Samantha Perry

Samantha has experience in a variety of settings ranging from academic to applied public and private sectors with expertise in adaptation, motivation, training design and evaluation, survey development and implementation, and the unobtrusive measurement of team processes, states, and performance. In particular, Samantha has a wide array of experiences investigating medical, military, and other types of teams operating in high-stress environments. In these settings, she examines team effectiveness and investigates alternative analyses for the longitudinal and dynamic phenomena. At Aptima, Samantha has carried over this set of expertise to create unobtrusive indicators of team processes and states among Soldiers operating in the field, and examine adaptive feedback mechanisms in order to provide more efficient and effective training programs for airmen, all with the goal of maximizing human performance.

Samantha holds a Ph.D. and MA in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University and a BA in Psychology from George Mason University. She is a member of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists, Society for Military Psychologists, and The Interdisciplinary Network for Group Researchers. She is also a contributing reviewer for several journals, including the Small Group Research and Human Performance Journal.