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Dominic Abrams

Dominic Abrams

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.

Primary Interests:

  • Group Processes
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Self and Identity
  • Social Cognition

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Other Publications:

  • Hogg, M. A., & Abrams, D. (2003). Intergroup behaviour and social identity. In M. A. Hogg & J. Cooper (Eds.), Handbook of Social Psychology (pp. 407-431). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Hogg, M. A., & Abrams, D. (2003). Interpersonal and group processes. In N. R. Carlson, W. Buskist, & G. N. Martin (Eds.), Psychology (2nd European ed., pp. 651-692). Needham Heights, MA: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon.
  • Hogg, M. A., & Abrams, D. (2003). Social cognition and attitudes. In N. R. Carlson, W. Buskist, & G. N. Martin (Eds.), Psychology (2nd European ed., pp. 617-650). Needham Heights, MA: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon.

Courses Taught:

  • Advanced Topics in Intergroup Relations
  • Current Issues in Social and Applied Psychology I: Theory
  • Current Issues in Social and Applied Psychology II

Dominic Abrams
School of Psychology
Keynes College
University of Kent
Canterbury CT2 7NP
United Kingdom

  • Phone: 44 (0)1227 827475
  • Fax: 44 (0)1227 827030

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