Adam K Fetterman
Biographic Data
| ID | 94908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam K Fetterman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam K |
| FAMILY NAME | Fetterman |
| SIGNATURE | FETTERMAN A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5957-7670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wrongness admission among religious leaders leads to positive interpersonal impressions.
The role of self-conscious emotions in everyday creativity: A daily diary study
Nostalgia in virtual reality
Shedding light on public perceptions of scientists who engage in wrongness admission amidst a failed replication
Admitting that one’s research findings are wrong involves admitting a potential instance of incompetence, which can keep scientists from engaging in wrongness admission. However, wrongness admission can yield favorable perceptions. In five experiments ( N = 2420), we tested whether wrongness admission yields higher perceived trustworthiness in the scientist and trust in science and discipline-specific research as well as public funding support fo…
I think God did it: An exploration of the daily thoughts, feelings, and events associated with God intervention beliefs
Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between personal narrative themes (human vs. computer coded) and hedonic and eudaimonic well-being
Toward a Comprehensive, Data-Driven Model of American Political Goals: Recognizing the “Values” and “Vices” Within Both Liberalism and Conservativism
When a person indicates they are “liberal” or “conservative,” an important part of what they are communicating is their goals for how they would like society to be structured. However, past theories have described these goals in dramatically different fashions, suggesting that either conservativism or liberalism reflects a divisive or unifying goal. To help overcome this impasse, we systematically compared a broad, representative sample of all po…
Comparing Justice-Involved and Community Adolescents’ Emotional Well-Being and Feelings of Social Connection During Covid-19: A Daily Diary Study of Adolescents’ Social Contact
This study utilizes 6 weeks of electronic daily diary self-assessments across more than 1 year of the COVID-19 pandemic to examine associations between adolescents’ phone and video social contact with friends, family, and others over time. The sample includes justice-involved juveniles adjudicated to probation or incarceration and a comparison community sample of never-arrested adolescents. Findings reveal that community youth did not demonstrate…
The Topics of Nostalgic Recall: The Benefits of Nostalgia Depend on the Topics That One Recalls
This research explores the intricate realm of nostalgia, employing advanced language analysis and the Event Reflection Task to systematically dissect the process of nostalgic recall. Through this methodological approach, distinct thematic elements are identified across 10 data sets ( N = 2,038). Eight recurrent topics in nostalgic content are unveiled, ranging from Family and Positive Affect to Longing and Place. The interplay of these thematic c…
Crime in your area: Use of neighborhood apps is associated with inaccurate perceptions of higher local crime rates
Be Daring and Cause Trouble
Like many others, the COVID-19 pandemic forced me to seriously consider the meaning and impact of my workof our work.Despite the clear and direct relevance of social psychology to everything surrounding the numerous global-level upheavals we have seen over the last decade, we have been relatively timid, hesitant, and, as a consequence, largely ignored.Why did we bring so little to the table when our insights were so desperately needed?It occurred…
Development and Validation of the Single-Item Mindfulness Scale (Sims)
Mindfulness is a focused attention to and acceptance of present experiences. Although several reliable and valid multi-item measures of trait mindfulness exist, researchers may sometimes want a short and quick measure of mindfulness. In this project, we developed and validated the Single-Item Mindfulness Scale (SIMS) to assess trait mindfulness. We conducted eight studies involving 3,125 adult and adolescent participants. The studies consisted of…
God is up? Replication and extension attempts of Meier et al. (2007)
Religiosity and the Naturalness Bias in Drug and Vaccine Choices
The New Testament vs. The Quran: Americans’ Beliefs About the Content of Muslim and Christian Holy Texts
The stereotypes and biases that people have about various religions may not be applied to just the individuals who belong to those religions, but to the belief systems themselves. We hypothesized that non-Muslim and Muslim Americans would demonstrate biased estimates about the language content of the Quran and New Testament holding positive views towards their relative ingroup and negative views towards the outgroup text. We used two samples ( N …
It Doesn’t Apply to Me, So It Isn’t Real: People Are Likely to Deny Science if It Contradicts Their Personality
When science contradicts people’s experiences, they often deny the science. Psychological science may be particularly prone to denialism because of its relatively high relevance to people’s lives. In two sets of studies ( N = 637 from university students and Mechanical Turk workers), we tested whether perceived and actual incongruence between one’s personality and scientific findings predict psychological discomfort and science denialism. Partici…
