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 the Varner 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 serves as the Director 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, cognitive processes and individual difference variables that influence creative performance of individuals and teams, and leading creative individuals, team decision making, and organizational adoption of innovative processes. Her research has been published in Journal of Applied Psychology, Creativity Research Journal, The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, Human Resources Management Review, and Leadership Quarterly. Her applied experiences include consulting to and grants totaling over 6 million dollars from Fortune 500 companies as well as the government and military. She is the Editor of The Psychology of Creativity, Aesthetics and the Arts, and the 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 Leadership and Organizational Studies, Journal of Business and Psychology, and International Journal of Problem Solving and Creativity. 

Profesional Affiliations

Editor - The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts

Associate Editor - European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Fellow - American Psychological Association

Recent Publications

Allen, J. A., Reiter-Palmon, R., Kennel*, V., & Jones, K. (in press). Group and organizational safety norms set the stage for good Post-Fall Huddles. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies

Karwowski, M., Royston*, R., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). Exploring creative mindsets: Variable and Person-Centered Approaches. The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Reiter-Palmon, R., Mitchell*, K., & Royston*, R. (in press). Improving creativity in organizational settings: Applying research on creativity to organizations. In R. Sternberg and J. Kaufman (Eds.), Handbook of Creativity (2^nd edition).

Royston, R.*, & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). Creative self-efficacy as mediator between creative mindsets and creative problem-solving. Journal of Creative Behavior

Reiter-Palmon (Ed.), Team Creativity and Innovation, Oxford University Press

Reiter-Palmon, R., Kennel, V., Allen, J. A., & Jones, K. (2018). Good Catch!: Using interdisciplinary teams and team reflexivity to improve patient safety. Group and Organization Management.

Reiter-Palmon, R. (2018). Creative cognition at the individual and team level: What happens before and after idea generation. In R. Sternberg and J. Kaufman (Eds.), The Nature of Human Creativity (pp.184-208)  New York: Cambridge Press

Allen, J., Reiter-Palmon, R., Crowe*, J., & Scott, C. (2018). Debriefs: Teams learning from doing in context. American Psychologist, 73, 504-516

Feist, R. Reiter-Palmon, & J. Kaufman (Eds.), Handbook of Personality and Creativity. Cambridge University Press

Reiter-Palmon, R. (2017). The role of problem construction in creative production. Journal of Creative Behavior: A special 50^th Anniversary Issue, 51, 323-327.

Reiter-Palmon, R., Sinha, T., Gevers, J., Odobez, J. M., & Volpe, G. (2017). Theories and models of teams and groups. Small Group Research, 48

Vreede, T. de, Boughzala, I., Vreede, G.J. de, & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2017). The team creativity model: An exploratory field study. Journal of the Midwest Association for Information Systems, 1, 19-33.

Hass, R. W., Katz-Buonincontro, J., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2016). Disentangling creative mindsets from creative self-efficacy and creative identity: Do people hold fixed and growth theories of creativity? The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 10, 436-446.

Arreola*, N., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2016). The effect of problem construction creativity on solution creativity across multiple real-world problems. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 10, 287-295.

Reiter-Palmon, R. & Arreola*, N. J. (2015). Does generating multiple ideas lead to increased creativity? A comparison of generating one idea vs. many. Creativity Research Journal, 27, 1040-1049.

Harris*, D. J., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2015). Fast and furious: The influence of implicit aggression, premeditation, and provoking situations on malevolent creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 9, 54-64.

Reiter-Palmon, R., Kennel*, V., Allen, J. A., Jones, K., & Skinner, A. (2015). Naturalistic decision making in After-Action Review meetings: The implementation of and learning from post-fall huddles. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 88, 322-340.

Reiter-Palmon, R., & Sands*, S. (2015). Creativity and meetings: Do team meetings facilitate or hinder creative team performance? In Allen, J. A., Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., & Rogelberg, S. G. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of The Science of Workplace Meetings. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.