Richard J. Crisp is an author, blogger, scientist and Professor of

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

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. He is co-originator of the imagined contact hypothesis and a major contributor to the field of

social psychology Social psychology is the methodical study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Although studying many of the same substantive topics as its counterpart in the field ...

Life

Richard Crisp was born in London (UK), and educated a
The Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School
in Rochester, Kent. He went on to read Experimental Psychology at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

and completed his PhD in Social Psychology at University of Wales. After his doctoral work was appointed to a Lectureship in Psychology at the

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...

(1999). In 2007 he was appointed Full Professor of Psychology in the Centre for the Study of Group Processes at the

University of Kent The University of Kent (formerly the University of Kent at Canterbury, abbreviated as UKC) is a Collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom. The university was granted its roya ...

. He was Head of the School of Psychology from 2008 to 2011. From 2012 to 2014 he was Professor of Social Psychology at the

University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public university, public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Fir ...

and from 2014 to 2017 Professor of Social Psychology and Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise at the Aston Business School. Since 2017 he has been Professor of Social Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology at

Work

Richard Crisp has published widely on

diversity Diversity, diversify, or diverse may refer to: Business *Diversity (business), the inclusion of people of different identities (ethnicity, gender, age) in the workforce *Diversity marketing, marketing communication targeting diverse customers * ...

multiculturalism Multiculturalism is the coexistence of multiple cultures. The word is used in sociology, in political philosophy, and colloquially. In sociology and everyday usage, it is usually a synonym for ''Pluralism (political theory), ethnic'' or cultura ...

prejudice Prejudice can be an affect (psychology), affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived In-group and out-group, social group membership. The word is often used to refer to a preconceived (usually unfavourable) evaluation or classifi ...

, stereotyping, social cognition and intergroup contact. His scholarly contributions are particularly known for their application of cutting-edge advances in psychological science to pervasive and problematic social issues. In 2007 he developed a new cognitive intervention for reducing prejudice and promoting tolerance based on the application of theory and research into mental imagery (the imagined contact hypothesis). More recently, he has uncovered evidence that living in diverse, multicultural societies can produce a wide range of benefits associated with 'flexible thinking' - including enhanced creativity, problem solving and negotiation skills ("cognitive adaptation to diversity]"). In 2011 he was elected Fellow of the British Psychological Society in recognition of his 'outstanding contribution to the advancement or dissemination of psychological knowledge'. He is also an elected Fellow of the

Academy of Social Sciences The Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) is a representative body for social sciences in the United Kingdom. The academy promotes social science through its sponsorship of the Campaign for Social Science, its links with Government on a variety of m ...

Association for Psychological Science The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in r ...

, and Society for Experimental Social Psychology. He is a former Associate Editor of the '' Journal of Experimental Social Psychology'' (2008-2011) and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the ''

Journal of Applied Social Psychology The ''Journal of Applied Social Psychology'' is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which Scholarly method, scholarship relating to a particula ...

'' (2012-).

Prizes and awards

*2003: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Louise Kidder Early Career Award (2003) * 2006: Spearman Medal from the British Psychological Society, for work on mental imagery, "in recognition of outstanding published work in psychology". * 2011: Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize. * 2012: with Rhiannon Turner, awarded the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (for the best paper of the year on intergroup relations). *2013: winner of the British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Mid-Career Prize (for outstanding research in social psychology) *2014: won the British Psychological Society President's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge.

Works

* Crisp, R. J. & Turner, R. N. (2010). Essential Social Psychology (2nd ed.). London: Sage. (also published in Chinese, Italian, Polish and Portuguese)

Editorial contributions

* Crisp, R. J. (Ed.) (2011). Social Psychology: Critical Concepts in Psychology. Hove, E. Sussex: Routledge (Taylor & Francis). * Crisp, R. J. (Ed.) (2010). The Psychology of Social and Cultural Diversity. Oxford: SPSSI-Blackwell. * Crisp, R. J. & Hewstone, M. (Eds.) (2006). Multiple Social Categorization: Processes, Models and Applications. Hove, E. Sussex: Psychology Press (Taylor & Francis).

References

External links

Richard Crisp's Webpage

Richard Crisp's Psychology Today Blog

Webinar
for the journal ''

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'' in which Richard Crisp discusses the origins of human conflict with Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji and NYU economist Debraj Ray
Rhiannon Turner
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