What makes employees thrive?

That’s what Allison seeks to answer in her research focusing on employees’ emotions, motivation, and relationships at work. She is also passionate about supporting working mothers.

Listen a bit more about Allison’s journey as a researcher and mother in her early career award acceptance video for SIOP.

Representative Publications (2020 - Present)

For all publications/presentations, please visit her CV.

Gabriel, A. S., Lee, Y. E., Koopman, J., Rosen, C. C., Dutli, A., & Bush, J.T. (2025). The receipt of venting at work: A multi-study investigation of affective and behavioral reactions for venting recipients. Personnel Psychology, 78, 205-227.

Gabriel, A. S., Zipay, K.P., & Shurman, M.W. (2025). Affect and self-regulation at work: How do we take messy theories to the task? Journal of Management Scientific Reports, 3, 28-39.

Chawla, N., Gabriel, A. S., Prengler, M. K., Rogers, K. M., Rogers, B. A., Tedder-King, A., & Rosen, C. C. (2024). Allyship in the fifth trimester: A multi-method investigation of women’s postpartum return to work. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 182, 1-19.

Gabriel, A. S., Chawla, N., Rosen, C. C., Lee, Y. E., Koopman, J., & Wong, E. M. (2024). Who speaks up when harassment is in the air? A within-person examination of ambient harassment and voice behavior at work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109, 39-60.

Gabriel, A. S., Diefendorff, J. M., & Grandey, A. A. (2023). The acceleration of emotional labor research: Navigating the past and steering toward the future. Personnel Psychology, 76, 511-545.

Gabriel, A. S., Ladge, J. J., Little, L. M., MacGowan, R. L., & Stillwell, E. E. (2023). Sensemaking through the storm: How postpartum depression shapes personal work-family narratives. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108, 1903-1923.

Ganster, M. L., Gabriel, A. S., Rosen, C. C., Simon, L. S., Butts, M. M., & Boswell, W. (2023). Retreating or repairing? Examining the alternate linkages between daily partner-instigated incivility at home and helping at work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108, 836-849.

Gabriel, A. S., Butts, M. M., Chawla, N., da Motta Veiga, S. P., Turban, D. B., & Green, J. D. (2022). Feeling positive, negative, or both? Examining the self-regulatory benefits of emotional ambivalence. Organization Science, 33, 2085-2540.

Gabriel, A. S., Lanaj, K., & Jennings, R. E. (2021). Is one the loneliest number? The adaptive and maladaptive consequences of leader loneliness at work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106, 1517-1538.

Methot, J.R., Rosado-Solomon, E.H., Downes, P.E., & Gabriel, A.S. (2021). Office chit-chat as a social ritual: The restorative yet distracting effects of daily small talk at work. Academy of Management Journal, 64, 1445-1471.

Rosen, C. C., Gabriel, A. S., Lee, H. W., Koopman, J., & Johnson, R. E. (2021). When lending an ear turns into mistreatment: An episodic examination of leader mistreatment in response to receipt of venting at work. Personnel Psychology, 74, 175-195.

Shockley, K. M., Gabriel, A. S., Robertson, D., Rosen, C. C., Chawla, N., Ganster, M. L., & Ezerins, M.E. (2021). The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings: A within-person field experiment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106, 1137-1155.

Bennett, A. A., Gabriel, A. S., & Calderwood, C. (2020). Examining the interplay of micro-break durations and activities for employee recovery: A mixed-methods investigation. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 25, 126-142.

Chawla, N., MacGowan, R. L., Gabriel, A. S., & Podsakoff, N. P. (2020). Unplugging or staying connected? Examining the nature, antecedents, and consequences of profiles of daily recovery experiences. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105, 19-39.

Gabriel, A. S., Koopman, J., Rosen, C. C., Arnold, J. D., & Hochwarter, W. A. (2020). Are coworkers getting into the act? An examination of emotion regulation in coworker exchanges. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105, 907-929.

Gabriel, A. S., Volpone, S. D., MacGowan, R. L., Butts, M. M., & Moran, C. M. (2020). When work and family blend together: Examining the daily experiences of breastfeeding mothers at work. Academy of Management Journal, 63, 1337-1369.