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Tin Nguyen

Tin Nguyen

  • Senior Research Associate & Technology Transition Lead
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Bio

Tin L. Nguyen is a Senior Research Associate in UNO's College of Business Administration and lead of technology transition at NCITE. He has over eight years of experience as an organizational consultant working with federal entities, non-profit organizations, and corporations on issues of employee innovation, teamwork, engagement, and retention.

Nguyen’s expertise lies in the psychology and management of norm-violating behaviors, such as creativity, work-related deviance, and violence. His work spans basic and applied research, and he serves on the editorial review boards for creativity-focused psychology journals, Creativity Research Journal and The Journal of Creative Behavior. He has received more than $1.4 million in external funding in collaboration with federal partners and non-profit research institutes. At NCITE, he leads projects that support the violence prevention workforce, focusing most recently on event security and behavioral threat assessment and management teams.

Research Interests

Creativity and innovation management, violence prevention and mitigation, workforce training, teamwork, event security, threat assessment

Education

B.A. Psychology, Creighton University

B.S. Exercise Science, Creighton University

M.S. Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University

Ph.D. Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University

Selected Publications

Nguyen, T. L., Walters, K. N., d’Amato, A. L., Miller, S. R., & Hunter, S. T. (2024). Target personification influences the positive emotional link between generating and implementing malevolently creative ideas. Creativity Research Journal, 36(1), 42-57.

Nguyen, T. L., d’Amato, A. L., Miller, S. R., & Hunter, S. T. (2023). Malevolent Creativity as Parochial Altruism? Examining the Intergroup Bases of New and Harmful Ideas. Creativity Research Journal, 1-16.

Nguyen, T. L., Allen, M. T., & Parson, K. (2023). Advancing an Organizational Health Perspective for Insider Threat Prevention and Management. The MIROR Journal, 1(1), 45.

Additional Information

Bio

Tin L. Nguyen is a Senior Research Associate in UNO's College of Business Administration and lead of technology transition at NCITE. He has over eight years of experience as an organizational consultant working with federal entities, non-profit organizations, and corporations on issues of employee innovation, teamwork, engagement, and retention.

Nguyen’s expertise lies in the psychology and management of norm-violating behaviors, such as creativity, work-related deviance, and violence. His work spans basic and applied research, and he serves on the editorial review boards for creativity-focused psychology journals, Creativity Research Journal and The Journal of Creative Behavior. He has received more than $1.4 million in external funding in collaboration with federal partners and non-profit research institutes. At NCITE, he leads projects that support the violence prevention workforce, focusing most recently on event security and behavioral threat assessment and management teams.

Research Interests

Creativity and innovation management, violence prevention and mitigation, workforce training, teamwork, event security, threat assessment

Education

B.A. Psychology, Creighton University

B.S. Exercise Science, Creighton University

M.S. Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University

Ph.D. Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University

Selected Publications

Nguyen, T. L., Walters, K. N., d’Amato, A. L., Miller, S. R., & Hunter, S. T. (2024). Target personification influences the positive emotional link between generating and implementing malevolently creative ideas. Creativity Research Journal, 36(1), 42-57.

Nguyen, T. L., d’Amato, A. L., Miller, S. R., & Hunter, S. T. (2023). Malevolent Creativity as Parochial Altruism? Examining the Intergroup Bases of New and Harmful Ideas. Creativity Research Journal, 1-16.

Nguyen, T. L., Allen, M. T., & Parson, K. (2023). Advancing an Organizational Health Perspective for Insider Threat Prevention and Management. The MIROR Journal, 1(1), 45.

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Bio Research Interests Education Selected Publications

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