The Trustworthiness Research Alliance (TRA) | Contact Info
Last updated September 2023
The Trustworthiness Research Alliance
Alliance Members
The Trustworthiness Research Alliance is an international and multidisciplinary group of researchers who investigate trust and
the role that perceptions of the trustworthiness of individuals, organizations, and institutions plays in decisions to take the leap
of faith we know of as “trust.”
Suzanne McMurphy, PhD
University of Windsor
Assoc. Chair, TRA Steering Committee
Assoc. Prof, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
Director, Research Ethics Board
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Dynamics of trust, distrust, and
trustworthiness
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Government, health care, and justice systems
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Research ethics and public trust in scientific
information.
Catherine T. Kwantes, PhD
University of Windsor
Chair, TRA Steering Committee
Prof, Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Director, Centre for Culture and Organizational
Research (CCOR)
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Societal cultures and perceptions of
trustworthiness in organizations
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Workplace interactions
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Employee attitudes
Canada
Canada
Greg A. Chung-Yan, PhD
University of Windsor
Assoc. Prof, Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Director, Occupational Health and Well-Being Group
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Person-environment fit
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Workplace health and well-being
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Bias and fairness in personnel selection
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Conflict management
Wendy Adair, PhD
University of Waterloo
Prof, Psychology
Director, Culture at Work Lab
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Culture and communication (e.g., conflict
resolution, team performance)
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The self, values, the meaning of work
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Adaptation in multicultural teams
Yuichiro Kanazawa, PhD
International Christian University
Program Director, Public Policy and Social
Research
Assoc. Director, Rotary Peace Center
Professor Emeritus, University of Tsukuba
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Statistics
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Marketing science
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Industrial and organizational behaviour
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Criminology
Japan
Juliana Barreiros Porto, PhD
University of Brasília
Professor, Institute of Psychology
Coordinator, Tamayo Research Group
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Organizational culture
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Work and personal values
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Person-organization fit
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Well-being
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Ethical behaviors at work.
Brazil
Bjørn Z. Ekelund, MBA, Psychologist
Human Factors AS
Founder and Chairperson
Creator, Diversity Icebreaker®
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Trust issues in relation to cross-cultural
differences, leadership and
interdisciplinary work
Norway
A Global Research Network
Cheryl A. Boglarsky, PhD
Human Synergistics, Inc.
Director, Research
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Organizational culture, group, and
individual development assessments
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Small group processes
United States of America
Sharon Glazer, PhD
University of Baltimore
Prof and Chair, Division of Applied Behavioral
Sciences
President, Healthy Organization, Inc.
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Occupational Stress and Health
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Organizational Development
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Cross-Cultural Organizational Affect,
Behavior, and Cognition
Graduate Student Members
Esther Davies, University of Toronto, Canada
Arief Kartolo, University of Windsor, Canada
Harmony Peach, University of Windsor, Canada
Frances Wong, PhD
University of Windsor
Operations Manager, TRA
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Ioinformatics and genomics
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Big data and health
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Equity with technology
Canada
Narjes Azizi, PhD
Center of Research and Innovation, Mellat Bank
Human Resource Researcher
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Social trust
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Corporate social responsibility
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Human resources
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Organizational Behaviour
Iran
Sharon Glazer earned her PhD in Industrial
and Organizational (IO) Psychology from
Central Michigan U (1999) and MS in Applied
IO Psychology from the U of Baltimore. She
also had a postdoctoral fellowship at the
National Institute of Occupational Safety &
Health. Her research has been supported by
several grants, notably a Fulbright Fellow,
Erasmus Mundus Fellow, and NASA Principal
Investigator. She is a Fellow of the Society for
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the
International Academy for Intercultural
Research, and the International Association of
Applied Psychology.
Catherine Kwantes is professor of Industrial-
Organizational Psychology and Director of the
Culture and Organizational Research Centre at
the University of Windsor. She received an
MSc in Clinical Psychology, and MA and PhD
degrees in Industrial-Organizational
Psychology. Her area of research is on the
intersection of societal and organizational
cultures, and how societal cultures affect
perceptions of trustworthiness in
organizations, workplace interactions, and
employee attitudes. She has given lectures to
audiences around the world, taught in
numerous countries, and provided
consultative services to organizations in North
America and Asia. She has lived and worked in
Canada, Japan, India, and the USA.
