Appendix
Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Reid Hastie (Chair) is Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service professor of behavioral science in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. Previously, he held positions at Harvard University, Northwestern University, and the University of Colorado. His primary research interests are in the areas of judgment and decision making. He is the author (with Robyn Dawes) of Rational Choice in an Uncertain World, an overview of the field of judgment and decision making. Currently, he is studying the role of causal reasoning in judgments of many kinds: civil jury decision making (punitive damages, securities fraud); decision-making competencies across the adult life span; and writing a book (with Cass Sunstein) on how to amplify the “collective intelligence” of teams and other groups. He has a Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University.
Catherine H. Tinsley (Vice Chair) is professor of management at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and executive director of the Georgetown University Women’s Leadership Initiative. She studies how culture, reputations, gender, and other factors influence negotiation and conflict resolution. She also studies how people make decisions under risk, applying decision analytic frameworks to understand organizational disasters and individual and expert responses to natural disasters (such as hurricanes) and man-made disasters (terrorist attacks). She has received grants from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Homeland Security for work on decision making and risk and grants from the Department of Defense and Army Research Office for modeling culture’s influence on negotiation and collaboration. She has won
various academic awards for her research, which has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals. She is on the editorial board of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, and the International Journal of Conflict Management and a former editorial board member of the Academy of Management Journal. She has a B.A. in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in organizational behavior from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Burt S. Barnow is the Amsterdam professor of public service and economics in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. He has over 30 years of experience as an economist and manager of research projects in the fields of workforce development, program evaluation, performance analysis, labor economics, welfare, poverty, child support, and fatherhood initiatives. He has extensive experience conducting research on implementation and effectiveness of large government programs. Current and recent research projects include developing and evaluating demonstrations that test innovative strategies to promote self-sufficiency for low-income families for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and an evaluation of the Accelerating Opportunity demonstration, which is testing new strategies for linking adult education and vocational training. Formerly, he was associate director for research at Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Policy Studies, where he worked for 18 years. He has also worked for the Lewin Group, U.S. Department of Labor (including 4 years as Director of the Office of Research and Evaluation in the Employment and Training Administration), and the University of Pittsburgh. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He has a B.S. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
Corinne Bendersky is associate professor of management and organizations at the University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management. She studies the effects of workplace conflict, status, and justice on group and organizational performance. Her research aims to understand how phenomena that are generally studied in isolation and/or as static constructs function differently when they are examined in group and organizational contexts and as dynamically evolving processes. Her contextualized and dynamic perspectives surface overlooked and sometimes counterintuitive findings about these fundamental aspects of organizations. Her research has appeared in many journals and edited books. She is on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Journal and Small
Group Research. Dr. Bendersky is an experienced mediator, facilitator of group decisions, and developer of interpersonal leadership skills. She has also helped organizations evaluate and develop effective dispute resolution systems. She received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.
Cherie Chauvin (Study Director) is a senior program officer at the National Research Council, working on numerous studies relevant to defense, national security, and intelligence issues. She has served as the Study Director for projects answering the needs of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Naval Research, and U.S Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, and she has contributed to studies for the U.S Army’s National Ground Intelligence Center, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the Federal Aviation Administration. Previously, she was an intelligence officer with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), where her work included support for military operations and liaison relationships across Sub-Saharan Africa and in Japan, South Korea, and Mongolia, as well as conducting worldwide intelligence collection operations (including during deployment to Afghanistan) to answer strategic and tactical military intelligence requirements. In recognition of her service, she was awarded the DIA Civilian Expeditionary Medal, the Department of the Army Commander’s Award for Civilian Service, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence National Meritorious Unit Citation. She holds a B.S. in cognitive science from the University of California at San Diego, an M.A. in international relations from The Maxwell School at Syracuse University, and an M.S. in strategic intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College.
Edward J. Coss is associate professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (Ft. Belvoir branch). He has written and presented papers dealing with soldier motivation and behavior at dozens of worldwide conferences. His work, All for the King’s Shilling: The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808-1814, deals with the internal and external forces that affected the behavior of the British regulars. The work won the Literary Prize (1st place) from the International Napoleonic Society in 2010 and was runner-up for the Templer Award from the Society of Army Historical Research (London). He was nominated and selected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2011. He is also a member of both the United States Commission on Military History and the British Commission for Military History. In 2010 he was named the Army’s Civilian Educator of the Year. He received a Ph.D in history from The Ohio State University.
Leslie DeChurch is associate professor of organizational psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include leadership and teamwork in organizations. She leads the Georgia Tech Developing Effective Leaders, Teams, and Alliances research group, which conducts high-impact scientific projects that yield novel insights into effective organization with real-world impact. Some current questions include: What makes effective team leaders? How do teams successfully collaborate across boundaries? How are leadership and team dynamics sustained in virtual organizations? Her research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals, and she serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Small Group Research, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and the Journal of Business and Psychology. In 2011 she received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award to study leadership in virtual organizations; in 2012 she received an NSF Research Coordination Network project grant (with Noshir Contractor) to leverage big data for the advancement of computational social science. She currently studies leadership networks and multiteam systems and teaches social psychology, including social networks. She earned a B.S. in environmental science from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Florida International University in Miami.
