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Institution
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Current Position
Professor
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University, 1991
Research Interests
 | Group Processes |
| Judgment/Decision Making |
| Social Cognition |
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Larry Sanna
Department of Psychology
CB# 3270 Davie Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3270
U.S.A.
Home Page
Phone: (919) 962-2538
Fax: (919) 962-2537
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Dr. Sanna's research focuses on social cognition, judgment, and decision making in individuals, groups, and organizations. He is particularly interested in how people's thoughts and feelings both bias decisions and make them more accurate (debiasing). Topics include judgments over time, prefactual and counterfactual thinking, and metacognitive and affective influences on forecasting, planning, and decision making. See Dr. Sanna's Home Page for details and publication links. |
 Books:
- Sanna, L. J., & Chang, E. C. (Eds.). (2006). Judgments over time: The interplay of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. New York: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Chang, E. C., Asakawa, K., & Sanna, L. J. (2001). Cultural variations in optimistic and pessimistic bias: Do Easterners really expect the worst and Westerners really expect the best when predicting future life events? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 476-491.
- Parks, C. D., Sanna, L. J., & Posey, D. C. (2003). Retrospection in social dilemmas: How thinking about the past affects future cooperation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 988-996.
- Sanna, L. J. (2000). Mental simulation, affect, and personality: A conceptual framework. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 9, 168-173.
- Sanna, L. J. (1999). Mental simulations, affect, and subjective confidence: Timing is everything. Psychological Science, 10, 339-345.
- Sanna, L. J. (1996). Defensive pessimism, optimism, and simulating alternatives: Some ups and downs of prefactual and counterfactual thinking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 1020-1036.
- Sanna, L. J., Chang, E. C., & Carter, S. E. (2004). All our troubles seem so far away: Temporal pattern to accessible alternatives and retrospective team appraisals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1359-1371.
- Sanna, L. J., Chang, E. C., & Meier, S. (2001). Counterfactual thinking and self-motives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1023-1034.
- Sanna, L. J., & Parks, C. D. (1997). Group research trends in social and organizational psychology: Whatever happened to intragroup research? Psychological Science, 8, 261-267.
- Sanna, L. J., Parks, C. D., Chang, E. C., & Carter, S. E. (2005). The hourglass is half full or half empty: Temporal framing and the group planning fallacy. Group Dynamics, 9, 173-188.
- Sanna, L. J., & Schwarz, N. (2006). Metacognitive experiences and human judgment: The case of hindsight bias and its debiasing. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 172-176.
- Sanna, L. J., & Schwarz, N. (2004). Integrating temporal biases: The interplay of focal thoughts and accessibility experiences. Psychological Science, 15, 474-481.
- Sanna, L. J., Schwarz, N., & Stocker, S. L. (2002). When debiasing backfires: Accessible content and accessibility experiences in debiasing hindsight. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 497-502.
- Sanna, L. J., Turley-Ames, K. J., & Meier, S. (1999). Mood, self-esteem, and simulated alternatives: Thought-provoking affective influences on counterfactual direction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 543-558.
- Schwarz, N., Sanna, L. J., Skurnik, I., & Yoon, C. (2007). Metacognitive experiences and the intricacies of setting people straight: Implications for debiasing and public information campaigns. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 127-161.
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