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Headshot of S. Amy Sommer, a smiling woman, wearing a black blazer.

Dr. S. Amy Sommer

Associate Professor

Headshot of S. Amy Sommer, a smiling woman, wearing a black blazer.

Department / Academic Area

Faculty, Health Policy And Management

Email

sommes2@mcmaster.ca

Phone

DSB: 23574

Biography

S. Amy Sommer completed a Post Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University, and a PhD at Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario. She specializes in teams and leadership in healthcare management. Her research investigates how to enhance performance, resilience, and creativity during crisis situations. In order to advance theoretical understanding of this complex phenomena, she is exploring and developing new research methods to study leaders and teams, including crowdsourcing science for large-scale data collection and data analytics. Her research appears in a number of top scholarly journals, including Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, The Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, Nature Scientific Data, and Group and Organization Management. She has received honours and awards, including funding from three federal governments and various universities. She has worked with students across programs and continents in undergraduate, MBA, masters, PhD and executive levels at the University of Southern California, Columbia University, West Point Military Academy, and HEC Paris School of Management. Available to supervisor doctoral students.

Articles

December 7, 2022 · ADDISU LASHITEW | AMIR AKBARI | BANIYELME ZOOGAH | EDI | FINANCE AND BUSINESS ECONOMICS | HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT | HUMAN RESOURCES AND MANAGEMENT | PAUL SNOWDON | RESEARCH | S. AMY SOMMER | STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT | YOONTAE JEON

DeGroote Welcomes Six New Faculty Members

Publications

Journals

How Leaders Lift Us Up And Bring Us Down: Relationship Quality With A Leader, Team Dynamics, And Outcomes During A Crisis

S. amy Sommer

Journal     2025

Journal Of Contingencies And Crisis Management

The Effect Of Formal Time Allocations On Learning Trajectories And Performance

Kenneth t Goh    Colin m Fisher    S. amy Sommer

Journal     2022

Small Group Research

Same Data, Different Conclusions: Radical Dispersion In Empirical Results When Independent Analysts Operationalize And Test The Same Hypothesis

Martin Schweinsberg    Michael Feldman    Nicola Staub    Olmo r Van den akker    Robbie cm Van aert    Marcel alm Van assen    Yang Liu    Tim Althoff    Jeffrey Heer    Alex Kale    Zainab Mohamed    Hashem Amireh    Vaishali venkatesh Prasad    Abraham Bernstein    Emily Robinson    Kaisa Snellman    S. amy Sommer    Sarah mg Otner    David Robinson    Nikhil Madan    Raphael Silberzahn    Pavel Goldstein    Warren Tierney    Toshio Murase    Benjamin Mandl    Domenico Viganola    Carolin Strobl    Catherine bc Schaumans    Stijn Kelchtermans    Chan Naseeb    S mason Garrison    Tal Yarkoni    Cs richard Chan    Prestone Adie    Paulius Alaburda    Casper Albers    Sara Alspaugh    Jeff Alstott    Andrew a Nelson    Eduardo ariño De la rubia    Adbi Arzi    Št?pán Bahník    Jason Baik    Laura winther Balling    Sachin Banker    David aa Baranger    Dale j Barr    Brenda Barros-rivera    Matt Bauer    Enuh Blaise    Lisa Boelen    Katerina bohle Carbonell    Robert a Briers    Oliver Burkhard    Miguel-angel Canela    Laura Castrillo    Timothy Catlett    Olivia Chen    Michael Clark    Brent Cohn    Alex Coppock    Natàlia Cugueró-escofet    Paul g Curran    Wilson Cyrus-lai    David Dai    Giulio valentino dalla Riva    Henrik Danielsson    Rosaria De f.s.m. russo    Niko De silva    Curdin Derungs    Frank Dondelinger    Carolina duarte De souza    B tyson Dube    Marina Dubova    Ben mark Dunn    Peter adriaan Edelsbrunner    Sara Finley    Nick Fox    Timo Gnambs    Yuanyuan Gong    Erin Grand    Brandon Greenawalt    Dan Han    Paul hp Hanel    Antony b Hong    David Hood    Justin Hsueh    Lilian Huang    Kent n Hui    Keith a Hultman    Azka Javaid    Lily ji Jiang    Jonathan Jong    Jash Kamdar    David Kane    Gregor Kappler    Erikson Kaszubowski    Christopher m Kavanagh    Madian Khabsa    Bennett Kleinberg    Jens Kouros    Heather Krause    Angelos-miltiadis Krypotos    Dejan Lavbi?    Rui ling Lee    Timothy Leffel    Wei yang Lim    Silvia Liverani    Bianca Loh    Dorte Lønsmann    Jia wei Low    Alton Lu    Kyle Macdonald    Christopher r Madan    Lasse hjorth Madsen    Christina Maimone    Alexandra Mangold    Adrienne Marshall    Helena ester Matskewich    Kimia Mavon    Katherine l Mclain    Amelia a Mcnamara    Mhairi Mcneill    Ulf Mertens    David Miller    Ben Moore    Andrew Moore    Eric Nantz    Ziauddin Nasrullah    Valentina Nejkovic    Colleen s Nell    Andrew arthur Nelson    Gustav Nilsonne    Rory Nolan    Christopher e O'brien    Patrick O'neill    Kieran O'shea    Toto Olita    Jahna Otterbacher    Diana Palsetia    Bianca Pereira    Ivan Pozdniakov    John Protzko    Jean-nicolas Reyt    Travis Riddle    Amal ridhwan omar Ali    Ivan Ropovik    Joshua m Rosenberg    Stephane Rothen    Michael Schulte-mecklenbeck    Nirek Sharma    Gordon Shotwell    Martin Skarzynski    William Stedden    Victoria Stodden    Martin a Stoffel    Scott Stoltzman    Subashini Subbaiah    Rachael Tatman    Paul h Thibodeau    Sabina Tomkins    Ana Valdivia    Gerrieke b druijff-van De woestijne    Laura Viana    Florence Villesèche    W duncan Wadsworth    Florian Wanders    Krista Watts    Jason d Wells    Christopher e Whelpley    Andy Won    Lawrence Wu    Arthur Yip    Casey Youngflesh    Ju-chi Yu    Arash Zandian    Leilei Zhang    Chava Zibman    Eric luis Uhlmann

