Roni Reiter-Palmon

Teaching

Research

• Creativity and innovation at the individual, team, and organization level
• Cognitive processes of creativity
• Leading creative and/or interdisciplinary teams
• Team decision making
• Leadership development

Background

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Dr. Roni Reiter-Palmon (CV) is a Distinguished Professor of Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology and the Director of the I/O Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). She is also the Director of Innovation for the Center for Collaboration Science, an inter-disciplinary program at UNO. She received her Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Her research focuses on creativity and innovation in the workplace, specifically cognitive processes, team creativity, development of teamwork and creative problem-solving skills, and leading creative individuals and teams. Her research has been published in leading journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Creativity Research Journal, The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, Human Resources Management Review, and Leadership Quarterly. She is the former Editor of The Psychology of Creativity, Aesthetics and the Arts, the leading journal of creativity research. She is an associate editor for the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Creative Behavior, Journal of Business and Psychology. She has published four edited books on the topic of creativity, and is the co-editor of the 2^nd edition of the Handbook of Organizational Creativity (to be published in 2023). She has obtained over 8 million dollars in grant and contract funding from government and businesses focusing on creativity, leadership, and teams. She has received the University of Nebraska systems award for her research and scholarship, and been recognized by the American Psychological Association APA fellow (Divisions 10 and 14).

Profesional Affiliations

Editor, Palgrave studies in Creativity and Innovation in Organizations (book series)

VP Association – Interdisciplinary Network of Group Researchers

Associate Editor - European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Fellow – American Psychological Association (Division 10 – The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts; Division 14 – The Society of IO Psychology)

Recent Publications

1. Kapoor, H. Reiter-Palmon, R., & Kaufman, J. C. (in press). Norming the muse: Establishing the psychometric properties of the Kaufman Domains of Creativity (KDOCS). Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
2. Rodriguez, R. M., Silvia, P. J., Kaufman, J. C., Reiter-Palmon, R., & Puryear, J. S. (in press). Taking inventory of the Creative Behavior Inventory: An item response theory analysis of the CBI. The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
3. Corraza, G., Reiter-Palmon, R., Lubart, T., & Beghetto, R. (in press). Intelligence and creativity in the space time continuum. Journal of Creativity
4. Orkibi, H., Ben-Eliyahu, A., Reiter-Palmon, R., Testoni, I., Biancalani, G., Murugavel, V., & Gu, F. (in press). Creative adaptability and emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international study. The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
5. Leone*, S., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). Leading creative teams: A process-perspective with implications for organizational leaders. Translational Issues in Psychological Science
6. Silvia, P., Rodriguez, R., Beaty, R., Frith, E., Kaufman, J. C., Loprinzi, P., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). Measuring everyday creativity: A Rasch model analysis of the Biographical Inventory of Creative Behaviors (BICB) scale. Thinking Skills and Creativity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100797
7. Reiter-Palmon, R., Kramer, W., Allen, J. A., Murugavel, V. R., & Leone, S. A. (2021). Creativity in virtual teams: A review and agenda for future research. Creativity: Research, Application, Theory, 8, 165-188. (open access)
8. Tang, M., Hofreiter, S., Reiter-Palmon, R., Bai, X., & Murugavel V. R. (2021). Creativity as a means to well-being in times of COVID-19: Results of a cross-cultural study. Frontiers in Psychology. (open access)
9. Alabbasi, A. A., Reiter-Palmon, R., Sultan, Z. M., & Ayoub, A. E. A. (2021). Which divergent thinking index is more associated with problem finding ability? The role of flexibility and task nature. Frontiers in Psychology. (open access)
10. Beghetto, R. A., Karwowski, M., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2020). Intellectual risk taking: A moderating link between creative confidence and creative behavior? The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000323
11. Harms*, M., Reiter-Palmon, R., & Derrick, D. C. (2020). The role of information search in creative problem solving. The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 14(3), 367-380. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000212
12. Allen, J. A., Reiter-Palmon, R., Kennel*, V., & Jones, K. (2019). Group and organizational safety norms set the stage for good post-fall huddles. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 26(4), 465-475. https://doi.org/10.1177/1548051818781820
13. Royston, R.*, & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2019). Creative self-efficacy as mediator between creative mindsets and creative problem-solving. Journal of Creative Behavior, 53(4), 472-481. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.226
14. Hass, R. W., Katz-Buonincontro, J., & Reiter-Palmon, R., (2019). The creative self and creative thinking: An exploration of predictive effects using Bayes Factor Analyses. The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13(4), 375-387. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000169
15. Karwowski, M., Royston*, R., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2019). Exploring creative mindsets: Variable and person-centered approaches. The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13(1), 36-48. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000170

Grants

A Classroom Approach to Creating Engineers to Solve Global Problems Through Complex Problem Based Learning
Funded by NSF
Principle Investigator: Roni Reiter-Palmon

Creativity in Teams: Identifying the Role of Meetings in Fostering Effective Cognitive and Social Processes in Teams
Funded by NSF
Principle Investigator: Roni Reiter-Palmon