Steve Hinkle, Ph.D.

Univ. of North Carolina, 1975-2001

Associate Professor

Steve Hinkle joined the department in 1975. He published 17 articles, seven book chapters, three instructional manuals, and gave over 80 conference presentations and colloquia, 12 of these invited. His articles appeared in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Social Psychology Quarterly, and the British Journal of Social Psychology. His research interests emphasized intergroup processes, particularly the relationship between identification with a group and prejudice. Just prior to his untimely death his research focused on individualism/ collectivism and this construct's relationships with aspects of group and intergroup processes. He was PI or Co-PI on four externally funded grants (total awards of $560,800). He served as Associate Editor of Representative Research in Social Psychology and on the editorial boards of Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, the British Journal of Social Psychology, and Group Processes & Intergroup Relations in addition to serving as an editorial reviewer for several other journals. He held visiting appointments as both a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Social Psychology at the Centre for Group Processes of the University of Kent in Canterbury, England and as a Lecturer on the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University, England. He was an excellent teacher and mentor at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and was eager to explore and test new instructional techniques.

Representative Publications:

Abrams, D., Ando, K., & Hinkle, S. (1998). Psychological attachment to the group: Cross-cultural differences in organizational identification and subjective norms as predictors of workers’ turnover intentions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1027-1039.

Hinkle, S. Taylor, L.A., Fox-Cardamone, L., & Ely, P.G. (1998). Social identity and aspects of social creativity: Shifting to new dimensions of intergroup comparison. In S. Worchel, J.F. Morales, D. Páez, & J-C. Deschamps (Eds.), Social identity: International perspectives (pp. 166-179) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Hinkle, S., Fox-Cardamone, L., Haseleu, J.A., Brown, R. & Irwin, L.M. (1996). Grassroots political action as an intergroup phenomenon. Journal of Social Issues, 52(1), 39-51.

Brown, R., Hinkle, S., Ely, P.G., Fox-Cardamone, L., Maras, P. & Taylor, L.A. (1992). Recognizing group diversity: Individualist-collectivist and autonomous-relational social orientations and their implications for intergroup processes. British Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 327-342.

Hinkle, S., & Brown, R. (1990). Intergroup comparisons and social identity: Some links and lacunae. In D. Abrams & M. Hogg (Eds.), Social identity theory: Constructive and critical advances (pp. 48-70). Hemel Hempstead, UK: Harvester-Wheatsheaf.