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Piers Steel
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Latest papers
The effect of choice and reward on motivation and performance: an eye-tracking study.
Frontiers in psychology · 2026 · senior author
Motivational Congruence Theory: Beyond the Dualistic Approach to Human Motivation.
Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2024 · senior author
Spanish validation of the pure procrastination scale: dimensional structure, internal consistency, temporal stability, gender invariance, and relationships with personality and satisfaction with life.
Frontiers in psychology · 2023
Latest funding
- $44,409
Unleashing Canada's Scale-Up Potential: Tackling the Productivity Challenge through Evidence-Based Strategies for High-Growth SMEs
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $96,099
Should Intelligence Factor Into Modern Hiring Decisions? A Systematic Review of General Mental Ability Testing in Personnel Selection and Its Adverse Impact
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $16,723
Gender diversity and disparities in youth educational experiences and outcomes
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
16 publications.
The effect of choice and reward on motivation and performance: an eye-tracking study.
Hendijani R, Steel P
Motivational Congruence Theory: Beyond the Dualistic Approach to Human Motivation.
Hendijani R, Steel P
Spanish validation of the pure procrastination scale: dimensional structure, internal consistency, temporal stability, gender invariance, and relationships with personality and satisfaction with life.
Guilera G, López-Martínez MD, Barrios M, Hidalgo MD, Steel P, Gómez-Benito J
Editorial: New perspectives on procrastination, volume II.
Steel P, Svartdal F
Reward Salience and Choice in a Controlling Context: A Lab Experiment.
Hendijani R, Steel P
Self-Regulation of Slippery Deadlines: The Role of Procrastination in Work Performance.
Steel P, Taras D, Ponak A, Kammeyer-Mueller J
Procrastination and Personal Finances: Exploring the Roles of Planning and Financial Self-Efficacy.
Gamst-Klaussen T, Steel P, Svartdal F
The Happy Culture: A Theoretical, Meta-Analytic, and Empirical Review of the Relationship Between Culture and Wealth and Subjective Well-Being.
Steel P, Taras V, Uggerslev K, Bosco F
Examining Procrastination Across Multiple Goal Stages: A Longitudinal Study of Temporal Motivation Theory.
Steel P, Svartdal F, Thundiyil T, Brothen T
Validation of the Spanish version of the Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS).
Guilera G, Barrios M, Penelo E, Morin C, Steel P, Gómez-Benito J
Unleashing Canada's Scale-Up Potential: Tackling the Productivity Challenge through Evidence-Based Strategies for High-Growth SMEs
Principal investigators: Fariborzi, Hadi
Keywords: Scale-ups; SME growth; High-growth firms (HGFs); Entrepreneurship; Meta-analysis; Systematic Review
Should Intelligence Factor Into Modern Hiring Decisions? A Systematic Review of General Mental Ability Testing in Personnel Selection and Its Adverse Impact
Principal investigators: Steel, Piers D.G.
Keywords: meta-analysis; general mental ability; performance; adverse impact
Gender diversity and disparities in youth educational experiences and outcomes
Principal investigators: van Anders, Sari M.
Keywords: gender; schools; educational outcomes; emotion; discrimination; inclusion; measurement; educational experiences
The Effect of Rewards on Motivation, Effort and Performance
Principal investigators: Steel, Piers D.G.
Keywords: meta-analysis; motivation; self-determination theory; motivational crowding; rewards
The Effect of Rewards on Motivation, Effort and Performance
Principal investigators: Steel, Piers D.G.
Keywords: meta-analysis; motivation; self-determination theory; motivational crowding; rewards
Will Good Names Go Wrong? Corporate Reputation, Idiosyncratic CSR Strategies and Negative Events
Principal investigators: Liu, Xiaoyu
Keywords: corporate reputation; corporate social responsibility; negtive event; meta analysis; panel regression
Improving National Indices of Culture and Testing Theories of Cultural Change
Principal investigators: Steel, Piers D.G.
Keywords: culture; meta-analysis; modernization theory; national change; national values; Hofstede; Value Survey Module
Using and expanding metaBUS tools for locating and synthesizing research findings
Principal investigators: Uggerslev, Krista L.
Keywords: meta-analysis; quantitative synthesis; collaborative big science; finding; curating; and synthesizing organizational research; generating field maps; large-scale knowledge generation; advancing evidence-based practice; bridging the science-practice gap
The intersection of teamwork, culture, and technology: enhancing soft skill development in post-secondary education through student-centered feedback
Principal investigators: O'Neill, Thomas A.
Keywords: teamwork; collaboration; culture; technology; skill development; education
Fostering the public understanding of science: Informing evidence-based practice and evidence-based education through the metaBUS project
Keywords: evidence-based practice; evidence-based education; public understanding of science; interacting with cumulative scientific information
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Mark Asbridge and Piers Steel: 1 shared paper
- Piers Steel and Allen Ponak: 1 shared paper
- Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources
- Community Health and Epidemiology
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