Dominic Abrams Ph.D.

Dominic Abrams, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent. His research uses experiments, surveys and qualitative methods to examine social and developmental aspects of relations between different social groups and how people’s group memberships affect their behavior, decisions and attitudes. He has authored and coauthored over 300 papers and numerous books on groups, identity and social inclusion.

With Michael Hogg he wrote Social Identifications, a seminal explanation of the social identity approach in social psychology, and subsequently edited numerous books on social cognition, group processes, and social inclusion. He also co-founded and edits the journal Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

He has served as President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Secretary of the European Association of Social Psychology and of the British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section, Chair of the BPS Research Board, and Vice President for Social Sciences in the British Academy, for which he currently chairs its Cohesive Societies research program and its Covid and Society review..

He has worked with a wide range of organizations in the areas of equality, prejudice and intergroup relations. These include running the UK’s benchmarking surveys of prejudice with the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the first international survey of ageism through the European Social Survey, and working with charities including Age UK, The Anne Frank Trust, and People United to find ways to reduce prejudice.

He is Fellow of the British Academy, Academy of Social Sciences, SPSSI, SESP, EASP and is recipient of distinguished contribution awards from both the British Psychological Society and Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.