CORE FACULTY

James Grand, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

James Grand is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University.

Dr. Grand's main research focuses on the interplay of knowledge-building, decision-making, collaboration, and performance at the individual and team levels. A significant theme of his research lies in exploring and understanding these mechanisms and outcomes as emergent processes, which involves computationally and experimentally investigating the affect, behaviors, and cognitions of individuals over time that create, change, and/or maintain dynamics at different levels of analysis (i.e., individuals, teams, multi-team systems, organizations, etc.). More specific topics in his research stream focus on processes related to A) how planning/project teams gather and share information, develop collective knowledge, and make decisions based on their shared understanding, and B) how action-oriented teams (i.e., medical teams, military teams, sports teams, etc.) coordinate, regulate, and adapt their behavioral and cognitive resources/efforts to produce team performance outcomes. He also conducts research examining the role of information processing on personnel training and testing/assessment outcomes and has methodological interests in computational modeling and simulation of dynamic processes and Bayesian statistics. His work in these areas has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Organizational Research Methods. In addition, Dr. Grand maintains active multi-disciplinary partnerships with researchers and practitioners in the field of emergency medicine examining issues related to teamwork, leadership, and adaptability among provider teams. This work has been published in a variety of highly ranked outlets including Critical Care Medicine, BMJ Quality & Safety, and Academic Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Grand currently serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Journal of Business and Psychology, and is past chair of the Scientific Affairs Committee for the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology. Dr. Grand received the William A. Owens award from the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, an Emerald Group Publishing Citation of Excellence award, and the SAGE Best Paper Award for his 2013 publication on advancing multilevel research through the use of computational modeling and his 2016 paper on team knowledge emergence received a Monograph designation from the Journal of Applied Psychology. He has received funding for current and previous research from the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Defense Medical Research and Development Program.

Paul Hanges, Ph.D.
Professor

Paul Hanges is a Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology of the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland. He is also an affiliate of the University of Maryland's R. H. Smith School of Business.

His research centers on three themes: a) human resource practices, organizational diversity and organizational climate, b) leadership, followership, and cross-cultural issues, and c) dynamical modeling, complexity theory, and research methodology. He published two co-authored books: "Strategic Leadership: The GLOBE Study of CEO Leadership Behavior and Effectiveness across Cultures" (2014) and "Leadership, Culture, and Organizations: The GLOBE study of 62 societies" (2004). He has written over 100 articles, book chapters, technical reports and has conducted more than 40 invited talks and workshops. He won the M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research from the Society of Industrial/Organizational Psychology twice: in 2004 for his work on the GLOBE Project and in 2011 for his work on human resource selection processes. Paul is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Sciences, and the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

Paul has consulted for various private and public institutions (e.g., S.C. Johnson, FAA, Department of Justice, FAA, Personnel Board of Jefferson County) as well as various consulting firms and has been retained as an expert witness for several law firms. He also was on the executive board of OBA Bank from 2012 until the bank was sold in 2015. Most of his consulting work focuses on developing human resource practices (e.g., competence models, selection/promotion systems, training and development systems), creating agile and healthy organizational climates, and developing leader talent.

Arie Kruglanski, Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor

Arie W. Kruglanski is a Distinguished University Professor, a recipient of numerous awards (e.g., the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Scientist Award (Career Award), the Donald Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), the Senior Lifetime Achievement Award from the von Humboldt Foundation), and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He has served as editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and associate editor of the American Psychologist.

His work in the domains of human judgment and belief formation, the motivation-cognition interface, group and intergroup processes, and the psychology of human goals has been disseminated in over 300 articles, chapters, and books, and has been continuously supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, NIMH, Deutsche Forschungs Gemeineschaft, the Ford Foundation and the Israeli Academy of Science.

As a founding Co-PI and Co-Director of START (National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism), Kruglanski also conducts research with the support of grants from the Department for Homeland Security and from the Department of Defense on the psychological processes behind radicalization, deradicalization, and terrorism.

