Being Left in The Dark: Leader Work-related Secrecy, Psychological Contract Violation, and Employee Discretionary Behavior(Wang, Y., Mai, K. M., & Slepian, M. ) , Journal of Organizational Behavior, Accepted

Unveiling the Hidden Hazards: Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Legal Changes on Employee Injuries(Mai, K. M., Lin, Y., Zhang, K., & Zhang, R. ) , Journal of Applied Psychology, Accepted

Examining the Effects of Interpersonal Competition on Employees’ Reporting of Unethical Behavior in Organizations(Qiu, F., Mai, K. M., Ellis, A. P. J., Wen, X., & Liu, C.-H. ) , Journal of Business Ethics, 2026

Sharing Is Ethicizing: Examining the Impact of Sharing Observed Unethical Behavior with Family Members on Ethical Voice at Work(Chen, A., Mai, K. M., & Ye, Y. M. ) , Journal of Applied Psychology, 2026

When the Moon is Jealous of the Stars: Implications of Informal Leadership for Supervisor Downward Jealousy and Their Treatment of Other Subordinates(Qiu, F., Yu, L., Wen, X., Duffy, M., & Mai, K. M. ) , Academy of Management Journal, 2023.0646, 2026

Examining the Hindering Effects of Receiving Help on Internal Reporting of Unethical Behavior(Qiu, F.*, Mai, K. M.*, & Ellis, A. P. J. ) , Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2025

Suffering from Their Own Passiveness: A Leader-Centric Investigation of Laissez-Faire Leadership(Perkins, B., Ellis, A. P. J., & Mai, K. M. ) , Journal of Leadership Studies, 2025

Understanding the Effects of Cheating Configurations on Team Creative Performance: A Social Impact Theory Perspective(Spoelma, T. M., Mai, K. M., & Wei, W. ) , Personnel Psychology, 77(2), 595-620, 2024

Having a Voice in Your Community: A Large-Scale Field Experiment on Participatory Decision-Making in China(Wu, S. J., Mai, K. M., Zhuang, M., Yi, F. ) , Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 2119–2126, 2024

Drawing the Line: Organizational Misconduct, Social-Control Agents’ Decisions, and Audience Agreement(Cattani, G., Clemente, M., Durand, R. & Mai, K. M.) , Journal of Management Studies, 61, 785-819, 2023

Green space accessibility helps buffer declined mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from big data in the UK(Lee, K. O., Mai, K. M., & Park, S. ) , Nature Mental Health, 1, 124–134, 2023

No Person is an Island: Unpacking the Work and After-work Consequences of Interacting with Artificial Intelligence(Tang, P. M., Koopman, J., Mai, K. M., De Cremer, D., Zhang, J., Reynders, P., Ng, S., Chen, I-Heng ) , Journal of Applied Psychology, 108(11), 1766-1789, 2023

The reputational and ethical consequences of deceptive chatbot use(McGuire, J., De Cremer, D., Hesselbarth, Y., De Schutter, L., Mai, K. M., & Van Hiel, A. ) , Scientific Reports, 13(1), 16246, 2023

How Can Women Take Advantage of the High-Tech Era to be Perceived as Effective Leaders? Being Tech-Savvy Helps(Nagpal, M., Cao, J., Mai, K. M., & De Cremer, D. ) , Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 2023

Supporting Creativity or Creative Unethicality? Empowering Leadership and the Role of Performance Pressure(Mai, K. M., Welsh, D. T., Bush, J. T., Wang, F., & Jiang,K. ) , Journal of Business Ethics, 2022

The Impact of Supervisor-Employee Self-Protective Implicit Voice Theory Alignment(Ellis, A. P. J., Porter, C. O. L. H., & Mai, K. M. ) , Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 95, 155-183, 2022

Illumination and Elbow Grease: How Mental Models of the Creative Process Influence Creativity(Lucas, B. & Mai, K. M. ) , Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 168, 104107, 2022

Are You Too Happy to Serve Others? When and Why Positive Affect Makes Customer Mistreatment Experience Feel Worse(Lee, R., Mai, K. M., Qiu, F., Ilies, R., & Tang, P. M.) , Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 172, 104188, 2022

How perpetrator gender influences reactions to premeditated versus impulsive unethical behavior: A role congruity approach(Mai, K.M., Ellis, A.P.J., & Welsh, D.T. ) , Journal of Business Ethics, 166, 489-503, 2020

Anticipated Temporal Landmarks Undermine Motivation for Continued Goal Pursuit(Koo, M., Dai, H., Mai, K. M., & Song, C. ) , Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 142-157, 2020

Overcoming the effects of sleep deprivation on unethical behavior: An extension of integrated self-control theory(Welsh, D.T., Mai, K.M., Ellis, A.P.J., & Christian, M.S.) , Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 76, 142-154, 2018

Licensed to say no: How and why does engaging in a prior moral action influence family support provision?(Li, A., Mai, K.M., & Bagger, J. ) , Journal of Vocational Behavior, 102, 86-98, 2017

Examining the effects of turnover intentions on OCBs and deviance behaviors: A psychological contract approach(Mai, K.M., Ellis, A.P.J., Christian, J.S., & Porter, C.O.L.H. ) , Journal of Applied Psychology, 101, 1067-1081, 2016

The grey side of creativity: Exploring the role of activation in the link between creative personality and unethical behavior(Mai, K.M., Ellis, A.P.J., & Welsh, D.T. ) , Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 60, 76-85, 2015

Building a self-regulatory model of sleep deprivation and deception: The role of caffeine and social influence(Welsh, D.T., Ellis, A.P.J., Christian, M.S., & Mai, K.M. ) , Journal of Applied Psychology, 99, 1268-1277, 2014
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Surveying for artifacts: The susceptibility of the OCB--performance evaluation relationship to common rater, item, and measurement context effects(Podsakoff, N.P., Whiting, S.W., Welsh, D.T., & Mai, K.M. ) , Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 863-874, 2013

Examining the asymmetrical effects of goal faultlines in groups: A categorization-elaboration approach(Ellis, A.P.J., Mai, K.M., & Christian, J.S. ) , Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 948-961, 2013