Seth Kaplan

Seth Kaplan is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University. His research focuses on employee well-being, team effectiveness, virtual work, and occupational health through projects like NSF-funded emotion regulation interventions and Army Research Institute collaborations on affective forecasting. He directs the KA-Lab, studying team resilience, metaperceptions, and statistical methodologies.

Recent publications analyze job boredom, cognitive reappraisal interventions, and personality measurement innovations. His book Crisis-Ready Teams (2024) synthesizes data from high-risk environments. Courses taught include Occupational Health, Organizational Change, Psychometrics, and Multivariate Statistics.

Grants:

• National Science Foundation (Co-PI): Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions for Emotion Regulation
• Army Research Institute (PI): Affective Forecasting Errors

Recent Presentations:

• Personality and generative AI use at work (SIOP 2025)
• Work situation identification via NLP (SIOP 2025)
• Helicopter helping in teams (SIOP 2025)