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Tessa V. West
 
  
  • B.A., high honors, 2003, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • M.A., 2006, University of Connecticut
  • Major advisor: Kenny
  • Joined program, Fall 2003
 
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Research Interests: Recent News:
  • Deception in dyadic relationships
  • Interpersonal perception (in particular meta-perceptions)
  • Consensus of an actor’s attributes across various groups
  • See complete CV here
  • Student member, Admissions Committee, University of Connecticut, 2005
Publications and Presentations

West, T. V., Weisbuch, M. D., Seery, M. D., & Blascovich, J. Defensive pessimism in motivated performance situations: Challenge or threat? Manuscript under review.

West, T.V., Popp, D., & Kenny, D.A. (in press, 2008). A guide for the estimation of gender and sexual orientation effects in dyadic data: An actor-partner interdependence model approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Kenny, D. A., & West, T. V. (in press). Self perception as interpersonal perception. In J. Wood, J. Holmes, & A. Tesser, (Eds.), Self and relationships. New York: Psychology Press. 

Kenny, D. A., West, T. V., Cillessen, A. H. N., Coie, J. D., Dodge, K. A., Hubbard, J. A., Schwartz, D. (in press). Accuracy in the judgment of aggressiveness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 

Kenny, D. A., West, T. V; Malloy, T., & Albright; L. (2006). Componential analysis of interpersonal perception data. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10, 282-294.

Cillessen, A. H. N., Jiang, X. L., West, T. V., & Laszkowski, D. K.
(2005). Predictors of dyadic friendship quality in adolescence. International Journal for the Study of Behavioral Development, 29, 165-172.

Kenny, D., West, T., & Popp, D. A. (2005, January). What men (gay and straight) and women (lesbian and straight) want? Invited talk at the Relationships Pre-conference for the annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

West, T., & Kenny, D. A. (2005, January). Lying to the ones we love: The functional nature of altruistic dishonesty in romantic relationships. Poster presented at the annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA. SPSP, 2005.

West, T. V., & Kenny, D. A. (2006, January). Testing the Social Relations Model via structural equation modeling. Symposia presented at the annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN. SPSP, 2006

Dovidio, J. F., Pearson, A., West, T. V., Sibicky, M., Kawakami, K., & Gaertner, S. L. (2006, January). Subtle stigmatization: Exploring the nature of ambivalence toward persons with mental illness. Talk presented at the annual American Psychological Science meeting in New York, NY.

Pearson, A., West, T. V., Renfro, S., Buck, R., Dovidio, J. F., Ferris, J. F., Henning, R. A., & Christian, R. R. (2006, January). “Live via satellite”: The Impact of Disrupted Communication on Inter- and Intra-racial Person Perception. Poster presented at the annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.

 

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Department of Psychology
University of Connecticut
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
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(860) 486-3515

 

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