Alecia M. Santuzzi
My substantive research focuses on interpersonal perception and accuracy in impression formation. More specifically, I am interested in how people form impressions of what other people think about them (metaperceptions), especially when people are interacting with members of different social categories or individuals who hold more powerful social roles.
A second area of interest is in measurement, research methods, and quantitative data analysis. These interests include multilevel analyses, structural equation models, scale development and validation, factors that affect self-report measures, and dyad and group research methods.
Primary Interests:
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Internet and Virtual Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Nonverbal Behavior
- Organizational Behavior
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
Journal Articles:
- Gonzalez, M. G., Burke, M. J., Santuzzi, A. M., & Bradley, J. (2003). The impact of group process variables on the effectiveness of distance collaboration groups. Computers in Human Behavior, 19, 629-648.
- Juth, V., Smyth, J. M., & Santuzzi, A. M. (2008). How do you feel? Self-esteem predicts mood, stress, social interaction and symptom severity during daily life in patients with chronic illness. Journal of Health Psychology.
- Kaplan, S. A., Santuzzi, A. M., & Ruscher, J. B. (2009). Elaborative metaperceptions in outcome-dependent situations: The diluted relationship between default self-perceptions and metaperceptions. Social Cognition, 27, 602-615.
- Ruscher, J. B., Santuzzi, A. M., & Hammer, E. Y. (2003). Shared impression formation in the cognitively interdependent dyad. British Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 411-435.
- Santuzzi, A. M. (2007). Perceptions and metaperceptions of negative evaluation: Group composition and interpersonal accuracy in a social relations model. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 10, 383-398.
- Santuzzi, A. M., Metzger, P. L., & Ruscher, J. B. (2006). Body image and expected future interaction. Current Research in Social Psychology, 11, 153-171.
- Santuzzi, A. M., & Ruscher, J. B. (2007). Distancing from incompetent in-group members: Evidence for the Black Sheep Effect in ethnicity and residence. Race, Gender, and Class, 13, 87-95.
- Santuzzi, A. M., & Ruscher, J. B. (2002). Stigma salience and paranoid social cognition: Understanding variability in metaperceptions of prejudice among stigmatized targets. Social Cognition, 20, 171-197.
Courses Taught:
- Laboratory in I-O Psychology (Undergraduate)
- Multivariate Data Analysis (Graduate)
- Psychometrics (Graduate)
- Statistical Methods (Undergraduate)
- Univariate Data Analysis I/II (Graduate)
Alecia M. Santuzzi
Department of Psychology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois 60115
United States of America
- Phone: (815) 753-7096