May 4, 2020
Effective interdisciplinary research (IR) teams require skills of collaboration, sharing, and abilities to integrate knowledge from diverse disciplines. Pre-post data was collected using three learning modules designed to support the development of collaboration and teamwork skills in the context of IR. Results showed (1) participants learned and practiced essential collaborative skills in authentic contexts; (2) training modules were valued and helped participants recognize the important role that personal dispositional characteristics have on IR teams; (3) participants’ confidence in adapting to differences among team members increased; and (4) participants recognized that effective collaboration requires intentionality. This paper also introduces the concept of dispositional distancing.
Apr 8, 2020
This is the third in a series of articles outlining the International Test Commission’s (ITC) Guidelines for Translating and Adapting Tests. The ITC guidelines are provided in a six-category format that includes the topics pre-condition, test development, confirmation, administration, scoring and interpretation, and documentation. It is the goal of this series to provide the motivation behind and an outline for the TTI Success Insights translation protocol.
Feb 28, 2020
In this report, we integrate the principles described in Part 1 and describe an operational model for emotional decision-making that incorporates brain activation data along with subjective experience correlates. This model takes the form of a state machine that carries out transitions between a finite set of 16 possible states of emotional and decision-making response. By considering a 4×4 grid of possible states based upon left and right activation, in primary (sensation) and secondary (perception/comprehension) response, the range of responses is completely specified. The transition probabilities within this repertoire of possible response states can be used to characterize an individual (or any system) in terms of its likelihood to respond in a particular fashion. The possible value of this model in psychiatry, psychology, and counseling is introduced and discussed.
Feb 28, 2020
In Part 1 of this paper, we describe an approach and methodology that bridges two worlds: the internal, subjective experience of emotions and thoughts, and the external world of brain electrical activity. Using a novel event-related brain activation imaging method, we demonstrate that within single trials, short-term mental processes, on the order of 100 msec, can be clearly related to observed brain activation in controlled experiments. We use an ipsative assessment validation process that combines self-report with real-time EEG recordings to provide a combined picture of both the mental and the brain activity, during short-term reactions, emotions, and decisions regarding controlled information. Part 2 provides a detailed description of the emerging emotional decision-making model.
Feb 28, 2020
The TTI SI Stress Assessment is a diagnostic tool that is focused on workplace culture. The tool exposes potential sources of stress in the following categories: Workplace Demands, Effort/reward balance, Control, Organization change, Management/supervisor issues, social support, and job security. While we all can, and from time to time do, bring our personal issues into the workplace, work-related problems are the only ones that management has control over and therefore must be aware. This brief paper explains the purpose of the stress assessment and provides the research underpinnings for how it was developed.
