Alecia M. Santuzzi, Ph.D.

Department of Psychology

University of Illinois

603 East Daniel Street

Champaign, Illinois 61820

Email: Santuzzi@uiuc.edu

 

 

EDUCATION

 

NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship, July 2004 – present, Quantitative Methods Division,

University of Illinois, Champaign, IL. NIH Institutional Training Grant.

 

Ph.D., August 2004, Psychological Science (Social Psychology), Department of Psychology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

            Dissertation Title: Perceptions and Metaperceptions of the Stigma Experience:

Accuracy and Bias in a Social Relations Model.

            Committee: Janet B. Ruscher (Chair), Edgar C. O’Neal, Ronald S. Landis, and

 Carl J. Thoresen.

 

M.S., August 2001, Psychological Science (Social Psychology), Department of Psychology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Thesis Title: Stigma Salience and Paranoid Social Cognition: The Role of Stigma Disclosure and Self-Consciousness in the Inferences and Task Performance of the Stigmatized Target

 

B.A., June 1998, Summa Cum Laude, Psychology, Ohio University, Athens, oh.

 

 

EXTRAMURAL FUNDING

 

2001 – 2003      National Research Service Award (Individual), Predoctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (NIMH). Direct costs ≈ $60, 598.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Santuzzi, A. M. (under review). Perceptions and metaperceptions of negative evaluation: Group composition and interpersonal accuracy in a social relations model.

 

Dien, J., Santuzzi, A. M., & Kwok, L. (under review). Differentiating attentional effects of trait anxiety and trait fear using the face-in-the-crowd task.

 

Santuzzi, A. M., Metzger, P. L., & Ruscher, J. B. (in revision). When stigma becomes an issue: Body image and expected future interaction.

 

Santuzzi, A. M. & Ruscher, J. B. (in press). Distancing from incompetent in-group members: Evidence for the Black Sheep Effect in ethnicity and residence. Race, Gender, and Class.

 

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.

 

 

BOOK & REFERENCE CHAPTERS

 

Dien, J. & Santuzzi, A. M. (2005). Application of repeated-measures ANOVA to high-density ERP datasets: A review and tutorial. In T. Handy (Ed.), Event Related Potentials: A Methods Handbook. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Santuzzi, A. M., & Reed, J. T. (invited, under editorial review). Minority social influence. In R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

 

Ruscher, J. B. & Santuzzi, A. M. (invited, under editorial review). Schemas. In R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

Santuzzi, A. M., Santuzzi, N. R., Garza, K., Weber, M., & Yan, E. (2006, May). Training researchers to use the project manager model with human participants. Poster to be presented at the 18th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY.

 

Santuzzi, A. M. (2006, January). Specific and general metaperceptions of evaluation: Can we predict what others think about us before we meet them? Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Palm Springs, CA.

 

Santuzzi, A. M. (2005, January). Perceptions and metaperceptions of negative evaluation: Group composition and interpersonal accuracy in a social relations model. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. New Orleans, LA.

 

Santuzzi, A. M. (2004, July). When stigma becomes an issue: Variability in the target’s experience. Symposium presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Relationship Research, Madison, WI.

 

Santuzzi, A. M. (2004, January). Differences in perceived stigmatization across stigmas and situations. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.

 

Santuzzi, A. M., Metzger, P. M., & Ruscher, J. B. (2003, October). Body image consciousness and metaperception. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Boston, MA.

 

Santuzzi, A. M., O’Neal, E., & Ruscher, J. B. (2003, May). Stigma consciousness, paranoid cognition, and perceptions of sexism. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.

 

Santuzzi, A. M. (2003, March). Factor Analysis. Invited workshop presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

 

Santuzzi, A. M. & Ruscher, J. B. (2002, June). Distancing from incompetent ingroup members: Evidence for the Black Sheep Effect. Poster presented at the14th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, New Orleans, LA.

 

Santuzzi, A. M. & Ruscher, J. B. (2002, June). Paranoid social cognition: Stigmatized individuals' metaperceptions of others following stigma disclosure. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, New Orleans, LA.

 

Ruscher, J. B., Santuzzi, A. M., & Hammer, E. Y. (2002, February). Shared impression formation in the cognitively interdependent dyad. Symposium presentation at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Savannah, GA.

 

Santuzzi, A. M., Kwok, L., & Dien, J. (2001, June). Detecting faces in crowds: Gender, trait fear, and anxiety as moderators. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Convention for the American Psychological Society, Toronto, Canada.

 

Santuzzi, A. M. & Ruscher, J. B. (2001, February). Stigma salience and paranoid social cognition: Effects of disclosure on inferences made by stigmatized targets. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

 

Ruscher, J. B., Santuzzi, A. M., & Hammer, E. Y. (2000, October).  Shared impression formation in the cognitively interdependent dyad. Poster presented at the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

 

Santuzzi, A. M., Ruscher, J. B., & Hammer, E. Y. (2000, October). Shared impression formation in the cognitively interdependent dyad. Paper presented for the Tulane University Psychology Department Colloquium Series.              