Metaphors for god: God is high, bright, and human in implicit tasks
God is important in the lives of many people, but God is not necessarily a physical thing for everyone. People use metaphors (e.g., “the man upstairs” or “God is the light”) that pair concrete concepts (high vertical space or brightness) with God in order to aid the understanding of this abstract concept. In three studies involving 294 participants and within-participants designs, we sought to determine if three metaphors for God (God is high, br…
What is the “opposite” of a value? A lexical investigation into the structure of generally undesirable goal content
OBJECTIVES: Past taxonomies of goal-content have focused (either exclusively or predominantly) on generally-desirable values, and they suggest that some values oppose other values. However, many goals are generally-undesirable (i.e., the average person is committed to avoiding them), and these "vices" have been under-studied. This is an important gap because other models suggest that the "opposite" of a value is actually a vice. METHODS: To fill …
When You Are Wrong on Facebook, Just Admit It: Wrongness Admission Leads to Better Interpersonal Impressions on Social Media
Intellectually humble behavior, like admitting when you are wrong, leads to better impression formation. However, online social networks (OSNs) have changed the impression formation process. We investigated the impact of wrongness admission on impression formation during an OSN argument. In four experiments ( N = 679), participants witnessed a user engage in wrongness admission, refuse to admit, or not respond, in an argument on a Facebook wall. …
Building on a Solid Foundation: Conceptual Mapping Informs Schemas for Relating to God
How do individuals manage to maintain strong emotional and personal relationships with God, despite the physical (and metaphysical) challenges posed by that task? Past studies show that individuals relate to God in characteristic ways based in part on their God concepts, the ways they internally represent the nature of God. The current manuscript summarizes research suggesting that these concepts arise in part through mapping processes involving …
Romantic nostalgia as a resource for healthy relationships
Nostalgia is an emotion that confers psychological benefits. The literature has neglected romantic nostalgia-that is, nostalgia specifically for past experiences shared with one's partner-and its potential advantages for relationships. We examined romantic nostalgia in one correlational study, two experiments, and one daily diary study ( N = 638). Romantic nostalgia was positively associated with greater relationship commitment, satisfaction, and…
Mental transportation mediates nostalgia’s psychological benefits
Nostalgizing confers social, existential, and self-oriented psychological benefits or functions. But how does the experience of nostalgia conduce to these functions? We propose that it does so, in part, through mental transportation, which involves mentally leaving one’s current space and transporting oneself into a past event. We addressed the role of mental transportation in one daily diary study and two experiments (N = 514). By assessing dail…
Drawn to the light: Predicting religiosity using “God is light” metaphor
On the Interpersonal Function of Metaphor Use: Daily Metaphor Use Fluctuates With Empathy and Perspective Taking
Empathy and perspective taking play important roles in interpersonal functioning. As prior research has linked metaphor use to emotional understanding, it is likely that metaphor use is also involved in empathy and perspective taking. In two daily diary studies ( N = 225; Obs. = 1,849), we predicted that on days in which empathy and perspective taking were high, participants would also report higher metaphor use. In Study 1, we found support for …
Lexical derivation of the Pint taxonomy of goals: Prominence, inclusiveness, negativity prevention, and tradition
1,396) supported the 4-factor structure of an abbreviated scale and found systematic differences in their relationships with past goal-content measures, the Big 5 traits, affect, and need satisfaction. This investigation provides a data-driven taxonomy of higher-order goal-content and opens up a wide variety of fascinating lines for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Romantic nostalgia as a resource for healthy relationships
Nostalgia is an emotion that confers psychological benefits. The literature has neglected romantic nostalgia-that is, nostalgia specifically for past experiences shared with one's partner-and its potential advantages for relationships. We examined romantic nostalgia in one correlational study, two experiments, and one daily diary study ( N = 638). Romantic nostalgia was positively associated with greater relationship commitment, satisfaction, and…
The scope and consequences of metaphoric thinking: Using individual differences in metaphor usage to understand how metaphor functions
