The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI): An Interdisciplinary Association for Social and Behavioral Scientists
The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI):An Interdisciplinary Association for Social and Behavioral Scientists
The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) is a scholarly association dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the human self. The Society members come from all over the globe, representing many different academic and professional disciplines. The members of ISSI share an interest in cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes related to the self-system. These include the ability for people to think consciously about themselves, to form images and concepts of what they are like, to evaluate their characteristics and capabilities, to plan deliberately for the future, to worry about how they are being perceived by others, and to direct their own behavior in line with personal standards. Because this ability to self-reflect has important implications for understanding behavior, the self has emerged as a central focus of theory and research in many domains of social and behavioral science.

Announcements

Become a Member

Click below to enroll/renew your membership for 2025.

 Preconference

A preconference on self and identity has been a fixture of the SPSP conference for many years. Click below to learn more about the 2025 preconference.

Journal

The official journal of ISSI is Self and Identity, which is published by Taylor & Francis. Self and Identity is a peer-reviewed academic journal that focuses on research and theory relevant to the aims of the society. Click below for more information.

Awards

Now seeking nominations for the 2025 Distinguised Lifetime Career and Award  Outstanding Early Career Award. Click here for additional information. A list of past recipeints can be seen here

2025 Mini Grant Research Program

ISSI is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the 2025 Mini Research Grant Program. This program provides research support to current Ph.D. students and people who have received their Ph.D. within the last 10 years. The deadline to apply is Friday September 26, 2025. Click below for more information.

ISSI President: Dr. Michael Hogg

 

Professor Michael Hogg from Claremont Graduate University is president of the organization, beginning her 3-year term on January 1, 2025. Dr. Hogg, a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA), is professor of social psychology and director of the Social Identity Lab at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles, an honorary professor at the University of Kent in the U.K., a former Australian Research Council professorial fellow, and a past president of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. He is the recipient of a number of senior career awards: the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues’ 2022 Kurt Lewin Award, for “outstanding contributions to the development and integration of psychological research and social action”, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s 2021 Campbell Award, for “distinguished scholarly achievement and sustained excellence in research in social psychology”; and the International Society for Self and Identity’s 2020 Distinguished Lifetime Career Award, for “researchers who have made major, enduring contributions to understanding self and identity over the course of their academic careers”. He is also the recipient of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s 2010 Carol and Ed Diener Mid-Career Award in Social Psychology, for “outstanding contributions to the fields of personality and social psychology for scientists in their mid-career”, and the Australian Psychological Society’s 1989 Early Career Award, for “excellence in scientific achievement in psychology among psychologists who are at early stages of their research careers”. Current research focuses on social identity-related influence and leadership processes in public and small group contexts; the role played by social identity in radicalization, populism, and social disintegration; and in translating self-uncertainty into orthodoxy, societal extremism, and intergroup conflict.

 

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