“…Team cognition plays an important role in team performance or effectiveness and in the effectiveness of many sociotechnical systems (Cooke, Gorman, & Winner, 2007). There are several notable examples of catastrophic system failures that are tied to breakdowns in team cognition, such as the 1988 shooting down of an Iranian Airbus full of passengers by the USS Vincennes (Collyer & Malecki, 1998), the events leading to the Challenger shuttle disaster (Vaughan, 1996), and the untimely response to Hurricane Katrina (Leonard & Howitt, 2006). Each of these examples can be, at least partially, attributed to deficits in team cognition as evidenced in faulty or limited team interactions.…”