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Adam Kent Fetterman
Address: Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park,
Colchester, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom
Cell Phone: +44 7497711792
Email:
Web: http://fettermanlab.weebly.com/
Citizenship: United States
EDUCATION
2013 Ph.D., Social/Personality & Health Psychology, North Dakota State University Dissertation: The benefits of metaphoric thinking: Using individual differences in metaphor usage to understand the utility of conceptual metaphors.
2010 M.S., Social/Personality & Health Psychology, North Dakota State University Thesis: I’m seeing red! Literally: The effect of metaphoric representation on perception.
2007 B.A., Psychology with Human Relations & Multicultural Education & Criminal Justice Minors, St. Cloud State University Honors: Summa Cum Laude
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 2016 – present (Forthcoming)
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Texas El Paso
September 2015 – August 2016
Lecturer (Equivalent to US Assistant Professor), Department of Psychology, University of Essex
August 2013 – August 2015
Postdoctoral Researcher, Knowledge Media Research Center, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM), Tübingen, Germany, Social Processes Laboratory
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg
August 2012 – August 2013
Graduate Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University
Supervisor: Professor Michael D. Robinson
August 2008 – August 2012
Graduate Research Asst., Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University
Supervisor: Professor Michael D. Robinson
RESEARCH INTERESTS
social cognition; personality; emotion; motivation; conceptual metaphor; wrongness admission; attitude change & persuasion; impression management; embodiment; decision-making; politics; religiosity/atheism; cooperation; linguistics; evolution; meta-science
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
*Undergraduate author
Sassenberg, K., Moskowitz, G. B., Fetterman, A. K., & Kessler, T. (in press). Priming creativity as a strategy to increase creative performance by facilitating the activation and use of remote associations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Fetterman, A. K. (2016). On god-belief and feeling clean: Feelings of cleanliness are associated with feelings and behavior in daily life, particularly for those high in god belief. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 7, 552-559.
Fetterman, A. K., *Bair, J. L., *Werth, M., Landkammer, F., & Robinson, M. D. (2016). The scope and consequences of metaphoric thinking: Using individual differences in metaphor usage to understand the utility of conceptual metaphors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 458-476.
Fetterman, A. K., *Bair, J. L., & Robinson, M. D. (2015). Submissive, inhibited, avoidant, and prone to escape: The correlates and consequences of crossing one’s arms. Motivation Science, 1, 37-46.
Fetterman, A. K., Boyd, R. L., & Robinson, M. D. (2015). Power versus affiliation in political ideology: Robust linguistic evidence for distinct motivational signatures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1195-1206.
Fetterman, A. K., *Kruger, N. & Robinson, M. D. (2015). Sex-linked mating strategies diverge with a manipulation of genital salience. Motivation and Emotion, 39, 99-103.
Fetterman, A. K., Liu, T., & Robinson, M. D. (2015). Extending color psychology to the personality realm: Red preferences and perceptual biases predict interpersonal hostility. Journal of Personality, 83, 106-116.
Fetterman, A. K., & Sassenberg, K. (2015). The reputational consequences of failed replications and wrongness admission among scientists. PLOS ONE, e0143723
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Ode, S. (2015). The incentive dynamics of power versus affiliation: Normative effects and their role in understanding interpersonal arrogance. European Journal of Personality, 29, 28-41.
Greving, H., Sassenberg, K., & Fetterman, A. K. (2015). Counter-regulating on the internet: Threat elicits preferential processing of positive information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 21, 287-299
Meier, B. P., Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2015). A large-sample replication attempt of Meier, Robinson, and Clore (2004). Social Psychology, 46, 174-178.
Meier, B. P., Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Lappas, C. M. (2015). The myth of the angry atheist. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 145, 219-238.
Robinson, M. D., Cassidy, D. M., Boyd, R. L., & Fetterman, A. K. (2015). The politics of time: Conservatives differentially reference the past and liberals differentially reference the future. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 7, 391-399.
