Elliott Crofts Larson

Contact information:

Office: VC 8-296
Email: elliott.larson@baruch.cuny.edu
Lab: Personnel Selection and Employee Assessment

Social media: LinkedIn

Elliott’s research is focused on the development of fair, valid, and innovative employee selection systems. Through his research on test design and psychometric properties, he examines the predictive validity and group score differences of cognitive and non-cognitive assessments and the utility of these measures in high-stakes testing situations. In addition, Elliott partners with organizations to implement evidence-based programs for identifying and developing talent and maximizing inclusivity. His work has been published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, Journal of Intelligence, and the Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Recruitment, Selection, and Retention. In addition, Elliott was one of the recipients of SIOP’s M. Scott Myers Award and IPAC’s Innovations in Assessment ward for his work on personnel selection and validity techniques.

Representative publications and presentations:

• Goldstein, H., Yusko, K., Scherbaum, C., & Larson, E. (2023). Reducing black–white racial differences on intelligence tests used in hiring for public safety jobs. Journal of Intelligence, 11, 62.

• Yusko, K., Aiken, J., Goldstein, H, Scherbaum, C., & Larson, E. (2019). Solving the quarterback problem: Using psychological assessment to improve selection decisions in professional sports. In R. Sims & S. Bias (Eds.), Human resources management issues, challenges, and trends (pp. 568-587). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

• Larson, E., Yusko, K., Goldstein, H, Scherbaum, C., & Oliver, L. (2018).  Modernizing intelligence in the workplace: Recent developments in theory and measurement of intelligence at work.  In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. Shackelford (Eds.), SAGE handbook of personality and individual differences (pp. 568-587).  Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE

• Scherbaum, C., Dickson, M., Larson, E., Bellenger, B., Yusko, K., & Goldstein, H. (2018). Creating test score bands for assessments involving ratings using a generalizability theory approach to reliability estimation. Personnel and Assessment Decisions, 4, 1-8.

• Yusko, K., Bellenger, B., Larson, E., Hanges, P., and Aiken, J. (2017). Legal and fairness considerations in employee selection. In H. Goldstein, E. Pulakos, J. Passmore, & C. Semedo (Eds.) The Wiley Blackwell handbook of the psychology of recruitment, selection, and retention (pp. 422-441). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.

• Cohen-Charash, Y., & Larson, E. (2017). An emotion divided: Studying envy is better than studying “benign” and “malicious” envy. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 174-183.