People often think, feel, and behave metaphorically according to conceptual metaphor theory. There are normative sources of support for this theory, but individual differences have received scant attention. This is surprising because people are likely to differ in the frequency with which they use metaphors and, therefore, the frequency with which they experience the costs and benefits of metaphoric thinking. To investigate these ideas, a 5-study…
Priming creativity as a strategy to increase creative performance by facilitating the activation and use of remote associations
Do you use your head or follow your heart? Self-location predicts personality, emotion, decision making, and performance
The head is thought to be rational and cold, whereas the heart is thought to be emotional and warm. In 8 studies (total N = 725), we pursued the idea that such body metaphors are widely consequential. Study 1 introduced a novel individual difference variable, one asking people to locate the self in the head or the heart. Irrespective of sex differences, head-locators characterized themselves as rational, logical, and interpersonally cold, whereas…
The Mind Versus the Body in Political (and Nonpolitical) Discourse: Linguistic Evidence for an Ideological Signature in U.S. Politics
Ideological liberals may focus on mental operations to a greater extent than bodily operations, whereas this pattern may be reversed among conservatives. Although there are suggestive sources of evidence, prior research has not directly examined relations between political ideology and this mind–body distinction. The present investigation did so by content-coding texts using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count program and its cognitive and bodi…
Lexical derivation of the Pint taxonomy of goals: Prominence, inclusiveness, negativity prevention, and tradition
1,396) supported the 4-factor structure of an abbreviated scale and found systematic differences in their relationships with past goal-content measures, the Big 5 traits, affect, and need satisfaction. This investigation provides a data-driven taxonomy of higher-order goal-content and opens up a wide variety of fascinating lines for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
When You Are Wrong on Facebook, Just Admit It: Wrongness Admission Leads to Better Interpersonal Impressions on Social Media
Intellectually humble behavior, like admitting when you are wrong, leads to better impression formation. However, online social networks (OSNs) have changed the impression formation process. We investigated the impact of wrongness admission on impression formation during an OSN argument. In four experiments ( N = 679), participants witnessed a user engage in wrongness admission, refuse to admit, or not respond, in an argument on a Facebook wall. …
Building on a Solid Foundation: Conceptual Mapping Informs Schemas for Relating to God
How do individuals manage to maintain strong emotional and personal relationships with God, despite the physical (and metaphysical) challenges posed by that task? Past studies show that individuals relate to God in characteristic ways based in part on their God concepts, the ways they internally represent the nature of God. The current manuscript summarizes research suggesting that these concepts arise in part through mapping processes involving …
On the Interpersonal Function of Metaphor Use: Daily Metaphor Use Fluctuates With Empathy and Perspective Taking
Empathy and perspective taking play important roles in interpersonal functioning. As prior research has linked metaphor use to emotional understanding, it is likely that metaphor use is also involved in empathy and perspective taking. In two daily diary studies ( N = 225; Obs. = 1,849), we predicted that on days in which empathy and perspective taking were high, participants would also report higher metaphor use. In Study 1, we found support for …
Black and White as Valence Cues: A Large-Scale Replication Effort of
Replication efforts involving large samples are recommended in helping to determine the reliability of an effect. This approach was taken for a study from Meier, Robinson, and Clore (2004) , one of the first papers in social cognition guided by conceptual metaphor theory, which reported that evaluations were faster when word valence metaphorically matched (e.g., a word with a negative meaning in black) rather than mismatched (e.g., a word with a …
Neuroticism and Responsiveness to Error Feedback: Adaptive Self-Regulation Versus Affective Reactivity
Responsiveness to negative feedback has been seen as functional by those who emphasize the value of reflecting on such feedback in self-regulating problematic behaviors. On the other hand, the very same responsiveness has been viewed as dysfunctional by its link to punishment sensitivity and reactivity. The present 4 studies, involving 203 undergraduate participants, sought to reconcile such discrepant views in the context of the trait of neuroti…
Contingent self-importance among pathological narcissists: Evidence from an implicit task
Anger as Seeing Red: Perceptual Sources of Evidence
A class of metaphors links the experience of anger to perceptions of redness. Whether such metaphors have significant implications for understanding perception is not known. In Experiment 1, anger (versus sadness) concepts were primed and it was found that priming anger concepts led individuals to be more likely to perceive the color red. In Experiment 2, anger states were directly manipulated, and it was found that evoking anger led individuals …
Motor control accuracy: A consequential probe of individual differences in emotion regulation
Two studies (total N = 147) sought to model emotion-regulation processes in cognitive-motoric terms. Hostile or nonhostile thoughts were primed and, immediately following, individuals held a joystick as accurately as possible on a presented visual target. Study 1 revealed that the activation of hostile thoughts impaired motor control at low levels of agreeableness but facilitated motor control at high levels of agreeableness, consistent with emot…
Miller (1944) revisited: Movement times in relation to approach and avoidance conflicts
Emotion repair and the direction of attention in aversive contexts: Evidence from an attention-demanding task
Do you use your head or follow your heart? Self-location predicts personality, emotion, decision making, and performance
The head is thought to be rational and cold, whereas the heart is thought to be emotional and warm. In 8 studies (total N = 725), we pursued the idea that such body metaphors are widely consequential. Study 1 introduced a novel individual difference variable, one asking people to locate the self in the head or the heart. Irrespective of sex differences, head-locators characterized themselves as rational, logical, and interpersonally cold, whereas…
Extending Color Psychology to the Personality Realm: Interpersonal Hostility Varies by Red Preferences and Perceptual Biases
The color psychology literature has made a convincing case that color is not just about aesthetics, but also about meaning. This work has involved situational manipulations of color, rendering it uncertain as to whether color‐meaning associations can be used to characterize how people differ from each other. The present research focuses on the idea that the color red is linked to, or associated with, individual differences in interpersonal hostil…
Black and White as Valence Cues: A Large-Scale Replication Effort of
Replication efforts involving large samples are recommended in helping to determine the reliability of an effect. This approach was taken for a study from Meier, Robinson, and Clore (2004) , one of the first papers in social cognition guided by conceptual metaphor theory, which reported that evaluations were faster when word valence metaphorically matched (e.g., a word with a negative meaning in black) rather than mismatched (e.g., a word with a …
On God-Belief and Feeling Clean: Daily Experiences Are Related to Feeling Clean, Particularly for Those High in God-Belief
Recent work has shown robust associations between morality and cleanliness. However, it is not known whether this association is equally consequential for everyone. I predicted that individuals high (vs. low) in God-belief would be more likely to draw upon feelings of cleanliness to represent their moral concerns. To test this hypothesis, I used a 2-week daily sampling protocol. In an initial session, I measured participants’ ( N = 135) level of …
Priming creativity as a strategy to increase creative performance by facilitating the activation and use of remote associations
The scope and consequences of metaphoric thinking: Using individual differences in metaphor usage to understand how metaphor functions
People often think, feel, and behave metaphorically according to conceptual metaphor theory. There are normative sources of support for this theory, but individual differences have received scant attention. This is surprising because people are likely to differ in the frequency with which they use metaphors and, therefore, the frequency with which they experience the costs and benefits of metaphoric thinking. To investigate these ideas, a 5-study…
The Mind Versus the Body in Political (and Nonpolitical) Discourse: Linguistic Evidence for an Ideological Signature in U.S. Politics
Ideological liberals may focus on mental operations to a greater extent than bodily operations, whereas this pattern may be reversed among conservatives. Although there are suggestive sources of evidence, prior research has not directly examined relations between political ideology and this mind–body distinction. The present investigation did so by content-coding texts using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count program and its cognitive and bodi…
On Feeling Warm and Being Warm: Daily Perceptions of Physical Warmth Fluctuate With Interpersonal Warmth
Previous investigations have linked laboratory manipulations of physical warmth to momentary increases in interpersonal warmth. However, replication concerns have occurred in this area, and it is not known whether similar dynamics characterize daily functioning. Two daily diary studies (total N = 235) suggest an affirmative answer. On days in which participants felt physically warmer, they perceived themselves to be interpersonally warmer and mor…
The path to God is through the heart: Metaphoric self-location as a predictor of religiosity
