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Adam Kent Fetterman
Address: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso,
500 W University Ave., El Paso, Texas 79902
Dept. Phone: 915-747-5551
Email:
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Citizenship: United States
EDUCATION
2013Ph.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.
2010M.S., Social/Personality & Health Psychology, North Dakota State University Thesis: I’m seeing red! Literally: The effect of metaphoric representation on perception.
2007B.A., Psychology with Human Relations & Multicultural Education Criminal Justice Minors, St. Cloud State University Honors: Summa Cum Laude
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 2016 – present
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-InstitutfürWissensmedien (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; intellectual humility; embodiment; decision-making; politics; religiosity/atheism; cooperation; linguistics; evolution; dialogue; meta-science
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
*Undergraduate author
Robinson, M. D., Boyd, R. L., Fetterman, A. K., & Persich, M. R. (in press). The mind versus the body in political (and non-political) discourse: Linguistic evidence for an ideological signature in United States politics. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
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.
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.
COMMENTARY
Robinson, M. D., Fetterman, A. K., Hopkins, K., & Krishnakumar, S. (December, 2013). Social competence and not losing one’s cool. SPSP Connections.
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND OTHER FUNDING
Funded
2016Funder: 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
2012College of Science and Mathematics Graduate Student Travel Grant: $250
2012Society for Personality and Social Psychology Student Travel Award: $500
2006Psychology Department Student Merit Award: $200
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, University of Texas (2016-Present)
Social Psychology, Fall ’16, Spring ‘17
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 KarlsUniversitätTübingen (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
COMMITTEES AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Graduate Planning Committee – Student Policies & Handbook (2016-Present)
Committee for the Advancement and Retention of Faculty (2016-Present)
Departmental Study Abroad Officer – University of Essex (2015-2016)
Employability Committee – University of Essex (2015-2016)
SERVICE TO THE FIELD
Associate Editor: Social Psychology (2016-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
Translational Issues in Psychological Science
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). The Consequences of a Metaphoric Mind. Invited talk at University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.
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.
Fetterman, A. K. (2013, February). Conceptualmetaphor theory, emotion processing, and personality. Invited Talk at Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
*Undergraduate author
Fetterman, A. K., Hussain, S., & Warbrick, J. (October, 2016). The correlates of metaphor use in a daily diary study. Paper presented at the ARMADILLO: The Southwest Cognition Conference, El Paso, Texas.
Robinson, M. D., & Fetterman, A. K. (May, 2016). Follow your heart: Self-location and religious belief. Paper presented at the Choice Symposium, Lake Louise, Canada.
Fetterman, A. K. (2016, April). On metaphor and meaning: Metaphors as meaning structures and sources of meaning in life. Invited paper presented at the Meaning of Meaning: An Exploration of the Psychology of Purpose conference, Barcelona, Spain. Hosted by Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs
Fetterman, A. K., & Sassenberg, K. (2015, February). Being wrong never felt so right: Wrongness admission leads to reduced emotional arousal. Paper presented as a Data Blitz at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Sassenberg, K., Fetterman, A., *Krebs, M., Neugebauer, J., & Ray, D. (2014, September). Stolzmachtschlank: WieEmotionengegenüberdemeigenenKörper die Gewichtsregulationbeeinflussen. 49. Kongress der DeutschenGesellschaftfürPsychologie. Bochum.
Robinson, M. D., Fetterman, A. K., & Meier, B. P. (February, 2014). Is a sweet person a nice person? A metaphor we live by.Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Fetterman, A. K. (2014, June). What happens when you admit that you are wrong? Preliminary findings related to arousal, emotion, and person perception.Paper presented at the Annual Ulm-Tübingen Social Psychology Exchange, Ulm University, Department of Psychology, Ulm, Germany.
Fetterman, A. K. (2013, May). The benefits of metaphoric thinking: Using individual differences in metaphor usage to understand the utility of conceptual metaphors.Paper presented at the North Dakota State University, Department of Psychology, Colloquium Series, Fargo, ND.
*Bair, J. L., Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2013, April). Submissive, inhibited, avoidant, and prone to escape: The correlates and consequences of crossing one’s arms.Paper presented at the 27th Annual Red River Psychology Conference, Fargo, ND.
