Theories of Team Cognition

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Looking at Macrocognition Through a Multimethodological Lens

Michael D. McNeese and Mark S. Pfaff

INTRODUCTION

Since the 1980s, our research groups have actively pursued different angles of team cognition, studied multiple theoretical perspectives of teamwork as emergent within complex environments, observed how teamwork is constrained by context and environment, and developed and tested new intelligent decision aids to improve performance in various ways. This work is structured using two windows of opportunity: (1) research completed prior to 2000 at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Human Engineering Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, during which time the first author, Michael D. McNeese, worked as a senior scientist and ...