Richard J. Crisp is an author, blogger, scientist and Professor of
Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between ...
at
Durham University. He is co-originator of
the imagined contact hypothesis and a major contributor to the field of
social psychology
Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people or by social norms. Social psychologists typically explain human behavior as a result of the ...
.
Life
Richard Crisp was born in London (UK), and educated a
The Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical Schoolin Rochester, Kent. He went on to read Experimental Psychology at the
University of Oxford
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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
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(1999). In 2007 he was appointed Full Professor of Psychology in the
Centre for the Study of Group Processes at the
University of Kent
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. 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
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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
Durham University.
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
The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and colloquial use. In sociology and in everyday usage, it is a synonym for " ethnic pluralism", with the two terms often used interchang ...
,
prejudice
Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived group membership. The word is often used to refer to a preconceived (usually unfavourable) evaluation or classification of another person based on that person's per ...
,
stereotyping
In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group. The type of expectation can vary; it can be, for example ...
,
social cognition
Social cognition is a sub-topic of various branches of psychology that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations. It focuses on the role that cognitive processes play in social interacti ...
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,
Association for Psychological Science, and
Society for Experimental Social Psychology. He is a former Associate Editor of the ''
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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*Bullet journal, a method of personal organization
*Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period
*Daybook, also known as a general journal, a ...
'' (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. The journal was established in 1971 by Professor Dr. Siegfried Streufert at Purdue University who edited the Journal for the first ten years. Its current ed ...
'' (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 WebpageRichard Crisp's Psychology Today BlogWebinarfor the journal ''
Science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
'' 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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English psychologists
1973 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Social psychologists
Academics of the University of Kent
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Alumni of Cardiff University