Origins
SCRG found its roots in the mid-1970s after the San Diego La Jolla conference in 1974. Dr. Tom Ostrom, profoundly influenced by his interactions with other researchers at the conference (Bob Wyer, David Hamilton, and Reid Hastie, among others), began collaborations with his then graduate students (John Lingle, David Simpson, and Nehemia Geva) and post-doctoral fellow John Pryor on thematic organization of person impressions and person organization. SCRG became a formal research group in the early 1980s. Soon after its formation, Dr. John Skowronski joined as co-sponsor, in 1984. Dr. Skowronski continued to be actively involved with SCRG until his departure from OSU in 2000.
Involved Faculty
Since its creation, the group has seen many new faces, with Dr. Bill von Hippel’s addition to the group in 1991, Dr. Marilynn Brewer in 1993, Dr. Michele Alexander in 1994, Dr. Tanya Chartrand in 1999, Dr. Russell Fazio in 2001, Dr. B. Keith Payne in 2003, Dr. Lisa Libby in 2004, Drs. Kentaro Fujita and Wil Cunningham in 2006, Drs. Jennifer Crocker and Duane Wegener in 2010, Dr. Baldwin Way in 2011, and Dr. Dylan Wagner in 2014. Although many have since moved on, the group remains a vibrant source of research dissemination and discussion.