*Kruger, N. N., Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2013, April). Thinking with the genitals: Reproductive strategies as a function of genital attention and biological sex.Paper presented at the 27th Annual Red River Psychology Conference, Fargo, ND.
*Nelson, S. A., Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2013, April). Dark and depressed: Preferences for darkness predict negative emotion.Paper presented at the 27th Annual Red River Psychology Conference, Fargo, ND.
Fetterman, A. K. (2013, March). The role of metaphors in emotion processing and personality.Paper presented at the North Dakota State University, Department of Psychology, Social/Health Brown Bag Series, Fargo, ND.
Robinson, M. D., Fetterman, A. K., & Meier, B. P. (May, 2013). A role for sweet tastes in the embodiment of prosocial motivation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Motivation (SSM), Washington, DC.
Fetterman, A. K. (2012, March). Are you in your head or in your heart? Metaphoric self-location as a predictor of psychological outcomes. Paper presented at the North Dakota State University, Department of Psychology, Social/Health Brown Bag Series, Fargo, ND.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (2012, January). The head is rational and the heart is emotional: Metaphor-consistent effects of an embodied manipulation.Paper presented as a Hot Topic Talk at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Embodiment Pre-Conference, San Diego, CA.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., Gordon, R. D., & Elliot A. J. (2011, January). Anger as seeing red: Perceptual sources of evidence. Paper presented as a Hot Topic Talk at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Embodiment Pre-Conference, San Antonio, TX.
Robinson, M. D., Fetterman, A. K., & Ode, S. (2011, January). If neuroticism is the poison, mindfulness is the antidote: Findings from personality studies.Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Fetterman, A. K. (2010, October). You are the most important person in the room……until you are not: Contingent self-importance among pathological narcissists. Paper presented at the North Dakota State University, Department of Psychology, Social/Health Brown Bag Series, Fargo, ND.
Fetterman, A. K. (2010, May). I’m seeing red! Literally: The effect of metaphoric representation on perception.Paper presented at the North Dakota State University, Department of Psychology, Colloquium Series, Fargo, ND.
Fetterman, A. K. (2010, February). Anger and red: The effect of metaphoric representation on implicit associations and perception. Paper presented at the North Dakota State University, Department of Psychology, Social/Health Brown Bag Series, Fargo, ND.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Persich, M.R., Steinemann, B., Fetterman, A.K., & Robinson, M.D. (January, 2016). Predicting religiosity using the “god is light metaphor”. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Meier, B. P., Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D., (2015, February). Black and white as valence cues: Using mTurk and Inquisit to engage in a large sample replication effort of a reaction time study. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Sassenberg, K., Sassenrath, Scholl, & Fetterman, A. K., (2015, February). The relation between regulatory focus and threat vs. challenge: Outcomes of and transitions between states. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2014, July). Are metaphors helpful for understanding our experiences? Measuring metaphor usage and testing important theoretical assumptions. Poster presented at the European Association of Social Psychology: General Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Fetterman, A. K., & Robinson, M. D. (2014, February). Do metaphors help us understand our experiences? A metaphor usage measure and its utility in theory testing. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (2013, January). Are you in your head or your heart?: Metaphoric self-locations and their consequences. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Boyd, R. L., Robinson, M. D., & Fetterman, A. K. (2012, January). Stuck between a rock and a hard place: Avoidance conflicts are more difficult to resolve than approach conflicts. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Gordon, R. D. (2012, July). Seeing Red: Anger and the perception of red. Poster presented at the IDeA States Mini-Conference on Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience, Fargo, ND.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (2012, January). Go with your heart or use your head?: When body organs become decision making structures. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Meier, B. P., Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Lappas, C. M. (2012, January). The myth of the angry atheist. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., Gordon, R. D., & Elliot A. J. (2011, January). “Seeing red again”: Anger and its effects on perception. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P (2010, January). “I’m so angry I’m seeing red!: Reaction time evidence for an implicit association. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Protolipac, D. S., Rajkhowa, R., Fetterman, A. K., Stambaugh, M., Priebe, M., & Vraa, J. (2007, May). Examining the impact of off-the-job interactions on job attitudes. Poster presented at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York, NY.