Alex Haslam

Harvard cut-price Magna Carta 'copy' now believed genuine Harvard Law School paid just $27 for the document, which UK academics now think is the real thing.

The second-best bargain of the century:
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“In increasingly complex, collective, and conflict-ridden settings, identity-based approaches offer a coherent, evidence-based, and empowering way to address the pressing challenges of our time.”

Hard to disagree.

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4. Emergence of Translational Frameworks

5. Interdisciplinary Convergence

6. A Growing Appetite for Meaning and Belonging

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I asked ChatGPT why there has been an upsurge of interest in applied social identity research. It identified 6 factors:

1. Recognition of the Limits of Individualism

2. Robust Evidence from Basic Research

3. Global Crises Highlighting the Importance of Social Cohesion

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Thanks for the feedback. All the best for your doctorate.

The paper is about understanding clinical presentations of disorder. Autism, as you suggest, is not a disorder. This is a point we endeavour to make clear in the paper and associated work — eg:

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We worked on this paper for about 10 years before finally seeing it in print. It connects with issues that have been central to the discipline of psychology for the last century — but which, we argue, fell by the wayside due to a limited understanding of the nature of the self.

I think I'm on my 8th or 9th.

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library This paper introduces a single-item social identification measure (SISI) that involves rating one's agreement with the statement ‘I identify with my group (or category)’ followed by a 7-point scale. ...

A paper I often share with students (and others):

'A single-item measure of social identification: Reliability, validity, and utility', from @alexhaslam.bsky.social & Tom Postmes

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Yes, this was a really great meeting — all the better for being small and intimate. It was a great opportunity to connect, and explore the nuances of leadership.

We just saw this on the news, and totally got her vibe. This Canadian election is possibly the clearest example ever of identity leadership dynamics in action.

Thanks. Steve and I are thinking of writing a 20-year retrospective to reflect on the study’s lessons—for leadership, tyranny and health. Our sense is that they’re all still very relevant.

Not new but re-reading this for something I'm writing:

'Examining the role of Donald Trump and his supporters in the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol: A dual-agency model of identity leadership and engaged followership' @alexhaslam.bsky.social

research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/ha...

Jimmy Carter obituary US president whose subsequent decades of tireless humanitarian work brought him the Nobel peace prize

I was fortunate to meet Jimmy Carter when I was a postgrad at Emory U in 1986. It was clear then that he was a passionate advocate for human rights and for the transformative power of education. In the interests of his legacy, I’m glad he left us before Jan 20.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Resisting the Enshittification of Work In 2022, Cory Doctorow coined the word “enshittification”, which has just been anointed Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year in 2024. Macquarie defines the word as follows: ‘The gradual deteriorati...

Is your job being enshittified?
In all likelihood, I'm guessing yes.
There's a lovely article by @brucedaisley.bsky.social here on the Oxford Dictionary's word of the year.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/resist...

Hi Sean. Great. Alex

If you are interested in social identity and leadership you should definitely think about coming along to the 1st International Conference on Social Identity and Leadership and Followership (ICSILF) in Prague on 20 May 2025 (a day before EAWOP). It's going to be fab. sasp.org.au/2024/11/call...

"All cognition is social cognition"
Organizational psychologists, health psychologists and others who are not familiar with the work of Haslam et al, don't miss your chance to learn about 25 years of research in 40 min right here where the sky is blue:

Congratulations to Jolanda Jetten for winning the award for lifetime contribution to social psychology at #SASP2024. Hugely well deserved and a really fantastic achievement.

John Turner obituary He developed theories of social change and intergroup behaviour

The talk has particular significance for me because it was at SASP in 1987 at ANU that I gave my first ever conference talk. I also have many happy memories of working at ANU in the 1990s — in an outstanding team of researchers led by John Turner.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Only Connect - Alex Haslam YouTube video by Social Identity and Groups Network - UQ

My short talk at #SASP2024 today will revisit the keynote I gave at EAWOP last year on 25 Years of the Social Identity Approach to Psychology in Organizations, focusing on the proven value of the approach in the context of COVID-19.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Really enjoyed the 7-paper session on Truth and Consequences at #SASP2024. Great contributions from Smithson, Tay, Jiang, Wang, Andrews, Felice, Platow and Reynolds

Looking forward to participating in the #SASP2024 pre-conference on Social Identity in the Workplace organised by Andrew Frain and @blake-mc.bsky.social

They really were a ghastly set of reviews!

We’re on a two-day drive down to #SASP2024 at ANU, spending the night in the Shearers’ Quarters at Goonoo Goonoo Station.

Excited to share the champagne that my friends Kim Peters & Nik Steffens won as an award for “worst set of reviews of the year”. In a special issue on replication they were criticised because “if a study replicates we don’t know more than we did before; if it doesn’t, science comes to a standstill”

@fergusneville.bsky.social !

Round the Twist: The Musical – Australia’s weirdest TV show returns to delight and horrify all over again Eight years in the making and inspired by a smelly nappy, a new show takes on the strange adventures of the Twist family – with Paul Jennings’ approval

Had a fantastic evening seeing #RoundTheTwist at QPAC tonight. An absolutely brilliant realisation of Paul Jennings’ quirky TV show, that was the most fun I think I’ve ever had at the theatre. Bravo to everyone involved.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/n...

Engaged Onlooking: How Organisational Identification Shapes Public Condoning of Corporate Corruption We examine how social identity processes shape condoning of organisational corruption among onlookers. Two studies examined the willingness of outside observers to condone, or else condemn, corrupt a...

We've just had a paper on "engaged onlooking" led by Fergus Neville published in EJSP. Three studies explore the ways in which identification with an organization leads people to condone that organization's wrong-doing.

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Zombie leadership: Dead ideas that still walk among us Considerable progress has been made in the field of leadership in recent years. However, we argue that this is undermined by a strong residual commitm…

I’m in Melbourne today to give a couple of lectures at the ANZ School of Government. Amongst other things I’ll be talking about Zombie Leadership.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...