Dr. Spence's research interests cover several areas within industrial/organizational psychology and fall within three themes: a) methods, statistics, and replications, b) intraindividual (within-person) process and job performance appraisals and c) performance appraisals.
Dr. Spence's research interests cover several areas within industrial/organizational psychology and fall within three themes: a) methods, statistics, and replications, b) intraindividual (within-person) process and job performance appraisals and c) performance appraisals.
His interests in methods and statistics are largely concentrated on issues related to replications and reproducibility.
His research on job performance concentrates on the dimensions of prosocial and deviant workplace behaviours. Specifically, he is interested in understanding intraindividual processes that lead to the occurrence of prosocial and deviant workplace behaviour.
In the domain of employee performance appraisals, his work has been aimed at understanding the causes and consequences of managers having considerations other than accuracy when rating employee performance.