Robinson, M. D. & Fetterman, A. K. (2015). The embodiment of success and failure as forward versus backward movements. PLOS ONE, 10, e0117285.
Sassenberg, K., Sassenrath, C., & Fetterman, A. K. (2015). Threat ≠ prevention, challenge ≠ promotion: The impact of threat, challenge, and regulatory focus on attention to negative stimuli. Cognition and Emotion, 29, 188-195
Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2014). What can metaphors tell us about personality? The Inquisitive Mind. Special Issue on Embodiment. http://www.in-mind.org/article/what-can-metaphors-tell-us-about-personality
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & *Gilbertson, E. P. (2014). Implicit self-importance in an interpersonal pronoun categorization task. Current Psychology, 33, 185-198.
Robinson, M. D., Boyd, R. L., & Fetterman, A. K. (2014). An emotional signature of political ideology: Evidence from two linguistic content coding studies. Personality and Individual Differences, 71, 98-102.
Robinson, M. D., & Fetterman, A. K. (2014). Toward a metaphor-enriched personality psychology. In: M. Landau, M. D. Robinson, & B. P. Meier (Eds.), The power of metaphor: Examining its influence on social life. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Fetterman, A. K., Bresin, K., & Robinson, M. D. (2013). Emotion repair and the direction of attention in aversive contexts: Evidence from an attention-demanding task. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 107-110.
Fetterman, A. K., Ode, S., & Robinson, M. D. (2013). For which side the bell tolls: The laterality of approach-avoidance semantic networks. Motivation and Emotion, 37, 33-38
Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2013). Do you use your head or follow your heart? Self-location predicts personality, emotion, decision making, and performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105, 316-334.
Robinson, M. D., Fetterman, A. K., Hopkins, K., & Krishnakumar, S. (2013). Losing one’s cool: Social competence is an inverse predictor of provocation-related aggression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 1268-1279.
Bresin, K., Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2012). Motor control accuracy: A consequential probe of individual differences in emotion regulation. Emotion, 12, 479-486.
Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2012). Interpersonal cognitive self-focus as a function of neuroticism: Basal tendencies and priming effects. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 527-531.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (2012). Anger as “Seeing Red”: Reaction time evidence for an implicit association. Cognition and Emotion, 26, 1445-1458.
Robinson, M. D., Ode, S., *Palder, S. L., & Fetterman, A. K. (2012). Explicit and implicit approach motivation interact to predict interpersonal arrogance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 858-869
Robinson, M. D., Wilkowski, B. M., Meier, B. P., Moeller, S. K. & Fetterman, A. K. (2012). Counting to ten milliseconds: Low anger, but not high anger, individuals pause following negative evaluations. Cognition and Emotion, 26, 261-281.
Boyd, R. L., Robinson, M. D., & Fetterman, A. K. (2011). Miller (1944) revisited: Movement times in relation to approach and avoidance conflicts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1192-1197.
Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2011). Routine cognitive errors: A trait-like predictor of individual differences in anxiety and distress. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 244-264.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., Gordon, R. D.. & Elliot, A. J. (2011). Anger as seeing red: Perceptual sources of evidence. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 312-317.
Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2010). Contingent self-importance among pathological narcissists: Evidence from an implicit task. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 691-697.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., Ode, S., & Gordon, K. H (2010). Neuroticism as a risk factor for behavioral dysregulation: A mindfulness-mediation perspective. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 29, 301-321.
Robinson, M. D., Moeller, S. K., & Fetterman, A. K. (2010). Neuroticism and responsiveness to error feedback: Adaptive self-regulation versus affective reactivity. Journal of Personality, 78, 1469-1496.
INVITED REVISIONS/RESUBMISSIONS
*Undergraduate author
Persich, M., Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2016). Drawn to the Light: Predicting Religiosity Using the “God is Light” Metaphor.
