June, 2009: Jessica Wildman, a third year doctoral student in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology PhD, collaborated with Drs Steve Fiore and Eduardo Salas and won the best poster award at the 2009 Fourth Annual INGRoup Conference in Colorado. Her poster is entitled: Toward Measurement of Trust and Distrust: Separate Constructs or Ends of a Continuum

November, 2008: Congrats to Eduardo Salas, for being inducted into the Millionaires club. A recognized achievement for reasearch in his field of Psychology. The sole criteria for entrée into the exclusive order is external sponsored research funding of $1 million or more during a given fiscal year.

March, 2008: Professor Eduardo Salas of the Department of Psychology, together with researchers from UCF Institute for Simulation and Training, Harvard University, University of Maryland, Columbia University, George Mason University, and Naval Postgraduate School, recently received a coveted MURI (Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) grant funded by the US Army for the Fiscal Year 2008. The grant was awarded to support research aiming at understanding cultural influences on basic psychological and social processes in negotiations and collaborations across a wide range of cultures.

EDUARDO SALAS is University Trustee Chair and Pegasus Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He also holds an appointment as Program Director for Human Systems Integration Research Department at UCF’s Institute for Simulation & Training.  Previously, he was a Senior Research Psychologist and Head of the Training Technology Development Branch of NAVAIR-Orlando for 15 years. During this period, Dr. Salas served as a principal investigator for numerous R&D programs focusing on teamwork, team training, simulation-based training, decision-making under stress, learning methodologies and performance assessment.

Dr. Salas has co-authored over 320 journal articles and book chapters and has co edited over 20 books.  He is on/has been on the editorial boards of  Personnel Psychology, Military Psychology, Interamerican Journal of Psychology, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, Applied Psychology: An International Journal, International Journal of Aviation Psychology, Group Dynamics, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Resources Development Review and Journal of Organizational Behavior and is past Editor of Human Factors journal and current Associated Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology. In addition, he has edited three Special Issues (one focus on training, one on patient safety and one on decision making in complex environments) for the Human Factors journal.  He has edited other Special Issues on team training and performance and training evaluation (Military Psychology), shared cognition (Journal of Organizational Behavior), and simulation and training (International Journal of Aviation Psychology).  Dr. Salas has held numerous positions in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society during the past 15 years.  He is the past chair of the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Technical Group and of the Training Technical Group, and served on the Executive Council.    He is also very active with Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)—Division 14 of APA. He is currently the President Elect of the Society and Series Editor of the Organizational Frontier Book Series. He is past Series Editor for the Professional Practice Book Series and has served in numerous committees throughout the years. Dr. Salas is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (SIOP and Division’s 19, 21 & 49), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Association for Psychological Science. He received his Ph.D. degree (1984) in industrial and organizational psychology from Old Dominion University.

His expertise includes helping organizations on how to foster teamwork, design and implement team training strategies, facilitate training effectiveness, manage decision making under stress, develop performance measurement tools, and   design learning and simulation-based environments.  He is currently working on designing tools, instructional strategies and techniques to minimize human errors in aviation, law enforcement and medical environments. He has consulted to a variety of manufacturing, pharmaceutical laboratories, industrial and governmental organizations.