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 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 at individual and team level, development of leadership and creative problem solving skills, and leading creative individuals. 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 an associate editor for the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, as well as Frontiers: Organizational Psychology. She is the former Editor of The Psychology of Creativity, Aesthetics and the Arts, the leading journal on the psychology of creativity. She serves on the editorial boards of 10 additional journal in I-O psychology, management, and creativity. She has published four edited books on the topic of creativity, and is the editor of the Palgrave series on Creativity and Innovation in Organizations. She has obtained over 8 million dollars of funding from granting agencies, public and non-profit organizations, and businesses. She has been elected as a fellow of APA Division 10 (creativity) and division 14 (I-O) in recognition of her contribution to the field of organizational and team creativity. She has received the University of Nebraska system award for research in 2017.

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; Divion 14 – The Society of IO Psychology)

Recent Publications

1. Beghetto, R. A., Karwowski, M., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). Intellectual risk taking: A moderating link between creative confidence and creative behavior? The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
   
   
2. 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
   
   
3. 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, 367-380.
   
   
4. Reiter-Palmon, R., & Paulus, P. (2020). Cognitive and social processes in team creativity. In M. D. Mumford (Ed.), Creativity and Innovation in Organizations (pp. 161-190). Taylor and Francis.
   
   
5. Royston, R.*, & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2019). Creative self-efficacy as mediator between creative mindsets and creative problem-solving. Journal of Creative Behavior, 53, 472-481.
   
   
6. 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, 375-388.
   
   
7. 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, 36-48.
   
   
8. Jones, K.J., Crowe, J., Allen, J.A., Skinner, A.M., High, R., Kennel, V. & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2019). The impact of post-fall huddles on repeat fall rates and perceptions of safety culture: A quasi-experimental evaluation of a patient safety demonstration project. BMC Health Service Research, 19, 650 doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4453-y (Open access)
   
   
9. Jones, K.J., Skinner, A.M., Venema, D., Crowe, J., High, R., Kennel, V. Allen, J.A., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2019). Evaluating the multiteam systems to manage the complexity of inpatient falls in rural hospitals. Health Service Research, 1‐13. doi.org/10.1111/1475‐6773.13186 (open access)
   
   
10. Allen, J. A., Reiter-Palmon, R., Prange*, K. A., Shuffler, M. L. & Barber*, E. (2019). Leading After-Action Reviews among emergency responder teams: How perceptions of leader behaviors relate to proximal and distal outcomes. Occupational Health Science, 3, 59-81.
    
    
11. Reiter-Palmon, R., & Leone*, S. (2019). Facilitating creativity in interdisciplinary design teams using cognitive processes: A review. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 223, 385-394.
    
    
12. Reiter-Palmon, R., Forthmann, B., & Barbot, B. (2019). Scoring divergent thinking tests: A review and systematic framework. The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13, 144-152.

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