Susannah B. Paletz

Phone: 650-604-2843

E-Mail: Susannah Paletz

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SUSANNAH B. F. PALETZ

NASA Ames Research Center
Mail Stop 262-4
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
(650) 604-2843

POST-GRADUATE POSITIONS

March 2004-Present NASA Ames Research Center, Human Systems Integration Division
Research Psychologist

EDUCATION

- Ph.D., 2003 - Social/Personality Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, December. “Creativity Across Cultures: Conceptions and Values”; Chair: Kaiping Peng
- M.A., 1999 - Social/Personality Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, December. “Social and Personality Effects on Group Creative Writing”; Chair: Christina Maslach
- B.A. Psychology and Science in Society, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, May 1994.
High Honors in two majors, Psychology and Science in Society. “Attrition from the Natural Sciences and Mathematics during College”; Chair: William Weitzer
- University of Sussex, England, January through June 1993
- North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC 1990

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Culture and creativity: Cultural influences on creative processes and implicit theories of creativity.
- Small groups and culture: Group composition, small group dynamics.
- Creativity and small groups: Social effects on creativity in teams.
- Social psychology of science: Teamwork, creativity, & motivation in science; Bias in interpretations of scientific evidence.
- Research methods: Methodological and conceptual issues involving multiple levels of analysis.

AWARDS

2004	- Travel grant to attend International Congress of Psychology, U.S. National Committee for Psychology, National Academy of Sciences ($1000)
	- Witkin-Okonji travel award from the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychologists to attend the bi-annual conference ($400)
2002	- Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship, Northern California Association of Phi Beta Kappa ($3,700)
	- Grant-in-Aid of Research, Berkeley Chapter of Sigma Xi (~$400)
	- UC Berkeley Graduate Student Travel Award ($200)
	- University Block Grant Fellowships, UC Berkeley, Fall & Spring (stipends)
2001	- Monbusho Summer Program, NSF East Asia and Pacific Program Fellowship: Fully funded self-directed summer research fellowship in Japan (University of Tokyo, Prof. Yamaguchi)
	- University Block Grant Fellowship, UC Berkeley, Spring (stipend)
1999	- University Block Grant Fellowship, UC Berkeley, Fall (stipend)
1993	- Hughes Life Sciences Grant for work on Senior Honors Thesis, Wesleyan University ($100)

HONORS

2005	- Nominated by Human Factors Division Chief for Ames Project Excellence program: competitive project management training program for high potential scientists and systems engineers
2004	- Nominated, accepted for Young Psychologist Program at the International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China
1994	- Phi Beta Kappa, Wesleyan University
	- Science in Society Program Award for Distinction in the Honors Thesis, Wesleyan University

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

1. Paletz, S. B. F., & Peng, K. (In press). Problem finding and contradiction: Examining the relationship between naïve dialectical thinking, ethnicity, and creativity. Creativity Research Journal.
2. Paletz, S. B. F., Peng, K., Erez, M., & Maslach, C. (2004). Ethnic composition and its differential impact on group processes in diverse teams. Small Group Research, 35, 128-157.
3. McAuliffe, W. E., Geller, S., LaBrie, R. A., Paletz, S. B. F., & Fournier, E. A. (1998). Are telephone surveys suitable for studying substance abuse? Cost, administration, coverage and response rates. Journal of Drug Issues, 28, 455-481.

PUBLISHED REPORTS, REVIEWS, and OTHER RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

1. Paletz, S. B. F. (2006). Creativity in the West vs. the East…vs. the East? Ambidextrous Magazine, 3, 32-33.
2. Paletz, S. B. F. (2004). The Irreverent Onion. Political Communication, 21, 129-133.
3. McAuliffe, W. E., Geller, S., & Paletz, S. B. F. (1997). Bulletin #13: Methods of increasing response rates in telephone surveys. Cambridge, MA: National Technical Center.
4. McAuliffe, W. E., Minugh, P. A., LaBrie, R. A., Jackson, J., Fournier, E. A., Lomuto, N., Betjemann, R., & Paletz, S. B. F. (1996). Adolescent telephone household survey: Treatment needs assessment questionnaire. Cambridge, MA: National Technical Center.

