James Grand

Bio

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.