Prof. Michael D. Matthews

Michael D. Matthews is currently Professor of Engineering Psychology at the United States Military Academy. He served as President of the American Psychological Association’s Society for Military Psychology from 2007 to 2008 and is a Templeton Foundation Senior Positive Psychology Fellow. From 2014 to 2015, he served as a Fellow for the U.S. Army Chief of staff’s Strategic Studies Group. Collectively, his research interests center on Soldier performance in combat and other dangerous contexts. He has authored over 250 scientific papers and edited or authored several books, including (with coauthor Robert D. Caslen) The Character Edge: Leading and Winning with Integrity (St. Martin’s Press, 2020) and Leading in Dangerous Situations (2022, with Patrick Sweeney and others). His two-volume edited book, The Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development, was published in March 2024.