Celeste Sangiorgio

Research Assistant Professor

Behavioral Health

College of Health Sciences and Technology

Adjunct Faculty

csihst@rit.edu

585-475-5152

Office Location

SLA-A656

Celeste Sangiorgio

Research Assistant Professor

Behavioral Health

College of Health Sciences and Technology

Adjunct Faculty

Bio

Celeste Sangiorgio is an early career psychologist who studies the stability of personal beliefs and skills across relationships and settings, with a focus on how virtual spaces reinforce or diminish beliefs and skills. Her doctoral research focused on assessing effectiveness of digital platforms that target aggressive behaviors. Her present work continues this research by creating and assessing effectiveness of interactive games and simulation tools in virtual spaces embedded in digital treatment platforms (e.g., interactive puzzles and games, gamified coping skills, communication skill rehearsal in hypothetical and personalized vignettes). In addition to her research work, Celeste has experience in psychotherapy practice, including crisis work and advocacy (specifically: sexual assault, human trafficking, and intimate partner violence; eating disorders) and various presenting needs across the lifespan (i.e., Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, and other complex needs).

csihst@rit.edu

585-475-5152

Select Scholarship

Book Chapter

Sangiorgio, Celeste and Dash Lunde. "Taylor (Our Version): When music can sound like home." Psychgeist of Taylor Swift. Ed. Rachel Kowert. Pittsburgh, PA: Play Story Press, 2024. 27-40. Web.

Sangiorgio, Celeste. "What is Love? Triss, Don’t Hurt Me." Psychgeist of The Witcher. Ed. Rachel Kowert. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon ETC Press, 2023. 92-119. Print.

Full Length Book

Sangiorgio, Celeste. Effectiveness Of eHealth Interventions for Externalizing Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis. Queens, NY: St. John's University, 2021. Web.

Journal Paper

Sangiorgio, Celeste, Sarah Blackstone, and Lynn Herrmann. "College student attitudes and strategies for intervention with a hypothetical peer exhibiting disordered eating." International Journal of Eating Disorders 54. 8 (2021): 1486-1492. Web.

Sangiorgio, Celeste, et al. "Sexual Motivations and Ideals Distinguish Sexual Identities within the Self-Concept: A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis." Social Sciences 3. 2 (2014): 215-226. Web.

Currently Teaching

PSYC-510

Senior Project in Psychology

3 Credits

This course is intended for students in the psychology major to demonstrate experimental research expertise, while being guided by faculty advisors. The topic to be studied is up to the student, who must find a faculty advisor before signing up for the course. Students will be supervised by the advisor as they conduct their literature review, develop the research question or hypothesis, develop the study methodology and materials, construct all necessary IRB materials, run subjects, and analyze the results of their study. This course will culminate in an APA style paper and poster presentation reporting the results of the research. Because Senior Project is the culmination of a student’s scientific research learning experience in the psychology major, it is expected that the project will be somewhat novel, will extend the theoretical understanding of their previous work (or of the previous work of another researcher), and go well beyond any similar projects that they might have done in any of their previous courses.