Dr. Shauna Bowes

She/Her/Hers Assistant Professor, Psychology

Contact

1310 Ben Graves Drive
Morton Hall
Room 208
Huntsville, AL 35899
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256.824.2321
shauna.bowes@uah.edu

Biography

Dr. Bowes is originally from Chattanooga, TN. She received her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University in Atlanta, GA in 2017. She loved her time at Emory as an undergraduate, so she stayed for her PhD, receiving her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology in 2023. She completed her clinical internship at the Emory University Child and Adolescent Mood Program. She most recently completed a National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Bowes' research centers around the individual differences factors that make people turn toward and away from accuracy and open-mindedness, with a particular focus on intellectual humility, misinformation, and polarization. Her clinical expertise is in OCD and exposure-based interventions. When she is not conducting research, engaging in clinical practice, or teaching, she enjoys traveling, being outside, spending time with loved ones, reading, and binge-watching reality TV.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Website

The TRUTH Lab

Education

  • PhD, Clinical Psychology, Emory University, 2023
  • MA, Clinical Psychology, Emory University, 2019
  • BS, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Emory University, 2017

Honors & Awards

  • Winner of the Cultural and Humanities Critiques of Positive Psychology Competition, MSTAR (2025)
  • Clinical Research Loan Repayment Award, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (2024)
  • Life Worth Living Cross-Training Fellow, Matheny Center for the Study of Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (MSTAR) (2024)
  • National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2023)
  • Student Research Award – Winner, Association for Psychological Science (APS) (2023)
  • Scott O. Lilienfeld Travel Award, APS (2023)
  • Intellectual Humility Reporting & Production Grant Science Advisor, Greater Good Science Center (2022)

Affiliations

  • The TRUTH Lab
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
  • Association for Psychological Science (APS)
  • Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC)
  • Psychonomic Society
  • Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA)
  • Cognitive Development Society (CDS)

Expertise

  • Personality psychology
  • Intellectual humility
  • Misinformation
  • Polarization
  • Attitudes and beliefs
  • Clinical psychology

Recent Publications

  • Bowes, S. M., & Fazio, L. K. (Stage 1 registered replication report accepted). Does repetition increase perceived truth equally for conspiracy and trivia statements?: A registered replication report. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

  • Bowes, S. M., & Novick, K., Lourenco, S. F., & Tasimi, A. (2025). Do children value intellectual humility over intellectual arrogance? Developmental Psychology.

  • Bowes, S. M., & Fazio, L. K. (2024). Intellectual humility and misinformation receptivity: A meta-analytic review. Advances in Psychology. In the From Vulnerability to Vigilance: Cultivating Psychological Resilience Against Misinformation and Conspiracy Beliefs special collection (Kunst, J. R., & Dovidio, J. F. (Eds.)).

  • Bowes, S. M., & Tasimi, A. (2024). Intellectual humility and belief extremity: Evidence for curvilinearity? Social Psychological and Personality Science.

  • Bowes, S. M., & Tasimi, A. (2024). How intellectual humility relates to political and religious polarization. Journal of Positive Psychology. Advanced online publication.

  • Bowes, S. M., Ringwood, A., & Tasimi, A. (2024). Is intellectual humility related to more accuracy and less overconfidence? Journal of Positive Psychology, 19, 538-555.

  • Bowes, S. M., Costello, T. H., & Tasimi, A. (2023). The conspiratorial mind: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 149, 259-293. *Selected as an Editor’s Choice from the American Psychological Association

  • Bowes, S. M., & Fazio, L. K. (2023). Are conspiracy theorists inaccurate, unmotivated to be accurate, or both?: A latent class analysis. Routledge Open Research. In the Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation special collection (Uscinski, J., Biddlestone, M., & Cavojova, V. (Eds.)).

  • Bowes, S. M., & Tasimi, A. (2023). Is intellectual humility “good” for people? Journal of Positive Psychology, 18, 205-253.

  • Bowes, S. M., Costello, T. H., Lee, C., McElroy-Heltzel, S., Davis, D. E., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2022). Stepping outside the echo chamber: Is intellectual humility associated with less political myside bias? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48, 150-164.