Roni Reiter-Palmon, PhD
- Professor and Director, Industrial/Organizational Graduate Program
- ASH 347K
- Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Additional Information
Teaching
Creativity and innovation in organizations, Leadership, Statistics, Personnel selectionResearch
- Creativity and teamwork skill development
- Creativity and AI
- Malevolent Creativity
- Creativity and innovation at the individual, team, and organization level
- Cognitive processes of creativity
- Leading creative and/or interdisciplinary teams
Background
Dr. Roni Reiter-Palmon is the John Lewis Holland Distinguished Professor of Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology and the Director of the I/O Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). She is also the Director of Innovation for the Center for Collaboration Science, an inter-disciplinary program at UNO. She received her Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Her research focuses on creativity and innovation in the workplace, specifically cognitive processes, team creativity, development of teamwork and creative problem-solving skills, leading creative individuals and teams, malevolent creativity, and creativity and Artificial Intelligence (AI). She has published over 200 papers and book chapters in leading journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Creativity Research Journal, The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, Human Resources Management Review, Organizational Psychology Review, and Leadership Quarterly. She is the former Editor of The Psychology of Creativity, Aesthetics and the Arts, the leading journal of creativity research and the current editor of Organizational Psychology Review. She is an associate editor for the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Creative Behavior, Journal of Business and Psychology. She has published six edited books on the topic of creativity, and is the co-editor of the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Organizational Creativity (published in 2023) and the APA Handbook of Creativity (to be published in 2026). She has obtained over 9 million dollars in grant and contract funding from government and businesses focusing on creativity, leadership, and teams. She has received the University of Nebraska systems award for her research and scholarship, and been recognized by the American Psychological Association APA fellow (Divisions 10 and 14). She has received the Arnheim Lifetime Achievement award for her work on creativity from Division 10 of APA.
Profesional Affiliations
President, Division 10 of APA
Member of the Executive Board for the Society of I-O Psychology
Fellow – American Psychology Association (as is currently in the web site)
Editor – Organizational Psychology Review
Editor – Palgrave studies (as is currently in the web site)
Executive Board member of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation
Editor, Palgrave studies in Creativity and Innovation in Organizations (book series)
VP Association – Interdisciplinary Network of Group Researchers
Associate Editor - European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
Fellow – American Psychological Association (Division 10 – The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts; Division 14 – The Society of IO Psychology)
Recent Publications
- Medeiros, K., Cropley, D. H., Marrone, R. L., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press.). Human-AI co-creativity: Does ChatGPT make us more creative? The Journal of Creative Behavior.
- Kripal, S. J., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). The role of empathy in problem construction and creative problem solving. Learning and Individual Differences. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102501
- Reiter-Palmon, R., & Medieros, K. (in press). AI and organizational creativity: Implications for skill development. The Oxford Handbook of Human Creativity × GenAI in Education
- Christeson, K., Japp, P., Patel, A., Reiter-Palmon, R., Cronin, M., Allen, J., & Shuffler, M. (in press). Social process assessment for recognizing creativity: A creative behavior and processes coding scheme. In N. Bonnardel (Ed.), Collaboration in creativity – From human-human to human-computer interactions. Palgrave.
- Raz, T, Reiter-Palmon, R., & Kenett, Y. N. (in press). The role of asking more complex questions in creative thinking. The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
- Luchini, S. A., Maliakkal, N., T., DiStefano, P. V., Laverghetta Jr., A., Patterson, J. D., Beaty, R. E., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). Automated Scoring of Creative Problem-Solving with Large Language Models: A Comparison of Originality and Quality Ratings. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
- Kapoor, H., Mahadeshwar, H., Rezaei, S., Reiter-Palmon, R., & Kaufman, J. C. (2025). The ties that bind: Low Morals, High deception, and dark creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 37, 452-471. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2306447
- McKay, A. S., Reiter-Palmon, R., Coombes, A. M. T., & Coombs, J. E. (2024). A meta-analysis of creativity training in organizational settings. Creativity and Innovation Management, 33(4), 587–602. https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12605
- Reiter-Palmon, R. & Japp*, P. (2024). Team cognition and team creativity. In L. J. Ball and F. Vallee-Tourangeau (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition (pp. 665-683). Taylor & Francis.
- Reiter-Palmon, R., Leone, S., & Schreiner, E. (2024). Conflicting problem representations and creativity: Effects on problem construction. Creativity Research Journal, 36, 521-531.
- Leone, S., Japp, P., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2023). The emergence of problem construction at the team level. Small Group Research, 54, 639-670.
- Maliakkal, N., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2023). The effects of leader support for creativity and leader gender on subordinate creative problem-solving performance. Journal of Creative Behavior, 57, 109-126.
- Reiter-Palmon, R., Murugavel, V., & Linnell, A. (2023). Measuring creativity in organizations: A review. In R. Reiter-Palmon and S. Hunter (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Creativity 2nd ed (Vol 1, pp. 7-21). Elsevier.
- Reiter-Palmon, R., & Linnell, A. (2023). Team creativity and innovation: The effect of team creative cognition. In R. Reiter-Palmon and S. Hunter (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Creativity 2nd ed (Vol. 1, pp. 239-252). Elsevier.
- Tolkamp, G., Vriend, T., Verwaereb, B., Reiter-Palmon, R., & Nijstad, B. (2022). Disentangling the creative process: An examination of differential antecedents and outcomes for specific process elements. Journal of Business and Psychology, 37, 1329- 1346 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09808-0
- Reiter-Palmon, R., Kramer, W., Allen, J. A., Murugavel*, V. R., & Leone*, S. A. (2021). Creativity in virtual teams: A review and agenda for future research. Creativity: Research, Application, Theory, 8, 165-188. (open access)
Additional Information
Teaching
Creativity and innovation in organizations, Leadership, Statistics, Personnel selectionResearch
- Creativity and teamwork skill development
- Creativity and AI
- Malevolent Creativity
- Creativity and innovation at the individual, team, and organization level
- Cognitive processes of creativity
- Leading creative and/or interdisciplinary teams
Background
Dr. Roni Reiter-Palmon is the John Lewis Holland Distinguished Professor of Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology and the Director of the I/O Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). She is also the Director of Innovation for the Center for Collaboration Science, an inter-disciplinary program at UNO. She received her Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Her research focuses on creativity and innovation in the workplace, specifically cognitive processes, team creativity, development of teamwork and creative problem-solving skills, leading creative individuals and teams, malevolent creativity, and creativity and Artificial Intelligence (AI). She has published over 200 papers and book chapters in leading journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Creativity Research Journal, The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, Human Resources Management Review, Organizational Psychology Review, and Leadership Quarterly. She is the former Editor of The Psychology of Creativity, Aesthetics and the Arts, the leading journal of creativity research and the current editor of Organizational Psychology Review. She is an associate editor for the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Creative Behavior, Journal of Business and Psychology. She has published six edited books on the topic of creativity, and is the co-editor of the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Organizational Creativity (published in 2023) and the APA Handbook of Creativity (to be published in 2026). She has obtained over 9 million dollars in grant and contract funding from government and businesses focusing on creativity, leadership, and teams. She has received the University of Nebraska systems award for her research and scholarship, and been recognized by the American Psychological Association APA fellow (Divisions 10 and 14). She has received the Arnheim Lifetime Achievement award for her work on creativity from Division 10 of APA.
Profesional Affiliations
President, Division 10 of APA
Member of the Executive Board for the Society of I-O Psychology
Fellow – American Psychology Association (as is currently in the web site)
Editor – Organizational Psychology Review
Editor – Palgrave studies (as is currently in the web site)
Executive Board member of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation
Editor, Palgrave studies in Creativity and Innovation in Organizations (book series)
VP Association – Interdisciplinary Network of Group Researchers
Associate Editor - European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
Fellow – American Psychological Association (Division 10 – The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts; Division 14 – The Society of IO Psychology)
Recent Publications
- Medeiros, K., Cropley, D. H., Marrone, R. L., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press.). Human-AI co-creativity: Does ChatGPT make us more creative? The Journal of Creative Behavior.
- Kripal, S. J., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). The role of empathy in problem construction and creative problem solving. Learning and Individual Differences. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102501
- Reiter-Palmon, R., & Medieros, K. (in press). AI and organizational creativity: Implications for skill development. The Oxford Handbook of Human Creativity × GenAI in Education
- Christeson, K., Japp, P., Patel, A., Reiter-Palmon, R., Cronin, M., Allen, J., & Shuffler, M. (in press). Social process assessment for recognizing creativity: A creative behavior and processes coding scheme. In N. Bonnardel (Ed.), Collaboration in creativity – From human-human to human-computer interactions. Palgrave.
- Raz, T, Reiter-Palmon, R., & Kenett, Y. N. (in press). The role of asking more complex questions in creative thinking. The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
- Luchini, S. A., Maliakkal, N., T., DiStefano, P. V., Laverghetta Jr., A., Patterson, J. D., Beaty, R. E., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (in press). Automated Scoring of Creative Problem-Solving with Large Language Models: A Comparison of Originality and Quality Ratings. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
- Kapoor, H., Mahadeshwar, H., Rezaei, S., Reiter-Palmon, R., & Kaufman, J. C. (2025). The ties that bind: Low Morals, High deception, and dark creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 37, 452-471. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2306447
- McKay, A. S., Reiter-Palmon, R., Coombes, A. M. T., & Coombs, J. E. (2024). A meta-analysis of creativity training in organizational settings. Creativity and Innovation Management, 33(4), 587–602. https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12605
- Reiter-Palmon, R. & Japp*, P. (2024). Team cognition and team creativity. In L. J. Ball and F. Vallee-Tourangeau (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition (pp. 665-683). Taylor & Francis.
- Reiter-Palmon, R., Leone, S., & Schreiner, E. (2024). Conflicting problem representations and creativity: Effects on problem construction. Creativity Research Journal, 36, 521-531.
- Leone, S., Japp, P., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2023). The emergence of problem construction at the team level. Small Group Research, 54, 639-670.
- Maliakkal, N., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2023). The effects of leader support for creativity and leader gender on subordinate creative problem-solving performance. Journal of Creative Behavior, 57, 109-126.
- Reiter-Palmon, R., Murugavel, V., & Linnell, A. (2023). Measuring creativity in organizations: A review. In R. Reiter-Palmon and S. Hunter (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Creativity 2nd ed (Vol 1, pp. 7-21). Elsevier.
- Reiter-Palmon, R., & Linnell, A. (2023). Team creativity and innovation: The effect of team creative cognition. In R. Reiter-Palmon and S. Hunter (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Creativity 2nd ed (Vol. 1, pp. 239-252). Elsevier.
- Tolkamp, G., Vriend, T., Verwaereb, B., Reiter-Palmon, R., & Nijstad, B. (2022). Disentangling the creative process: An examination of differential antecedents and outcomes for specific process elements. Journal of Business and Psychology, 37, 1329- 1346 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09808-0
- Reiter-Palmon, R., Kramer, W., Allen, J. A., Murugavel*, V. R., & Leone*, S. A. (2021). Creativity in virtual teams: A review and agenda for future research. Creativity: Research, Application, Theory, 8, 165-188. (open access)