Matthew Christian joined the staff at the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago in August 2006. Prior to joining the Center, Matthew served as co-founder and Chief Operations Officer for OrthoAccel Technologies, a biotech startup (now a part of SimplexityMD). He also worked as the operations manager for the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the country’s largest and most successful independent academic bookstores. He is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in financial management, marketing, ecommerce, personnel recruitment, grant development, and operations. Matthew’s experience makes him a natural choice to manage the financial, marketing, and logistical operations for large, complex initiatives.
Matthew joined the Center in order to bring an entrepreneurial edge to interdisciplinary research. Neuroscience is on the frontier of big problems research and requires the best and brightest from a variety of disciplines. In addition to his work with the Center, he is one of the founders of the Arete Initiative, an interdisciplinary incubator at the University of Chicago. Matthew also serves as the Administrative Director for the Defining Wisdom project and has been active in getting several other projects off the ground, providing project development, staff recruitment, startup expertise, conference planning and financial oversight. A graduate of Valparaiso University's interdisciplinary honors college and Yale's program in Religion and Literature, Matthew seeks to create structures that enable people from the social and biological sciences to work together effectively and efficiently.
Griskevicius V, Cialdini RB, Goldstein NJ (2008). MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 49 (2): 84-88.
Scholars of various kinds long have documented the great degree to which people are influenced by similar others. Indeed, the opinions, experiences and behaviors of friends, neighbors and coworkers can provide an invaluable gold mine of persuasive resources...
Baltes, P.B., & Smith, J. (2008). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3(1): 56–64.
Wisdom has intrigued both scholars and laypersons since antiquity. On the one hand, its seemingly thereal yet obvious qualities are timeless and universal. On the other hand, these same qualities are evolving and responsive to historical and cultural...
Gigerenzzer, G. (2008) Perspectives on Psychological Science Volume 3 Issue 1, Pages 20 - 29
The adaptive toolbox is a Darwinian-inspired theory that conceives of the mind as a modular system that is composed of heuristics, their building blocks, and evolved capacities. The study of the adaptive toolbox is descriptive and analyzes the selection...
Sternberg, R.J. (2007). Cambridge University Press
For thirty years, Robert J. Sternberg has been among the most vocal critics of narrow conceptions of intelligence. In Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized Sternberg critically reviews and summarizes the best research available on human intelligence...
Zaccaro, S J. (2007) American Psychologist. Jan Vol 62(1) 6-16
The trait-based perspective of leadership has a long but checkered history. Trait approaches dominated the initial decades of scientific leadership research. Later, they were disdained for their inability to offer clear distinctions between leaders and...
Vroom, V H., Jago, A G. American Psychologist. 2007 Jan Vol 62(1) 17-24
Leadership depends on the situation. Few social scientists would dispute the validity of this statement. But the statement can be interpreted in many different ways, depending, at least in part, on what one means by leadership. This article begins with...
Avolio, B J. (2007) American Psychologist. Jan Vol 62(1) 25-33
The agenda for theory and research in the field of leadership studies has evolved over the last 100 years from focuses on the internal dispositions associated with effective leaders to broader inquiries that include emphases on the cognitions, attributes...
Trowbridge, R H. Dissertation for Union Institute & University
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Sterberg, R. J., Jordan, J. (2005) Cambridge University Press
At a time when poor choices are being made by notably intelligent and powerful individuals, this book analyzes a form of reasoning and decision-making that is not only productive and prudent, but serves as well a beneficial purpose for society. A Handbook...
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Paul B. Baltes and his colleagues, who are among the most prominent contemporary wisdom researchers, define wisdom as 'expert knowledge in the domain fundamental pragmatics of life.' By contrast, this article argues that the definition, operationalization...
Brown, W. S. (2000) Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press
Evidence of Wisdom can be seen in both perception and performance, in sacred scriptures and brain images. An eminent group of scholars from fields as diverse as theology, philosophy, medicine, biology, psychology, and linguistics were brought together...
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The Book of Job, a prototypical "wisdom" text from the fifth or sixth century B.C.E., powerfully articulates a good man's struggle to understand unexpected misfortune. In coming to terms with his suffering and gaining understanding of his...