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Daniel Griffin
Assistant Professor
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Office: PCD 4137
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BIO
Dr. Daniel Griffin is an assistant professor in the psychology department. He earned a Dual Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology and Computational Mathematics from Michigan State University. As a Ph.D. student he was awarded the prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship for his work studying team-resilience and using mathematical models to build a framework for studying team performance in human-agent teams. Dr. Griffin is fascinated by studying how effective leadership, social connection, and an overall sense of group identity/community impacts a team. Though generally applicable to other team contexts, his substantive research focuses on studying team coordination, cohesion, and performance in high-stakes situations including military, emergency response, and space exploration teams.
EDUCATION
- 2023 Michigan State University: Dual Ph.D. – Organizational Psychology & Computational Mathematics
- 2020 Michigan State University: M.A. – Organizational Psychology
- 2017 Utah State University: B.S. – Psychology
- 2017 Utah State University: B.S. – Mathematics
RESEARCH
Dr. Griffin’s lab studies the development of effective team systems, focused primarily on using team interdependence, coordination, and leadership to augment team performance. Using a network-based paradigm to understand how teams function, Dr. Griffin’s work leverages various advanced analytical techniques in these pursuits including multi-level statistics, machine learning, harmonic analysis, and social network analysis. He specializes in developing formal mathematical/ computational models of team processes.
For example, in one project Dr. Griffin studies the impact of interdependence and communication in a multi-team cross-university simulation of a military Command and Control task. In another project, he is studying communication and coordination processes within the context of professional video gaming teams.
Dr. Griffin’s research has been funded by various sources including the Army Research Office (ARO) and DevCom, the Army Research Institute (ARI), the Office and Naval Research (ONR), and Negotiation and Team Resources Institute (NTR).
TEACHING
Pychological Research Methods
SPECIALTY AREA
Industrial-Organizational
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Griffin, D., Somaraj, A., Dishop, C., & DeShon, R. (In Press) Evaluating Interdependence in
Workgroups: A Network-Based Method. Organizational Research Methods.
Somaraju, A. V., Griffin, D. J., Olenick, J., Chang, C.-H. (D.), & Kozlowski, S. W. J. (2021). The dynamic nature of interpersonal conflict and psychological strain in extreme work settings.
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Griffin, D., Heinrich, W., (2021) Supporting a Merger of Entrepreneurship Curricula: Combining Organizational Frames and Theory of Change. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy.