Matthew D. Hanson, Ph.D.
Lab Director
Matthew Hanson is the Fred ’78 and Sue Newton Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management in URI’s College of Business, where he directs the ANCHOR Lab and co-directs the College of Business Behavioral Lab. He studies how organizations assess, develop, and support people, with a focus on leadership assessment, training, and motivation and recovery.
Before joining URI in 2026, he was a research psychologist with the U.S. Army, where he led the development and validation of leadership assessments. Earlier, with Leidos at the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, he studied assessment, burnout, and training success among submariners. He earned his Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from the University at Albany, SUNY.