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.