title: External, not internal challenges to interdisciplinary research.
abstract: This commentary draws on personal experience with interdisciplinary collaborations to suggest that Maton, Perkins, and Saegert (this issue) may overstate the challenges internal to interdisciplinary work groups. It supports their discussion of external challenges, and comments on the efforts they suggest to further interdisciplinary work.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, 6 Washington Place, Room 275, New York, NY 10003, USA. beth.shinn@nyu.edu
authors.forename: Marybeth
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shinn
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012961:Sociology; D014481:United States