Miles Ronald Cole Hewstone (born 4 August 1956) is a British
social psychologist
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['HEWSTONE, Prof. Miles Ronald Cole’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; online edn, Nov 2011 ]
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/ref> who is well known for his work on social relations
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.
Biography
He graduated from the University of Bristol
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in 1978 and then moved to the University of Oxford
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from which he obtained a D.Phil. in social psychology
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in 1981. He pursued post-doctoral work at the University of Tübingen
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, Germany from which he obtained a Habilitation
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in 1986. He then undertook further work with Serge Moscovici
Serge Moscovici (; June 14, 1925 – November 15, 2014) born Srul Herş Moscovici, was a Romanian-born French social psychologist, director of the Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale ("European Laboratory of Social Psychology"), which ...
(in Paris) and Wolfgang Stroebe (in Tübingen).
He held chairs
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in social psychology at the University of Bristol
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, University of Mannheim
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, Germany, and Cardiff University
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before taking up a chair at the University of Oxford
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where he was also a Fellow
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of New College. He has been a Fellow
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at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
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, Stanford University
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.
Work
He has published widely in the field of experimental social psychology. His major topics of research have been: attribution theory
Attribution is a term used in psychology which deals with how individuals perceive the causes of everyday experience, as being either external or internal. Models to explain this process are called Attribution theory. Psychological research into ...
, social cognition, social influence
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, stereotyping
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and intergroup relations
Intergroup relations refers to interactions between individuals in different social groups, and to interactions taking place between the groups themselves collectively. It has long been a subject of research in social psychology, political psycho ...
, and intergroup Intergroups are formed of Members of the European Parliament from any political group and any committee, with a view to holding informal exchanges of views on particular subjects and promoting contact between Members and civil society.
Intergroups ...
conflict. His current work centres on the reduction of intergroup conflict, via intergroup contact, stereotype change and crossed categorization.
He is a former editor of the ''British Journal of Social Psychology
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'', and co-founding editor of the ''European Review of Social Psychology
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''.
Awards
* 1987 - British Psychological Society
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History
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’s Spearman Medal
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* 2001 - British Psychological Society, Presidents’ Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge
* Fellow
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of the British Psychological Society
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History
It was founded on 24 October 1901 at University College London (UCL) as ''The Psychological Society'', the org ...
* Fellow
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of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
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* Fellow
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of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Founded in 1936, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) is a group of 3,000 scientists from psychology and related fields who share a common interest in research on the psychological aspects of important social and policy i ...
* Fellow
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of the British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...
* Fellow
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of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences
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* 2003 - Honorary Fellow
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of the British Psychological Society
The British Psychological Society (BPS) is a representative body for psychologists and psychology in the United Kingdom.
History
It was founded on 24 October 1901 at University College London (UCL) as ''The Psychological Society'', the org ...
.
Books
* Understanding attitudes to the European Community: A social psychological study in four member states (Cambridge University Press)
* Causal attribution: From cognitive processes to collective beliefs (Blackwell, 1989)
* Contact and conflict in intergroup encounters (edited with R. Brown; Blackwell, 1986)
* The Blackwell encyclopedia of social psychology (edited with A.S.R. Manstead, 1995; Blackwell)
* Stereotypes and stereotyping (edited with C.N. Macrae and C. Stangor; Guilford, 1996).
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* Multiple social categorization: Processes, models, and applications (edited with R. Crisp; Psychology Press, 2006)
Book chapters
* Measures of intergroup contact. In Boyle, Gregory J.; Saklofske, Donald H.; Matthews, Gerald (2015). Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Constructs. San Diego: Academic Press. .
References
1956 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
University of Tübingen alumni
Academics of Cardiff University
Academics of the University of Bristol
21st-century British psychologists
British social psychologists
Fellows of New College, Oxford
Fellows of the British Academy
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences fellows
Academic staff of the University of Mannheim
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