Psychology and the End of History: A Critique and a Proposal for the Psychology of Social Categorization

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Superordinate identities and intergroup conflict: The ingroup projection model (2007, background): “Social categories can be represented in ways that serve the goals of the perceiver (Reicher & Hopkins, 2001 ).”
Narrative as a Root Metaphor for Political Psychology (2012, background): “As Reicher and Hopkins (2001b) argue, nationhood is the predominant form of social organization to the extent that it is viewed as a natural rather than as a social fact.”
Narrative, psychology and the politics of sexual identity in the United States: from ‘sickness’ to ‘species’ to ‘subject’ (2013, background): “By accepting concepts and categories as natural kinds (Stein, 1999 ), rather than asking critical questions about the very origins of them in society, US psychology has tended to reify them, thus perpetuating a status quo of inequality for some groups relative to others (Reicher & Hopkins, 2001 ).”
Narrative and the politics of meaning (2011, background): “…of all social categories — including gender, race, nationality, class, and sexual identity — and are predicated on a doctrine of essentialism or primordialism about these categories which serves to imbue them with a “natural” rather than “social” character (Reicher & Hopkins, 2001; Suny, 2001).”