{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:40:25","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/shepperd\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. James Shepperd<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/shepperd\/files\/Shepperd-2018-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:196px;height:auto\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professor of Psychology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:shepperd@ufl.edu\">shepperd@ufl.edu<\/a><br>\nPhone: (352) 273-2165<br>\nFAX: (352) 392-7985<br>\nOffice: 271 Psychology Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Mailing address:<br>\nDepartment of Psychology<br>\nUniversity of Florida<br>\nPO Box 112250<br>\nGainesville, FL 32611<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>My research expertise is in the area of Self and Self-processes. I am particularly interested in people\u2019s expectations about the future and how expectations persevere and change in the face of challenging information. I also explore how people respond when they receive challenging information. Most of my research focuses on three areas: 1) optimism, risk perceptions and behavior, 2) fluctuations in future outlooks, and 3) maintaining desired self-views. However, I also have an interest in psychological approaches to gun policy positions. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Please note, I am no longer accepting new post docs, graduate students, or undergraduate students in my lab.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1128,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/shepperd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/shepperd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/shepperd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/shepperd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/shepperd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/shepperd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/shepperd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/shepperd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}