Thayer, Amanda
Amanda L. Thayer
Assistant Professor | School of Psychology
Director of Growth and Development | Institute for Culture, Collaboration, and Management
Contact Information
Personal Overview
Dr. Amanda L. Thayer is an Assistant Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the Florida Institute of Technology. She is also Secretary for the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup), Chair of the Scientific Affairs Committee for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), a Consortium Senior Research Fellow for the U.S. Army Research Institute, and serves on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Business and Psychology and Group & Organization Management. Dr. Thayer completed her doctorate at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in 2015. To date, she has secured over $7 million in external funding and has played an integral role in several interdisciplinary research efforts that have produced more than 80 publications and conference presentations, including outlets such as American Psychologist, Human Resource Management Review, and Organizational Psychology Review, among others. She has conducted lab- and field-based research for government agencies, the military, and industry. Her research is focused on facilitating teamwork and collaboration across a variety of contexts, including military units, NASA crews, volunteer non-profit teams, and virtual teams, among others. Dr. Thayer’s current research is focused on team selection, staffing, and composition; trust development, violation, and repair; team cohesion; team adaptation and resilience; and measurement and methodologies for studying interpersonal relationships and team- and system-level dynamics.
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Central Florida, 2015
- B.A., Psychology, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2005
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology, 2020-present
- Assistant Professor, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, The University of Akron, 2015-2020
- Graduate Research Associate, Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, 2010-2015
- Instructor, School of Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology, 2014
- Instructor, Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, 2013
Selected Publications
Ficke, C.*, Carmody, K.*, Nguyen, D.*, Piasecki, I.*, Addis, A.*, Akib, M.*, Thayer, A. L., Wildman, J. L., Carroll, M. Improving measurement of trust dynamics in human-agent teams (2022). Accepted to I/ITSEC 2022 conference. Outlet: I/ITSEC 2022 Conference Proceedings.
Rebensky, S., Carmody, K.*, Ficke, C.*, Nguyen, D.*, Carroll, M., Wildman, J., & Thayer, A. (2021). Whoops! Something went wrong: Errors, trust, and trust repair strategies in human agent teaming. In H. Degen & S. Ntoa (Eds.). Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence in HCI. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77772-2_7
Smith, J.G.*, Flynn, M.L.*, Shuffler, M.L., Carter, D.R., & Thayer, A.L. (2020). Meetings as a facilitator of multiteam system functioning. In J. Allen, A. Meinecke, & N. Lehmann-Willenbrock (Eds), Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Managing Meetings in Organizations (Vol. 20). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Diefendorff, J. M., Thayer, A. L., *Sodhi, K., & *Magill, D (2020). Dynamic emotional labor: A review and extension to teams. In L. Yang, R. Cropanzano, C. S. Daus, & V. Martinez-Tur (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect (pp. 310-322). Cambridge University Press.
Hacker, J., Johnson, M., & Saunders, C. & Thayer, A. L. (2019). Trust in virtual teams: A multidisciplinary review and integration. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 23.
Thayer, A. L., Petruzzelli, A.*, & McClurg, C. E.* (2018). Addressing the paradox of the team innovation process: A review and practical considerations. American Psychologist, 73, 363-375.
Shuffler, M. L., Kramer, W. S.*, Carter, D., Thayer, A. L., & Rosen, M. (2018). Leveraging a team-centric approach to diagnosing multiteam system functioning: The role of intrateam state profiles. Human Resource Management Review, 4, 361-377.
McClurg, C. E.*, Chen, J. L.*, Petruzzelli, A.*, & Thayer, A. L. (2017). Challenges and new directions in examining team cohesion over time. In E. Salas, W. B. Vessey, and L. B. Landon (Eds.), Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Team Dynamics Over Time (Vol. 18, pp. 261-186). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Salas, E., Shuffler, M. L., Thayer, A. L., Bedwell, W. L., & Lazzara, E. H. (2015). Understanding and diagnosing teamwork in organizations: A scientifically based practical guide. Human Resource Management, 54, 599-622.
Grossman, R., Thayer, A. L., Shuffler, M. L., Burke, C. S., & Salas, E. (2015). Critical social thinking: A conceptual model and insights for training. Organizational Psychology Review, 5, 99-125.
Miloslavic, S.*, Wildman, J. L., & Thayer, A. L. (2014). Structuring successful global virtual teams. In J. L. Wildman & R. L. Griffith (Eds.). Leading global teams: Translating the multidisciplinary science to practice (pp. 67-87). New York, NY: Springer.
Thayer, A. L., Rico, R., Salas, E., & Marlow, S. L.* (2013). Teams at work. In M. C. W. Peeters, J. de Jonge, & T. W. Taris (Eds.), An introduction to contemporary work psychology (pp. 434-457). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Kramer, W. S., Thayer, A. L., & Salas, E. (2013). Goal setting in teams. In E. Locke & G. Latham (Eds.), New developments in goal setting and task performance (pp. 287-310). New York: Routledge.
Wildman, J. L., Thayer, A. L., Rosen, M. A., Salas, E., Mathieu, J. E., & Rayne, S. R. (2012). Task types and team-level attributes: Synthesis of team classification literature. Human Resource Development Review, 11, 97-129.
Wildman, J. L., Thayer, A.L., Pavlas, D., Salas, E., Stewart, J. E., & Howse, W. (2012). Team knowledge research: Emerging trends and critical needs. Human Factors, 54, 84-111.
*Denotes graduate or undergraduate student at time of collaboration.
Research
Funded Projects
- Co-Principal Investigator -- U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) Cooperative Agreement, Next Generation Teams and Organizational Subsystems Research (Cooperative Agreement #W911NF-19-2-0173, 9/27/19-3/26/23, $5,993,790). Salas, E. (PI), Thayer, A. L. (Co-PI), Carter, D. R. (Co-I), Shuffler, M. L. (Co-I), Luciano, M. (Co-I), Tannenbaum, S. I. (Co-I), & Ratwani, K. (Co-I). Objective: to lay the groundwork for the next generation of teams research by (1) designing, developing, and validating a core experimental paradigm and measurement and analysis data collection toolkit and (2) laying the foundations for the future of research on team selection, staffing, and composition decisions, accounting for multiple staffing scenarios and operational requirements.
- Co-Principal Investigator -- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Trust Calibration in Heterogeneous, Human-Agent Teams: Applying Multilevel, Dynamic, and Unobtrusive Perspectives (8/1/21-7/31/24, $644,246.58). Carroll, M. (Co-PI), Wildman, J. L. (Co-PI), & Thayer, A. L. (Co-PI). Objectives: Leverage findings from human-human teams research and unobtrusive measurement of trust in human-agent teams to address the question "What are the multilevel, dynamic implications of trust violation/repair events within complex, distributed, heterogeneous human-agent teams?" via the following activities: (1) Conceptualize Theoretical Multilevel Framework of Trust Dynamics in Human-Agent Teams (Year 1), (2) Conduct Experiments Focused on Trust Violation within the Multilevel Framework of Trust Dynamics in Human-Agent Teams (Year 2), (3) Conduct Experiments Focused on Trust Repair within the Multilevel Framework of Trust Dynamics in Human-Agent Teams (Year 3)
Other Current Research
- Laboratory study investigating virtual work teams and virtual work skills training.
- Various manuscripts focused on trust violation and repair, cohesion, team composition, measurement, and research methodologies.