Richard L. Moreland (1951-2017)

This article memorializes Richard L. Moreland, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. He passed away away on November 18, 2017. Dick’s lifelong intellectual passion was the study of small group behavior. Much of this work was carried out in close collaboration with John Levine. Together, they developed an ambitious theory of group socialization that explains how the relations between groups and their members change over time. In recognition of their contributions, they were joint recipients of the 2012 Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups from INGRoup. In addition to his work on group socialization, Dick actively pursued many other small group research interests. Particularly noteworthy was his research on transactive memory, stimulated by a collaboration with Linda Argote. Dick served as Associate Editor for several leading journals of small group research and on the editorial boards of multiple journals. He also served for 18 years on the committee that chose the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 49’s dissertation award and then insured the future recognition of such work by endowing the Richard Moreland Dissertation of the Year Award. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)