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Journal Articles Updated July 2011

Book chapters and other publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES ON CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIZATION

bulletHampton, J.A., Aina, B., Andersson, J.M., Mirza, H., & Parmar, S. (2011). The Rumsfeld Effect: the Unknown Unknown. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition, in press. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A., Dillane, M., Oren, L., and Worgan, L. (2011). Conjunctions of Social Categories Considered from Different Points of View. Anthropology and Philosophy (in press). PDF
bulletHampton, J.A., Passanisi, A., & Jönsson, M.L. (2011). The Modifier Effect and Property Mutability. Journal of Memory and Language, 64, 233-248.PDF
bulletHeussen, D., Voorspoels, W., Verheyen, S., Storms, G., & Hampton, J.A. (2011). Raising argument strength using negative evidence: A constraint on models of induction. Memory & Cognition, in press. PDF
bulletJönsson, M.L. & Hampton, J.A. (2011). The modifier effect in within-category induction. Default inheritance in complex noun phrases. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26 (in press). PDF
bulletThompson, E.H., & Hampton, J.A. (2011). The Effect of Relationship Status on Communicating Emotions through Touch. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 295-306. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2010). Concept talk cannot be avoided. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 212-213. PDF
bulletVerheyen, S., Hampton, J.A., & Storms, G. (2010). A probabilistic threshold model: Analyzing semantic categorization data with the Rasch model. Acta Psychologica, 135, 216-225. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A., Storms, G., Simmons, C.L., & Heussen, D. (2009). Feature Integration in Natural Language Concepts. Memory & Cognition, 37, 1721-30. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2008) Context, categories and modality: Challenges for the Rumelhart model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 716-717. PDF
bulletJönsson, M.L. & Hampton, J.A. (2008). On prototypes as defaults. (Comment on Connolly, Fodor, Gleitman and Gleitman, 2007). Cognition, 106, 913-923. PDF
bulletMolesworth, C.J., Bowler, D.M., & Hampton, J.A. (2008). When prototypes aren’t best: Judgments made by children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 1721-1730. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2007). Typicality, Graded Membership and Vagueness. Cognitive Science,31, 355-383. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A., Estes, Z., & Simmons, S. (2007) Metamorphosis: Essence, Appearance and Behavior in the Categorization of Natural Kinds. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1785-1800. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A., Dubois, D., & Yeh, W. (2006). The effects of pragmatic context on classification in natural categories. Memory & Cognition 34, 1431-1443. PDF
bulletJönsson, M.L. & Hampton, J.A. (2006). The Inverse Conjunction Fallacy. Journal of Memory and Language, 55, 317-334.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2005). Rules and similarity - a false dichotomy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 26.   PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2005). Modeling category coordination: Comments and complications. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 496-497. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A., Estes, Z.,& Simmons, C.L. (2005). Comparison and contrast in perceptual categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 31, 1459-1476. PDF
bulletMolesworth, C.J., Bowler, D.M., & Hampton, J.A. (2005). The Prototype Effect in Recognition Memory: Intact in Autism? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46, 664-672 PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. & Cannon, I.(2004). Category-based induction: An effect of conclusion typicality. Memory & Cognition, 32. 235-243. PDF 
bulletRuts, W., Storms, G., & Hampton, J.A. (2004). Linear Separability in Superordinate Natural Language Concepts. Memory & Cognition, 32, 83-95. PDF 
bulletDolley, T., Adams, B.D., & Hampton, J.A. (2003) Ideal and Actual Referral Choices for Mental Health Problems in Primary Care. Counselling Psychology Review, 18, 20-33. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2003).Abstraction and Context in Concept Representation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Theme Issue: ‘The abstraction paths: from experience to concept’. 358, 1251-1259.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. & Moss, H. (2003). Concepts and meaning: Introduction to the special issue on conceptual representation. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18, 505-512.   PDF
bulletHampton, J.A.(2002).Language’s Role in Enabling Abstract, Logical Thought. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 688. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2000) Concepts and Prototypes. Mind and Language, 15, 299-307.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1999) Implicit and Explicit Knowledge – one representational medium or many? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 769-770.  PDF
bulletStorms, G., de Boeck, P., Hampton, J.A., & van Mechelen,  I. (1999). Predicting conjunction typicalities by component typicalities. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 6, 677-684.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1998). Staying in touch: Externalism needs descriptions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21:1, 74.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1998). Similarity-based categorization and fuzziness of natural categories, Cognition, 65, 137-165.   PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1998). Folk Biology and External Definitions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21:4, 574.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1997). Conceptual combination: conjunction and negation of natural concepts. Memory & Cognition, 25, 888-909.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1997). Associative and similarity-based processes in categorization decisions. Memory & Cognition, 25, 625-640.  PDF
bulletBraisby, N., Franks, B., & Hampton, J.A. (1996). Essentialism, word use, and concepts. Cognition, 59, 247-274.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1996). Conjunctions of visually-based categories: overextension and compensation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 22, 378-396.   PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1995). Testing the prototype theory of concepts. Journal of Memory and Language. 34, 686-708.   PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1995). Similarity-based categorization: The development of prototype theory. Psychologica Belgica, 35, 103-125.   PDF
bulletDavey, G.C.L., Hampton, J.A., Farrell, J., & Davidson, S. (1992). Some characteristics of worrying: Evidence for worrying and anxiety as separate constructs. Personality and Individual Differences, 13, 133-147. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1989). Commentary on G.Lakoff, Women, fire and dangerous things. Mind and Language, 4, 130-137.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1989). Concepts and correct thinking. Mind and Language, 4, 35-41.  PDF
bulletGardiner, J.M., Gregg, V.H., & Hampton J.A. (1988). Word frequency and generation effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 14, 687-693. PDF
bulletGardiner, J.M., & Hampton, J.A. (1988). Item-specific processing and the generation effect: Support for a distinctiveness account. American Journal of Psychology, 101, 495-504. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1988). Overextension of conjunctive concepts: Evidence for a unitary model of concept typicality and class inclusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 14, 12-32.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1988). Disjunction of natural concepts. Memory & Cognition, 16, 579-591.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1987). Inheritance of attributes in natural concept conjunctions. Memory & Cognition, 15, 55-71.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1987). Epistemology and cognition: A review. Mind and Language, 2, 264-269.  PDF
bulletGardiner, J.M., & Hampton, J.A. (1985). Semantic memory and the generation effect: Some tests of the lexical activation hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 11, 732-741. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A., & Taylor, P.J. (1985). Effects of semantic relatedness on same-different judgments in a good-bad categorization task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 11, 85-93. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1984). The verification of category and property statements. Memory & Cognition, 12, 345-354.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1983). A note on describing the linear relation between a pair of correlated dependent variables. Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, 36, 408-409. 
bulletHampton, J.A., & Gardiner, M.M. (1983). Measures of internal category structure: A correlational analysis of normative data. British Journal of Psychology, 74, 491-516. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1982). A demonstration of intransitivity in natural categories. Cognition, 12, 151-164.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1981). An investigation of the nature of abstract concepts. Memory & Cognition, 9, 149-156.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1979). Polymorphous concepts in semantic memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 18, 441-461.  PDF
bulletDennis, I., Hampton, J.A., & Lea, S.E.G. (1973). New problem in concept formation. Nature, 243, 101-102. 

