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Steve W. J. Kozlowski
World Class Scholar and Distinguished University Professor
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Office: PCD 4138
Phone: 813/974-0359
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BIO
Steve W. J. Kozlowski, Ph.D. is a World Class Scholar and Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida (he was previously at Michigan State University). He is a recognized expert in the areas of dynamic multilevel organizational systems theory and computational process theorizing; team leadership and team effectiveness; and learning, development, and adaptation. The goal of his programmatic research is to generate actionable theory, research-based principles, and deployable tools to develop adaptive individuals, teams, and organizations. His research has generated over $11M in funded work and is, or has been, supported by the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), among others. He has produced over 500 articles, books, chapters, reports, and presentations; his work has been cited over 46,000 times (); and his impact is ranked among the top 2% of all scientists in the world (Ioannidis, Boyack, & Baas, 2020). Dr. Kozlowski is a recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award and the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups. He is the Editor for the Oxford Series on Organizational Psychology and Behavior and Editor for the SIOP/Oxford Organizational Science, Translation, and Application Series. He is the former Editor-in-Chief and a former Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology. He is an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Management and The Leadership Quarterly, and has served on the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Human Factors, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management Association, American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the International Association for Applied Psychology (IAAP), and SIOP. He is a member of the APA Publications and Communications Board (P&C, 2021-2026; Chair 2024-2025) and the P&C Journals Advisory Committee (Chair 2024-2025). He is a Past-President of SIOP (2015-2016), a former SIOP Research and Science Officer (2017-2023), and a former member of the APA Advocacy Coordinating Committee (2019-2021). He was the first Chair of the APA Open Science and Methodology Committee (2019-2020). Dr. Kozlowski received his B.A. in psychology from the University of Rhode Island, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in organizational psychology from The Pennsylvania State University.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. 11/82 The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Major area: Industrial & Organizational Psychology
Minor areas: Organizational Behavior & Measurement - M.S. 11/79 The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Major area: Industrial & Organizational Psychology - B.A. 12/76 University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI
Major area: Psychology
TEACHING
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
RESEARCH
My research is designed to understand dynamic phenomena and their interplay across individuals, teams, and organizations in multilevel organizational systems. Team effectiveness is the core substantive focus and our research examines team dynamics (team interaction processes over time), emergent phenomena such as team cohesion and shared cognition that manifest from those interaction dynamics, and their effects of those emergent phenomena on individual, team, and system performance. Studying team dynamics, which necessitate intensive longitudinal data, requires a range of innovative methodologies, research settings, and collaborations (e.g., medicine, engineering, and computer science). Recent research has involved emergency medical teams (e.g., high fidelity simulations and a live trauma center); interaction dynamics of teams that serve as analogs for long duration space missions (i.e., multi-month experiences in Antarctica or in NASA mission simulations); and computational modeling / agent-based simulations used to conduct virtual experiments to examine team and system interaction dynamics and emergent phenomena at scale (i.e., hundreds of thousands of teams and millions of agents). Contact me if you are interested in our research or in collaborating.
The MINDWORKS Podcast: The Magic of Teams Part 3: The Future of Teams. (Aptima)
Data is currently outpacing the theories on how teams work—is that a problem? Can
AI help? What will it take for NASA to send a team on a multi-year mission to Mars?
MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty talks with team science experts Dr. Steve Kozlowski,
Dr. Tara Brown, and Dr. Samantha Perry on the future of teams to address these and
other questions in this groundbreaking five-part series.
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SPECIALTY AREA
Industrial and Organizational Psychology