Scholl, A., de Wit, F., Scheepers, D., Ellemers, N., Sassenberg, K., & Fetterman, A. K. (2016). The burden of power: High power as responsibility (vs. opportunity) alters threat-challenge responses. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
*Undergraduate author
Fetterman, A. K., Juhl, J., Meier, B. P., Abeyta, A., Routledge, C. & Robinson, M. D. (2016). God is in my heart: A robust relationship between head/heart self-location and religiosity.
Fetterman, A. K., Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2016). The predictive power of the sweet taste metaphor for agreeableness and daily life.
Robinson, M. D., Boyd, R. L., & Fetterman, A. K. (2016). The mind versus the body in political (and non-political) discourse: Linguistic evidence for an ideological signature.
IN PROGRESS/PREPARATION
*Undergraduate author; **Master student under my supervision
Fetterman, A. K. (2016). Should a professor admit when s/he is wrong in a lecture? University professors are rated more positively, in a scenario, when they admit wrongness versus not.
Fetterman, A. K., & Boyd, R. L. (2016). Metaphor users are linguistically concrete versus abstract.
Fetterman, A. K., & Boyd, R. L. (2016). Is the Koran more angry and violent than the New Testament? A linguistic analysis of the holy books.
Fetterman, A. K., & Hellmann, J. (2016). What have we learned since metaphor enriched social cognition? An update, clarifications, and a response to criticisms.
Fetterman, A. K., Juhl, J., & Sassenberg, K. (2016). Your head is in the details: Differences in self-location predict implicit level of construal.
Fetterman, A. K., Rutjens, B., & Landkammer, F. (2016). Who are the Doomsday Preppers? A new measure and considerations for their impact on society.
Fetterman, A. K., & Muscanell, N. (2016). When you are wrong on Facebook, just admit it: The reputational consequences of wrongness admission in social media arguments.
Fetterman, A. K., & Sassenberg, K. (2016). Being wrong never felt so right: The emotional consequences of wrongness admission.
Fetterman, A. K., **Stolze, C., & Sassenberg, K. (2016). It’s ok, just admit it: The reputational effects of wrongness admission.
Juhl, J., Sedikides, C., & Fetterman, A. K. (2016). Consequences of self-location (head vs. heart) on social connectedness and psychological well-being.
COMMENTARY
Robinson, M. D., Fetterman, A. K., Hopkins, K., & Krishnakumar, S. (December, 2013). Social competence and not losing one’s cool. SPSP Connections. http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/social-competence-and-not-losing-ones-cool/
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND OTHER FUNDING
Funded
2016 Funder: British Academy/Leverhulme
Title: The Role of Metaphors in Understanding and Thinking
PI(s): Adam K. Fetterman
Amount: £10,000 over 24 months, starting April 2016
2012 –13 Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, North Dakota State University: $18,315 annually for 12 months
2012 College of Science and Mathematics Graduate Student Travel Grant: $250
2012 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Student Travel Award: $500
2006 Psychology Department Student Merit Award: $200
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer (all co-taught modules), University of Essex (2015-16)
Preparing for University, Fall term 2015
Psychology Careers & Employability, Fall & Spring Term 2015-2016
Social Psychology, Fall Term 2015
Advanced Social Psychology, Graduate Seminar, Fall Term 2015
Applied Psychology – I/O unit, Spring Term 2016
Special Topics in Social Psychology, Graduate Seminar, Spring Term 2016
Instructor, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (2014-15)
Advanced Topics: Metaphors, Mental Processes, & Task Performance, Summer Session 2015
Seminar: Personality at Work, Summer Session 2014
Instructor, North Dakota State University (2011-2012)
Research Methods II (incl. Lab), Summer Semester 2012
Social Interaction – Introduction to Social Psychology, Spring Semester 2011
Graduate Teaching Assistant, North Dakota State University (2009 & 2013)
Personality, Spring Semester 2013, Instructor: Michael Robinson
Personality, Spring Semester 2009, Instructor: Michael Robinson
Teaching Intern, Minnesota DOC – St. Cloud Correctional Facility (May 2007 – December 2007)
Foundations
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, St. Cloud State University, Dept. of Psychology (2006)
