Miles Hewstone | Mershon Center for International Security Studies | the Ohio State University

Miles Hewstone | Mershon Center for International Security Studies | The Ohio State University

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September Miles Hewstone October "Living Apart Together: Segregation vs. Mixing as Sources of or November Solutions for Intergroup Conflict" December Monday, February 9, 2009 Miles Hewstone January Professor of Social Noon Psychology February Mershon Center for International Security Studies Director of the Oxford 1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201 Centre for the Study of March Intergroup Conflict Oxford University April See a streaming video of this event. This streaming video requires May RealPlayer. If you do not have RealPlayer, you can download it free. Events Archive Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Oxford Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict at Oxford University.

His research interests include attribution theory, social cognition, social influence, stereotyping, intergroup relations, and intergroup conflict. His work focuses on the reduction of intergroup conflict via intergroup contact, stereotype change, and crossed categorization. Currently, he is working on a project titled "Cross-Community Contact, Sectarian Attitudes, and Forgiveness in Northern Ireland."

Hewstone's books include Understanding Attitudes to the European Community: A Social Psychological Study in Four Member States (Cambridge University Press, 1986); Causal Attribution: From Cognitive Processes to Collective Beliefs (Blackwell, 1989); Contact and Conflict in Intergroup Encounters (edited with R. Brown; Blackwell, 1986); and Stereotypes and Stereotyping (ed. with C.N. Macrae and C. Stangor; Guilford, 1996).

He is also widely published in journals such as the European Review of Social Psychology, Annual Review of Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Political Psychology.

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Hewstone is a past recipient of the British Psychological Society’s Spearman Medal (1987), and its Presidents' Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge (2001). His work has been continuously supported by the John Templeton Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council, Russell Sage Foundation, and the Government of Northern Ireland.

Hewstone is a former editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology, and co-founding editor of the European Review of Social Psychology. He has twice been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (1987-88, 1999-2000).

He is currently a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, as well as an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. He has recently been elected to join the British Academy (the National Academy for Arts and Social Sciences) and the British Psychological Society, as an Honorary Fellow.

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