Journal Publications

Beck, E.D., Cheung, F., Thapa, S., Jackson, J.J. Towards personalized happiness: An idiographic approach to change in satisfaction. PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3074181/v1]

Malle, B., Scheutz, M., Cusimano, C., Voiklis, J., Komatsu, T., Thapa, S., & Aladia, S., (2024). People’s judgments of humans and robots in a classic moral dilemma. Cognition.

Behrand, T., Ravid, D., & Thapa, S., (2024). Implications of social media for a changing work landscape. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior.

Thapa, S., Vaziri, H., Shim, Y., Tay, L., & Pawelski, J. (2023). Development and Validation of the Mechanisms of Engagement in the Arts and Humanities Scales. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Tay, L., Thapa, S., Newman, D.B., & De Choudhury, M. (2022). Using social media to assess expressions of Gratitude to God: Issues for consideration. Religions, 13, 778.

Diener, E., Thapa, S., & Tay, L. (2020). Positive emotions at work. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 7, 451-477.

Hickman, L., Thapa, S., Tay, L. Cao, M., & Srinivasan, P. (2020). Text preprocessing for text mining in organizational research: An introduction and primer. Organizational Research Methods, 25(1), 114-146.

Watson, W. R., Watson, S. L., Thapa, S., & Tay, L. (2020). Comparing student perceived attitudinal learning outcomes of two large classes that utilized active learning or traditional lecture-based approaches. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 58(2), 146-156.

Book Chapters

Gabriel, A., Thapa, S., Tay, L., & Dutti, A. (2025) Quantitative Advances in the Study of Emotion Regulation at Work. In the Handbook of Emotion Regulation at Work.

Beck, E., & Thapa, S. (2023). Dynamic Network Analysis. In the Mobile Sensing in Psychology: Methods and Applications (pp. 386–408). Guilford Press.

Thapa, S., Tay, L., & Hou, D. (2021). Experience Sampling Methodology: Conceptual and Technological Advances for Understanding and Assessing Variability in Well-being Research. Examining and Exploring the Shifting Nature of Occupational Stress and Well-Being, 137-154.

Thapa, S., Beck, E., & Tay, L. (2020). Personality Affect Construal Theory: A Model of Personality and Affect in the Workplace. In the Cambridge handbook of workplace affect. Cambridge University Press.

Malle, B., Thapa, S., & Scheutz, M. (2019). AI in the Sky: How People Morally Evaluate Human and Machine Decisions in a Lethal Strike Dilemma. In Robotics and well-being (pp. 111–133). Springer.

Interviews

Thapa, S. (May 7 2024) “Our Town: Creative Hobbies In conversation,” interview by Julianne Tran, Public Radio Tulsa Interviewed about my research on well-being effects of engagement in the arts and humanities.

Thapa, S. (Oct 24, 2023). Great IO Get together #24: Hot Food and Even Hotter IO Takes [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MllhlhiKiPY&t=385s Interviewed to comment on “hot takes” or issues with IO Psychology as a field.

Reports

Tay, Hickman, & Thapa (2025). Direct Replication of Gabriel et al. 2011. Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) project through Center for Open Science. Completed preregistration and direct replication study of an ESM study published by Gabriel et al. 2011 in Journal of Applied Psychology.

Banks, G. C., Foy, D., Kim, B., Korman, J., Makel, M. C., Schrodt, P., & Thapa, S. The Meta Machine: Using Automation to Catalyze Leaps Forward in Meta-analytic Reviews. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/932qp.