Jonathan Gratch is research professor of computer science and psychology at the University of Southern California (USC), director for virtual human research at UCS’s Institute for Creative Technologies, and co-director of USC’s Computational Emotion Group. His research focuses on computational models of human cognitive and social processes, especially emotion, and explores these models’ role in shaping human-computer interactions in virtual environments. He studies the relationship between cognition and emotion, the cognitive processes underlying emotional responses, and the influence of emotion on decision making and physical behavior. He is the founding and current editor-in-chief of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Transactions on Affective Computing; associate editor of Emotion Review and the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems; former president of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing, and a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of the International Society for Research on Emotion. He is the author of over 250 technical articles. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
Douglas H. Harris is chairman and principal scientist at Anacapa Sciences, Inc., a research company he formed in 1969 to enhance human perfor-
mance in complex systems and organizations. In addition to completing projects involving business, government, educational, and military entities and operations, he has conducted workshops and training courses in Canada, Mexico, Serbia, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Venezuela. He is a fellow and past president of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, fellow of the American Psychological Association, and charter fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. His formal training is in psychology, statistics, engineering, and military science. He served in the U.S. Navy as the operations officer of Underwater Demolition Team 11, planning and leading operations in Asia. He has contributed to many research and advisory activities, addressing issues involving human factors, organizational productivity, soldier systems, aviation security, airport passenger screening, and assessment of threat communications. He has a Ph.D. in industrial psychology from Purdue University.
Lee D. Hoffer is associate professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University. His research focuses on understanding the political, social, cultural, and clinical contexts related to illicit drug use, with emphasis on applying field-collected data to computational and agent-based models and complex-system behavioral models. His research synthesizes agent-based computational modeling techniques and ethnographic research to develop new tools for policy makers and researchers. Borrowing from theories of complexity systems, these projects seek to connect the rich descriptive detail offered by anthropology with the epidemiology of drug abuse. His research has application to HIV risk behaviors, diagnostic nosology for substance use disorders, understanding trends in drug use, and drug policy and intervention. Recent research examines how illicit drug markets and the acquisition of drugs influence behaviors and negative health outcomes. From 1997 to 1999 he was Colorado’s representative to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Community Epidemiology Workgroup. He was also active in the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HIV community planning efforts. From 2002 to 2005 he trained as a (T32) NIDA postdoctoral fellow in psychiatric epidemiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group. He has an M.A. in anthropology and a Ph.D. in health and behavioral sciences from the University of Colorado in Denver and a master of psychiatric epidemiology from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Alair MacLean is associate professor of sociology at Washington State University Vancouver. Her research focuses broadly on social inequality. She is currently exploring the question of how wars affect people’s lives. In this
research, she examines the life course trajectories of veterans who served in the U.S. armed forces, focusing on the effects of military service and combat exposure on work and health. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Population Association of America, and the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the RAND Corporation.
Charles F. Manski has been Board of Trustees professor in economics at Northwestern University since 1997. He was previously a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Carnegie Mellon University. His research spans econometrics, judgment and decision, and the analysis of social policy. He has authored six monographs in these fields, and has co-authored or co-edited additional monographs. He was director of the Institute for Research on Poverty and chair of the Board of Overseers of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, as well as editor of the Journal of Human Resources, co-editor of the Econometric Society Monograph Series, member of the editorial board of the Annual Review of Economics, and associate editor of the Annals of Applied Statistics, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Transportation Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and an elected fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received a B.S. and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
William D. Schulze is the Kenneth L. Robinson professor of agricultural economics and public policy at Cornell University. His areas of research include environmental, public, experimental, and behavioral economics. Recent and ongoing research includes studies funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the benefits of air pollution control, including air toxics, and an analysis of the impact of the Superfund program. Current research also includes a National Science Foundation—sponsored study of the validity of survey methods for valuing the benefits of environmental programs. Much of his work explores environmental values and the development of demand-revealing mechanisms using both the experimental laboratory and survey research. Current experimental economics research includes efforts to develop private mechanisms for funding public goods and markets for electric power. He has a B.A. from San Diego State College and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Riverside.
Tina Winters is an associate program officer at the National Research Council, where she has played an integral part in dozens of studies over a career spanning 20 years. She currently is a staff member for the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences and previously worked on consensus studies and other activities related to K-12 science and mathematics education, testing and assessment, education research, and social science research for public policy use. She was a co-editor of Advancing Scientific Research in Education.
