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Edwin P. Hollander

Dr. Hollander has been CUNY Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Baruch College and the Graduate Center since 1989. A longtime Professor at SUNY Buffalo, he also served there as Provost of Social Sciences and Administration, and was the founding director of the Doctoral Program in Social/Organizational Psychology. His BS in Psychology was earned at Case Western Reserve and his Ph.D. at Columbia University. Subsequently, he taught at Carnegie Mellon, Washington (St. Louis), and American University (Washington). He has held visiting appointments as a Fulbright Professor at Istanbul University, an NIMH Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute in London, and as a faculty member at Wisconsin, Harvard, Oxford, and the Institute of American Studies in Paris, among others. He also served as Study Director of the Committee on Ability Testing at the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Hollander's major interests have focused on group and organizational leadership, innovation, and autonomy. His current research is directed toward understanding follower expectations and perceptions of leaders, and their consequences to the relationship. Specifically, he has recently been studying the sources of evaluation of leaders, including gender. His books include Leaders, Groups, and Influence (1964), Leadership Dynamics (1978), and Principles and Methods of Social Psychology (4 ed., 1981), and he co-edited the series Current Perspectives in Social Psychology (4 ed., 1976) with Raymond Hunt, and the companion volume Classic Contributions to Social Psychology (1972). He also is author of many chapters and papers on leadership, some of the most recent of which are:

The essential interdependence of leadership and followership.

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1992, 1 (2),71-75.

Leadership, followership, self, and others. Leadership Quarterly, 1992, 3(2), 43-54.

Legitimacy, power and influence: A perspective on relational features of leadership. In M. M. Chemers & R. Ayman (Eds.) Leadership Theory and Research: Perspectives and Directions. Academic Press, 1993, 29-46.

Organizational leadership and followership: In P. Collett & A. Furnham (Eds.), Social Psychology at Work, Essays in Honour of Michael Argyle. London: Routledge, 1995.

Ethical challenges in the leader-follower relationship. Business Ethics Quarterly, 1995, 5(1), 55-65.

Baruch Psychology Professor to be Honored for Contributions to Applied Psychology by Peers

E-Mail: Edwin _ Hollander@baruch.cuny.edu

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