Tessa West

Tessa West is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 2008, immediately after which she became a faculty member at NYU. Tessa is a leading expert on interpersonal interaction and communication. Through a combination of physiological and behavioral methods, Tessa examines how people influence each other when they interact, and what gets in the way of them accurately perceiving each other and seeing eye-to-eye. Tessa has published over 70 articles in the field of psychology’s most prestigious journals, including, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. She has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Tessa has also received several career awards, including the early career award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology among others.