Suzanne McMurphy is an associate
professor in the Department of Sociology,
Anthropology and Criminology at the
University of Windsor. She is the Chair of
the Research Ethics Board and a fellow in
the Centre for Research in Reasoning,
Argumentation & Rhetoric. She has a Ph.D
in Social Policy, a Master in Law and Social
Policy and Master in Social Services from
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA. Her
doctoral research was funded by a Fulbright
Scholarship to Sweden where she studied
the integration of law and social work in
child welfare and criminal justice systems
across Europe and North America. Her
primary areas of interest are the dynamics
of trust and trustworthiness between
individuals and organizations (e.g.,
government, health care, justice systems).
She also studies research ethics and public
trust in scientific information.
Narjes Azizi received her Ph.D. in
Sociology and MA in Social Science from
Islamic Azad University, Iran. Currently,
she is a researcher in the Centre for
Culture and Organizational Research
(CCOR) at the University of Windsor and
an honorary project director at the Nobel
Institute of Environmental peace, Canada.
Previously, she was a research assistant at
Mellat Bank and a lecturer at the
University of Applied Sciences, Iran. She
researches trust in relationships in the
context of corporate social responsibility
and social participation in the banking
system.
Greg Chung-Yan is an associate
professor of Industrial-Organizational
Psychology and Director of the
Occupational Health and Well-Being
Group. His research looks at the impact of
workplace person-environment fit on
health and well-being. His research
appears in such journals as the Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, the
Journal of Occupational Health
Psychology, and the Journal of
Occupational and Organizational
Psychology. He recently stepped down as
the Department Head of Psychology at
the University of Windsor.
Wendi Adair is a Professor of Psychology and
Director of the Culture at Work Lab at University of
Waterloo. Her research examines the impact of
culture on communication (e.g., what is said and not
said, interdependent work outcomes,
communication effectiveness, conflict resolution,
trust, and team performance). She also investigates
culture and the self at work, examining work values,
the meaning of work, and adaptation in multicultural
teams. She is Associate Editor of Negotiation and
Conflict Management Research and Past President of
the International Association for Conflict
Management. Her research appears in management
and psychology outlets including the Journal of
Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business
Studies, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and
Organization Science, and she is co-editor of the
Handbook of Research on Negotiation (Edward Elgar,
2013). She co-founded and Principle of the
Intercultural Communication Edge (icEdge), a
communication assessment and cross-cultural
effectiveness tool.
Cheryl Boglarsky is the Director of Research
for Human Synergistics, Inc., a developer and
publisher of high-quality assessments and
simulations for individuals, leaders, teams, and
organizations to actualize their potential. Dr.
Boglarsky is responsible for maintaining the
scientific integrity of HSI products, including the
development of organizational culture surveys,
group and individual development assessments.
She is an expert on research design and
methodology, measurement, and statistics, as
well as small group processes. She is also
currently an adjunct professor at the University
of Detroit Mercy. Dr. Boglarsky’s academic
training is in social psychology, and she holds a
doctorate in psychology from Wayne State
University. Her B.A. is in psychology, with a minor
in sociology, from the University of Michigan-
Dearborn.
Yuichiro Kanazawa is professor of
statistics, Chair of Department of Economics
and Business, and Associate Director of
Rotary Peace Center at the International
Christian University. He is also Professor
Emeritus of the University of Tsukuba. He
received MA, M.Phil, and Ph.D. in statistics
from Yale. His area of theoretical research is
on nonparametric and semiparametric
density estimation/regression, statistical
analysis of missing value problem,
generalized linear models, discrete choice
models, asymptotic theory, and Bayes
estimation. He also applies his statistical
knowledge to marketing science, industrial
organization, organizational behavior, and
quantitative criminology. He has been
serving the Ministry of Justice, Japan as a
statistical consultant since 2014.
Juliana Barreiros Porto is Professor and
Coordinator of at the Tamayo Research
Group at the Institute of Psychology,
University of Brasília, Brazil. She has a
doctoral degree in Psychology from the
University of Brasília. She has expertise
in Organizational Psychology and her
research focuses primarily on
organizational culture, work and
personal values, person-organization fit,
well-being and ethical behaviors at work.
Bjørn Ekelund is the founder and
chairperson of Human Factors AS in
Norway. He is most known for creating
the Diversity Icebreaker® – combining the
assessment of cognitive styles with an
experiential learning seminar. It’s used by
300,000 people in 75 countries. He also
lectures at management schools in
organisational psychology and
international management. He completed
a degree in Psychology, Univ. of Oslo,
Norway; an MBA, Henley Management
College, London, UK; and studies in
International management, University of
Agder, Norway. He’s published numerous
articles and books and presented at
various international conferences. He
researchs trust in relation to cross-cultural
differences, leadership and
interdisciplinary work.
