Stephen David Reicher FBA FRSE is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Social Psychology at the University of St Andrews.
He was also a member of the advisory committee to the Scottish Government and convened the behavioural science group of Independent SAGE.
[citation needed] Reicher collaborated with Alex Haslam of the University of Exeter on the BBC television programme The Experiment,[4] which examined conflict, order, rebellion and tyranny in the behaviour of a group of individuals held in a simulated prison environment.
Amongst other things, these challenged the role account of tyranny associated with the SPE as well as broader ideas surrounding the Banality of Evil, and advanced a social identity-based understanding of the dynamics of resistance.
[citation needed] -He was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for The Life Scientific first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018.