What I Do
Broadly, the goal of my program of research is to investigate the drivers of team and multiteam system performance in complex environments such as military operations and long-duration space exploration. Substantively, I seek to understand how emergent states develop within teams and multiteam systems, individual and collective constructs change over time, and how computational social science and quantitative research methods may be used and improved upon to advance these interests, as well as our understanding of teams and multiteam systems more generally.
Teams and Muliteam Systems
How can we effectively foster collaboration to solve complex problems?
Emergence and Team Cognition
How do emergent states such as transactive memory systems, mental models, and situation awareness develop from individual interactions?
Time and Processes
How can we incorporate time into our research in order to clarify the processes underlying psychological phenomena in teams?
Quantitative Research Methods
How can we utilize and improve upon current quantitative methodology to advance our understanding of teams?
Publications
Articles
Carter, D. R., Cullen-Lester, K. L., Jones, J. M., Gerbasi, A., Chrobot-Mason, D., & Young Nae, E. (2020). Functional leadership in interteam contexts: Understanding ‘what’ in the context of why? Where? When? And who?. The Leadership Quarterly.
Trainer, H. M., Jones, J. M., Pendergraft, J., Maupin, C. K., & Carter, D. R. (2020). Team membership change 'events': A review and reconceptualization. Group and Organization Management.
Book Chapters
Pendergraft, J., Carter, D. R., Trainer, H. M., Jones, J. M., Shuffler, M., Schecter A., DeChurch, L. A. & Contractor, N. S. (2020). Developing a countermeasure toolkit to facilitate spaceflight multiteam system success throughout long-duration exploration missions In L. Landon, K. Slack, & E. Salas (Eds.), Psychology and Human Performance in Space Programs.
Jones, J. M., Mohan, G., Trainer, H. M., & Carter, D. R. (2020). The changing nature of teams: Recommendations for managing 21st century teamwork. In B. Hoffman, M. Shoss, & L. Wegman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Changing Nature of Work.
Recent Presentations
Jones, J. M., Lester, H. F., Cullen-Lester, K. L., Carter, D. R., & Walters, R. W. (October, 2020). Do our multilevel models match our theories? Advanced multilevel models to represent heterogenous within-group dependencies. Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, United States.
Haynes, N., Jones, J. M., & Vandenberg, B. (April, 2020). A review of the SEM fit index literature. In Haynes, N. (Chair), Advancements in psychometrics. 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Austin, TX