MANUSCRIPTS under REVIEW

1. Paletz, S. B. F. & Peng, K. Implicit theories of creativity across cultures: Novelty and appropriateness in two product domains. (Currently being revised for resubmission)

MANUSCRIPTS in PREPARATION

1. Bearman, C., Paletz, S. B. F., & Orasanu, J. Breakdown in pilot/controller coordinated decision making in weather and non-weather situations.
2. MacCoun, R., & Paletz, S. B. F. Citizens’ perceptions of ideological bias in social science research.
3. Paletz, S. B. F. Creativity across cultures: Conceptions, values, and processes.
4. Paletz, S. B .F. (to be a NASA technical report). Individual selection and crew assembly: A gap analysis for exploration missions.
5. Paletz, S. B. F., Bearman, C. R., Orasanu, J., & Holbrook, J. Social psychological pressures faced by Alaskan pilots: Types, techniques, and countermeasures.
6. Paletz, S. B. F., Feist, G., & Weitzer, W. Identity mismatch and attrition from science and mathematics.
7. Paletz, S. B. F., & Peng, K. To do and to be: Essence-based versus experience-based implicit theories of creativity.
8. Spencer-Rodgers, J., English, T., Boucher, H., Srivastava, S., Paletz, S., Hou, Y., & Peng, K. The dialectical self scale.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

1. Paletz, S. B. F. (2006, August). Types, causes, and countermeasures of team conflict: Diverse perspectives. Symposium chaired at the American Psychological Association’s Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.
2. Bearman, C. R., Paletz, S. B. F., Farlow, S., Bernhard, R., & Orasanu, J. (2006, August). An examination of conflict between pilots and air traffic controllers in weather and non-weather situations. In S.B.F. Paletz (Chair), Types, causes, and countermeasures of team conflict: Diverse perspectives. Symposium conducted at the American Psychological Association’s Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.
3. Paletz, S. B. F. (2006, July). Culture and everyday creativity. In: K. Peng & L. Wang (Chairs), Culture and cognition: A multi-discipline and multi-national approach to cross-cultural psychology. Paper presented at the International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece.
4. Paletz, S. B. F. & Peng, K. (2006, July). Values and the importance of novelty and appropriateness to creativity. Paper presented at the 18th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Spetses, Greece.
5. Tada, Y., Orasanu, J., Paletz, S., Fischer, U., Kraft, N., & Beckum, L. (2006, May). Cognitive and personality predictors of leadership emergence: Roles and leadership characteristics on team performance. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY.
6. Paletz, S. B. F., Orasanu, J., Tada, Y., Bernhard, R., Fischer, U., & Kraft, N. (2006, January). Multilevel analyses of personality, social, and gender effects on group climate and efficacy. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
7. Paletz, S. B. F. & Orasanu, J. (2005, August). Individual and team selection for Mars missions. Paper presented at Meridiani Base: The 2nd Mars Expedition Planning Workshop. Vancouver, British Columbia.
8. Orasanu, J., Tada, Y., Paletz, S., Kraft, N., Fischer, U., Binder, H., Bernhard, R., De Los Reyes, M., McDonnell, L., & Miller, R. (2005, June). Modeling individual differences in dynamic team decision making. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
9. Orasanu, J., Kraft, N., Tada, Y., Paletz, S., & Fischer, U. (2005, May). Enhancing team performance for long-duration space missions. Poster presented at the American Psychological Society's 17th Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA.
