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D-Index
48
Citations
22713
World Ranking
5781
National Ranking
3128

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Lance J. Rips is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research work spans primarily within the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a focus on subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their academic contributions include research on various psychological and cognitive topics, notably Child and Animal Learning Development, Emotions and Moral Behavior, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Psychological and Educational Research Studies, Categorization, perception, and language, as well as Memory and Neural Mechanisms and Memory Processes and Influences.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Possible Objects: Topological Approaches to Individuation, 2020, published in Cognitive Science
  • The Capacity Limit of Personal Identity, 2020, published in Journal of Vision
  • How do we regard fictional people? How do they regard us?, 2023, published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Substances as a core domain, 2024, published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Is personal identity intransitive?, 2024, published in Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Frequent co-authors working alongside Lance J. Rips in their research include:

  • Julian De Freitas
  • Fabrizio Cariani
  • George A. Alvarez
  • Meghan Salomon-Amend
  • Susan J. Hespos

The scientist's work has appeared in various academic journals, reflecting a broad scope of research interests. These publication venues include:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Journal of Vision
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Lance J. Rips received the distinction of being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2008.

Best Publications

  • The Psychology of Survey Response

    Roger Tourangeau;Lance J. Rips;Kenneth A. Rasinski

  • Structure and process in semantic memory: A featural model for semantic decisions.

    Edward E. Smith;Edward J. Shoben;Lance J. Rips

  • Answering autobiographical questions: the impact of memory and inference on surveys

    Norman M. Bradburn;Lance J. Rips;Steven K. Shevell

  • Semantic distance and the verification of semantic relations

    Lance J. Rips;Edward J. Shoben;Edward E. Smith

  • Similarity, typicality, and categorization

    Lance J. Rips

  • Inductive judgments about natural categories

    Lance J. Rips

  • Cognitive Processes in Propositional Reasoning.

    Lance J. Rips

  • The Psychology of Proof: Deductive Reasoning in Human Thinking

    Lance J. Rips

  • Combining prototypes: A selective modification model.

    Edward E. Smith;Daniel N. Osherson;Lance J. Rips;Margaret Keane

  • Psychological connectedness and intertemporal choice.

    Daniel M. Bartels;Lance J. Rips

  • The Subjective Dates of Natural Events in Very-Long-Term Memory

    Norman R Brown;Lance J Rips;Steven K Shevell

  • Explanation and evidence in informal argument

    Sarah K. Brem;Lance J. Rips

  • Combining Prototypes: A Selective Modification Model

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  • From numerical concepts to concepts of number.

    Lance J. Rips;Amber Bloomfield;Jennifer Asmuth

  • The Current Status of Research on Concept Combination

    Lance J. Rips

  • Two Kinds of Reasoning

    Lance J. Rips

  • Memory for routines

    James A. Galambos;Lance J. Rips

  • Interpreting and evaluating metaphors

    Roger Tourangeau;Lance Rips

  • Similarity as an explanatory construct

    Steven A Sloman;Lance J Rips

  • Folk Psychology of Mental Activities

    Lance J. Rips;Frederick G. Conrad

  • Public memories and their personal context

    Norman R. Brown;Steven K. Shevell;Lance J. Rips

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger Tourangeau
Roger Tourangeau Westat (United States)
Frederick G. Conrad
Frederick G. Conrad University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Douglas L. Medin
Douglas L. Medin Northwestern University
Edward E. Smith
Edward E. Smith Columbia University
Steven A. Sloman
Steven A. Sloman Brown University
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Daniel N. Osherson
Daniel N. Osherson Princeton University
Jeremy N. Bailenson
Jeremy N. Bailenson Stanford University
George A. Alvarez
George A. Alvarez Harvard University
Margaret M. Keane
Margaret M. Keane Boston University

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