Eduardo Salas
Welcome to another great interview from the Linked:HR interview series! This interview
was recorded by Liz Tomlin-Travis and Kathy Frank, my graduate students at the Adult Learning and
Organizational Performance Master's program at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. This time you will hear from internationally renowned evaluation expert Dr. Eduardo
Salas.
Dr. 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, Dr. Salas 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.
Listen to the recording by clicking on "play" below.
Dr. Salas has co-authored over 350 journal articles and book chapters and has co-edited over 25 books. He is on/has been on the editorial boards of Personnel Psychology, Military 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 and Military 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 Past President of SIOP and current 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. He is also President Elect of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). Dr. Salas is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association
(SIOP and Division’s 19, 21 & 49), the HFES and the Association for Psychological Science. He received his Ph.D. degree (1984) in industrial and organizational psychology from Old Dominion
University.
Dr. Salas' 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.
