Biography
Peter Herriot has spent most of his working life as an academic, as a visiting professor at the University of Surrey and at the Open University Business School, concluding his career with a short period of consultancy. His subject area was organizational psychology, where he specialised in personnel selection, career development, and the employment relationship. Subsequent to retirement, he has sought to apply social and organizational psychology to the understanding of religious fundamentalism.
'Peter Herriot demonstrates how far one can come with linking theories about intergroup relations with religious fundamentalism. It is evident that these theories are highly relevant for and applicable to the phenomenon at hand. He has created a remarkable and original work.' – Bertjan Doosje, Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Religious Fundamentalism and Social Identity makes a permanent contribution to efforts to understand a phenomenon that is unlikely to disappear and one we must all learn to live with.' - Ralph W Hood, Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chatanooga, USA
