Annie Kato

Undergraduate institution: Seattle Pacific University

My research focuses on issues of diversity, technology, and validity in the context of measuring individual differences for employee selection. My master’s thesis examined the predictive validity of cognitive ability “tilt” patterns, and my dissertation research is focused on the psychometrics of mobile assessments. My master’s thesis research received the 2019 James C. Johnson Student Paper Award from the International Personnel Assessment Council. In addition to completing my dissertation, I am also an Assistant Professor of Management at Seattle Pacific University.

Representative publications and presentations:

  • Kato, A. E. (2020). Teaching I-O psychology for the greater good. Industrial-Organizational: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 13, 528-531.

  • Kato, A. E., Wee, S., Goldstein, H. W., Lang, J. W. B., & Nye, C. D. (2020, April). Panelist in A. Kato & S. Wee’s Translating Research on Specific Cognitive Abilities into Opportunities for Practice. [Session canceled]. Alternative session accepted to the 35th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Austin, TX.

  • Kato, A. E., & Scherbaum, C. A. (2019, April). Exploring the Relationship between Cognitive Ability Tilt and Job Performance. In H. J. Kell & S. Wee (Co-Chairs), Very Much More Than g: Further Evidence for the Importance of Specific Abilities. Symposium to be conducted at the 34th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, National Harbor, MD.

  • Gisler, S., Kato, A. E., Lee, S., & Leung, D. W. (2018). One size does not fit all: Gender inequity in STEM varies between subfields. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 11(2), 314-318.

  • Kato, A. E., Scherbaum, C. A., Dickson, M. W., Crenshaw, J. L., Bellenger, B. L., Beckman, S., Goldstein, H. W., & Yusko, K. P. (2018, April). Examining Agreement in Job Analysis Ratings of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive KSAOs. Poster presented at the 33rd annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago.