Robert Hogan (psychologist)
Robert Hogan (born 1937, Los Angeles) is an American psychologist whose work centers on personality testing, leadership, and organizational effectiveness. Early life. Hogan was born in Los Angeles in 1937 and grew up in Fontana, California, a rural area at the time. His parents moved to California from Oklahoma during the Great Depression. Education. While Hogan was in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps, he began attending UCLA on a Navy scholarship and graduated in 1960. He earned a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in personality psychology in 1967. Career. After undergraduate school, Hogan served  as a U.S. Navy officer from 1960 to 1963. His gunnery unit became the highest-performing unit on the ship, earning him a letter of commendation from the Secretary of the Navy. After serving in the navy, he worked for the San Bernardino County Probation Department from 1963 to 1964. Hogan is a University of Tulsa professor emeritus of psychology. In 1987 he co-founded Hogan Assessment Systems, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Hogan Assessment Systems. Hogan Assessment Systems was founded in 1987 by Hogan  and his wife, Joyce Hogan. Hogan remains president of Hogan Assessments. Personality psychology research. Hogan and his wife developed a framework they call socioanalytic theory. Their theory postulates two competing motivations: a desire to get along with others and a desire for status and power. Socioanalytic theory has been studied in relation to job performance and promotion criteria. Publications. His book "Personality and the Fate of Organizations" was published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates in June 2006. The 167-page book discusses Hogan's theories on the nature of personality and suggests how his theory can guide organizations' employment decisions. He  is the co-editor of "Handbook of Personality Psychology" and has published "Hogan Personality Inventory," "Hogan Development Survey," "Motives Values," "Preferences Inventory," "Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory," and "Hogan Guide" (2007). In 2012 he and Gordon Curphy authored "The Rocket Model". Awards and recognition. In 2020 he received the RHR International Award for Excellence in Consulting Psychology at the Society of Consulting Psychology (SCP) annual conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.