Alecia M. Santuzzi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Phone: (815) 753-7096
Fax: (815) 753-8088
asantuzzi@niu.edu
Office: PM 561
EDUCATION
Ph.D.: Tulane University, 2004
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Interpersonal appraisals and evaluations; metaperceptions (knowing what others think of you); social stigma in work-related situations; social interaction in face-to-face and virtual groups; virtual organizations.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- 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.
- 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, 884-894.
- 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., & 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., Metzger, P. L., & Ruscher, J. B. (2006). Body image and expected future interaction. Current Research in Social Psychology, 11, 153-171.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
REPRESENTATIVE GRANTS
- Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (Co-PI), National Science Foundation (#0838492).
Title: Developing a Comparative Meta-analytic Model for Evaluating and Facilitating Accessible CI
-enabled Virtual Organizations. (PI: Derrick Cogburn, American University). 12/2008-11/2010.
- Innovation Grant (PI), Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University.
Title: The role of physical disability in forming social relationships. 8/2007-5/2009.
