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SONIC Welcomes Visiting Scholars Roger Leenders, Alex Stivala, and Lidwien van de Wijngaert
SONIC is proud to welcome visitors Roger Leenders, Alex Stivala, and Lidwien van de Wijngaert.
Roger Leenders is Professor of Intra-Organizational Networks at Tilburg University. His research mainly focuses on the antecedents and consequences of networks in and of teams. A core research theme is the creativity of teams: what are the network drivers (and inhibitors) of the creative performance of teams? He will be working with us for two months, and arrived two weeks ago.
Alex Stivala is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. His research ranges from detecting protein substructures to building models for the analysis of cultural dissemination. He will be working with the SONIC research group for two weeks.
Lidwien van de Wijngaert is a Senior Researcher at the Center for e-Government Studies at the University of Twente, Netherlands. With the Center for e-Government Studies Lidwien develops strategies and offers advice for governmental entities from the national to local level. She will be providing her expertise this week.
Noshir Contractor participated in a panel titled “Leveraging Social Network Analysis in I/O Science & Practice” at the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology Annual Conference on May 16, 2014
Noshir Contractor participated in a panel titled “Homophily, Familiarity, and the Self-Organization of Creative Teams” at the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology Annual Conference on May 16, 2014
Work on SONIC MTS Study Presented at ICA Annual Conference
The paper “Sequential Structural Signatures of Success in Teams and Multiteam Systems” was presented at the ICA annual conference in Seattle, WA. The paper was written by Aaron Schecter and Noshir Contractor of the SONIC lab along with collaborators Roger Leenders and Leslie DeChurch.
Noshir Contractor participated in a symposium titled “Little Teams, Big Data: Understanding Teams Using Digital Traces” at the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology Annual Conference on May 15, 2014
Noshir Contractor participated in a symposium titled “Enhancing Team Effectiveness Across and Between Levels of Analysis” at the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology Annual Conference on May 15, 2014
Noshir Contractor participated in a symposium titled “Leading for Creativity and Innovation” at the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology Annual Conference on May 15, 2014
Noshir Contractor participated on a panel titled “Using Big Data to Advance Psychological Theory: Report From the NCI – Big Data for Theory Advancement” at the Association of Psychological Science annual conference on May 25, 2014
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FTC: Data Brokers Know You Better Than Mom Does
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Microsoft’s Nadella: We’re In ‘Post-Post’ PC Era
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