Dr. Scott T. Allison

Professor of Psychology
McEldin Trawick Professor
121 Richmond Hall
Office: (804) 289-8127
Fax: (804) 287-1905

http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~allison/

Scott Allison is Professor of Psychology at the University of Richmond.  He received his B.A. in Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, in 1981, and he received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1987. Professor Allison and his students are currently involved in several research projects focusing on sympathy judgments and evaluations of deceased individuals, underdogs, and martyrs. Current research is also exploring people’s constructions of heroes and villains, and the role of heroic and villainous actions in psychological life. Professor Allison teaches social and personality psychology, group dynamics, research methods, and the history and philosophy of psychology.

Teaching:
Social Psychology

Research:
Social decision making processes
Social interdependence
Social cognition
Intergroup relations

Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Selected Publications:
Roch,  S., Samuelson, C., Allison, S., & Dent, J. (2000). Cognitive load and the equality heuristic:  A two stage model of resource overconsumption in small groups.  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 83, 185-212.
 
Mackie, D. M., Ahn, M. N., Asuncion, A. G., & Allison, S. T.  (2001).  The impact of perceiver attitudes on outcome-biased dispositional inferences. Social Cognition, 19, 71-93.
 
Eylon, D., & Allison, S. T. (2002). The paradox of ambiguity in cooperative and competitive organizational settings.  Group and Organization Management, 27, 172-208.
 
Allison, S. T., & Eylon, D. (2004).  The demise of leadership:  Death positivity biases in posthumous impressions of leaders.  In D. Messick & R. Kramer (Eds.), The Psychology of Leadership: Some New Approaches (pp 295-317). New York: Erlbaum.
 
Allison, S. T., Beggan, J. K., & Clements, C. (2004).  Derogatory stereotypic beliefs and evaluations of male nurses.  Equal Opportunities International, 23, 1-17.
 
Eylon, D., & Allison, S. T. (2005). The frozen in time effect in evaluations of the dead.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1708-1717.
 
Allison, S. T.,  Uhles, A. N., Asuncion, A.G., Beggan, J. K., & Mackie. D. M. (2006).  Self-Serving Outcome-Biases in Trait Judgments about the Self. Current Research in Social Psychology, 11, 202-214.
 
Allison, S. T., Eylon, D., Beggan, J.K., & Bachelder, J. (in press).  The demise of leadership: Positivity and negativity in evaluations of dead leaders.  The Leadership Quarterly.
           
Kim, J., Allison, S. T., Eylon, D., Goethals, G., Markus, M., McGuire, H., & Hindle, S. (in press). Rooting for (and then Abandoning) the Underdog. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
 
Allison, S. T., & Goethals, G. R. (in press). Deifying the Dead and Downtrodden:  Sympathetic Figures as Exceptional Leaders. In C.L. Hoyt, G. R. Goethals, & D. R. Forsyth (Eds.), Leadership at the crossroads: Psychology and leadership. Westport, CT: Praeger.
 
Allison, S. T., & Burnette, J. (in press). Underdogs, Top Dogs, and Fairness. In M. Bazerman, A. Tenbrunsel, and R. Kramer (Eds), Social Dilemmas, Ethical Dilemmas, and Social Values. New York: Psychology Press.
 
Beggan, J. K., & Allison, S. T. (in press).  Beauty and appearance.  In S. MacEachern (Ed.). Sex and Society. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation