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Your topic is Ruth Kanfer. She received the Owens Award and SIOP Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award. She is referenced in your textbook chapter 9, page 356. Her personal website is http://www.psychology.gatech.edu/people/faculty/363. She is referenced on Wikipedia in an article on Advanced Placement. An example of her work is Kanfer, R., & Ackerman, P. L. (2004). Aging, adult development, and work motivation. Academy of Management Review, 29(3), 440-458.

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Ruth Kanfer (February 1,1955) is a psychologist and professor known for her research in the fields of self-regulation in work settings.

Biography
Write about the psychologist's educational background. Refer to the psychologist by the last name. For example, Last Name received her B.A./B.S. degree (what degree did she earn?) in area of study at Insert Name of University (you should change this to the name of the university she studied at and the location). She went to graduate school at Insert Name of University where she obtained her masters/Ph.D in insert area of study. She worked under Insert name of her mentor at Insert University. You can briefly talk about what research she did.

Write about what position she is currently holding. Where is she working? What is she focusing on?

What impact does her work have on society? What are some findings? Mention a notable publications that she wrote.

Write about awards that she earned. What were the awards and prizes for? Any major grants?

Outside of scholarly work, what else did she do? Lectures? Conference presentations?

Research
Ruth Kanfer is a psychologist known for her research in the role of motivation in a work setting. One of her past projects include on how certain goals may affect your resource distribution when learning and performing a task. Another one of her projects includes the role self-regulation plays in job search.

One of her research studies focused on age and reemployment success after a job loss. This focused on people who were 40 and over but were unemployed. Kanfer proposed that chronological age affects job search and reemployment outcomes after job loss. She used a meta-analysis and 2 supplemental datasets to come up with and examine 5 questions. Those questions were: 1) How strong is the relationship between age and reemployment speed? 2)Does age disadvantage individuals with respect to other reemployment outcomes? 3) Is the relationship between age and reemployment outcomes mediated by job search activities? 4) Are these relationships generalizable? 5) Are these relationships linear and curvilinear? The outcome of this research was that people over the age of 50 have a negative relationship between age and reemployment status and speed across job search. This can be applied to the rest of the world because it shows that over a certain age have difficulties finding jobs. This affects their lives and how they will live after that certain age.

Briefly describe one or more of her studies and what is the general implication of the study for each.

Her recent projects focus on three topics. Research topic 1: motivational dynamics overtime Research topic 2: the influence of adult development and change on motivation and self regulation Research topic 3: motivation in and of teams

Publications
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