Alex Haslam is Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Exeter. He is a former Commonwealth Scholar at Macquarie University (Sydney) and Jones Scholar at Emory University (Atlanta). He was Associate Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology from 1999 to 2001 and Chief Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology from 2001 to 2005. He is currently on the editorial board of eight journals including EJSP, PSPB, BJSP, and Scientific American Mind.

At Exeter he is part of a team of internationally-renown researchers who conduct theory-driven research into a range of core social and organizational topics, including leadership, motivation, stereotyping, group conflict, stress, and prejudice. His work in this team is also informed by close collaborations with colleagues in Australia, Europe and North America.

In 2005 he received a Kurt Lewin award from the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology for outstanding contribution to research in social psychology. He is a fellow of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research and of the Association for Psychological Science.

Current research:

(1) Psychology in organizations. Research examines the role of social identity processes in leadership, motivation, communication, decision-making, negotiation, productivity, collective action, and stress.

(2) The social psychology of stereotyping, prejudice and tyranny. Programmatic work deals specifically with topics of stereotype consensus, perceived group homogeneity, and extremism

(3) Research methodology. Published work focuses on issues of research design, ethics, and uncertainty management.

Primary Interests:

Applied Social Psychology
Communication, Language
Gender Psychology
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Judgment and Decision Making
Motivation, Goal Setting
Organizational Behavior
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Research Methods, Assessment
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Applied Social Psychology
Communication, Language
Gender Psychology
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Judgment and Decision Making
Motivation, Goal Setting

Organizational Behavior
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Research Methods, Assessment
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Social, Economic, Environmental and Organizational Research Group
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Books:

Journal Articles:

Haslam, S. A., Eggins, R. A., & Reynolds, K. J. (2003). The ASPIRe model: Actualizing Social and Personal Identity Resources to enhance organizational outcomes. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 76, 83-113.
Haslam, S. A., O'Brien, A., Jetten, J., Vormedal, K., & Penna, S. (2005). Taking the strain: Social identity, social support and the experience of stress. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 355-370.
Haslam, S. A., Oakes, P. J., Reynolds, K. J., & Turner, J. C. (1999). Social identity salience and the emergence of stereotype consensus. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 809-818.
Haslam, S. A., & Platow, M. J. (2001). The link between leadership and followership: How affirming social identity translates vision into action. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1469-1479.
Haslam, S. A., Postmes, T., & Ellemers, N. (2003). More than a metaphor: Organizational identity makes organizational life possible. British Journal of Management, 14, 357-369.
Haslam, S. A., & Reicher, S. D. (in press). When prisoners take over the prison: A social psychology of resistance. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
Haslam, S. A., & Reicher, S. D. (2007). Beyond the banality of evil: Three dynamics of an interactionist social psychology of tyranny. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Haslam, S. A., & Reicher, S. D. (2006). Stressing the group: Social identity and the unfolding dynamics of responses to stress. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 1037-1052.
Haslam, S. A., Ryan, M. K., Postmes, T., Spears, R., Jetten, J., & Webley, P. (2006). Sticking to our guns: Social identity as a basis for the maintenance of commitment to faltering organizational projects. Journal of Organizational Behavior (Special Issue on "Workplace commitment and identification: Forms, foci, and future"), 27, 607-628.
Reicher, S. D., & Haslam, S. A. (2006). Rethinking the psychology of tyranny: The BBC prison study. British Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 1-40.

Other Publications:

Haslam, S. A., & Ellemers, N. (2005). Social identity in industrial and organizational psychology: Concepts, controversies and contributions. In G. P. Hodgkinson (Ed.), International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Vol. 20, pp. 39-118). Chichester: Wiley.
Haslam, S. A., Turner, J. C., Oakes, P. J., McGarty, C., & Reynolds, K. J. (1998). The group as a basis for emergent stereotype consensus. European Review of Social Psychology, 8, 203-239.

Courses Taught:

Advances in Organizational Psychology
Classic Studies in Social Psychology
Methodology and Key Skills in Psychology

Advances in Organizational Psychology
Classic Studies in Social Psychology

Methodology and Key Skills in Psychology

Alex Haslam
School of Psychology
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4QG
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0) 1392 264618
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