Department of Psychology

Adrian Thomas received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology for research conducted with co-chairs Nambury Raju and Stan Mulaik. His research interests include personnel selection, scale development, incorporation of workers with disabilities into the workforce, and psychometric and practical issues associated with currently available techniques of validity generalization and utility analysis. His main consulting efforts include development of selection techniques, statistical consultation, and work stress management.

• 1997, Ph.D., Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 1995, M.S., Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 1991, B.A., Applied Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Thomas, A., Donnell, A. J., Young, T. R. (2004). Factor Structure and Differential Validity of the Expanded Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Assessment, 11(2), 177-185.
• Thomas, A. & Raju, N. S. (2004). An evaluation of James et al.’s (1992) VG estimation procedure when artifacts and true validity are correlated. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 12, 299-311.
• Thomas, A., Palmer, J. K., Coker, C., & Williams, D. J. (2003). Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Interaction with Disabled Persons Scale. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 465-483.

• STAT2010, Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
• PSYC3590, Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• PSYC8700, Advanced Industrial Psychology
• PSYC8720, Personnel Selection