 

Santuzzi, A. M. & Ruscher, J. (2000, October). Dyadic shared impressions: Effects of distraction and relationship length on consensual impressions. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Miami, FL.

 

Lassiter, G. D., Geers, A. L., Munhall, P. J., Beers, M. J., Handley, I. M., Santuzzi, A. M., & Leafgren, M. (1998, May). Does attention to content eliminate the videotaped-confession bias? Paper presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, D.C.

 

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

2005                 Finalist, Dissertation Award, Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy

(APA Division 49)

 

2004                 Dissertation Award, American Psychological Association (APA)

 

2004                 Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Diversity Fund

Travel Award

 

2003                  Research on Socially and Economically Underrepresented Populations

(RiSE-UP) Research Competition, Second Runner-Up, American

Psychological Society Student Caucus (APSSC)

 

2001                 Honorable Mention, SPSP Diversity Fund Travel Award

 

2000                 Rosalba Ruiz Award, Tulane University

 

1999                 Robert E. Flowerree Fellowship, Tulane University

 

1997                 Gaige B. Paulsen Award, Ohio University

 

1997                 Dean’s Scholarship, Ohio University

 

1996                 Phi Beta Kappa

 

1995                 Mary L. Durnion Award, Ohio University

 

 

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

 

2001 - 2004      Course Instructor, Tulane University, Department of Psychology.

Experimental Social Psychology

Introduction to Social Psychology

Introductory Psychology

 

1998 - 2003      Lab Instructor, Tulane University, Department of Psychology.

Experimental Design & Analysis (graduate)

Foundations of Psychological Measurement (graduate)

Experimental Social Psychology

Research Methods in Social Cognition

 

2001                 Lab Instructor, Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Monterrey ITESM PhD Program.

Multivariate Statistics

 

1998                 Teaching Assistant, Tulane University, Department of Psychology.

Honors Introduction to Psychology

 

 

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

 

2004-2005              School of Social Work. University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois. Served as statistics and methodology consultant for federal grant proposals.

 

 

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RESEARCH SUPERVISION

 

Honors Theses (Co-Supervision)

            K. Sauerwein (2004). Other perceptions and metaperceptions: The role of perceiver

            information and task interdependence on perceptions and metaperceptions of targets.

           

T. Cardosa (2003). Women's gender roles and their self-perceptions of their leadership

 styles.

           

P. L. Metzger (2003). The effects of body image consciousness on negative

 metaperceptions.

 

Lab Assistants

            Per semester supervision of 3 – 10 undergraduate research assistants.

 

 

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

 

Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Structural Equation Modeling (3 days),

Multilevel Modeling Techniques (3 days)

Advanced Structural Equation Modeling (3days)

 

Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

            Social Relations Model: Understanding Dyadic Processes (5 days)

 

Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL.

            Multivariate Statistics (Fall, 2004)

            Multilevel Modeling/HLM (Fall, 2004)

            Longitudinal & Growth Curve Analysis (Spring, 2005)

            Measurement for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Spring, 2005)

            Covariance Structure Modeling (Fall, 2005)

            Internet Research Design (Fall, 2005)

 

 

SERVICE

 

2003                 Social Psychology Faculty Search Committee

 

2002 – 2003      Human Research Protocol (HRP) Committee

 

2002                 Quantitative Psychology Faculty Search Committee

 

1999                 Project Assistant, Tulane University Leadership Development Project.

 

1999 – 2002      Undergraduate Studies Committee

 

2000 – 2001      Editor, The Psychological Wave, electronic departmental newsletter for

undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and alumni of Tulane University’s Department of Psychology.

 

1999 – 2001      Psychology Department Representative, Graduate School Student Association.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 

American Psychological Association

American Psychological Society

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Society for Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics (APA Division 5)

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (APA Division 9)

American Statistical Association

Academy of Management

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA)

International Society for Self and Identity

 

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

 

Santuzzi, A. M. Multilevel interpersonal perceptions: Implications for interpersonal accuracy and group cohesion development.

 

Santuzzi, A. M. Profiling stigma: Using multivariate techniques to classify stigma by variability in discrimination perceptions across situations.

 

Santuzzi, A. M. Detecting changes in self-report measurement properties across raters, targets, and contexts: The social psychology of measurement.

 

Santuzzi, A. M., Ruscher, J. B., & O’Neal, E. C. Explaining variability in perceptions of sexism: The role of self-consciousness.

 

Santuzzi, A. M. & Landis, R. S. Using logistic regression to detect adverse impact: A note about sample size, group representation, and statistical power.

 

 

TEACHING INTERESTS

 

Statistics & Methodology (Graduate & Undergraduate)

            General: Research Methods, Measurement, Univariate Statistics, Multivariate Statistics

            Specialty: Dyad & Group Methods and Analysis, Path Analysis & SEM, Measurement

Issues in the Social Sciences

 

Social Psychology

            Groups & Dyads, Prejudice & Stereotyping, Person Perception & Impression Formation,

General Social Psychology, Social Cognition