Southern Illinois University Carbondale

	Meera Komarraju
Degree	Ph.D., Osmania University, India; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Position	Assistant Professor, Applied Psychology; Director, Undergraduate Program
Office	229-D, Life Sciences II
Phone	(618) 453-3543
Fax	(618) 453-3563
Email:	meerak@siu.edu
Biosketch	Meera Komarraju, Assistant Professor in Applied Psychology, holds doctorates in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (1983, Osmania University, India) and Applied Social Psychology (1987, University of Cincinnati, Ohio). She has taught in the Departments of Psychology and Management at SIUC since 1986, at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She has also taught in Hong Kong and Singapore for the Dept. of Management's off-campus executive MBA program. Courses taught include: Introductory, Social, Personality, Child , Cross-Cultural, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Research Methods, Introduction to Management, Business Statistics, as well as Managerial and Organizational Behavior. Her research interests focus on work attitudes, work-family linkages in dual-career couples, cross-cultural psychology, and academic motivation.
Research Interests	Cross Cultural Psychology Academic Motivation Work-Family Linkages in Dual Career Families
Selected Publications	Recent Journal Articles & Book Chapters: Komarraju, M. & Karau, S. J. (in press). Cross-cultural differences in the academic motivation of university students in Malaysia and the United States . North American Journal of Psychology. Komarraju, M. & Karau, S. J. (in press). Relationships between instructional techniques and academic motivation. Journal of Instructional Psychology. Lovett-Hooper, G., Komarraju, M., Weston, R., & Dollinger, S. J. (in press). Is Plagiarism a forerunner of other deviance? Imagined futures of academically dishonest students. Ethics & Behavior. Cokley, K., Komarraju, M., Rosales, R., Shen, F., Pickett, R., & Patel, N. (in press). Assessment of quality of student-faculty interactions: A new scale for assessing the quality of student-faculty interactions. Journal of the Professoriate, 1, 53-67. Cokley, K, Komarraju, M., Pickett, R., Shen, F., Patel, N., Belur, V., & Rosales, R. (in press). Ethnic differences in endorsement of the Protestant work ethic: The role of ethnic identity and perceptions of social class. Journal of Social Psychology, 147, 75-90 Komarraju, M. (2006) Work-family conflict and sources of support amongst Malaysian dual-career university employees. Asian Academy of Management, 11, 83-96. Komarraju, M. & Karau, S. J. (2005). The relationship between the Big Five personality traits and academic motivation. Personality and Individual Differences , 39, 557-567.
Teaching	Undergraduate Psychology Courses: Introduction to Psychology (Psyc 102) Practicum in Teaching (Psyc 394L) Graduate Course: Practicum in Teaching (Psyc 594L)