In recent years there has been a rapprochement between the traditionally opposing theories of North American social cognition and European social identity theory.

Dominic Abrams is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Michael A. Hogg is Professor in Social Psychology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Queensland.

Both editors have published widely in the area of group processes and social identity.