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BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

bulletHampton, J.A. (2011).Concepts and Natural Language. In R.Belohlavek and G.J.Klir (Eds.) Concepts and Fuzzy Logic, Chapter 9. Cambridge: MIT Press. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2011).Conceptual Combinations and Fuzzy Logic. In R.Belohlavek and G.J.Klir (Eds.) Concepts and Fuzzy Logic, Chapter 8. Cambridge: MIT Press. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A., & Jönsson, M.L (2011). Typicality and compositionality: The logic of combining vague concepts. In M.Werning, W.Hintzen, and E.Machery (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Compositionality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (in press). PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2010). Concepts in Human Adults. In D. Mareschal, P. Quinn and S. E. G. Lea (Eds.). The Making of Human Concepts, (pp. 293-311). Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A., Jönsson, M.L., & Passanisi, A. (2009). The modifier effect: Default inheritance in complex noun phrases. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 303-308). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF
bulletHeussen, D., Aldrovandi, S., Kusev, P., & Hampton, J.A. (2009) Explanations of comparative facts: A shift in focus. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1716-1721). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2009). Stability in Concepts and Evaluating the Truth of Generic Statements. In F.J.Pelletier (Ed.), Kinds, Things and Stuff: Concepts of generics and mass terms. New Directions in Cognitive Science, Vol. 12, (pp. 80-99). Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF
bulletHeussen, D., & Hampton, J.A. (2008). Ways of explaining properties. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 143-148). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF
bulletBraisby, N. R., Franks, B. & Hampton, J. A (2007). Essentialism , Word Use and Concepts. In P. Hanks (Ed.), Lexicology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. London: Routledge. (Reprint of paper in Cognition 1996).PDF
bulletHampton, J.A., Francis, D., & Robson, G. (2007). Imagery and the interpretation of ambiguous noun-noun combinations. In S.Vosniadou, D. Kayser, & A.Protopapas (Eds.), Proceedings of Eurocogsci07. The European Cognitive Science Conference (pp. 516-521). Hove: Erlbaum. PDF
bulletHeussen, D., & Hampton, J.A. (2007). ‘Emeralds are expensive because they are rare’; plausibility of property explanations. In S.Vosniadou, D. Kayser, & A.Protopapas (Eds.), Proceedings of Eurocogsci07. The European Cognitive Science Conference (pp. 101-106). Hove: Erlbaum. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2006). Concepts as Prototypes. In Ross, B.H. (Ed)  The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, 46, 79-113. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2001).  Prototype concepts.  Article for the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. New York: Nature Publishing Group, Macmillans. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (2001). The Role of Similarity in Natural Categorization. In U.Hahn and M.Ramscar (Eds.) Similarity and categorization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1999). Conceptions of concepts. In B.Kokinov (Ed.) Perspectives in Cognitive Science, Vol 4, pp.27-38.  Sofia : New Bulgarian University Press.  PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1999). Concepts. Lead article for the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. pp. 176-179. Cambridge, MA :MIT Press.   PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1998). The role of similarity in how we categorize the world. In K.Holyoak, D.Gentner, & B.Kokinov, (Eds.) Advances in Analogy Research: Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive, Comparative and Neural Sciences. Sofia: New Bulgarian University.
bulletHampton, J.A. (1998). Similarity-based categorization and fuzziness of natural categories. (Cognition, 1998) reprinted in S.A.Sloman & L.J.Rips (Eds.), Similarity and symbols in human thinking. pp51-79. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1998). Between subjects designs. In J.A.Nunn, (Ed.), Laboratory psychology. pp. 15-38. Hove: Psychology Press. 
bulletHampton, J.A. (1997). Similarity and Categorization. In: M.Ramscar, U.Hahn, E.Cambouropolos, & H.Pain (Eds.) Proceedings of SimCat 1997: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Similarity and Categorisation.pp.103-109.Edinburgh: Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1997). Psychological representations of concepts. In M.A.Conway (Ed.) Cognitive models of memory. pp. 81-110. Hove: Psychology Press. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1997). Emergent attributes in combined concepts. In T.B.Ward, S.M.Smith, & J.Viad, (Eds.), Creative thought: An investigation of conceptual structures and processes. pp 83-110. Washington DC: American Psychological Association Press. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1997). Conceptual combination. In K.Lamberts & D.Shanks, (Eds.) Knowledge, concepts and categories. pp.135-162.  Hove: Psychology Press. PDF
bulletBraisby, N., Franks, B., & Hampton, J.A. (1997). Essential contradictions: psychological essentialism and concepts. In D.Dubois (Ed.), Catégorization et cognition: De la perception au discours. pp.106-128. Paris: Editions Klimé.
bulletBraisby, N., Franks, B., & Hampton, J.A. (1994).  On the Psychological Basis of Rigid Designation. In: A.Ram, & K.Eiselt (Eds.), Proceedings of  the 16th Annual Conference of  the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. PDF
bulletVan Mechelen, I., Hampton, J.A., Michalski, R.S., & Theuns, P. (1993). Categories and concepts: Theoretical views and inductive data analysis. London: Academic Press. 
bulletHampton, J.A., & Dubois, D. (1993). Psychological models of concepts. In Van Mechelen et al, (Eds.) Categories and concepts: Theoretical views and inductive data analysis. London: Academic Press. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1993). Prototype models of concept representation. In Van Mechelen et al, (Eds.) Categories and concepts: Theoretical views and inductive data analysis. London: Academic Press.
bulletBowler, D.M., Blacher, D., Nazhat, J. & Hampton, J.A. (1993). The effects of additional cues on children's understanding of false belief. In: G. Rudingher, C. Rietz, U. Kleimas & T. Meiser (Eds.), Developmental psychology in a changing Europe.Bonn: Pace. 
bulletHampton, J.A. (1991). The combination of prototype concepts. In P. Schwanenflugel (Ed.) The psychology of word meanings. Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum. PDF
bulletHampton, J.A. (1990). Attribute inheritance under negation. In Franks, Braisby & Myers (Eds.) Proceedings of the first Edinburgh round table on the mental lexicon. Cognitive Science Working Paper, University of  Edinburgh.
bulletHampton, J.A. (1989). Finding a meaning. In G. Beaumont (ed.) Brainpower, Oxford: Andromeda. 
bulletHampton, J.A. (1987). Principles from language. In M.M.Gardiner & B.Christie (Eds.), Cognitive psychology and user interface design. London: Wiley. 
bulletHampton, J.A. (1982). Giving the Grid/Group dimensions an operational definition. In Mary Douglas (ed.) Essays in the sociology of perception. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 
bulletGaskell, G. & Hampton, J.A. (1982). A note on styles in accounting. In M.Douglas (ed.) Essays in the sociology of perception. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 

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