT productively: Practices and factors that influence success. International Journal of Technology Management, 20, 340-353.

Sohal, A. S., Moss, S. A., & Ng, L. (2001). Comparing IT success in manufacturing and service industries. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 21, 30-45.

Spataro, J., Moss, S. A., & Wells, D. L. (2001). Child sexual abuse: A reality for both sexes. Australian Psychologist, 26, 177-183.

Spataro, J., Mullen, P. E., Burgess, P. M., Wells, D. L., & Moss, S. A. (2004). Impact of child sexual abuse on mental health: Prospective study in males and females. British Journal of Psychiatry, 184, 416-421.

Stolwyk, R., Charlton, J., Triggs, T., Moss, S. A., & Bradshaw, J. L. (2006). The effect of a concurrent task on driving performance in people with Parkinson's disease. Movement Disorders, 21, 2096-2100.

Terziovski, M., Sohal, A. S., Moss, S. A. (1999). Longitudinal analysis of quality management practices in Australian organizations, Total Quality Management, 10(6), 915-926.

Wileman, B., Gullone, E., & Moss, S. A. (2007). The juvenile persistent offender, primary group deficiency and persistent offending into adulthood: A prospective study (1980-2002). Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law, 14, 66-77.

Wileman, B., Gullone, E., & Moss, S. A. (2008). The juvenile persistent offender, primary group deficiency and persistent offending into adulthood: A Qualitative Analysis. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law, 15, 56-69.

Williams, M., Moss, S. A., & Bradshaw, J. (2004). A unique look at face processing: The impact of masked faces on the processing of facial features. Cognition., 91, 155-172.

Williams, M. A., Moss, S. A., Bradshaw, J. L., & Rinehart, N. J. (2002). Random number generation in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 33, 43-47.

Williams, M., Moss, S. A., Bradshaw, J., & Mattingley, J. (2005). "Look at me, I'm smiling": Visual search for threatening and non-threatening facial expressions Cognition, 12, 29-50.

Wilson, K., Gullone, E., & Moss, S. A. (1998). The youth version of the positive and negative affect schedule: A psychometric validation. Behaviour Change, 15, 187-193.