Research

My research bridges psychological science with practical organizational applications. I focus on understanding how individual differences shape workplace behavior, developing better methods for organizational research, and translating scientific insights into actionable HR strategies.

Below are three interconnected areas that define my scholarly work.

Personality and Individual Differences (PAID) at Work

How do individual characteristics—personality traits, values, and abilities—influence workplace outcomes? This research stream examines both the “bright side” (e.g., conscientiousness, meaningful work) and “dark side” (e.g., Machiavellianism, unethical behavior) of personality at work, with a focus on occupational fit and person-environment alignment.

Selected Publications (Sorted by Year)

Simonet, D. V., & Castille, C. M. (2020). The search for meaningful work: A network analysis of personality and the job characteristics model. Personality and Individual Differences, 154, 109569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109569

Castille, C. M., Castille, A. R., & Smith, R. W. (2019). Assessing ideal personalities at work: Is it all just a little bit of history repeating? Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 12(4), 407-410. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/qan42

Castille, C. M., Buckner, J. E., & Thoroughgood, C. N. (2018). Prosocial citizens without a moral compass? Examining the relationship between Machiavellianism and unethical pro-organizational behavior. Journal of Business Ethics, 149(4), 919-930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3079-9

Castille, C., & Fultz, A. (2018). How does collaborative cheating emerge? A case study of the Volkswagen emissions scandal. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2018.014

Castille, C. M., Kuyumcu, D., & Bennett, R. J. (2017). Prevailing to the peers’ detriment: Organizational constraints motivate Machiavellians to undermine their peers. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 29-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.07.026

Castille, C. M. (2015). Bright or dark, or virtues and vices? A reexamination of the big five and job performance [Doctoral dissertation, Louisiana Tech University]. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/194

Castille, C. M., & Sheets, T. L. (2012). The Five Factor Model of personality and employees’ excessive use of technology. Computers in Human Behavior, 28(5), 1947-1953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.05.014

Levy, J. J., Castille, C. M., & Farley, J. A. (2011). An investigation of musical performance anxiety in the marching arts. Medical Problems of Performing Artists, 26(1), 23-28. https://doi.org/10.21091/mppa.2011.1004

Organizational Research Methods

High-quality people analytics requires high-quality methods. This research develops and validates better approaches to organizational research, including open science practices that increase transparency and reproducibility, and techniques for understanding and controlling method variance in applied settings.

Open Science & Replication (Sorted by Year)

Banks, G. C., Rasmussen, L. M., Tonidandel, S., Pollack, J. M., Hausfeld, M. M., Williams, C., Albritton, B. H., Allen, J. A., Bastardoz, N., Batchelor, J. H., … Castille, C. M., … & others (2025). Women’s and men’s authorship experiences: A prospective meta-analysis. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063251315701

Castille, C. M. (2024). A Primer on Open Science for Industrial-Organizational Psychologists. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 61(3), 45-58. https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2022.70

Guzzo, R. A., & Castille, C. M. (2024). Translational science, open science, and accelerating practical impact. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 61(4). https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/p8msx

Kreamer, L. M., Cobb, H. R., Castille, C., & Cogswell, J. (2024). Big team science initiatives: A catalyst for trustworthy advancements in IO psychology. Acta Psychologica, 242, 104101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.104101

Castille, C. M., Köhler, T., & O’Boyle, E. H. (2023). A brighter vision of the potential of open science for benefiting practice: A ManyOrgs proposal. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 16(1), 85-89. https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2022.70

Castille, C. M., Kreamer, L. M., Albritton, B. H., Banks, G. C., & Rogelberg, S. G. (2022). The open science challenge: Adopt one practice that enacts widely shared values. Journal of Business and Psychology, 37(3), 567-580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09806-2

Moshontz, H., Campbell, L., Ebersole, C. R., IJzerman, H., Urry, H. L., Forscher, P. S., Grahe, J. E., McCarthy, R. J., Musser, E. D., Antfolk, J., Castille, C. M., … & Chartier, C. R. (2018). The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing psychology through a distributed collaborative network. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(4), 501-515. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918797607

Method Variance & Measurement (Sorted by Year)

Williams, L. J., Culpepper, S. A., & Castille, C. M. (in press). In defense of the RMSEA-p for latent variable model evaluation: A failed reproducibility study of Lance et al. (2016). Journal of Management Scientific Reports.

Castille, C. M., & Williams, L. J. (2024). Shedding light on invisible influences: Reviewing HROB scholars’ use of unmeasured latent method factors. In Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (Vol. 42, pp. 139-188). Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/s0742-730120240000042007

Castille, C., & Williams, L. J. (2022). To partial or not? Re-examining the unmeasured latent method construct (ULMC). Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1), 10998. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2022.10998abstract

Castille, A. R., Castille, C. M., & Sharma, S. (2021). The incremental value of controlling for covert insufficient effort responding. Journal of Organizational Psychology, 21(5), 52-68. https://doi.org/10.33423/jop.v21i5.4723

Castille, C. M., Sawyer, K., Thoroughgood, C., & Buckner, J. (2015). Some key research questions for mindfulness interventions. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 8(4), 628-633. https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2015.86

HR Strategy and Tactics

Applied people analytics must demonstrate business impact. This research applies analytical methods to real-world HR challenges, including predictive attrition modeling, compensation strategy, and demonstrating the return on investment of HR programs through utility analysis.

Selected Publications (Sorted by Year)

Castille, C. M., & Castille, A. R. (2019). Disparate treatment and adverse impact in applied attrition modeling. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 12(4), 507-511. https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2019.53