Department of Psychology

About Dr. Daus

Catherine Daus is the Program Coordinator of the I/O Masters program and an associate professor at SIUE. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in I/O Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Groups, Stress, and Statistics. She received both her Master of Science and her Doctorate in I/O Psychology from Purdue University in 1994. Her research interests include mood and emotion at work, stress and coping at work, and diversity and cross cultural issues. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Executive and the International Review of I/O Psychology. Dr. Daus is active in various professional organizations, including Gateway I/O Psychologist, Society for I/O Psychology, American Psychological Society, and American Psychological Association. She also does stress management consulting and organizational attitude/survey development for organizations.

Mentoring Statement

Dr. Daus is available to mentor students interested in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.  Specific topical areas within organizational psychology that Dr. Daus has expertise in are emotions and emotions in the workplace; stress and work stress; and worker attitudes.

Representative Publications

• Daus, C.S. & Cage, T. (2008).  Learning to face emotional intelligence:  Training and workplace applications.  Invited chapter in Cooper & Ashkanasy (Eds.), Research Companion to Emotion in Organizations.  Edward Elgar.
• Daus, C. S. (2006). The case for the ability based model of emotional intelligence. Invited chapter to appear in Murphy (Ed.) A Critique of Emotional Intelligence: What are the Problems and How Can They Be Fixed?
• Ashkanasy, N. M. & Daus, C. S. (2005). Rumors of the death of emotional intelligence in organizational behavior are vastly exaggerated. Journal of    Organizational Behavior, 26(4), 441-452.
• Daus, C. S. & Ashkanasy, N. M. (2005). The case for the ability based model of emotional intelligence in organizational behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(4), 453-466.
• Daus, C. S. (2004). A review of bullying and emotional abuse in the workplace: International perspectives in research and practice. By S. Einarse, H. Hoel, D. Zapf, & C. Cooper. In Personal Psychology, Winter.
• Daus, C. S. & Ashkanasy, N. M. (2003). Will the real emotional intelligence please stand up? On desconstructing the Emotional Intelligence 'debate.' The Industrial Psychologist, 41, 69-72.