Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Waterloo

Anna Gödöllei

Contact Information
Office: VC 8-271
Phone: (646) 312-4480
Email: Anna.Godollei@baruch.cuny.edu

Lab: Motivation and Technology Lab

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Dr. Anna F. Gödöllei is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Baruch College and a member of the Doctoral Faculty in The Psychology Program at CUNY’s Graduate Centre. She received her Ph.D. in I/O Psychology at the University of Waterloo and her M.S. in I/O Psychology from the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on two main areas: (1) uncovering the psychological impact of technology-driven changes at work, and (2) illuminating the role of employees’ phenomenological experience in their self-regulatory processes.

Dr. Gödöllei’s work has been published in outlets such as Journal of Vocational Behavior, Applied Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Computers in Human Behavior Reports, and Human Performance. She collaborates internationally with scholars from Canada, Australia, and the United States, and her scholarship has earned numerous awards, in excess of $180,000, from agencies such as AoM, SIOP, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). 

Representative publications:

  • Yang, Z., Gödöllei A. F., Moon, N. Kung, F.Y.H. (forthcoming). The next frontier in I-O research on motivation: Toward a first-person perspective. Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

  • Bazzoli, A., Chatterjee, D., Gödöllei, A. F., & Phetmisy, C. N. (2026). Socioeconomic status across the career life cycle: A review and research agenda. Applied Psychology, 75(4), e70134. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70134

  • Celestine, N. A., Yeo, G., Ji, S., Chen, Z., To, M. L., Gödöllei, A. F., & Chu, R. (2026). Making fun functional: Work context features, task fun regulation and task performance. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 169, 104278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2026.104278

  • Gödöllei, A. F., Beck, J. W., Cowan, R., Cruickshank, J., & Maliniak, L. (2025). More than how you start or finish: Performance trajectories predict interns’ post-graduation vocational outcomes. Education + Training, 67(5–6), 581–594. https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-08-2024-0371

  • Gödöllei, A. F. & Beck, J. W. (2023). Insecure or optimistic? Employees’ diverging appraisals of automation, and consequences for job attitudes. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 12, 100342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2023.100342  

  • Gödöllei, A. F. & Beck, J. W. (2020). Development and validation of the state regulatory focus scale. Human Performance, 33, 104-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959285.2019.1710513

  • Beck, J. W. & Gödöllei, A. F. (2020). A dynamic perspective on workplace motivation. In Y. Griep, and S. D., Hansen (Eds.), Handbook on the Temporal Dynamics of Organizational Behavior (pp. 237-250). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974387.00024

  • Chapman, D. S. & Gödöllei, A. F. (2017). E-recruiting: Using technology to attract job applicants. In G. Hertel, D. L. Stone, R. D. Johnson & J. Passmore (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of the Internet at Work (pp. 211-230). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119256151.ch11

Representative presentations:

  • Gödöllei, A. F., Pindek, S., Shen, W., & Nishioka, M. (2025, May). The Banality of boredom at work: A cross-temporal meta-analytic summary of boredom’s nomological network. [Oral Presentation]. European Congress of Work and Organisational Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.

  • Felman, A., Griffin, C. & Gödöllei, A. F. (2025, April). Reactions to Workplace Automation: Technological Self-Efficacy and Gender Differences [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Denver, CO, United States.

  • Shultz, E. P., & Gödöllei, A. F. (2025, April). Lighting a fire: The impact of job insecurity on preparations for automation. In E. P. Shultz & A. F. Gödöllei (Co-Chairs), & T. S. Behrend (Discussant), Facing the Future: Employee responses to technology-related job insecurity [Symposium]. Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Denver, CO, United States.

  • Gödöllei, A. F. (2023, August). Hold on to your Day Job: Employee Preparations for Automation at Work [Conference presentation]. Academy of Management Annual Conference, Boston, MA.

  • Gödöllei, A. F. & Beck, J. W. (2022, August). Fear of Embrace? Employees’ Diverging Appraisals of Automation, and Consequences for Job Attitudes. Paper presented at the 82nd annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, WA.

  • Gödöllei, A. F. & Beck, J. W. (2021, April). Control at work helps employees see the upside of automation. Poster presented at to the 36th annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

  • Gödöllei, A. F. & Beck, J.W. (2019, April). Development of a state regulatory focus scale. Poster presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Washington, DC.

  • Gödöllei, A. F. & Chapman, D. S. (2016, August). Gamified cognitive assessments in selection: Validity, discrimination, and applicant reactions. Paper presented at the 76th annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA.