Leslie A Dechurch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3421159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie A Dechurch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie A |
| FAMILY NAME | Dechurch |
| SIGNATURE | DECHURCH L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0458-9417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
We Are a go for launch! working with Nasa to forecast and improve team dynamics in space missions
This paper outlines a decade-long NASA-Northwestern University collaboration developing predictive models for crew relationships during long-duration space missions. Two computational models were created: CREWS (predicting social relations) and SCALE (forecasting shared cognition), integrated into the TEAMSTaR dashboard for mission support. Research conducted at NASA's HERA and Russia's NEK facilities revealed that while behavioral team performan…
Modeling the “who” and “how” of social influence in the adoption of health practices
Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We employ embedded interactions to analyze the case of conflicts between the astronauts and ground…
Vero
Despite the recognized need to prepare for a future of human–AI collaboration, the technical skills necessary to develop and deploy AI systems are considerable, making such research difficult to perform without specialized knowledge. To make human–AI collaboration research more accessible, we developed a novel experimental method that combines a standard video conferencing platform, a set of animations, and Wizard of Oz methods to simulate a grou…
Social perception in Human-AI teams
Information sharing in a hybrid workplace
Shifts to hybrid work prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic have the potential to substantially impact social relationships at work. Hybrid employees rely heavily on digital collaboration technologies to communicate and share information. Therefore, employees’ perceptions of the technologies are critical in shaping organizational networks. However, the dyadic-level misalignment in these perceptions may lead to relationship dissolution. To explore the…
Leading teams over time through space
Diversity, networks, and innovation
Despite the importance of diverse expertise in helping solve difficult interdisciplinary problems, measuring it is challenging and often relies on proxy measures and presumptive correlates of actual knowledge and experience. To address this challenge, we propose a text-based measure that uses researcher’s prior work to estimate their substantive expertise. These expertise estimates are then used to measure team-level expertise diversity by determ…
Teammate invitation networks
Leading teams in the digital age
Solidarity in STEM
How Team Interlock Ecosystems Shape the Assembly of Scientific Teams
Today's most pressing scientific problems necessitate scientific teamwork; the increasing complexity and specialization of knowledge render "lone geniuses" ill-equipped to make high-impact scientific breakthroughs. Social network research has begun to explore the factors that promote the assembly of scientific teams. However, this work has been limited by network approaches centered conceptually and analytically on "nodes as people," or "nodes as…
Space, time, and the development of shared leadership networks in multiteam systems
Digital technologies have created the potential for new forms of organizing among geographically dispersed individuals by connecting their ideas across the time and space in complex multiteam systems (MTSs). Realizing this potential requires novel forms of shared leadership structures to shepherd divergent and convergent thinking necessary to nurture innovation. While there is limited research on how space influences leadership and how the time i…
The cognitive underpinnings of effective teamwork
Major theories of team effectiveness position emergent collective cognitive processes as central drivers of team performance. We meta-analytically cumulated 231 correlations culled from 65 independent studies of team cognition and its relations to teamwork processes, motivational states, and performance outcomes. We examined both broad relationships among cognition, behavior, motivation, and performance, as well as 3 underpinnings of team cogniti…
Coworker Informal Work Accommodations to Family
Drawing on research regarding the utility of coworker support in mitigating work/ family conflict, the authors developed a scale to measure Coworker-enacted Informal Work Accommodations to Family (C-IWAF). C-IWAF differs from coworker support in that it describes actual behaviors coworkers engage in to help one another deal with incompatible work and family demands. Results based on a sample of 390 working caregivers provide support for the indep…
Information sharing and team performance
Information sharing is a central process through which team members collectively utilize their available informational resources. The authors used meta-analysis to synthesize extant research on team information sharing. Meta-analytic results from 72 independent studies (total groups = 4,795; total N = 17,279) demonstrate the importance of information sharing to team performance, cohesion, decision satisfaction, and knowledge integration. Although…
Teammate invitation networks
Information sharing in a hybrid workplace
Shifts to hybrid work prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic have the potential to substantially impact social relationships at work. Hybrid employees rely heavily on digital collaboration technologies to communicate and share information. Therefore, employees’ perceptions of the technologies are critical in shaping organizational networks. However, the dyadic-level misalignment in these perceptions may lead to relationship dissolution. To explore the…
Diversity, networks, and innovation
