Meet the COHRE Staff – Alexander T. Jackson, Ph.D.

Alexander T. Jackson, Ph.D.
Director & Consultant

Areas of Expertise
Training and Judgment, Decision Making

Alexander T. Jackson earned his B.S. in Psychology from Oklahoma State University in 2010, his M.A. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from The University of Tulsa in 2012, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Kansas State University in 2016. He joined MTSU in the Fall 2016. Since joining MTSU, he has taught courses in training & development, organizational psychology, psychological testing, occupational health psychology, and cross-cultural psychology. He has chaired 14 graduate student theses, served on 25 graduate student thesis committees, and served as the chair on two undergraduate student Honors theses. Further, he has supervised student research resulting in a total of 43 student co-authored conference presentations (22 local/regional presentations, 13 national presentations, and eight international presentations) with 27 different students. He has also mentored students through the publication process resulting in six student co-authored peer-reviewed journal articles and three book reviews.

Dr. Jackson’s two primary research interests are judgment & decision making and occupational health psychology. He has published research examining hiring decision aids, the effect of narcissism on advice taking & the hindsight bias, workplace burnout, and making healthy choices at work. He has served as an editor for a special issue in Personnel Assessments and Decisions and is currently on the editorial board for Occupational Health Science. He is also the book review editor for the journal Personnel Psychology.

Dr. Jackson serves as the Director and as a Senior Consultant for the Center for Organizational and Human Resource Effectiveness at MTSU where he has developed and delivered leadership workshops to Tennessee state agencies, provided statistical analyses and report writing for private organizations, conducted organization wide employee surveys, and engaged in test development.

Dr. Jackson is an avid triathlete. He has reached the podium in his age group in five separate races, and he completed his first Half-Ironman (70.3 miles) triathlon in Panama City, FL in May 2021. He currently aspires to qualify for the Boston Marathon.