Michael Hogg

Dr. Michael Hogg (PhD Bristol, UK) is Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University. He is an Honorary Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kent and the University of Queensland, and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the Western Psychological Association, and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He has been on faculty at Bristol University, Macquarie University in Sydney, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Queensland where he also served as Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences and was an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow. Dr. Hogg taught for a year at Princeton University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Santa Cruz; City University, Hong Kong; and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Michael Hogg is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and with Dominic Abrams he founded and is Editor of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. He has served as Guest Editor or on the editorial boards of the most influential journals in the field, including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, European Review of Social Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, Social Psychology Quarterly, The Leadership Quarterly, Group Dynamics, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Small Group Research, and 20th Century Society. He is a member of the executive committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and is the incoming president for 2013 and vice president for 2012. He is the 2010 recipient of the Carol and Ed Diener Award in Social Psychology; the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s mid-career award for “outstanding contributions to the fields of personality and social psychology”.

Research Interests

Dr. Hogg is a social psychologist whose research focuses on group processes, intergroup relations and the self concept, and is closely associated with social identity theory. He has conducted research on group formation, solidarity and cohesion; group structure and processes of marginalization and deviance; attitudes, norms and group influence; communication, language and identity; and group and identity motivations. Current research programs focus on identity and leadership processes in public and small group contexts, and on the role of social identity in translating uncertainty into orthodoxy and group extremism. Dr. Hogg has published about 300 scholarly journal articles, chapters and books on these and other topics in Social Psychology.

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Courses

Dr. Hogg has taught courses on almost all aspects of social psychology at almost all levels – with a special emphasis on group processes and intergroup relations. He is currently teaching courses on self and identity, group processes and intergroup relations, and extremism.

Some Key and Recent Publications

Turner, J. C, Hogg, M. A., Oakes, P. J., Reicher, S. D., & Wetherell, M. S. (1987). Rediscovering the social group: A self-categorization theory. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Hogg, M. A., & Abrams, D. (1988). Social identifications: A social psychology of intergroup relations and group processes. London: Routledge.

Abrams, D. & Hogg, M. A. (1990). Social identification, self categorization and social influence. European Review of Social Psychology, 1, 195-228.

Hogg, M. A. (1993). Group cohesiveness: A critical review and some new directions. European Review of Social Psychology, 4, 85-111.

Moreland, R. L., Hogg, M. A., & Hains, S. C. (1994). Back to the future: Social psychological research on groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 30, 527-555.

Hogg, M. A., Terry, D. J., & White, K. M. (1995). A tale of two theories: A critical comparison of identity theory with social identity theory. Social Psychology Quarterly, 58, 255-269.

Hogg, M. A., & Hains, S. C. (1996). Intergroup relations and group solidarity: Effects of group identification and social beliefs on depersonalized attraction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 295-309.

Hogg, M. A., Hains, S. C., & Mason, I. (1998). Identification and leadership in small groups: Salience, frame of reference, and leader stereotypicality effects on leader evaluations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1248-1263.

Hogg, M. A. (2000). Subjective uncertainty reduction through self-categorization: A motivational theory of social identity processes. European Review of Social Psychology, 11, 223-255.

Hogg, M. A., & Terry, D. J. (2000). Social identity and self-categorization processes in organizational contexts. Academy of Management Review, 25, 121-140.

Hogg, M. A. (2001). A social identity theory of leadership. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 5,184-200.

Hogg, M. A., & van Knippenberg, D. (2003). Social identity and leadership processes in groups. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 35, pp. 1-52). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Norton, M. I., Monin, B., Cooper, J., & Hogg, M. A. (2003). Vicarious dissonance: Attitude change from the inconsistency of others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 47-62.

van Knippenberg, D., & Hogg, M. A. (2003). A social identity model of leadership in organizations. In R. M. Kramer & B. M. Staw (Eds.), Research in organizational behavior (Vol. 25, pp. 243-295). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Abrams, D., & Hogg, M. A. (2004). Metatheory: Lessons from social identity research. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 98-106.

Hogg, M. A. (2005). Uncertainty, social identity and ideology. In S. R. Thye & E. J. Lawler (Eds.), Advances in group processes (Vol. 22, pp. 203-230). New York: Elsevier.

Hogg, M. A. (2006). Social identity theory. In P. J. Burke (Ed.), Contemporary social psychological theories (pp. 111-136). Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Hogg, M. A., Fielding, K. S., Johnson, D., Masser, B., Russell, E., & Svensson, A. (2006). Demographic category membership and leadership in small groups: A social identity analysis. The Leadership Quarterly, 17, 335-350.

Hogg, M. A. (2007). Social psychology of leadership. In A. W. Kruglanski & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (2nd ed., pp. 716-733). New York: Guilford.

Hogg, M. A., Sherman, D. K., Dierselhuis, J., Maitner, A. T., & Moffitt, G. (2007). Uncertainty, entitativity, and group identification. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 135-142.

Hogg, M. A. (2007). Uncertainty-identity theory. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 39, pp. 69-126). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Cooper, J., & Hogg, M. A. (2007). Feeling the anguish of others: A theory of vicarious dissonance. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 39, pp. 359-403). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Hogg, M. A., & Smith, J. R. (2007). Attitudes in social context: A social identity perspective. European Review of Social Psychology, 18, 89-131.

Hogg, M. A. (2008). Personality, individuality, and social identity. In F. Rhodewalt (Ed.), Personality and social behavior (pp. 177-196). New York: Psychology Press.

Hogg, M. A. (2009). Managing self-uncertainty through group identification. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 221-224.

Hogg, M. A. (2010). Influence and leadership. In S. T. Fiske, D. T. Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), The handbook of social psychology (5th ed., Vol. 2, pp. 1166-1206). New York: Wiley.

Hogg, M. A., Adelman, J. R., & Blagg, R. D. (2010). Religion in the face of uncertainty: An uncertainty-identity theory account of religiousness. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14, 72-83.

Hogg, M. A., Meehan, C., & Farquharson, J. (2010). The solace of radicalism: Self-uncertainty and group identification in the face of threat. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 1061-1066.

Hohman, Z. P., & Hogg, M. A. (2011). Fear and uncertainty in the face of death: The role of life after death in group identification. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 751-760.

Hogg, M. A. (2012). Uncertainty-identity theory. In P. A. M. Van Lange, A. W. Kruglanski, & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Handbook of theories of social psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 62-80). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Hogg, M. A., van Knippenberg, D., & Rast, D. E. III. (2012). Intergroup leadership in organizations: Leading across group and intergroup boundaries. Academy of Management Review, 37, 232-255.

Grant, F., & Hogg, M. A. (2012). Self-uncertainty, social identity prominence and group identification. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 538-542.

Rast, D. E. III, Gaffney, A. M., Hogg, M. A., & Crisp, R. J. (2012). Leadership under uncertainty: When leaders who are non-prototypical group members can gain support. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 646-653.

Hogg, M. A. (2012). Social identity and the psychology of groups. In M. R. Leary & J. P. Tangney (Eds.), Handbook of self and identity (2nd ed., pp. 502-519). New York: Guilford.

Hogg, M. A. (in press). Intergroup relations. In J. Delamater & A. Ward (Eds.), Handbook of social psychology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer.