Intro

Welcome to the Open Mind Lab at the University of Bath. 

The core focus of our lab group is the study of epistemic emotions (e.g., awe, curiosity, interest, surprise), their commonalities and differences, as well as downstream consequences to (social) psychology. These are the topics that we are currently devoting most of our energy to.

More broadly, our mission is to understand the cognitive, affective and behavioural underpinnings of open-mindedness. Rather than being a unitary construct, open-mindedness is an umbrella term that covers a range of processes cutting across social and personality psychology (e.g., openness to experience, intellectual humility, attitude change) and emotion (e.g., interest, awe).