Life
Richard Crisp was born in London (UK), and educated aWork
Richard Crisp has published widely on diversity, multiculturalism, prejudice, 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, Association for Psychological Science, 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 ''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
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