Dr. Scott T. Allison
Professor of Psychology 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.
McEldin Trawick Professor
121 Richmond Hall
Office: (804) 289-8127
Fax: (804) 287-1905
http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~allison/
Teaching:
Social Psychology
Research:
Social decision making processes
Social interdependence
Social cognition
Intergroup relations
Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Selected Publications:
Allison, S. T. & Goethals, G. R. (in press). Heroes and Villains: Becoming Good and Evil. New York: Oxford University Press.
Beggan, J. K., & Allison, S. T. (in press). Beauty and appearance. In S. MacEachern (Ed.). Sex and Society. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation
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.
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.
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., Eylon, D., Beggan, J.K., & Bachelder, J. (in press). The demise of leadership: Positivity and negativity in evaluations of dead leaders. The Leadership Quarterly.
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.
Eylon, D., & Allison, S. (2005) The "Frozen in Time" Effect in Evaluations of the Dead. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 12, 1708-1717.
Beggan, J., & Allison, S. (2005) Tough Women in the Unlikeliest of Places: The Unexpected Toughness of the Playboy Playmate. The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 38, Issue 5, 796-818.
Allison, S., Beggan, J., & Clements, C., (2004) Derogatory stereotypic beliefs and evaluations of male nurses. Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 23, Num 3-5, 162-178.
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.
Beggan, J., & Allison, S.T. (2003) Reflexivity in the Pornographic Films of Candida Royalle. Sexualities, Vol. 6, No. 3-4, 301-324.
Allison, S.T., & Eylon, D. (2003) Ambiguity as friend or foe: The use of ambiguous information in the self-serving acheivement of task goals. Current Research in Social Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 18.
Allison, S.T. (2003) "What sort of man reads Playboy?" The self-reported influence of Playboy on the construction of masculinity. The Journal of Men's Studies, January 2003.
Eylon, D., & Allison, S. (2002) The paradox of ambiguous information in collaborative and competitive settings. Group & Organizational Management, Vol. 27, No. 2, 172-208.
Allison, S.T. (2001) What do playboy playmates want? Implications of expressed preferences in the construction of the "unfinished" masculine identity. (influence of centerfold statements on the behavior of men). The Journal of Men's Studies, September 2001.
Allison, S.T. (2001) The Playboy Rabbit is soft, furry, and cute: Is this really the symbol of masculine dominance of women? The Journal of Men's Studies, March 2001.
Mackie, D.M., Ahn, M.N., Asuncion, A.G., & Allison, S.T. (2001) The impact perceiver attitudes on outcome-biased dispositional inferences. Social Cognition, Vol. 19, Issue 1, 71-93.
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.