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Sam Glucksberg

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#1755

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#2091

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#976

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Cognitive Psychology

#341

World Rank

#355

Historical Rank

#95

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PhD Psychology University of Pennsylvania
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According to Wikipedia, Sam Glucksberg was a Canadian professor in the Psychology Department at Princeton University in New Jersey, known for his works on figurative language: metaphors, irony, sarcasm, and idioms. He is particularly known for manipulating the Candle Problem experiment which had participants figure out the best way to erect a candle on a wall. Along with performing experiments, Glucksberg has also written Understanding Figurative Language: From Metaphors to Idioms, published by Oxford University Press in 2001.

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Sam Glucksberg's Published Works

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Published Works

Understanding figurative language : from metaphors to idioms (2001) (834)
Understanding Metaphorical Comparisons: Beyond Similarity. (1990) (735)
Natural categories: Well defined or fuzzy sets? (1978) (447)
How to be sarcastic: The echoic reminder theory of verbal irony. (1989) (427)
The psycholinguistics of metaphor (2003) (381)
How about another piece of pie: the allusional pretense theory of discourse irony. (1995) (366)
On understanding nonliteral speech: Can people ignore metaphors? (1982) (352)
The Development of Communication: Competence as a Function of Age. (1969) (308)
Property attribution in metaphor comprehension (1997) (255)
Decision processes in verifying category membership statements: Implications for models of semantic memory (1979) (239)
On understanding metaphor: the role of context (1983) (189)
Referential communication in nursery school children: method and some preliminary findings. (1966) (181)
Understanding idiomatic expressions. The contribution of word meanings (1991) (172)
The influence of strength of drive on functional fixedness and perceptual recognition. (1962) (171)
Context can constrain lexical access: implications for models of language comprehension (1986) (167)
Metaphor and Thought: How metaphors work (1993) (159)
Does understanding negation entail affirmation?: An examination of negated metaphors (2006) (156)
Conventional Language: How Metaphorical Is It? (2000) (155)
When love is not a journey: What metaphors mean (1999) (146)
Decisions about Ignorance: Knowing That You Don't Know. (1981) (141)
Semantic productivity and idiom comprehension. (1994) (138)
Conceptual metaphors are not automatically accessed during idiom comprehension (1993) (130)
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought: How metaphors create categories – quickly (2008) (127)
Verbal behavior and problem solving: some effects of labeling in a functional fixedness problem. (1966) (122)
Memory for nonattended auditory material (1970) (119)
Beyond Literal Meanings: The Psychology of Allusion (1991) (115)
Social and Nonsocial Speech (1977) (108)
Inhibition of the Literal: Filtering Metaphor-Irrelevant Information During Metaphor Comprehension (2001) (106)
Reasoning about other people's beliefs: bilinguals have an advantage. (2012) (103)
Metaphors do not use associations between concepts, they are used to create them (1984) (86)
Do all ducks lay eggs? The generic overgeneralization effect (2011) (85)
Interactive property attribution in concept combination (2000) (76)
Conceptual distinctions amongst generics (2013) (74)
Understanding Metaphors (1998) (70)
Metaphor understanding and accessing conceptual schema : reply to Gibbs (1992) (1992) (70)
Metaphors in Conversation: How Are They Understood? Why Are They Used? (1989) (69)
Mental Representations: The Interface Between Language and Reality. (1990) (67)
Noise Localization after Unilateral Attenuation (1966) (63)
Psychological scaling of adjective orders (1971) (62)
Metaphor comprehension: How metaphors create new categories. (1997) (60)
Taxonomic word categories and memory search (1972) (59)
Commentary on Nonliteral Language: Processing and Use (1995) (58)
Metaphor and Communication (1992) (57)
Can Florida Become Like the Next Florida? (2006) (55)
Understanding idioms: Do visual images reflect figurative meanings? (1995) (49)
Concepts as Metaphors (2001) (44)
Grammatical structure and recall: A function of the space in immediate memory or of recall delay? (1969) (42)
Visual confusion matrices: fact or artifact? (1969) (42)
Linguistic structures and mental operations (1973) (39)
Feature accessibility in conceptual combination: Effects of context-induced relevance (2000) (39)
Older Adults Filter Irrelevant Information During Metaphor Comprehension (2002) (38)
Need satisfaction and Edwards PPS scores in married couples. (1960) (37)
Experimental Psycholinguistics: An Introduction (1975) (35)
Problem Solving: Response Competition and the Influence of Drive (1964) (35)
When Dogs Can Fly: Level of Abstraction as a Cue to Metaphorical Use of Verbs (2005) (34)
On the Description of Subcultural Lexicons: A Multidimensional Approach. (1970) (33)
Generics, Prevalence, and Default Inferences (2009) (32)
Inferences about members of kinds: The generics hypothesis (2012) (31)
