Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter D. Harms is the Frank Schultz Endowed Professor of Business at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Business. His research focuses on the assessment and development of leadership, personality, and psychological well-being. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has published more than 150 articles in leading journals as well as numerous chapters, technical reports, and books. This work has been featured in popular media outlets such as CNN, Scientific American, Forbes, and the BBC. Harms was selected as one of the “100 Knowledge Leaders of Tomorrow” by the St. Gallen Symposium, received the Mid-Career Standout Scholar award from the Network of Leadership Scholars in 2021, and is a fellow of both the Society of and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the Association for Psychological Science. He has twice received SIOP’s Joyce and Robert Hogan Award for Personality and Work Performance Paper of the Year as well as the Academy of Management’s Sage Publications/Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award and several best paper awards from individual journals. Harms currently serves on the scientific advisory board of Hogan Assessment Systems and has engaged in research partnerships with the U.S. Army, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the U.S. Department of Labor. Harms also currently serves as editor of both Psychology of Leaders and Leadership and Research in Occupational Stress and Well-Being as well as associate editor at Journal of Business and Psychology.
Borgholthaus, C., Bourgoin, A., Harms, P.D., White, J., & Fezzey, T. (2025). Surveying the upper echelons: An update to Cycyota and Harrison (2006) on top manager response rates and recommendations for the future. Organizational Research Methods.
Tuggle, C., Borgholthaus, C., Harms, P.D, & O’Brien, J. (2024). Setting the tone to get their way: An attention-based approach to how narcissistic CEOs influence the board of directors to take more risk. Strategic Management Journal, 45, 2095-2121.
Harms, P.D., White, J., & Fezzey, T. (2024). Dark clouds on the horizon: Dark personality traits and the frontiers of the entrepreneurial economy. Journal of Business Research, 171, 114364.
Marbut, A. & Harms, P.D. (2024). Fiends and fools: A narrative review and neo-socioanalytic perspective on personality and insider threats. Journal of Business and Psychology, 39, 679-696.
White, J., Harms, P.D., Borgholthaus, C., & Tuggle, C. (2023). I’m not the executive that I used to be: Understanding causes and consequences of personality change in the upper echelons. Journal of Business Research, 167, 114152.
Credé, M., Harms, P.D., Lester, P.B., & Tynan, M. (2023). Clarifying the role of adverse childhood experiences in the prediction of post-deployment PTSD symptom severity: A meta-analysis and large sample investigation. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 36, 700-711.
Wang, Y-R., Ford, M.T., Credé, M., Harms, P.D., & Lester, P.B. (2023). A meta-analysis on the crossover of workplace traumatic stress symptoms between partners. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108, 1157-1189.
Bachrach, D., Yong, K., Patel, P., & Harms, P.D. (2023). Birds of a Feather?: Firm Sales Growth and Narcissism in the Upper Echelons at the CEO-TMT Interface. The Leadership Quarterly, 34, 101621.
Harms, P.D., Marbut, A., Johnston, A., Lester, P.B., & Fezzey, T. (2022). Exposing the darkness within: A review of dark personality traits, models, and measures and their relationship to insider threats. Journal of Informational Security and Applications, 71, 103378.
Dasborough, M., Ashkanasy, N., Humphrey, R., Harms, P.D., Credé, M., & Wood, D. (2022). Does leadership still need emotional intelligence? Continuing “The Great EI Debate”. The Leadership Quarterly, 33, 101539.
Hogan, R., Kaiser, R., Sherman, R., & Harms, P.D. (2021). Twenty years of the dark side: Lessons about bad leadership. Consulting Psychology Journal, 73, 199-213.
Harms, P.D., Patel, P., & Carnevale, J. (2020). Self-centered and self-employed: Gender and the relationship between narcissism and self-employment. Journal of Business Research, 121, 170-179.
Credé, M., Jong, J., Harms, P.D. (2019). The generalizability of transformational leadership across cultures: A meta-analysis. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 34, 139-155.
Wood, D., Lowman, G., Harms, P.D., & Roberts, B.W. (2019). Exploring the relative importance of normative and distinctive organizational preferences as predictors of work attitudes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104, 270-292.
Harms, P.D. & Han, G. (2019). Algorithmic leadership: The future is now. Journal of Leadership Studies, 12, 74-75.
Landay, K., Harms, P.D., & Credé, M. (2019). Shall we serve the dark lords? A meta-analytic review of psychopathy and leadership. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104, 183-196.
Harms, P.D., Wood, D., Landay, K., Lester, P., & Vogelgesang-Lester, G. (2018). Autocratic leaders and authoritarian followers revisited: A review and agenda for the future. The Leadership Quarterly, 29, 105-122.
Harms, P.D., Credé, M., Tynan, M., Leon, M., & Jeung, W. (2017). Leadership and stress: A meta-analytic review. The Leadership Quarterly, 28, 178-194.
Credé, M., Tynan, M., & Harms, P.D. (2017). Much ado about Grit: A meta-analytic synthesis of the Grit literature. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,113, 492-511.
Credé, M. & Harms, P.D. (2015). 25 Years of higher-order confirmatory factor analysis in the organizational sciences: A critical review and development of reporting recommendations. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 36, 845-872.
Harms, P.D. (2011). Adult attachment styles in the workplace. Human Resource Management Review, 21, 285-296.
Harms, P.D., Spain, S., & Hannah, S. (2011). Leader development and the dark side of personality. The Leadership Quarterly, 22, 495-509.