The Group for Attitudes and Persuasion (GAP)

GAP was founded at Ohio State University in 1987. It consists of faculty and students who are interested in investigating basic and applied issues related to attitudes, persuasion, choice, making decisions, influence, and evaluative processes in social judgment more generally. The group meets weekly during the academic year to plan research, discuss completed research, and hear both formal and informal talks from internal and external speakers. On this web page you can find the current GAP schedule and information about both resident GAP members and alumni.

Current GAP Schedule

Click here to access the current GAP Schedule

Resident GAP Members

Below are the current resident members of GAP. Some members have their own page containing a brief biography, curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, and link to a personal page. Click on any underlined member to learn more.

Faculty:	Graduate Students and Postdocs:
Pablo Briñol	Nathan Arbuckle	Michael McCaslin
Patrick Carroll	Kate Darwent	Samantha Mowrer
Kristi Costabile	Ken DeMarree	Dominic Packer
Wil Cunningham	Anna Han	Alison Pfent
Russell Fazio	Gina Hoover	Evava Pietri
Ken Fujita	Valerie Jefferis	Joe Roberts
Curt Haugtvedt	Ingrid Johnsen	Jo Sasota
Phil Mazzocco	India Johnson	Eric Shaeffer
Kimberly Rios Morrison	Chris Jones	Brittany Shoots-Reinhard
Richard Petty* [organizer]	Brandon Kopp	Greta Valenti
Michael Slater	Chris Loersch	Jay Van Bavel
	Alison Luby	Benjamin Wagner
	Karen MacGregor	Aaron Wichman

GAP Graduates

These former GAP graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are investigating evaluative processes in their own labs around the country. Click on the underlined name link for more information (*Ph.D. or postdoctoral advisor in parentheses).

JAMIE BARDEN (*Petty)
Department of Psychology, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

GEORGE BIZER (*Petty)
Department of Psychology, Union College, Schenectady, NY

STEVE CRITES (*Cacioppo)
Department of Psychology, University of Texas-El Paso, El Paso, TX

KENNETH DEMARREE (*Petty)
Department of Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

DAVID DESTENO (*Petty)
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

LISA EVANS (*Petty)
Lisa Evans Consulting, Columbus, OH (lisa@lifenavigationcoaching.com)

LEANDRE FABRIGAR (*Petty)
Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

MONIQUE FLEMING (*Petty)
Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

MELANIE GREEN (*Brock)
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

CURTIS HAUGTVEDT (*Petty)
Department of Marketing, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

MARTIN HEESACKER (*Petty)
Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

TONY HERMANN (*Arkin)
Department of Psychology, Willamette University, Salem, OR

ALLYSON HOLBROOK (*Krosnick)
Department of Public Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

W. BLAIR G. JARVIS (*Petty)
Empirisoft Research Software, New York, NY

JEFF T. LARSEN (*Cacioppo & Petty)
Department of Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

PHIL MAZZOCCO (*Brock)
Department of Psychology, Ohio State University-Mansfield, Mansfield, OH

MICHAEL OLSON (*Fazio)
Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

JOSEPH PRIESTER (*Petty)
Department of Marketing, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

DEREK RUCKER (*Petty)
Department of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

DAVID SCHUMANN (*Petty)
Department of Marketing and Logistics, College of Business Administration, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

YA HUI MICHELLE SEE (*Petty)
Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore

NATALIE SHOOK (*Fazio)
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University

STEPHEN SMITH (*Petty)
Department of Psychology, North Georgia College, Dahlonega, GA

ALAN STRATHMAN (*Petty)
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

STEPHANIE TOBIN (*Weary)
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX

ZAKARY L. TORMALA (*Petty)
Department of Marketing, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

PATRICK VARGAS (*von Hippel & Petty)
Department of Advertising, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

PENNY VISSER (*Krosnick)
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

DUANE WEGENER (*Petty)
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

S. CHRISTIAN WHEELER (*Petty)
Department of Marketing, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

PAUL WHITE (*Petty)
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Former GAP Faculty:

ROLAND DEUTSCH
Department of Psychology, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

KEITH PAYNE

Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC