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Institution
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillCurrent Position
Professor Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University, 1991
Research Interests
 | Group Processes |
| Judgment/Decision Making |
| Social Cognition |
Laboratory Home Page
Courses Taught
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Group Processes |
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Judgment and Decision Making |
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Social Cognition |
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Social Psychology |
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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 expertise is in social cognition, judgment, and decision making, particularly how people's thoughts and feelings both bias decisions and make them more accurate (debiasing). Topics include counterfactual thinking; metacognition; cooperative choices; and judgments over time, such as forecasting, planning, and hindsight; with the ultimate goal of helping people to make better decisions. See Dr. Sanna's Home Page for more detail.
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 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. (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., Chang, E. C., Parks, C. D., & Kennedy, L. A. (2009). Construing collective concerns: Increasing cooperation by broadening construals in social dilemmas. Psychological Science, 20, 1319-1321.
- Sanna, L. J., Kennedy, L. A., Chang, E. C., & Miceli, P. M. (2009). When thoughts don't feel like they used to: Changing feelings of subjective ease in judgments of the past. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 940-946.
- 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: Theory, Research, and Practice, 9, 173-188.
- 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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