Amanda L Thayer

Florida Institute of Technology · School of Psychology

Teams are pervasive in today's world, and rightfully so as we need them. Drawing upon the existing extensive body of research surrounding the topic of teamwork, we delineate nine “critical considerations” that serve as a practical heuristic by which HR leaders can determine what is needed when they face situations involving teamwork. Our heuristic...

Facilitating team innovation is paramount to promoting progress in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, as well as advancing national health, safety, prosperity, and welfare. However, innovation teams face a unique set of challenges due to the novelty and uncertainty that is core to the definition of innovation, as well as the par...

Organizations have increasingly turned to the use of virtual teams (VTs) to tackle the complex nature of today’s organizational issues. To address these practical needs, VTs researchers from different disciplines have begun to amass a large literature. However, the changing workplace that is becoming so reliant on VTs comes with its own set of mana...

As technology continues to advance, interest in how humans perceive and interact with autonomous agents has increased, spurring ample research within human-agent teams (HATs). However, the word team is a bit of a misnomer, in that much of this research has examined one human in relation to one agent. We extend the HAT literature by applying a multi...

The need to examine team processes with more innovative approaches is well-documented, as much of the literature has utilized self-report or subjective measures which are often biased, intrusive, and/or provide a static, retrospective evaluation (Kozlowski & Chao, 2018). Further, in the military, it is often impossible or unrealistic to have traine...

Interpersonal trust is one of the most widely studied topics in organizational research. One notable theoretical controversy that has remained over the decades is the potential distinction between trust and distrust. The current research advances this debate by developing and validating theory-based measures of trust and distrust. We take an attitu...

As advancements in artificial intelligence accelerate, there is a rise in the complexity and number of autonomous agents placed in human-agent teams (HATs). With this expansion, it is important to understand how trust in agent teammates evolves and is influenced by contextual events. In support of this, significant research has focused on the facto...

Due to improvements in agent capabilities through technological advancements, the prevalence of human-agent teams (HATs) are expanding into more dynamic and complex environments. Prior research suggests that human trust in agents plays a pivotal role in the team’s success and mission effectiveness (Yu et al., 2019; Kohn et al., 2020). Therefore, un...

Key to studying and assessing trust and other team emergent states in human-agent teams (HATs) is the ability to measure trust, which has predominantly been assessed through self-report survey methodologies. However, on their own, self-report measures are limited by issues such as social desirability (e.g., Arnold & Feldman, 1981; Taylor, 1961), in...

Human interactions with computerized systems are shifting from using computers as tools, into collaborating with them as teammates via autonomous capabilities. Modern technological advances will inevitably lead to the integration of autonomous systems and will consequently increase the need for effective human agent teaming (HAT). One of the most p...

The increased reliance on team-based structures within 21st century organizations has sparked a stream of research investigating the drivers of collaboration within and across multiteam systems (MTS), comprised of distinct, interdependent component teams. To date, MTS research tends to rely on the simplified—and potentially inaccurate—assumption th...

Purpose - This chapter reviews the challenges associated with measuring and studying cohesion over time and provides guidance for addressing these issues in future research. Methodology/approach - We reviewed the team cohesion and team development literatures, including definitions and conceptualizations of cohesion as well as the seminal team deve...

The purpose of this chapter is to summarize the theoretical and empirical research on global teams and synthesize useful recommendations for organizations seeking to compose global teams. First, we will discuss the characteristics that are likely to exist in what we refer to as global teams (e.g., distribution, multiple cultures, and time zone diff...

As technology, globalization, changing work demands, and a growing reliance on teams are changing the work environment, the social complexity surrounding work functions is increasing dramatically. While a variety of socially-relevant KSAs have been examined, we argue that studying them in isolation is no longer sufficient, as individuals require a...

Within team research, there is no shortage of literature classifying teams. However, the team taxonomic literature suffers from a few limitations. First, many taxonomies claim to classify teams into mutually exclusive classes, yet when examined closely, are not. Second, some of the most well-known taxonomies are descriptive of various tasks teams e...

This article provides a systematic review of the team knowledge literature and guidance for further research. Recent research has called attention to the need for the improved study and understanding of team knowledge. Team knowledge refers to the higher level knowledge structures that emerge from the interactions of individual team members. We con...

In this commentary we argue that therapists commonly employ memory recovery methods such as guided imagery for sexual abuse victims, despite the fact that little empirical evidence exists to support their therapeutic benefits. Moreover, research on source monitoring and imagination inflation indicates that guided imagery may carry too many risks to...

One of the main criteria believed to reflect the accuracy of an eyewitness account is the confidence with which it is relayed. Post identification feedback has been shown to inflate confidence in eyewitness identifications without influencing accuracy. It is argued here that efforts to remediate confidence inflation arising from postidentification...