Despite the importance of diverse expertise in helping solve difficult interdisciplinary problems, measuring it is challenging and often relies on proxy measures and presumptive correlates of actual knowledge and experience. To address this challenge, we propose a text-based measure that uses researcher’s prior work to estimate their substantive expertise. These expertise estimates are then used to measure team-level expertise diversity by determ…
Space, time, and the development of shared leadership networks in multiteam systems
Digital technologies have created the potential for new forms of organizing among geographically dispersed individuals by connecting their ideas across the time and space in complex multiteam systems (MTSs). Realizing this potential requires novel forms of shared leadership structures to shepherd divergent and convergent thinking necessary to nurture innovation. While there is limited research on how space influences leadership and how the time i…
Information sharing and team performance
Information sharing is a central process through which team members collectively utilize their available informational resources. The authors used meta-analysis to synthesize extant research on team information sharing. Meta-analytic results from 72 independent studies (total groups = 4,795; total N = 17,279) demonstrate the importance of information sharing to team performance, cohesion, decision satisfaction, and knowledge integration. Although…
The cognitive underpinnings of effective teamwork
Major theories of team effectiveness position emergent collective cognitive processes as central drivers of team performance. We meta-analytically cumulated 231 correlations culled from 65 independent studies of team cognition and its relations to teamwork processes, motivational states, and performance outcomes. We examined both broad relationships among cognition, behavior, motivation, and performance, as well as 3 underpinnings of team cogniti…
Coworker Informal Work Accommodations to Family
Drawing on research regarding the utility of coworker support in mitigating work/ family conflict, the authors developed a scale to measure Coworker-enacted Informal Work Accommodations to Family (C-IWAF). C-IWAF differs from coworker support in that it describes actual behaviors coworkers engage in to help one another deal with incompatible work and family demands. Results based on a sample of 390 working caregivers provide support for the indep…
Space, time, and the development of shared leadership networks in multiteam systems
Digital technologies have created the potential for new forms of organizing among geographically dispersed individuals by connecting their ideas across the time and space in complex multiteam systems (MTSs). Realizing this potential requires novel forms of shared leadership structures to shepherd divergent and convergent thinking necessary to nurture innovation. While there is limited research on how space influences leadership and how the time i…
How Team Interlock Ecosystems Shape the Assembly of Scientific Teams
Today's most pressing scientific problems necessitate scientific teamwork; the increasing complexity and specialization of knowledge render "lone geniuses" ill-equipped to make high-impact scientific breakthroughs. Social network research has begun to explore the factors that promote the assembly of scientific teams. However, this work has been limited by network approaches centered conceptually and analytically on "nodes as people," or "nodes as…
Solidarity in STEM
Leading teams in the digital age
Leading teams over time through space
Diversity, networks, and innovation
Despite the importance of diverse expertise in helping solve difficult interdisciplinary problems, measuring it is challenging and often relies on proxy measures and presumptive correlates of actual knowledge and experience. To address this challenge, we propose a text-based measure that uses researcher’s prior work to estimate their substantive expertise. These expertise estimates are then used to measure team-level expertise diversity by determ…
Teammate invitation networks
Vero
Despite the recognized need to prepare for a future of human–AI collaboration, the technical skills necessary to develop and deploy AI systems are considerable, making such research difficult to perform without specialized knowledge. To make human–AI collaboration research more accessible, we developed a novel experimental method that combines a standard video conferencing platform, a set of animations, and Wizard of Oz methods to simulate a grou…
Social perception in Human-AI teams
Information sharing in a hybrid workplace
Shifts to hybrid work prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic have the potential to substantially impact social relationships at work. Hybrid employees rely heavily on digital collaboration technologies to communicate and share information. Therefore, employees’ perceptions of the technologies are critical in shaping organizational networks. However, the dyadic-level misalignment in these perceptions may lead to relationship dissolution. To explore the…
We Are a go for launch! working with Nasa to forecast and improve team dynamics in space missions
This paper outlines a decade-long NASA-Northwestern University collaboration developing predictive models for crew relationships during long-duration space missions. Two computational models were created: CREWS (predicting social relations) and SCALE (forecasting shared cognition), integrated into the TEAMSTaR dashboard for mission support. Research conducted at NASA's HERA and Russia's NEK facilities revealed that while behavioral team performan…
Modeling the “who” and “how” of social influence in the adoption of health practices
Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We employ embedded interactions to analyze the case of conflicts between the astronauts and ground…
Computer Science (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Knowledge management (8 works) · Team Dynamics and Performance (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Teamwork (4 works) · Cognitive Science and Mapping (3 works) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (3 works)