Seth Spain

Ithaca, New York Area United States

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

Education

I am an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, with expertise in Quantitative Psychology. I primarily study so-called "dark personality"--personal characteristics such as narcissism, psychopathy, or obsessive-compulsive personality--at work, especially within the context of leadership. I am interested in the role that personality (and other individual differences) plays in the development of leaders. Furthermore, I am interested in the ways that leaders fail. In addition to my primary substantive research, I am also a card-carrying statistician, and I conduct methodological research in multilevel models, Bayesian modeling and analysis, and graphical modeling/identification of statist