Publications:
o Pesta, B., McDaniel, M., & Bertsch (2010). We can't get no (life) satisfaction: Comment on Oswald and Wu. Intelligence, 38, 361-362. download
o Pesta, B., & Scherer, R. (in press). The assurance of learning tool as predictor and criterion in business school admissions decisions: New use for an old standard? Journal of Education for Business.
o Bommer, W., Pesta, B., & Barnes, S. (in press). Nonverbal emotion recognition and performance: Differences matter differently. Journal of Managerial Psychology.
o Pesta, B., McDaniel, M., & Bertsch, S. (2010). Toward an index of well-being for the 50 U.S. States. Intelligence, 38, 160-168. download
o Pesta, B. (2009). Revisiting disparate impact claims under the ADEA: A brief review and statistical primer. Labor Law Journal, 60, 104-110.
o Bertsch, S., & Pesta, B. (2009). The Wonderlic Personnel Test and elementary cognitive tasks as predictors of religious sectarianism, scriptural acceptance and religious questioning. Intelligence, 37, 231-237. download
o Pesta, B., & Poznanski, J. (2009). The inspection time and over-claiming tasks as predictors of MBA student performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 236-240. download
o Pesta, B., Bertsch, S., Poznanski, P., & Bommer, W. (2008). Sex differences on elementary cognitive tasks despite no differences on the Wonderlic Personnel Test. Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 429-431. download
o Pesta, B., & Poznanski, P. (2008). Black-White differences on IQ and grades: The mediating role of elementary cognitive tasks. Intelligence, 36, 323-329. download
o Pesta, B., Dunegan, K., & Hrivnak, M. (2007). Contrast and rater-perspective effects on judgments of sexual harassment severity: What he thinks she thinks, and vice versa. Journal of Business and Psychology, 22, 155-165.
o Bertsch, S., Pesta, B., Wiscott, R., & McDaniel, M. (2007). The generation effect: A meta-analytic review. Memory & Cognition, 35, 201-210.
o Bond, M., Knapp, D., Heshizer, B., & Pesta, B. (2007). Experience with consumer driven health plans: Does the performance of high-deductible health plans match expectations? Compensation & Benefits Review, 39, 60-68.
o Pesta, B., Hrivnak, M., & Dunegan, K. (2007). Parsing work environments along the dimensions of sexual harassment: Drawing lines in office sand. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 19, 45-55.
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Journal Article (Selected)
o Pesta, B., Murphy, M., Sanders, R. (2001). Are emotionally charged lures immune to false memory?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 328-338.
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Book Chapters (Peer reviewed):
o McDaniel, M., Pesta, B., & Banks, G. (in press). Job performance and the aging worker. In J. Hedge & W. Borman (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Work and Aging.
o Palmieri, P., Peterson, L., Pesta, B. & Saettone, D. (in press) Safety culture as a contemporary healthcare construct: theoretical review, research assessment, and translation to human resource management. In T. Savage, N. Khatri, & M. Fottler (Eds.), Advances in Health Care Management.