References from Presentation

Thank you for joining my session at this year’s conference! And a special thanks to those who landed (aviation pun intended) here - to check out some further reading on the subject! 

Below you’ll find a list of the academic references I shared, organized in chronological order according to how they appeared in the presentation. I’ve added brief cues linked to the slide titles to help jog your memory as you revisit them.

Happy reading!
Slide: Captains Set the Tone
  • Perkins, K., Ghosh, S., Vera, J., Aragon, C., & Hyland, A. (2022). The Persistence of Safety Silence: How Flight Deck Microcultures Influence the Efficacy of Crew Resource Management. International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 9(3).

Slide: Types of Safety Communication
  • Noort, M. C., Reader, T. W., & Gillespie, A. (2019). Speaking up to prevent harm: A systemic review of the safety voice literature. Safety Science, 117, 375-387.
  • Noort, M. C., Reader, T. W., & Gillespie, A. (2021). Safety voice and safety listening during aviation accidents: Cockpit voice recordings reveal that speaking-up to power is not enough. Safety Science, 139.

Slide: Pilots Participating in Muted Safety Voice and Safety Silence
  • Perkins, K., Ghosh, S., Vera, J., Aragon, C., & Hyland, A. (2022). The Persistence of Safety Silence: How Flight Deck Microcultures Influence the Efficacy of Crew Resource Management. International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 9(3).
 
Slide: Definition of Psychological Safety
  • Edmondson, A. (1999). Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(2), 350-383.
  • Edmondson, A. (2019). The Role of Psychological Safety. Leader to Leader, 92, 13-19.
 
Slide: How the Perception of Getting Along Impacts Safety Voice
  • Perkins, K., Ghosh, S., & Hall, C. (2024). Interpersonal Skills in a Sociotechnical System: A Training Gap in Flight Decks. Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research, 33(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.58940/2329-258X.2022.

Slide: Findings from Training an Airline on Psychological Safety
  • Perkins, K. S. (2024). Optimizing risk mitigation with advanced interpersonal skills training (Doctoral dissertation). University of Washington. https://hdl.handle.net/1773/52062  

Slide: Google's Aristotle Project
  • Google. (n.d.). Understand team effectiveness. Google re:Work. Retrieved August 21, 2025, from https://rework.withgoogle.com/intl/en/guides/understanding-team-effectivenes

Slide: Mental Health in Pilots
  • Wu AC, Donnelly-McLay D, Weisskopf MG, McNeely E, Betancourt TS, Allen JG. Airplane pilot mental health and suicidal thoughts: a cross-sectional descriptive study via anonymous web-based survey. Environ Health. 2016 Dec 15;15(1):121. doi: 10.1186/s12940-016-0200-6. Erratum in: Environ Health. 2017 Nov 27;16(1):129. doi: 10.1186/s12940-017-0341-2. PMID: 27974043; PMCID: PMC5157081.

Slide: ATC & Pilots Study
  • Perkins, K., Merola, R., Hasan, T.  (2025). From Awareness to Action: Mapping Emotional Intelligence to Pilot Performance and Policy Reform in Aviation Mental Health. In: Tareq Ahram, Waldemar Karwowski and Jay Kalra (eds) Human Factors in Design, Engineering, and Computing. AHFE (2025) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 199. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1006991

Slide: Avoidance Behaviors
  • Perkins, K., Merola, R., Hasan, T.  (2025). From Awareness to Action: Mapping Emotional Intelligence to Pilot Performance and Policy Reform in Aviation Mental Health. In: Tareq Ahram, Waldemar Karwowski and Jay Kalra (eds) Human Factors in Design, Engineering, and Computing. AHFE (2025) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 199. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1006991

Slide: Pilots Using Reddit
  • Walden, A., & Thomas, J. (2025). Unveiling the narrative around pilot mental health and aviation – A content analysis of FAA and mental health-related social media content. Collegiate Aviation Review International, 43(1), 19–35. https://ojs.library.okstate.edu/osu/index.php/CARI/article/view/9997/8944

Slide: Emotional Intelligence linked to Psychological Resilience
  • Armstrong, A. R., Galligan, R. F., & Critchley, C. R. (2011). Emotional intelligence and psychological resilience to negative life events. Personality and Individual Differences, 51(3), 331–336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.04.015 

Slide: Emotional Intelligence in IATA/ICAO Pilot Competencies
  • University of Washington. (2025, Spring). Pilot Mental Health Directed Research Group. The Aviation Lab. Retrieved August 21, 2025, from https://sites.uw.edu/pilot/directed-research-group-pilot-mental-health/

Slide: Relatively Lower Trait Emotional Intelligence in Pilots than the General Population
  • Dugger, Z., Petrides, K.V., Carnegie, N. et al. Trait emotional intelligence in American pilots. Sci Rep 12, 15033 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18868-4

Slide: Low CRM Retention Rate
  • Perkins, K., Ghosh, S., Vera, J., Aragon, C., & Hyland, A. (2022). The Persistence of Safety Silence: How Flight Deck Microcultures Influence the Efficacy of Crew Resource Management. International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 9(3).
 
Slide: CRMSON
  • Perkins, K., Mattioli, F.  (2026). CRMSON: Co-Designing Adaptive and Ethical AI Systems to Address Mental Health Barriers in Aviation. In: Tareq Ahram, Waldemar Karwowski, Laura Giraldi and Elisabetta Benelli (eds) Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2026): Disruptive and Innovative Technologies. AHFE (2026) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 200. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1007062

Extra (May not have shown this slide, but still good reading)
Slide: Royal Aeronautical Society Publication on Psychosocial Risk
  • Royal Aeronautical Society Human Factors Specialist Group. (2024). Psychosocial risk management and mental health: The mental health challenge to civil aviation safety in the 21st century (Briefing Paper). Royal Aeronautical Society. https://www.aerosociety.com/media/23684/mental-health-and-wellbeing-raes-paper-updated-version.pdf

Recommended Further Reading

Books:


  • Clear, J. (2018). Atomic habits: An easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones. Avery.
  • Eberhardt, J. L. (2019). Biased: Uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do. Viking.
  • Grant, A. (2021). Think again: The power of knowing what you don’t know. Viking.

Academic Journal Articles:

  • Edmondson, A. (2019). The Role of Psychological Safety. Leader to Leader, 92, 13-19.
  • Lammers, J., Galinsky, A. D., Dubois, D., & Rucker, D. D. (2015). Power and morality. Current Opinion in Psychology, 6, 15-19.
  • Mackie, D. M., Smith, E. R., & Ray, D. G. (2008). Intergroup Emotions and Intergroup Relations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2(5), 1866-1880.
  • Markus, H. R., & Hamedani, M. G. (2019). People are culturally shaped shapers: The psychological science of culture and culture change. In Handbook of cultural psychology, 2nd edition (pp. 11-52). The Guilford Press.
  • Molenberghs, P. (2013). The neuroscience of in-group bias. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 37(8), 1530-1536.
  • Noort, M., Reader, T., & Gillespie, A. (2021, July). Safety voice and safety listening during aviation accidents: Cockpit voice recordings reveal that speaking-up to power is not enough. Safety Science, 139.
  • Radke, H. R. (2020). Beyond allyship: Motivations for advantaged group members to engage in action for disadvantaged groups. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 24(4), 291-315.
  • Tajfel, H. (1974). Social identity and intergroup behaviour. Social Science Information, 13(2), 65-93.​
  • Woods, D. (2015). Four concepts for resilience and the implications for the future of resilience engineering. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 141, 5-9.

Happy reading! 

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