Howard Giles (born December 22, 1946) is a British-American social psychologist and a Distinguished Research Professor of Communication at the Department of Communication,

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the U ...

. He was the chair of the department from 1991 to 1998, and has been president of both the

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and the International Association for the Study of Language and Social Psychology. He is the founding co-editor of the ''

Journal of Language and Social Psychology ''Journal of Language and Social Psychology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the fields of Communication and Psychology. The journal's editor is Howard Giles ( University of California Santa Barbara). It has been in ...

'' and the '' Journal of Asian Pacific Communication'', and was the editor of '' Human Communication Research'' from 1992 to 1995. He has received the Spearman Award and the President's Award from the British Psychological Society, and has also received the Mark L. Knapp Award from the

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. He is known for developing communication accommodation theory, and has diverse research interests in the areas of applied intergroup communication research and theory. Giles was born in

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, Wales. He earned his B.A. in psychology from Bangor University and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the

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Howard Giles at the Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara
1946 births Living people Sociolinguists University of California, Santa Barbara faculty Scientists from Cardiff Linguists from the United States Linguists from the United Kingdom British emigrants to the United States {{psychologist-stub

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