Matthew Crayne
PhD Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, 2016
About
Faculty Expertise and Achievement
Dr. Matthew Crayne is an Industrial/Organizational psychologist and expert in organizational behavior, with a particular focus on issues of leadership, work values, and social identity. In these areas he is particularly interested in the role of leaders as organizational sensemakers, the concept of moral injury and its effect on both leadership and followership, and issues of ideological and values-based organizing. He is interested in the application of these concepts in both traditional organizational settings and in non-normative contexts such as extremism, terrorism, and political violence, and aims to expand the reach of organizational science to national security and public policy applications. Dr. Crayne has been awarded more than $700,000 in grant funding to support this research agenda, and he is a member of the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) consortium sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security. His work has been published in leading scientific outlets in psychology and organizational science including American Psychologist, Organizational Research Methods, and the Journal of Business Ethics. In 2025, Dr. Crayne was an inaugural winner of the SUNY Chancellor’s Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship, an award intended to recognize early-career scholarly achievement which holds strong promise for “field-defining” impact in the future.
Research Interests
Leadership; Influence; Moral Injury; Work Values; Ideology and Extremism
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Teaching Interests and Areas
- BMGT 450: Leadership and Decision Making
- BMGT 513: Organizational Behavior
- BMGT 650: Leadership and Managerial Skill
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