More information on Arie Kruglanski can be found here: http://kruglanski.socialpsychology.org/

Edward Lemay, Ph.D.
Professor

Edward Lemay is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Yale University.

Dr. Lemay is director of the Interpersonal Relationships Lab. Research in the lab examines cognition, emotion, behavior, and motivation within the context of close interpersonal relationships, such as friendships and romantic relationships. Current research projects focus on the effects of interpersonal goals on relationship maintenance behaviors, ways people manage relationships with chronically insecure relationship partners, cognitive biases that preserve and undermine trust, and measurement of relationship-relevant dimensions of personality. The projects involve a variety of methods, including behavioral observation, response time, and questionnaire measures, longitudinal designs, daily report designs, and laboratory-based experiments. Dr. Lemay has published in outlets such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Health Psychology, and Personal Relationships.

He serves on numerous editorial boards in social-personality psychology and is an Associate Editor of Personal Relationships.Dr. Lemay received the Sage Young Scholars Award, the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award, the International Association of Relationships Research Dissertation Award, and the James Grossman Dissertation Award from Yale University, and he was nominatedas a "Rising Star" by the Association for Psychological Science.

More information about Edward Lemay can be found at his website, http://lemay.socialpsychology.org/

Jennifer L. Wessel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Jennifer L. Wessel is an Associate Professor of Psychology. She is a trained organizational psychologist, receiving her PhD from Michigan State University in 2012.

Dr. Wessel’s research examines issues of diversity in the workplace, with a long-term goal of producing quality research that can improve understanding of the experiences of stigmatized individuals in the workplace and provide individuals from diverse backgrounds with tools to thrive personally and professionally at work.

Specifically, Dr. Wessel currently conducts research in three main areas. The first area focuses on the predictors and outcomes of identity management choices of individuals in the minority, including disclosure and other self-presentation decisions. The second area examines the predictors of supportive behaviors toward minority individuals (e.g., being an ally) and how those in positions of power react to the stigmatization of others. The third area of research focuses on identity at work, including how our identities at work affect inter-group cooperation and contact, as well as how our ability to authentic in our identities affects important workplace outcomes.

Dr. Wessel's research has been funded by the Society for Human Resource Management, the Social Science Research Council, the Hewlitt Foundation, and the Democracy Fund. She was been award UMD's Research and Scholarship Award (2018) and the Psychology Department's Outstanding Faculty Research Mentor Award (2018).

Linda Zou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Linda Zou is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Washington in 2019.

Dr. Zou’s research focuses on understanding intergroup relations, particularly in the context of immigration and racial and ethnic diversity. One line of work examines how racial and ethnic minority groups’ perceived fit with the American national identity (i.e., their cultural foreignness) shapes experiences with stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. A second line of work examines how majority group members react to increasing diversity, including ways in which they may avoid diversity as well as attempt to embrace diversity. A third line of work examines how people think about racial identity and status arrangements among different racial and ethnic groups.

More information can be found at her website, http://lindaxzou.com

TEACHING PROFESSOR

Benjamin Jones, Ph.D.
Lecturer

Dr. Benjamin Jones joined the Psychology department in 2019. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Organizational Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology where he studied strategies leaders could use to appeal to multiple, competing groups to optimize their chance of retaining and gaining followers. He is passionate about inspiring others through undergraduate education and is excited to be able to do so as a Terp.

Visiting Scholars, Post Doc Scholars, Lab Managers

Ewa Szumowska, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar

Dr. Szumowska is an assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently involved in several projects pertaining to topics such as motivation, epistemic motivation, multiple goal pursuit, multitasking and extremism.

She published in journals spanning cognitive, social and personality psychology such as Psychological Review, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Cognition, Psychological Science, or Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Her research has been funded by the National Science Centre and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland. She is also involved in international projects funded by the European Research Council.

She is a member of Centre for Social Cognitive Studies Krakow. More information about Ewa's work can be found at http://cscs.edu.pl/ewa-szumowska/.