Christopher J. L. Cunningham, PhD is a Guerry Professor and UC Foundation Professor of Psychology at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he is also the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Graduate Program Director and the director of the Healthy and Optimal Work lab. He holds an adjunct clinical assistant professor position for research and evaluation at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine-Chattanooga and is the Chief Science Officer for Logi-Serve (a provider of science-based talent assessments and talent management technologies). He teaches graduate-level seminars for organizational and occupational health psychology (OHP), consulting skills and ethics, and organizational development and change, and undergraduate courses for psychological research methods, statistics, assessment development, and professional ethics and career planning. His current research addresses multiple OHP topics, including: stress and recovery processes and practices; the influence of individual differences and environmental factors on cognitions and behaviors; and the challenges and realities associated with work and nonwork interrole dynamics. Chris was the 2020 and 2021 President for the Society for Occupational Health Psychology and is an editorial board member for seven high-impact journals in the applied psychology and occupational health domain.
individual differences affecting service motivation/orientation toward others, management of work and nonwork roles and personal identities, measurement and methodology issues in occupational health psychology
