Hans Bosse (16 October 1938 – 27 May 2023) was a German anthropologist, sociologist, and social psychologist.

[3] From 1976, Bosse was Professor of Social Psychology and Sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, and was also a research group director at the Institute for Group Analysis (German: Institut für Gruppenanalyse) in Heidelberg.

[4][5] From 1978 to 1985, Bosse performed sociological fieldwork at schools in Northwest Province, Cameroon.

[8] Bosse also carried out research on the concept of group analysis (German: Gruppenanalyse).

[9] Bosse made various contributions to sociology, including intercultural comparison on the socialization of violence in Africa and Papua New Guinea, and male willingness to use violence and its socialization in different cultures (see Freud's concept of sublimation); introduction of group analytical research into sociology; extension of ethnopsychoanalysis (see Paul Parin, known as the co-founder of ethnopsychoanalysis) to the study of ethnoanalysis; the connection between theology and sociology; criticism of cultural imperialism; and the reciprocity hypothesis, which states that societies are not only based on the exchange of goods or money, but also on prestige, reputation, art, objects of value, and so forth.