Current Research
Fear-Based Leadership Practices and Employee Productivity
Our current program of research explores fear based leadership practices in fields that require client or patient interfacing.
Previous Academic Presentations:
Harder, L. & Mahoney, C.O. (2017, June.) The Revolving Door Effect - Learned Helplessness and Burnout in Human Services.  Paper presented at The 12th International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health, "Work, Stress and Health 2017: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities," Minneapolis, MN, 

Mahoney, C.O. & Harder, L.M. (2015, Oct).  Emotions, empathy and the choice to alleviate suffering.  Paper presented at the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ 

Harder, L.M. & Mahoney, C.O. (2015, Feb).  Keeping it positive: An experimental study on how burnout impacts the counselor-client relationship.  Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the  Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Long Beach, CA.​

Harder, L.M. & Mahoney, C.O. (2014, April).  The revolving door: The missing link to assessing burnout.  Poster presented at the Minnesota Psychological Association Annual Convention, Plymouth, MN
Select Publications:
Mahoney, C. O., & Harder, L. M. (2017). Emotions, the Inner Lives of Those Who Work Toward Suffering Relief. In Alleviating World Suffering (pp. 131-145). Springer, Cham.  Available Online:  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-51391-1_8
  • Moves past the work of our first chapter, focusing on evidence based interventions to increase the personal resources needed to address human suffering without multiplying it.​​
Mahoney, C. O. and Harder, L. M. S. Emotions, Empathy and the Choice to Alleviate Suffering. In R; E. Anderson (Editor) World Suffering and the Quality of Life. New York: Springer, 2015.   Available Online:  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9670-5_31
  • The purpose of this work is investigate research on how/why/when emotions play a role in the alleviation of suffering
Harder, L. M. S. (in submission). The Revolving Door: Learned Helplessness and Burnout in Human Services.