Staff profile
Overview
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Dr Jonathon McPhetres
Assistant Professor
| Affiliation |
|---|
| Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology |
| Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing |
Biography
**I am accepting applications for MRes students.**
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MIT, 2020
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Regina, 2020
Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology, University of Rochester, 2019
M.A. in Social-Personality Psychology, University of Rochester, 2017
M.A. in Experimental Psychology, University of Texas (Permian Basin), 2014
Research Profile
I take a "systems biology" approach to understanding human psychology.
I'm interested in understanding whether higher-order social and cognitive functions can be connected to basic biological processes. I use physiological methods to understand what is happening in our bodies when we experience emotions and stress. My main area of research right now is emotional piloerection in humans.
Research interests
- Emotion
- Proteomics
- Pseudoscience and misinformation
- Psychophysiology
- Religion
- Science communication
- Systems Biology
- Piloerection
Publications
Journal Article
- McPhetres, J., Rutjens, B., Weinstein, N., & Brisson, J. (online). Modifying attitudes about modified foods: increased knowledge leads to more positive attitudes. Journal of Environmental Psychology,
- McPhetres, J. (online). Oh, the things you don’t know: Awe promotes awareness of knowledge gaps and science interest. Cognition and Emotion,
- McPhetres, J., & Zuckerman, M. (online). Religiosity predicts negative attitudes towards science and lower levels of science literacy. PLoS ONE,
- McPhetres, J., Gao, H. H., Kemp, N., & Khati, B. (2024). Piloerection persists throughout repeated exposure to emotional stimuli. PLoS ONE, 19(9), Article e0309347. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309347
- McPhetres, J. (2024). Diverse stimuli induce piloerection and yield varied autonomic responses in humans. Biology Open, 13(8), Article bio060205. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.060205
- McPhetres, J., Han, A., Gao, H. H., Kemp, N., Khati, B., Pu, C. X., Smith, A., & Shui, X. (2024). Individuals lack the ability to accurately detect emotional piloerection. Psychophysiology, 61(9), Article e14605. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14605
- Većkalov, B., Zarzeczna, N., McPhetres, J., van Harreveld, F., & Rutjens, B. T. (2024). Psychological Distance to Science as a Predictor of Science Skepticism Across Domains. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50(1), 18–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221118184
- Pennycook, G., Bago, B., & McPhetres, J. (2023). Science beliefs, political ideology, and cognitive sophistication. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(1), 80-97. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001267
- Pennycook, G., McPhetres, J., Bago, B., & Rand, D. G. (2022). Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(5), 750-765. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211023652
- McPhetres, J., & Zickfeld, J. H. (2022). The physiological study of emotional piloerection: A systematic review and guide for future research. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 179, 6-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.06.010
- Kotzur, P., Stricker, J., Fricke, R., McPhetres, J., & Meyer, B. (2022). How does team diversity relate to the willingness to collaborate with asylum seekers? It depends on the diversity dimensions investigated and boundary conditions. PLoS ONE, 17(3), Article e0266166. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266166
- Tierney, W., Hardy, J., Ebersole, C. R., Viganola, D., Clemente, E. G., Gordon, M., Hoogeveen, S., Haaf, J., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Pfeiffer, T., Huang, J. L., Vaughn, L. A., DeMarree, K., Igou, E. R., Chapman, H., Gantman, A., Vanaman, M., Wylie, J., Storbeck, J., …Uhlmann, E. L. (2021). A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104060
- McPhetres, J., & Shtulman, A. (2021). Piloerection is not a reliable physiological correlate of awe. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 159, 88-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.11.011
- McPhetres, J., Rand, D. G., & Pennycook, G. (2021). Character deprecation in fake news: Is it in supply or demand?. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 24(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220965709
- McPhetres, J., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Barbosa Mendes, A., Chow, E. C., Gonzalez-Marquez, P., Loukras, E., Maus, A., O’Mahony, A., Pomareda, C., Primbs, M. A., Sackman, S. L., Smithson, C. J., & Volodko, K. (2021). A decade of theory as reflected in Psychological Science (2009–2019). PLoS ONE, 16(3), Article e0247986. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247986
- Većkalov, B., Zarzeczna, N., Niehoff, E., McPhetres, J., & Rutjens, B. T. (2021). A matter of time… consideration of future consequences and temporal distance contribute to the ideology gap in climate change scepticism. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 78, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101703
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