Answering the "So What" Question: Team Cohesion

Rebecca Grossman is an Associate Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Hofstra University. Her research focuses on teams (e.g., team processes and emergent states, measurement of team constructs), training (e.g., training transfer), and complex settings (e.g., multi-cultural teams, virtual teams, multiple team memberships). She was the recipient of both the SIOP Leslie W. Joyce & Paul W. Thayer Fellowship in I-O Psychology and the Fred Lewis I/ITSEC Scholarship for excellence in research on teams and training.

Christy Harper is the owner and managing partner of End to End User Research, a consultancy which conducts UX research, provides facility rentals, human factors and participant recruiting services. Previously Christy spent 17 years with HP, where she led a team doing research on products throughout the lifecycle. She has a Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of Houston-Clear Lake where she is a Distinguished Alumni and Chairperson of the Industry Advisory Board for the Applied Human Factors program. She is the chairperson for HFE WOMAN, HFES chapter Co-chair and Houston HFES past President and Program Director.