NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship, July 2004 – present, Quantitative Methods Division,
University of Illinois, Champaign, IL. NIH Institutional Training Grant.
Ph.D., August 2004, Psychological Science, Department of Psychology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Major Area: Experimental Social Psychology
Dissertation Title: Perceptions and Metaperceptions of the Stigma Experience: Accuracy
and Bias in a Social Relations Model.
M.S., August 2001, Psychological Science, Department of Psychology, Tulane University,
New Orleans, LA
Major: Experimental Social Psychology
Thesis Title: Stigma Salience and Paranoid Social Cognition: The Role of StigmaDisclosure 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.
My substantive research focuses on interpersonal perception and accuracy in impression formation. More specifically, I am interested in the perceptions and metaperceptions that individuals form when interacting with members of similar and different social categories (e.g., ethnicity, sex, smoking status).
A second area of interest is in measurement and research methods, spanning such topics as multilevel analyses, structural equation models, scale development and validation, and dyad & group research methods.
Current projects examine variability in women's perceptions of sexism, differences in impression formation strategies among nonsmokers and smokers, individual differences and situational factors that influence interpersonal accuracy (or lack thereof), and how person perception processes may affect the reliability and validity of self-report measures.
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.
Dien, J. & Santuzzi, A. M. (in press). 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.
Social Psychology, interpersonal relations, dyad & group relationships, prejudice & stereotyping, research methods, measurement, statistics.
Group fitness instruction and collecting rubber duckies.