Publications
Metz, K. E.; Cardace, A.; Wong, N.; Berson, E.; Ly, U.; Sisk-Hilton, S.; Metz, S. E.; & Wilson, M. R. (2019). Primary grade children’s capacity to understand microevolution: The power of leveraging their fruitful intuitions and engagement in scientific practices. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 28(4-5), 556-615.
Metz, S. E. (2017). Is epistemology a stance or a toolbox? Epistemological reasoning in adolescence. (Chapter 2 of Doctoral Dissertation). University of Pennsylvania.
Metz, S. E. (in preparation). The role of explanatory power in judging what to believe about evolution.
Metz, S. E; Eichstaedt, J.E.; Yaden, D.; Smith, L.; Buffone, A.; & Mellers, B. (in preparation). Here, we listen: Using Twitter language to characterize and measure actively open-minded thinking across the United States.
Daeun Park, A.; Yu, A.; Tsukayama, E.; Metz, S. E.; Crum, A.; Duckworth, A. (2017). Beliefs about stress buffer detrimental effects of adverse life events on perceived stress and self-control. Child Development.
Baron, J., Gurcay, B. & Metz, S. E. (2016). Reflective thought and actively open-minded thinking. In Toplak, M & Weller, J. (Eds.) Individual Differences in Judgment and Decision-Making: A Developmental Perspective. Psychology Press, Routledge.
Mellers, B.; Stone, E.; Atanasov, P.; Rohrbaugh, N.; Metz, S. E.; Ungar, L.; Bishop, M.; Horowitz, M.; Merkle, E.; & Tetlock, P. (2015). The psychology of intelligence analysis: Drivers of prediction accuracy in world politics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 21(1), 1-14.
Presentations
Metz, S. E. (7/6/2015) “Creationists’ Criteria for Credence: An account of the conflicting frameworks of evolution and creationism.” Symposium talk at the International Society for History and Philosophy of Social Science and Biology, Montreal.
Metz, S. E. (6/4/2015) “A Plea for Metaframeworks.” Poster presentation at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham, SC.
Metz, S. E. & Tetlock, P. E. (1/19/2013) “The Open-minded Hedgehog: Separating belief in basic principles from need for closure in the Hedgehog-Fox distinction.” Poster presentation at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Metz, S. E. (11/15/2013) “Seeking an ontology of open-mindedness.” Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision-Making, Toronto, Canada.
Research Interests
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Psychology of epistemology: how laypeople and scientists think about knowledge, justification, and disagreement, and how such conceptions influence how they develop, test, and adjust their beliefs.
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Developing and testing interventions for improving scientific thinking, with a focus on actively open-minded thinking and appropriate integration of the subjective and objective, individual and social aspects of knowledge construction.
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How culture, social affiliations, and relationships affect epistemic cognition, especially across lines of disagreement over facts and/or values.
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Developing theory and measures of actively open-minded thinking, as a framework for defining habits of critical thinking and understanding precursors and benefits.
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Philosophy of psychology: the ontology of constructs in social psychology, issues in operationalization, sociology of psychological research.
Society for Philosophy and Psychology [6/2013-present]
Society for Judgment and Decision Making [10/2013-present]
Ad hoc reviewer for European Journal of Social Psychology, Episteme, Journal of Judgment and Decision Making, Journal of Political Psychology. [10/2013-present]
Affiliations/Memberships
Phi Beta Kappa Society [5/2009-present]
Sigma Xi Research Society [5/2009-present]
Society for Personality and Social Psychology [12/2011-present]