Faculty Directory

Roni Reiter-Palmon, PhD

Reiter-Palmon


Teaching
Creativity and innovation in organizations, Leadership, Statistics, Personnel selection
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

* indicates student co-author

Hass, R. W., Reiter-Palmon, R., & Katz-Buonincontro, J. (in press). Domain-specificity, implicit theories, and creative mindsets. In Karwowski and J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), Creativity and the Self. Academic Press.

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

Reiter-Palmon, R., Kennel, V*., de Vreede, T*., & de Vreede, G. J. (in press). Structuring team idea evaluation and selection of solution: Does it influence creativity? In I. Lebuda and V. Glavenou (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Social Creativity Research. Palgrave Press.

Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). Creative cognition at the individual and team level: What happens before and after idea generation. In R. Sternberg and J. Kaufman (Eds.), Nature of Creativity.

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 (2nd edition).

Reiter-Palmon, R., & Royston*, R. (2017). Leading for creativity: How leaders manage creative teams (pp. 159-184). In M. D. Mumford and S. Hemlin (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Leadership and Creativity. Northampton, MA: Elgar Publishing

Kennel, V., Jones, K., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). Team innovation in healthcare. In R. Reiter-Palmon (Ed.), Team Creativity. Oxford Press.

Harms*, M., Kennel*, V., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). Cognitive processes in teams and team creativity. In R. Reiter-Palmon (Ed.), Team Creativity. Oxford Press.

Mitchell*, K., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). Creative leadership: How problem solving, decision making, and organizational context influence leadership creativity. In J. Kaufman (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Domains. Cambridge Press

Reiter-Palmon, R., & Leone*, S. (in press). Group dynamics and team creativity: The Contribution of Kurt Lewin to the Study of Teams, Creativity, and Innovation. In V. Glavenou (Ed.), The Creativity Reader. Oxford Press.

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

Hornberg*, J. & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2017). Creativity and the Big Five personality traits: Is the relationship dependent on the creativity measure? In G. Feist, R. Reiter-Palmon, & J. Kaufman (Eds.), Handbook of Personality and Creativity (pp. 275-293). Cambridge Press.

Feist, G., Reiter-Palmon, R., & Kaufman, J. (2017). The personal side of creativity: Individual differences and the creative process. In G. Feist, R. Reiter-Palmon, & J. Kaufman (Eds.), Handbook of Personality and Creativity. Cambridge Press.

O’Rourke, P., Kaufman, J. C., Feist, G., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2017). Creativity and personality research: Themes and future directions. In G. Feist, R. Reiter-Palmon & J. Kaufman (Eds.), Handbook of Personality and Creativity. Cambridge Press.

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.