Journal     2021

Organizational Behavior And Human Decision Processes

Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations In Analytic Choices Affect Results

R Silberzahn    El Uhlmann    Dp Martin    P Anselmi    F Aust    E Awtrey    Š Bahník    F Bai    C Bannard    E Bonnier    R Carlsson    F Cheung    G Christensen    R Clay    Ma Craig    A dalla Rosa    L Dam    Mh Evans    I flores Cervantes    N Fong    M Gamez-djokic    A Glenz    S Gordon-mckeon    Tj Heaton    K Hederos    M Heene    Aj hofelich Mohr    F Högden    K Hui    M Johannesson    J Kalodimos    E Kaszubowski    Dm Kennedy    R Lei    Ta Lindsay    S Liverani    Cr Madan    D Molden    E Molleman    Rd Morey    Lb Mulder    Br Nijstad    Ng Pope    B Pope    Jm Prenoveau    F Rink    E Robusto    H Roderique    A Sandberg    E Schlüter    Fd Schönbrodt    Mf Sherman    S. amy Sommer    K Sotak    S Spain    C Spörlein    T Stafford    L Stefanutti    S Tauber    J Ullrich    M Vianello    E-j Wagenmakers    M Witkowiak    S Yoon    Ba Nosek

Journal     2018

Advances In Methods And Practices In Psychological Science

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Other

Relationship Quality With A Leader During An Organizational Crisis: Team Dynamics And Outcomes

S. amy Sommer

Other    2024

Academy Of Management Proceedings

Team Cohesion: A Theoretical Consideration Of Its Reciprocal Relationships Within The Team Adaptation Nomological Network

M travis Maynard    Deanna m Kennedy    S. amy Sommer    Ana margarida Passos

2015

"to Go Fast, Go Slow: Effect Of Phase Durations On Team Performance Trajectories In Experimentation"

Kenneth t Goh    Colin m Fisher    S. amy Sommer

Conference    2015

Academy Of Management Proceedings

Many Analysts, One Dataset: Making Transparent How Variations In Analytical Choices Affect Results

Raphael Silberzahn    Eric luis Uhlmann    Daniel patrick Martin    Pasquale Anselmi    Frederik Aust    Eli c Awtrey    Št?pán Bahník    Feng Bai    Colin Bannard    Evelina Bonnier    Rickard Carlsson    Felix Cheung    Garret Christensen    Russ Clay    Maureen a Craig    Anna Dalla rosa    Lammertjan Dam    Mathew h Evans    Ismael Flores cervantes    Nathan Fong    Monica Gamez-djokic    Andreas Glenz    Shauna Gordon-mckeon    Tim Heaton    Karin hederos Eriksson    Moritz Heene    Alicia Hofelich mohr    Fabia Högden    Kent Hui    Magnus Johannesson    Jonathan Kalodimos    Erikson Kaszubowski    Deanna marie Kennedy    Ryan Lei    Thomas andrew Lindsay    Silvia Liverani    Christopher r Madan    Daniel c Molden    Eric Molleman    Richard donald Morey    Laetitia b Mulder    Bernard a Nijstad    Bryson Pope    Nolan g Pope    Jason m Prenoveau    Floor Rink    Egidio Robusto    Hadiya Roderique    Anna Sandberg    Elmar Schlueter    Felix S    Martin f Sherman    S. amy Sommer    Kristin lee Sotak    Seth m Spain    Christoph Spo?rlein    Tom Stafford    Luca Stefanutti    Susanne Täuber    Johannes Ullrich    Michelangelo Vianello    Eric-jan Wagenmakers    Maciej Witkowiak    Sangsuk Yoon    Brian a Nosek

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