Inhibition of the Literal: Metaphors and Idioms as Judgmental Primes (2000) (31)
Effects of discriminative labels and of nonsense labels upon availability of novel function (1968) (31)
Commentary: The functional equivalence of common and multiple codes (1984) (25)
Perception and mediation in concept learning. (1961) (24)
Conceptual Combinations: The Role of Similarity (1998) (24)
Do ducks lay eggs? How people interpret generic assertions (2007) (24)
WHAT DO PEOPLE SAY AFTER THEY HAVE LEARNED HOW TO TALK? STUDIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF REFERENTIAL COMMUNICATION1 (2016) (21)
Motivated Forgetting Mediated by Implicit Verbal Chaining: A Laboratory Analog of Repression (1967) (20)
Understanding Metaphors: The Paradox of Unlike Things Compared (2011) (19)
Psychological Scaling of Linguistic Properties (1970) (17)
Conceptual and linguistic distinctions between singular and plural generics (2009) (16)
Functional fixedness: problem solution as a function of observing responses (1964) (15)
Sensory deprivation as a drive operation: effects upon problem solving. (1967) (15)
Words in Utterance Contexts: Young Children Do Not Confuse the Meanings of Same and Different (1976) (14)
Rotary pursuit tracking with divided attention to cutaneous, visual and auditory signals. (1963) (12)
Effects of incentive and incentive-cue position on short-term retention (1966) (12)
On the Automaticity of Pragmatic Processes: a Modular Proposal (2004) (10)
Emotion language: A new synthesis? (2002) (10)
How People Use Context to Resolve Ambiguity: Implications for an Interactive Model of Language Understanding (1986) (9)
Functional fixedness: stimulus equivalence mediated by semantic-acoustic similarity. (1967) (8)
BRIEF VISUAL MEMORY AS A FUNCTION OF VISUAL AND ACOUSTIC CONFUSABILITY. (1967) (8)
What Influences Successful Communication? An Examination of Cognitive Load and Individual Differences (2019) (7)
Choice of Definite versus Indefinite Article as a Function of Sentence Voice and Reversibility (1976) (6)
Syllogistic reasoning with generic premises: The generic overgeneralization effect (2008) (6)
Motivation and Short-Term Retention: Evidence for Covert Rehearsal (1969) (5)
Where Have All the Theories Gone (1972) (4)
Sequential Memory: Keeping Track Performance as a Function of Information Exposure Time and Interstimulus Noise (1967) (4)
Not Seeing is Believing: Perception without Awareness. (1982) (3)
Can children's irrationality be experimentally demonstrated? (1981) (3)
Acquisition of form-class membership by syntactic position: Paradigmatic associations to nonsense syllables (1965) (3)
Effects of level of initial training on reversal shift performance and clustering in free recall: A test of the mediated association hypothesis (1968) (3)
Experimental Psycholinguistics (PLE: Psycholinguistics) : An Introduction (2013) (2)
Understanding idioms-the psychology of allusion (1990) (2)
Dialogue: Can two be cheaper than one? (2004) (2)
Reply to Weiner and Higgins: Motivated forgetting is not attributable to a confounding of original learning with retention (1969) (2)
Horizontal and vertical processes in problem solving (1961) (2)
When is love a journey-what metaphors and idioms mean (1991) (2)
Idioms From Metaphors to “Just Long Words”? (2001) (2)
A self-made straw man. (1968) (1)
Metaphor The Central Trope (2001) (1)
Contributions of word meanings to idiomatic meanings (1989) (1)
Afteword: The Discovery of Truth in Context: Comments on Faigman, Katskee, and Keil (2008) (1)
Examining the Multifaceted Nature of Psychology (1992) (1)
Social Psychology discovers a Social Phenomenon: Language. (1984) (1)
Beyond the Literal (2001) (1)
Modularity: Contextual interactions and the tractability of nonmodular systems (1985) (0)
DISCUSSION (1975) (0)
Conceptual metaphors in thought and language. (2014) (0)
EFFECTS OF THREAT OF PUNISHMENT ON MONITORING PERFORMANCE (1961) (0)
A METHOD FOR INCREASING EFFICIENCY OF DIAL CHECK READING (1963) (0)
False-belief reasoning and bilingualism (2013) (0)
Language and Speech, Dimly Perceived. (1977) (0)
Relevance and Feature Accessibility in Combined Concepts (2020) (0)
Book reviews (1977) (0)
Book Review: Psychology of Reasoming: Reasosming: Structure and Content (1974) (0)
Cognitive Aging Research: What Does It Say about Cognition? Aging?. (1985) (0)
Pitfalls, blind alleys and much more (2000) (0)
The ballistic mind: Salience trumps context. (2004) (0)
From speech perception to person perception? Not quite yet (1989) (0)
Bayesian Psychology (1973) (0)
Equivocation? No, skepticism. (1983) (0)
ANALYSIS OF MEMORY FOR CHANGING INFORMATION. (1965) (0)
Concept: A disjunctive category. (1968) (0)
Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Title (2007) (0)
Rules regulating inbreeding and marriage: Evolutionary or socioeconomic? (1991) (0)
Generics, prevalence, and default inferences - eScholarship (2009) (0)
When evolution isn’t enough: How cultures shape thought and language. (2015) (0)
Beyond Comparison Property Attribution (2001) (0)
Enns Joins Psych Sci Editorial Helm (1999) (0)
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS SPOTTING TECHNIQUES IN FIRE CONTROL A) A PILOT STUDY (1961) (0)
Book Review: The function and Nature of Imagery (1974) (0)
DISCUSSION (1976) (0)
Small Articles Fuel Big Debate (2012) (0)
Linguistics and Verbal Learning: Will Familiarity (FAM) Breed Contempt? (1980) (0)

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