Research
Papers
Two decades of peer-reviewed research on language, metaphor, judgment, and how people reason about complex issues. Filter by topic.
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2024
The psychology of framing: How everyday language shapes the way we think, feel, and actPDF →
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2023
Why is Mother Earth on life support? Metaphors in environmental discoursePDF →
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2023
Things are looking up: Vertical eye gaze in the environment affects perceptions of emotional valence in sad facesPDF →
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2023
How metaphor and political ideology shape lay theories of mental disordersPDF →
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2022
On intersectionality: visualizing the invisibility of Black womenPDF →
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2022
Even simple framing effects are rationalPDF →
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2022
Metaphor and elaboration in contextPDF →
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2022
Psychologically-informed chain-of-thought prompts for metaphor understanding in large language modelsPDF →
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2022
Metaphor and the scientific method: Why Lacan's perspective isn't helpful yetPDF →
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2021
Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesisPDF →
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2020
Effects of communication modality and speaker identity on metaphor framingPDF →
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2020
Implicit structure in sensory metaphors of personalityPDF →
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2020
Word aversion and consumer behaviorPDF →
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2020
A connectionist account of the relational shift and context sensitivity in the development of generalisationPDF →
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2019
Studying variation in political metaphor: From discourse analysis to experimentPDF →
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2019
Variation in methods for studying political metaphor: Comparing experiments and discourse analysisPDF →
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2019
A journey through variation in political metaphorPDF →
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2019
The role of metaphor in communication and thoughtPDF →
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2018
Compound words reflect cross-culturally shared bodily metaphorsPDF →
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2018
Are subjective ratings of metaphors a red herring? The big two dimensions of metaphoric sentencesPDF →
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2018
War metaphors in public discoursePDF →
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2017
How linguistic metaphor scaffolds reasoningPDF →
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2017
Metaphorical accounting: How framing the federal budget like a household's affects voting intentionsPDF →
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2017
Metaphors for the war (or race) against climate changePDF →
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2017
The metaphor police: A case study of the role of metaphor in explanationPDF →
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2017
The function of metaphor framing, deliberate or otherwise, in a social worldPDF →
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2017
The earth is our home: Systemic metaphors to redefine our relationship with naturePDF →
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2017
Solving the puzzle to reach the summit: Using metaphor to gauge public perceptions of sciencePDF →
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2017
Head and heart metaphors for moral decision making: Conceptual or communicative?PDF →
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2017
Narratives for obesity: Effects of weight loss and attribution on empathy and policy supportPDF →
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2017
Lay theories of obesity: Causes and consequencesPDF →
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2016
Extended metaphors are the home runs of persuasion: Don't fumble the phrasePDF →
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2016
A moist crevice for word aversion: In semantics not soundsPDF →
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2016
Context, but not proficiency, moderates the effects of metaphor framing: A case study in IndiaPDF →
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2016
Systems thinking and environmental concernPDF →
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2016
The mind is an ecosystem: Systemic metaphors promote systems thinkingPDF →
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2015
Measuring effects of metaphor in a dynamic opinion landscapePDF →
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2015
The depression schema: How labels, features, and causal explanations affect lay conceptions of depressionPDF →
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2015
The wished-for always wins until the winner was inevitable all along: Motivated reasoning and belief bias regulate emotion during electionsPDF →
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2015
The relationship between narrative classification of obesity and support for public policy interventionsPDF →
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2015
Situating a measure of systems thinking in a landscape of psychological constructsPDF →
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2015
Comparing metaphors reveals their persuasive capacityPDF →
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2015
Framing effects and the folk psychiatry of addictionPDF →
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2013
Natural language metaphors covertly influence reasoningPDF →
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2013
An emergent approach to analogical inferencePDF →
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2012
How metaphor shapes thought (doctoral dissertation)PDF →
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2011
Metaphors we think with: The role of metaphor in reasoningPDF →
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2011
Metaphor aptness and conventionality: A processing fluency accountPDF →
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2011
On the emergence of analogical inferencePDF →
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2010
A connectionist approach to embodied conceptual metaphorPDF →
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2009
When a bad metaphor may not be a victimless crime: The role of metaphor in social policyPDF →
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2008
Productive figurative communication: Conventional metaphors facilitate the comprehension of related novel metaphorsPDF →