Theories of Personality, Summer Semester 2006, Instructor: Daren Protolipac
Intro to Psychology, Spring Semester 2006, Instructors: Drs. Kling, Melcher, & Protolipac
MENTORSHIP
Advisor for 3 Master’s Theses (2016)
Institution: University of Essex, Dept. of Psychology
Advisor for 5 Final Year Projects (2015-2016)
Institution: University of Essex, Dept. of Psychology
Advisor for Katja Sailer, Bachelor’s Thesis (2015)
Title: When you admit you are wrong, I feel better. The impact of wrongness admission on others. Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Dept. of Psychology
Advisor for Anja Lorenzen, Bachelor’s Thesis (2014-2015)
Title: Differential social consequences for wrongness admission among female and male supervisors. Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Dept. of Psychology
Advisor for Carmen-Alice Stolze, Master’s Thesis (2014)
Title: Will my subordinates think I’m a fool? The social consequences of wrongness admission at work. Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Dept. of Psychology
Advisor for Marc Werth, Bachelor’s Thesis (2014)
Title: Investigating the impact of a metaphor use intervention on depression. Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Dept. of Psychology
Co-Advisor for Jessica L. Bair, Honors Thesis (2013)
Title: Submissive, inhibited, avoidant, and prone to escape: The correlates and consequences of crossing one’s arms. Institution: North Dakota State University
Co-Advisor for Nicole N. Kruger, Honors Thesis (2013)
Title: Thinking with the genitals: Reproductive strategies as a function of genital attention and biological sex. Institution: North Dakota State University
Co-Advisor for Stephanie A. Nelson, Honors Thesis (2013)
Title: Dark and depressed: Preferences for darkness predict negative emotion. Institution: North Dakota State University
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Departmental Study Abroad Officer – University of Essex (2015-Present)
Employability Committee – University of Essex (2015-Present)
Consulting Editor: Journal of Research in Personality (2013-Present)
Associate Editor: In Mind Magazine (2013-2016)
Guest Action Editor: SAGE Open (2016)
Reviewer, 2013 SPSP Graduate Student Committee Poster of the Year Award (2012)
Co-Chair, Department of Psychology Health/Social Brown Bag Series, North Dakota State University (2011-2012)
News Editor, Social Psychology Eye, Personality and Social Psychology Compass (2009-2010)
Ad hoc reviewer (journals):
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Behavior Research Methods
Biology Letters
British Journal of Psychology
Cognition
Current Psychology
Educational Psychology
Experimental Psychology
European Journal of Personality
European Journal of Social Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Journal of Research in Personality
Learning and Individual Differences
Motivation and Emotion
Personality and Individual Differences
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
PLOS One
Psychiatry Research
Psychological Science
Self and Identity
WIREs Cognitive Science
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Ad hoc reviewer for a grant funding application, National Science Foundation
INVITED TALKS
Fetterman, A. K. (2016, February). Are Metaphors Useful? Invited talk at University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.
Fetterman, A. K. (2016, February). The Consequences of a Metaphoric Mind. Invited talk at University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Fetterman, A. K. (2015, January). What is the Utility of Conceptual Metaphors? Recent work on conceptual metaphor theory. Invited talk at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
Fetterman, A. K. (2014, November). What have metaphors done for you lately? Evidence for the utility of conceptual metaphors in emotional understanding. Invited talk at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
Fetterman, A. K. (2014, January). Do metaphors aid in understanding? A metaphor usage measure and its usefulness in testing important theoretical assumptions. Invited Talk at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Department of Psychology, Erlangen, Germany.
Fetterman, A. K. (2013, March). The role of metaphors in understanding emotion processing, and personality. Invited Talk at Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen, Germany.