Amanda L. Thayer, PhD, is a tenured Associate Professor in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology program at the Florida Institute of Technology, as well as the Director of Growth and Development and Portfolio Manager for Collaboration and Teams Research at the Institute for Culture, Collaboration, and Management (ICCM). Dr. Thayer's research on teams and collaboration has produced more than 85 publications, invited talks, and national and international conference presentations, including outlets such as American Psychologist, Human Resource Management Review, and Organizational Psychology Review, among others.
Dr. Thayer’s current research is focused on team selection, staffing, and composition; trust violation and repair; team cohesion, adaptation, and resilience; neurodiversity in teams; and measurement and methodologies for studying interpersonal relationships and team- and system-level dynamics. Her research spans across a variety of contexts, including military units, NASA crews, volunteer non-profit teams, human-agent teams, and virtual teams, among others. To date, she has secured over $7 million in external funding from partners such as the U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI), NASA, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Her current funded research efforts include a large cooperative agreement with ARI aimed at developing a novel experimental paradigm and unobtrusive measurement toolkit for assessing teamwork and team performance, as well as an interdisciplinary effort funded by AFOSR to investigate trust violation and repair in human-agent teams.
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