Michael Hogg

Michael Hogg is a Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences (SBOS) 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 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 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 most recently 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.

Dr. Hogg is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Senior Consulting Editor for the Sage Social Psychology Program, 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.

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 250 scholarly journal articles, chapters and books on these and other topics in Social Psychology.