Metaphors linking the heart to warm intuition and the head to cold rationality may capture important differences between people because some locate the self in the heart and others locate the self in the head. Five studies (total N = 2575) link these individual differences to religious beliefs. Study 1 found that religious beliefs were stronger among heart-locators than head-locators. Studies 2 and 3 replicated this relationship in more diverse s…
Lexical derivation of the Pint taxonomy of goals: Prominence, inclusiveness, negativity prevention, and tradition
1,396) supported the 4-factor structure of an abbreviated scale and found systematic differences in their relationships with past goal-content measures, the Big 5 traits, affect, and need satisfaction. This investigation provides a data-driven taxonomy of higher-order goal-content and opens up a wide variety of fascinating lines for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Mental transportation mediates nostalgia’s psychological benefits
Nostalgizing confers social, existential, and self-oriented psychological benefits or functions. But how does the experience of nostalgia conduce to these functions? We propose that it does so, in part, through mental transportation, which involves mentally leaving one’s current space and transporting oneself into a past event. We addressed the role of mental transportation in one daily diary study and two experiments (N = 514). By assessing dail…
Drawn to the light: Predicting religiosity using “God is light” metaphor
On the Interpersonal Function of Metaphor Use: Daily Metaphor Use Fluctuates With Empathy and Perspective Taking
Empathy and perspective taking play important roles in interpersonal functioning. As prior research has linked metaphor use to emotional understanding, it is likely that metaphor use is also involved in empathy and perspective taking. In two daily diary studies ( N = 225; Obs. = 1,849), we predicted that on days in which empathy and perspective taking were high, participants would also report higher metaphor use. In Study 1, we found support for …
It Doesn’t Apply to Me, So It Isn’t Real: People Are Likely to Deny Science if It Contradicts Their Personality
When science contradicts people’s experiences, they often deny the science. Psychological science may be particularly prone to denialism because of its relatively high relevance to people’s lives. In two sets of studies ( N = 637 from university students and Mechanical Turk workers), we tested whether perceived and actual incongruence between one’s personality and scientific findings predict psychological discomfort and science denialism. Partici…
Metaphors for god: God is high, bright, and human in implicit tasks
God is important in the lives of many people, but God is not necessarily a physical thing for everyone. People use metaphors (e.g., “the man upstairs” or “God is the light”) that pair concrete concepts (high vertical space or brightness) with God in order to aid the understanding of this abstract concept. In three studies involving 294 participants and within-participants designs, we sought to determine if three metaphors for God (God is high, br…
What is the “opposite” of a value? A lexical investigation into the structure of generally undesirable goal content
OBJECTIVES: Past taxonomies of goal-content have focused (either exclusively or predominantly) on generally-desirable values, and they suggest that some values oppose other values. However, many goals are generally-undesirable (i.e., the average person is committed to avoiding them), and these "vices" have been under-studied. This is an important gap because other models suggest that the "opposite" of a value is actually a vice. METHODS: To fill …
When You Are Wrong on Facebook, Just Admit It: Wrongness Admission Leads to Better Interpersonal Impressions on Social Media
Intellectually humble behavior, like admitting when you are wrong, leads to better impression formation. However, online social networks (OSNs) have changed the impression formation process. We investigated the impact of wrongness admission on impression formation during an OSN argument. In four experiments ( N = 679), participants witnessed a user engage in wrongness admission, refuse to admit, or not respond, in an argument on a Facebook wall. …
Building on a Solid Foundation: Conceptual Mapping Informs Schemas for Relating to God
How do individuals manage to maintain strong emotional and personal relationships with God, despite the physical (and metaphysical) challenges posed by that task? Past studies show that individuals relate to God in characteristic ways based in part on their God concepts, the ways they internally represent the nature of God. The current manuscript summarizes research suggesting that these concepts arise in part through mapping processes involving …
Romantic nostalgia as a resource for healthy relationships
Nostalgia is an emotion that confers psychological benefits. The literature has neglected romantic nostalgia-that is, nostalgia specifically for past experiences shared with one's partner-and its potential advantages for relationships. We examined romantic nostalgia in one correlational study, two experiments, and one daily diary study ( N = 638). Romantic nostalgia was positively associated with greater relationship commitment, satisfaction, and…
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