Keith Leavitt

Assistant Professor

Department: Management
Office: Bexell 338
Phone: 541.737.8631
Email: keith.leavitt@bus.oregonstate.edu


Dr. Keith Leavitt is an Assistant Professor of Management in the College of Business at Oregon State University. Prior to arriving at OSU, he spent two years as an assistant professor at the Center for the Army Profession and Ethic, located at WestPoint. He received his Ph.D. (Organizational Behavior) from the University of Washington in 2009.

His primary research areas include behavioral ethics/workplace malfeasance, social/relational identity and situated judgment, gender and racial parity, implicit (non-conscious) cognition, and research methods/epistemology. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, the Globe & Mail (Canada), and Forbes Magazine (India edition). 

In his spare time, he enjoys mountain biking, road cycling, xc/telemark skiing, the occasional existential crisis, and keeping his two dogs from swallowing things.  

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Education

Doctorate in Management and Organization (Ph.D.)
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Concentration: Organizational Behavior/ Human Resource Management, Spring 2009.
Minors: Research Methods and Sociology (Institutional Analysis).

Master of Science in Business Administration (M.S.B.A.)
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Concentration: Organizational Behavior, Spring 2007.

Master of Science (M.S.)
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Concentration: Social/Applied Psychology

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Western State College of Colorado, Gunnison, CO
Major: Psychology

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Employment

Assistant Professor, Oregon State University College of Business (Fall 2011-Present).

Assistant Professor, Army Center for the Professional Military Ethic, United States Military Academy at WestPoint (Summer 2009-Summer 2011).

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Publications

Journal Articles

Leavitt, K., "Publication bias might make us untrustworthy, but the solutions may be worse.", Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 2013 In Press.
Uhlmann, E., K. Leavitt, J. Menges, J. Koopman, M. Howe, and R. Johnson, "Getting Explicit about the Implicit: A Taxonomy of Implicit Measures and Guide for their Use in Organizational Research", Organizational Research Methods, vol. 15, pp. 553-601, 2012. Abstract
Leavitt, K., S. Reynolds, C. Barnes, P. Schilpzand, and S. Hannah, "Different hats, different obligations: Plural occupational identities and situated moral judgments.", Academy of Management Journal, vol. 55, pp. 1316-1333, 2012. Abstract
Leavitt, K., C. Fong, and A. Greenwald, "Asking About Well-Being Gets You Half an Answer: Intra-Individual Processes of Implicit and Explicit Job Attitude", Journal of Organizational Behavior, vol. 32, pp. 672-687, 2011.
Hekman, D., K. Aquino, B. Owens, T. Mitchell, P. Schilpzand, and K. Leavitt, "An examination of whether and how racial and gender biases influence customer satisfaction ratings.", Academy of Management Journal, vol. 53, pp. 238-264., 2010.
Leavitt, K., T. Mitchell, and J. Peterson, "Theory Pruning: Strategies for Reducing our Dense Theoretical Landscape", Organizational Research Methods, vol. 13, pp. 644-667, 2010. Abstract
Reynolds, S., K. Leavitt, and K. Decelles, "Automatic ethics: The effects of implicit assumptions and contextual cues on moral behavior", Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 95, pp. 752-760, 2010.
Martell, R., and K. Leavitt, "Reducing the Performance-Cue Bias in Work Behavior Ratings: Can Groups Help?", Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 87, pp. 1032-1041, 2002.

Presentations

Hekman, D., and K. Leavitt, "Focusing capitalism on the forgotten internal stakeholder (PDW)", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2013.
Gardner, R., E. Umphress, K. Leavitt, A. Stoverink, and R. Griffin, "Helping others cheat: The role of positive affect and liking.", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2013.
Erez, A., P. Schilpzand, K. Leavitt, and A. Woolum, "Interactions between peers’ and individuals’ personalities affect individiuals’ performance.", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2013.
Leavitt, K., "Mindless Malfeasance: The role of implicit processes in unethical workplace behavior (part of PDW on The antecedents, management, and implications of unethical behavior at work).", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2013.
Wagner, D., C. Barnes, and K. Leavitt, "Worth what you're paid: A meaning maintenance model of compensation and self-promotion.", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2013.
Bosco, F., P. A, K. Leavitt, and H. Aguinis, "I/O Psychology's decline in effect-size magnitude over time.", Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, Houston, TX, 2013.
Leavitt, K., "Getting explicit about the implicit: Nonconscious measures in management research", (Invited Talk), Virginia Polytechnical Institute (Virginia Tech), 2012.
Leavitt, K., "Implicit processes in organizational behavior: Research and practice next steps (Expert Panel)", Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2012.
Leavitt, K., "Positive Affect as a Motivator of Prosocial Unethical Behavior.", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2011.
Leavitt, K., "Who matters and what's sacred? Professional identity exerts an automatic influence on moral processing.", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2011.
Leavitt, K., "You + Implicit: Using response latency-based implicit measures in organizational settings.", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2011.
Leavitt, K., P. Schilpzand, and V. Lim, "Cheaters never prosper...but their in-groups do: Threats to group and moral identities as predictors of cheating", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, 2010.
Leavitt, K., and D. Sluss, "Lying for Who We Are: Social and Relational Identity as Drivers of Dishonesty", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, 2010.
Reynolds, S., K. Leavitt, and K. Decelles, "Automatic Ethics: The Effects of Implicit Assumptions and Contextual Cues on Moral Behavior", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2008.
Leavitt, K., T. Mitchell, and J. Peterson, "Theory Pruning: Strategies for Reducing Our Dense Theoretical Landscape", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2008.
Leavitt, K., C. Fong, and A. Greenwald, "Implicit Job Attitudes as Predictors of Task and Contextual Performance", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2007.

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Honors and Awards

  • Winner, Organizational Research Methods 2011 Best Paper Award.
  • Winner, Academy of Management Journal 2010 Best Paper Award.
  • Winner, 2011 Saroj Parasuraman Award for outstanding publication (presented by the gender and diversity in organizations division of the Academy of Management).
  • Outstanding reviewer award, Academy of Management Annual Meeting (OB division), 2010.
  • Outstanding reviewer award, Academy of Management Annual Meeting (MOC division), 2009.
  • Graduate teaching excellence award, University of Washington Business School, 2007.
  • Kindergartener of the week, Crosby Elementary School, 1982.

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Additional Information

Keith Leavitt, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae

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