University of Houston, Department of Psychology
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Welcome to the Personality, Emotion, & Social Cognition Lab! Our research focuses on Metaphors, Nostalgia, Wrongness Admission, and a variety of topics exploring what makes humans tick. We are always interested in exploring 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?
PESC Lab in the News |
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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 |
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
Fetterman et al. |
New Blog Post!
Daily Diary data during US Election 2016 
New paper in press at Personality and Individual Differences on the willingness to admit wrongness. Fetterman et al. 2019
New paper in press at Cognition and Emotion on light/dark preferences and neuroticism and negative affect Persich et al.
New paper in press at Psychology of Religion and Spirituality on light/dark preferences and religiosity Persich et al.
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