Dominic Abrams has research interests in: (1) Social identity and intergroup relations (e.g., the contact hypothesis, nationalism, collective protest, contemporary aspects of prejudice); (2) Deviance (particularly the subjective group dynamics model being developed in collaboration with J. Marques); (3) Social identity in organisational contexts; (4) Group consensus processes; and (5) The self-concept and self-regulation of behaviour.
Professor Abrams currently serves as Chair of the Research Board of the British Psychological Society, co-editor of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, a member of the Executive Committee for the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Chair of the Committee of Learned Societies, and is in the Academy for Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. At the University of Kent at Canterbury, he also directs the Centre for the Study of Group Processes.