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2026

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Business and Management

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108
Citations
47443
World Ranking
30
National Ranking
14

Psychology

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111
Citations
48965
World Ranking
379
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Michael D. Mumford is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and computer science, with a distinct focus on social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, signal processing, and management science and operations research.

The core topics addressed in their work include team dynamics and performance, creativity in education and neuroscience, complex systems and decision making, design education and practice, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, opinion dynamics and social influence, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Michael D. Mumford and colleagues comprise:

  • "Testing the babble hypothesis: Speaking time predicts leader emergence in small groups" (2020) published in The Leadership Quarterly
  • "Leader Thinking, Follower Thinking: Leader Impacts on Follower Creative Performance" (2022) published in Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
  • "An Agent-Based Model of Leader Emergence and Leadership Perception within a Collective" (2020) published in Complexity
  • "Group Size and Group Performance in Small Collaborative Team Settings: An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Collaborative Decision-Making Dynamics" (2022) published in Complexity
  • "Effective Strategies for Creative Idea Evaluation and Feedback: The customer's always right" (2022) published in Creativity Research Journal

Michael D. Mumford's frequent co-authors include Shane Connelly, Samantha England, Tanner R. Newbold, Neil G. MacLaren, and Francis J. Yammarino.

The publication venues where Michael D. Mumford regularly contributes include Complexity, Creativity Research Journal, Ethics & Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly, and Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior.

The scholar has contributed to book publications through Cambridge University Press, including the title Leading for Innovation published in 2022.

Among their recognitions is the designation as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), awarded in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Creativity syndrome: Integration, application, and innovation.

    Michael D. Mumford;Sigrid B. Gustafson

  • Leading creative people: Orchestrating expertise and relationships

    Michael D Mumford;Ginamarie M Scott;Blaine Gaddis;Jill M Strange

  • Leadership skills for a changing world: Solving complex social problems.

    Michael D Mumford;Stephen J Zaccaro;Francis D Harding;T.Owen Jacobs

  • The effectiveness of creativity training: A quantitative review

    Ginamarie Scott;Lyle E. Leritz;Michael D. Mumford

  • Managing Creative People: Strategies and Tactics for Innovation

    Michael D Mumford

  • Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going? Taking Stock in Creativity Research

    Michael D. Mumford

  • Taxonomic efforts in the description of leader behavior: A synthesis and functional interpretation

    Edwin A. Fleishman;Michael D. Mumford;Stephen J. Zaccaro;Kerry Y. Levin

  • Climate for Creativity: A Quantitative Review

    Samuel T. Hunter;Katrina E. Bedell;Michael D. Mumford

  • Putting Creativity to Work: Effects of Leader Behavior on Subordinate Creativity

    Matthew R. Redmond;Michael D. Mumford;Richard Teach

  • Process analytic models of creative capacities

    Michael D. Mumford;Michele I. Mobley;Roni Reiter-Palmon;Charles E. Uhlman

  • Social Innovation: Ten Cases From Benjamin Franklin

    Michael D. Mumford

  • UNDERSTANDING WORK USING THE OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION NETWORK (O*NET): IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE AND RESEARCH

    Norman G. Peterson;Michael D. Mumford;Walter C. Borman;P. Richard Jeanneret

  • Development of leadership skills: Experience and timing

    Michael D Mumford;Michelle A Marks;Mary Shane Connelly;Stephen J Zaccaro

  • Leading for innovation: Conclusions, issues, and directions

    Michael D. Mumford;Brian Licuanan

  • A Framework for Understanding Collective Leadership: The Selective Utilization of Leader and Team Expertise within Networks

    Tamara L. Friedrich;William B. Vessey;Matthew J. Schuelke;Gregory A. Ruark

  • Leadership skills: Conclusions and future directions

    Michael D Mumford;Stephen J Zaccaro;Mary Shane Connelly;Michelle A Marks

  • Leadership and social intelligence: Linking social perspectiveness and behavioral flexibility to leader effectiveness

    Stephen J. Zaccaro;Janelle A. Gilbert;Kirk K. Thor;Michael D. Mumford

  • An occupational information system for the 21st century: The development of O*NET.

    Norman G. Peterson;Michael D. Mumford;Walter C. Borman;P. Richard Jeanneret

  • The typical leadership study: Assumptions, implications, and potential remedies.

    Samuel Todd Hunter;Katrina E. Bedell-Avers;Michael D. Mumford

  • Creative Thinking: Processes, Strategies, and Knowledge

    Michael D. Mumford;Kelsey E. Medeiros;Paul J. Partlow

  • Exploring the relationship of leadership skills and knowledge to leader performance

    Mary Shane Connelly;Janelle A Gilbert;Stephen J Zaccaro;K.Victoria Threlfall

Frequent Co-Authors

Shane Connelly
Shane Connelly University of Oklahoma
Lynn D. Devenport
Lynn D. Devenport University of Oklahoma
Francis J. Yammarino
Francis J. Yammarino Binghamton University
Stephen J. Zaccaro
Stephen J. Zaccaro George Mason University
Ben R. Martin
Ben R. Martin University of Sussex
Roni Reiter-Palmon
Roni Reiter-Palmon University of Nebraska at Omaha
Edwin A. Fleishman
Edwin A. Fleishman George Mason University
Walter C. Borman
Walter C. Borman University of South Florida
Michael Frese
Michael Frese Asia School of Business
Michael A. Campion
Michael A. Campion Purdue University West Lafayette

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