10. Bearman, C., Paletz, S. B. F., Orasanu, J., Farlow, S. & Bernhard, R. (2005, April). Alternative perspectives and aviation weather: Pilot/air traffic controller conflicts involving weather. Paper presented at the 13th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Oklahoma City, OK.
11. Paletz, S.B.F. & Peng, K. (2005, January). Culture and two fundamental dimensions of creativity. In K.Y. Leung & C.Y. Chiu (Chairs), Creative thinking and cognitive freezing: does culture promote both? If so, when and how? Symposium conducted at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
12. Kraft, N., Orasanu, J., Fischer, U., Tada, Y., Paletz, S., Binder, H., & de los Reyes, M., (2004, October). Monitoring individual physiological reactions to task related interactions. Paper presented at the 4th International Scientific Congress Association of Aviation, Space, Naval, Extreme and Environmental Medicine of Russia, Moscow, Russia.
13. Paletz, S.B.F. & Peng, K. (2004, August). Implicit theories of creativity across cultures: Novelty and appropriateness. In M. Erez (Chair), Culture, innovation, and change. Symposium conducted at the 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China.
14. Paletz, S.B.F. & Peng, K. (2004, August). Implicit theories of creativity across cultures: Internal versus external expression of creativity. 17th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Xi’an, China.
15. Orasanu, J. & Paletz, S. (2004, May). A framework for exploring cultural factors in automation trust. Paper presented at the 75th Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association, Anchorage, AK.
16. Paletz, S.B.F. & Peng, K. (2003, February). Naïve dialectical thinking, ethnicity, and creative problem finding. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA.
17. Paletz, S.B.F. (2002, August). Implicit theories of creativity. In K. Peng (Chair), The theory approach to cultural psychology. Symposium conducted at the American Psychological Association’s Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
18. Paletz, S.B.F. & Vega, M.Y. (2001, August). Perceived norms, friends, and alcohol consumption. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association’s Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
19. Paletz, S.B.F. & Maslach, C. (2000, August). The effect of agreeableness on group creative writing. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association’s Annual Convention, Washington, DC.
20. Vega, M.Y. & Paletz, S.B.F. (2000, June). Perceptions of social-support following alcohol consumption. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues, Minneapolis, MN.
21. Paletz, S.B.F., Vega, M.Y., & Maslach, C. (2000, April). Social experiences and perceptions correlated with alcohol consumption in undergraduates. Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association’s Annual Convention, Portland, OR.
22. Paletz, S.B.F., & Maslach, C. (1999, June). Social and personality effects on group creative writing. Poster presented at the American Psychological Society’s Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
23. McAuliffe, W.E., LaBrie, R.A., Fournier, E.A., & Paletz, S.B.F. (1995, August). HIV-seroconversions during 40 months in a cohort of injection drug users who were not in treatment when recruited. Paper presented at HIV Prevention Research: Current Status and Future Directions, Flagstaff, AZ.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

1. Paletz, S.B.F. (2005, January). Working in government. In A. Moller (Chair), Alternatives to academia. Symposium conducted at the Careers Preconference for the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
2. Paletz, S.B.F. (2003, April). The dimensions of creativity. Paper presented at the annual Stanford-Berkeley Talks, Berkeley, CA.
3. Shlafer, S. & Paletz, S.B.F. (2001, August). Intercultura psikologio [Intercultural psychology]. Paper presented at Internacia Junulara Kongreso [The International Youth Congress – Esperanto], Strasburg, France.
4. Paletz, S.B.F. (1996, May). Communications: NTC technical assistance on the World Wide Web. Presented at the National Technical Center’s Steering Committee Meeting, Washington, DC.
5. McAuliffe, W.E., LaBrie, R.A., Geller, S., Fournier, E.A., & Paletz, S.B.F. (1995, November). A severe test of the NTC’s model family of studies: assessing drug addict treatment needs. Paper presented at the National Technical Center’s Fourth Annual Workshop: Needs Assessment in a Changing Health Care Environment, Rockville, MD.

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH EMPLOYMENT

- Use of Unrestricted Digital Collections in Undergraduate Education. Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley. August 2003 – February 2004. Supervisor: Dr. Diane Harley. Designed and facilitated focus groups, wrote protocols to obtain IRB permissions from four Universities of California, aided in survey development.
- Bias in the Evaluation of Scientific Evidence. Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. August 1998 – December 2001. Professor Robert MacCoun. Co-designed and supervised collection of three research studies, co-designed and initially analyzed a fourth study on effects of prior expectations, major, and gender on politicized versus non-politicized research findings.
- Collective Efficacy and Job Burnout. Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley. June - August 1998. Professor Christina Maslach. Analyzed, wrote up brief report on UCB managers’ burnout.
- Innovation, Entrepreneurs, Outsiders and Cognitive Bias. Institute for Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley. August 1997 - May 1998. Professor Charlan Nemeth. Performed literature reviews, co-designed and collected survey data, edited PowerPoint slides.
- National Technical Center for Substance Abuse Needs Assessment. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. January 1995 - July 1997. Supervisor: Dr. William McAuliffe. Conducted literature reviews, performed library management and data management, data documentation, and data acquisition. Topics included HIV seroprevalence rates, reliability and validity of self report, survey mode effects, adolescent substance abuse, telephone substance use surveys, AIDS risk factors, social indicator data for substance abuse.
- Women and Attrition from the Sciences. Pathways Project, Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College. September - December 1994. Supervisor: Jan Civian. Organized, cleaned data on existing longitudinal 30-page survey; co-facilitated focus groups.
- Early African-American Newspapers. Sociology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. July - August 1993. Professor Judith Blau. NSF Internship. Archival research coding advertisements in 1850-1940 African-American newspapers.
- Ranomafana (Madagascar) National Park Project. Duke University Primate Center, Duke University. July - August 1990. Supervisor: MacArthur Fellow Professor Patricia Wright. Established a research library and field office, conducted naturalistic observation of lemurs.

TEACHING & MENTORING

- Supervisor of Undergraduate Research Assistants, 1998- 2003. Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley. Mentored, trained, supervised over 25 undergraduate assistants in data collection, coding, cleaning, and analysis.
- Graduate Student Instructor/Teaching Assistant, Lead 2-3 discussion/lecture sections per week of 25-35 students each, co-created assignments, graded exams & papers, held weekly office hours, ran review sessions.

	Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
	- Social Psychology, Spring 2003 & Fall 2001, Professor Serena Chen
	- Cultural Psychology, Fall 2000, Professor Kaiping Peng
	- Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Spring 2000, Visiting Professor Miriam Erez, Fall 1998, Professor Sheldon Zedeck
	- Introduction to Psychology, Fall 1999, Professor Arthur Shimamura
	- Personnel Psychology, Spring 1999, Professor Sheldon Zedeck
	Science in Society Program, Wesleyan University
	- The Human Population, Fall 1992, Fall 1993, Professor Earl Hanson

- Guest Lecturer (Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley)

	- Small Groups and Creativity, Social Psychology, April 14, 2003. Professor Serena Chen.
	- Cross-Cultural Creativity, Cultural Psychology, April 15, 2002. Professor Kaiping Peng.
	- Psychology of Creativity, Introductory Psychology, March 10, 2003, March 11, 2002, April 16, 2001, & September 15, 2000, various instructors.
	- Bias in Interpreting Scientific Evidence, with Robert MacCoun, Introductory Psychology, May 3, 2000. Instructors Andrea Rosati and Sean Clarke.

Teaching Interests

- Social Psychology Research Methods Creativity Psychology of Science
- Cultural Psychology Organizational Psychology Small Groups

MEMBERSHIPS

- American Psychological Association
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (& reviewer for 2007 conference)
- Association for Psychological Science

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & SERVICE

Reviewer

- Journals: Creativity Research Journal
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (ad hoc)
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (ad hoc)
- Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
- Professional: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) NASA blind reviewer, December, 2005
- NASA Human Systems Integration Division peer reviewer (March 2004-present)

Committees

- Crew Composition and Size Committee. Workshop September 2004. Lead by David Tomko, Head Scientist, Life Sciences Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Two-day planning workshop for the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
- Short List Admissions Committee for Graduate Applicants in Social/Personality Psychology. January 1999. Faculty partner: Professor Gerald Mendelsohn.

Editing & Contribution

Pines, A.M, & Maslach, C. (2002). Experiencing social psychology: readings and projects. 4th Edition. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. (Contributed research highlight, edited inserted articles).

Continuing Education

- Hierarchical Linear Modeling Advanced Topics, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research,
University of Michigan, July 2005
- Human Factors for Mishap Investigation, NASA Ames Research Center, May 2005
- Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative Training, NASA Ames Research Center, September 2004
- Decision Making, Frank Yates (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), University of Tokyo, July 2001