Norhan Elsaadawy

Research Interests

Do people have insight into who they are and how others experience them? How do people gain this self-knowledge and how does it unfold differently across individuals with diverse social histories and experiences? My research aims to tackle such questions, exploring the idiosyncratic ways people construct their sense of self and come to understand who they are in relation to others and to their social world. In this research, I measure personality from different perspectives (e.g., self- perceptions, meta-perceptions, informant reports), across a broad range of social contexts and relationships (e.g., first impressions, classmates, romantic partners, friends), in the lab (e.g., round robin studies, dyadic interactions) and in daily life (e.g., experience sampling methods, daily diaries), and by employing a broad mix of quantitative (e.g., multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, profile analyses) and qualitative methods (e.g., coding open-ended responses, photos, and online profiles). My aim is to understand how people use perceptions of themselves and others to move through the world and how these perceptions might differ for and uniquely impact individuals from marginalized groups.

Selected Publications

Hater, L., Elsaadawy, N., Biesanz, J., Breil, S. M., Human, L. J., Niemeyer, L. M., Tissera, H., Back, M. D., & Carlson, E. N. (in press). Examining individual differences in meta-perceptive accuracy using the Social Meta-Accuracy Model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Elsaadawy, N., Carlson, E. N., Chung, J. M., & Connelly, B. S. (2023). How do people think about the impressions they make on others? The attitudes and substance of metaperceptions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(3), 640–658. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000433

Elsaadawy, N., & Carlson, E. N. (2022). Do you make a better or worse impression than you think? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(6), 1407–1420. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000434

Elsaadawy, N., & Carlson, E. N. (2021). Is meta-accuracy consistent across levels of acquaintanceship? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 178-185. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211018151

Elsaadawy, N., Carlson, E. N., & Human, L. J. (2020). Who influences meta-accuracy? It takes two to know the impressions we make. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121, 201-214. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000376

Elsaadawy, N., & Carlson, E. N. (2019). Figuring out how others see us: The formation of accurate meta-perceptions. In T. D. Letzring & J. S. Spain (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Accurate Personality Judgment. New York: Oxford University Press.