Dr.  Sanna is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Psychology Graduate Program in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; he also holds a secondary appoinment as an Adjunct Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Area at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.  He is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Decision Research at UNC.
    Dr. Sanna received his B.S. in Psychology at the University of Connecticut and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Social Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University.  He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, in the Management and Organizations Area at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.  Before coming to UNC, Dr. Sanna previously held faculty positions in the Department of Psychology at Bucknell University and in the Department of Psychology at Washington State University.
    Dr. Sanna is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and a member of the American Psychological Association, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, and Society for Personality and Social Psychology.  He has published widely and has served on the editorial review boards of the following journals:  Basic and Applied Social Psychology; Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS Associate); European Journal of Social Psychology; Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
    Dr. Sanna and his laboratory members conduct research and develop theories that are designed to help inform and promote better decision making (http://www.betterdecisionmaking.org).  Also get to his link on the Social Psychology Network by clicking here.


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