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Institution
University of RichmondCurrent Position
Professor of Psychology Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from University of California, Santa Barbara, 1987
Research Interests
 | Applied Social Psychology |
| Group Processes |
| Judgment/Decision Making |
| Motivation/Goal Setting |
| Person Perception |
Courses Taught
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Scott T. Allison
Department of Psychology
University of Richmond
Richmond, Virginia 23173
U.S.A.
Home Page
Phone: (804) 289-8127
Fax: (804) 287-1905
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I'm originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, although I did most of my growing up in Los Angeles, California. I decided early on that the beach was the ideal educational environment, and thus I did my undergraduate and graduate work at the two "most coastal" University of California campuses (San Diego and Santa Barbara, respectively).The University of Richmond has been the only job I've known, and I'm quite happy here. The students are
outstanding, the facilities world-class, and the campus breathtakingly beautiful. The only thing missing is the beach, but fortunately the Atlantic Ocean is a mere 90 minutes away. My students and I are currently involved in several research projects focusing on the psychological processes underlying social judgments and inferences. In our work on dispositional inference processes, my students and I are exploring how people form posthumous impressions of others, and
how these posthumous impressions differ from impressions of living individuals. We are also investigating the "underdog" effect -- our tendency to root for disadvantaged individuals
and organizations.
 Books:
- Allison, S. T., & Goethals, G. R. (in press). Heroes and Villains: Becoming Good or Evil. New York: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Allison, S. T., Eylon, D., Beggan, J.K., & Bachelder, J. (2009). 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. T. (2005). The frozen in time effect in evaluations of the dead. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1708-1717.
- Eylon, D., & Allison, S. T. (2002). The paradox of ambiguity in cooperative and competitive organizational settings. Group and Organization Management, 27, 172-208.
- Kim, J., Allison, S. T., Eylon, D., Goethals, G., Markus, M., McGuire, H., & Hindle, S. (2008). Rooting for (and then Abandoning) the Underdog. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38, 2550-2573.
- 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.
- 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.
Other Publications:
- 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., Eylon, D., & Markus, M. (2004). Leadership legacy. In J. M. Burns, G. R. Goethals, & G. Sorenson (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Leadership (pp 894-898). New York: Berkshire Publishing.
- Allison, S. T., & Goethals, G. R. (in press). Deifying the Dead and the Downtrodden: Sympathetic Figures as Exceptional Leaders. In Goethals, Forsyth, & Hoyt (Eds), Social Psychology and Leadership. Praeger Publishers.
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