University of Houston, Department of Psychology
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Welcome to the Personality, Emotion, & Social Cognition Lab! Our research focuses on Metaphors, Nostalgia, Meaning, Wrongness Admission, and a variety of topics that explore what makes humans tick. We are always interested in diving into new and exciting topics!
For more information and areas of research, please see our "About" page. 
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The PESC Lab is looking for new members. Could that be you?
Undergraduates, APPLY HERE
Check out Dr. Fetterman's Psychology Today blog: It's All a Metaphor
- Were the Doomsday Preppers Right? - 04/06/2021
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Where is Your Self Located?Where you locate your sense of self is predictive of your personality, decision-making, and behavioral tendencies.
Science of Us Fetterman & Robinson 
Check out the new blogpost at Character and Context about self-location and God-belief.
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David Brooks writing for The Atlantic discusses changing your mind. He cites our work on wrongness admission! See the article here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/03/to-get-happier-admit-when-youre-wrong/618245/ 
Brian Resnick of Vox was interested in intellectual humility. He interviewed Dr. Fetterman about our work on wrongness admission! See the article here:
Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong 
"Life is Different for those Who Think in Metaphors" Our work on metaphor use featured in BPS Research Digest
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Congrats to Dr. Fetterman for being designated an APS Rising Star!
New paper in press at Cognition and Emotion on mental transportation and nostalgia. Evans et al.
New paper in press at Journal of Personality and Social Psychology on the lexical derivation of the PINT taxonomy with the Wilkowski lab Wilkowski et al.
New paper in press at Social Psychology on the interpersonal functions of metaphor use Fetterman et al.
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