Dr. Austin Lee Nichols

Department of Economics

Central European University, Vienna, Austria

Associate Professor of Organizational Psychology

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

2010, Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Florida, USA

2010, M.S. in Management, University of Florida, USA

2008, M.S. in Social Psychology, University of Florida, USA

2006, B.S. in Psychology, Florida State University, USA

Research Interests

Leadership

Organizational Behavior

Self-Presentation / Impression Management

Research Methods & Statistics

Employee Well-being

Publications (Selected)

1. Miske, O., Abatayo, A. L., Daley, M., Dirzo, M., Fox., N., … Nichols, A. L., … Nosek, B. A., & Errington, T. M. (in press). Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10203-5
2. Tyner, A. H., Abatayo, A. L., Daley, M., Field, S., Fox, N., … Nichols, A. L., … Nosek, B. A., & Errington, T. M. (in press). Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioral sciences. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-10078-y
3. Nichols, A. L., & Edlund, J. E. (Eds.) (2025). Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods and Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Volume 3: Data Analysis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
4. Nichols, A. L., Cook, C. L., & Cottrell, C. A. (2025). What do people desire in their leaders? An affordance management approach to trait desirability across domains. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000545
5. Edlund, J. E., & Nichols, A. L. (Eds.) (2024). Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods and Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Volume 2: Performing Research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
6. Nichols, A. L., & Edlund, J. E. (Eds.) (2023). Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods and Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Volume 1: Building a Program of Research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
7. Klussman, K., Nichols, A. L., & Langer, J. (2023). Mental health in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal examination of the ameliorating effect of meaning salience. Current Psychology, 42, 1915–1922. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01538-5
8. Klussman, K., Nichols, A. L., Curtin, N., Langer, J., & Orehek, E. (2022). Self-connection and well-being: Development and validation of a self-connection scale. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52(1), 18-45. http://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2812
9. Klussman, K., Nichols, A. L., Langer, J., Curtin, N., & Lindeman, M. H. (2022). The relationship between mindfulness and subjective well-being: Examining the indirect effects of self-connection and meaning in life. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 17, 2423–2443. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-021-10025-9
10. Nichols, A. L., Klussman, K., & Langer, J. (2022). Finding meaning in our everyday moments: Testing a novel intervention to increase employee well-being. Baltic Journal of Management, 17(4), 501-517. https://doi.org/10.1108/BJM-12-2021-0461
11. Klussman, K., Nichols, A. L., & Langer, J. (2021). Meaning gained versus meaning lost: The effects of meaning salience on anxiety and depression during the Coronavirus pandemic. International Journal of Psychology, 56(6), 834-842. http://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12788
12. Ebersole, C. R., Mathur, M. B., Baranski, E., Bart-Plange, D., Buttrick, N. R., ..., Nichols, A. L., ..., & Nosek, B. A. (2020). Many Labs 5: Testing pre-data collection peer review as an intervention to increase replicability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/sxfm2
13. Ebersole, C. R., Andrighetto, L., Casini, E., Chiorri, C., Rosa, A. D., Domaneschi, F., Ferguson, I., Fryberger, E., Giacomantonio, M., Grahe, J., Joy-Gaba, J., Langford, E. V., Nichols, A. L., Panno, A., Parks, K. P., Preti, E., Richetin, J., & Vianell, M. (2020). Many Labs 5: Registered Replication Report of Payne, Burkley, & Stokes (2008), Study 4. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(3), 387-393. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919885609
14. Nichols, A.L. & Edlund, J. E. (2020). Why don't we care more about carelessness? Understanding the causes and consequences of careless participants. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(6), 625-638. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1719618
15. Klussman, K., Nichols, A. L., & Langer, J. (2020). The role of self-connection in the relationship between mindfulness and meaning: A longitudinal examination. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 12(3), 636-659. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12200

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