in press
Flusberg, S. J., Thibodeau, P. H. & Holmes, K. J. (in press). Even simple framing effects are rational. Commentary on Bermúdez. Behavioral & Brain Sciences
Flusberg, S. J., Shapiro+, D., Collister+, K., & Thibodeau, P. H. (in press). Things are looking up: Vertical eye gaze in the environment affects perceptions of emotional valence in sad faces. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 
Flusberg, S. J., van der Vord+, J., Husney+, S. Q., & Holmes, K. J. (2022). Who’s the “real” victim? How victim framing shapes attitudes towards sexual assault. Psychological Science
Wong, M., Flusberg, S. J., & Hard, B. M. (2022). Uncovering the structure of metaphorical lay theories of teaching II: What do different teaching metaphors imply about students? Metaphor and the Social World
Thibodeau, P. H. & Flusberg, S. J. (in press). Metaphor and Elaboration in Context. In H.L. Colston, T. Matlock, and G.J. Steen (Eds.), Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond. John Benjamins Publishing

2021
Holmes, K. J., Doherty+, E., & Flusberg, S. J. (2021). How and when does syntax perpetuate stereotypes? Probing the framing effects of subject-complement statements of equality. Thinking & Reasoning, https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2021.1963841
Hard, B. M., Liang+, N., Wong+, M., & Flusberg, S. J. (2021). Metaphors we teach by: Uncovering the structure of metaphorical lay theories of teaching. Metaphor and the Social World, 11(1), 46-70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.19021.har 

2020
Perkins*, K., Toskos Dils*, A., & Flusberg, S. J. (2020). The perceived threat of demographic shifts depends on how you think the economy works. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220951621
Flusberg, S. J., Lauria+, M., Balko+, S. & Thibodeau, P. H. (2020). Effects of communication modality and speaker identity on metaphor framing. Metaphor & Symbol, 35(2), 136-152.
Thibodeau, P. H., Blonder+, A., & Flusberg, S. J. (2020). A connectionist account of the relational shift and context sensitivity in the development of generalisation Connection Science, DOI: 10.1080/09540091.2020.1728519
Doherty+, E. M., Flusberg, S. J., & Holmes, K. J. (2020). “Girls Are as Good as Boys” implies boys are better, but only in the absence of explicit awareness. Proceedings of the 42nd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (online due to COVID-19)

2019
Thibodeau*, P. H., Matlock*, T. & Flusberg*, S. J. (2019). The role of metaphor in communication and thought. Language & Linguistics Compass, 13(5), e12327
Flusberg, S. J., & Hard, B. M. (2019). Metaphors we teach by: A method for mapping metaphorical lay theories. Proceedings of the 41st annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada
Flusberg, S. J., & LaPlace+, C. (2019). Agent framing moderates concerns about moral contagion. Abstract published in the Proceedings of the 41st annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada

2018
​Holmes, K. J. Flusberg, S. J., & Thibodeau, P. H. (2018). Compound words reflect cross-culturally shared bodily metaphors. ​Cognitive Science, 42(8), 3071-3082
​Flusberg*, S. J., Matlock*, T., & Thibodeau*, P. H. (2018). War metaphors in public discourse. Metaphor & Symbol, 33(1), 1-18, DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2018.1407992

​          Read about this paper HERE and see how USA Today described it HERE
Flusberg, S. J., Lauria+, M., & Thibodeau, P. H. (2018). Metaphor framing in multiple communication modalities. Proceedings of the 40th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI.
Flusberg, S. J., Toskos Dils, A., & Perkins, K. M. (2018). Folk economic beliefs moderate the effects of majority group status threat. Proceedings of the 40th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI
Flusberg, S. J. & Ramos+, A. (2018). Saving-enhanced memory in the real world. Proceedings of the 40th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI

2017
Flusberg*, S. J., Matlock*, T., & Thibodeau*, P. H. (2017). Metaphors for the war (or race) against climate change. Environmental Communication, 11(6), 769-783

​          Read about this study HERE and HERE
Thibodeau, P. H., Crow+, L. & Flusberg, S. J. (2017). The metaphor police: A case study of the role of metaphor in explanation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(​5), 1375-1386

          Read about this study HERE
Thibodeau, P. H., Uri+, R., Thompson+, B., & Flusberg, S. J. (2017). Narratives for obesity: Effects of weight loss and attribution on empathy and policy support. Health Education & Behavior, 44(4), 638-647
Thibodeau, P. H. & Flusberg, S. J. (2017). Metaphorical accounting: How framing the federal budget like a household’s affects voting intentions. Cognitive Science, 41(S5), 1168-1182.
Thibodeau, P. H. & Flusberg, S. J. (2017). Lay Theories of Obesity: Causes and Consequences. Adiposity - Epidemiology and Treatment Modalities, Prof. Jan Gordeladze (Ed.), InTech, DOI: 10.5772/65341
Flusberg*, S. J., Matlock*, T., & Thibodeau*, P. H. (2017). Thinking about the future: The role of spatial metaphors for time. Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK
Toskos Dils, A., Niedopytalski+, S., Arroyo+, J. & Flusberg, S. J. (2017). The temporal cheerleader effect: Attractiveness judgments depend on surrounding faces through time. Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK
Thibodeau, P. H., Flusberg, S. J., & Holmes, K. J. (2017). Solving the puzzle to reach the summit: Using metaphor to gauge public perceptions of science. Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK
Thibodeau, P. H. & Flusberg, S. J. (2017). Metaphors, roles, and controls in framing studies. Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK

2016
​Thibodeau, P. H., Winneg+, A. W., Frantz, C. M., & Flusberg, S. J. (2016). The mind is an ecosystem: Systemic metaphors promote systems thinking. ​Metaphor and the Social World, 6(2), 224-241
​​Flusberg, S. J., Shapiro+, D., Collister+, K., & Thibodeau, P. H. (2016). Environmental orientation affects emotional expression identification. Proceedings of the 38th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
​Thibodeau, P. H., Lee+, D. & Flusberg, S. J. (2016). Context, but not proficiency, moderates the effects of metaphor framing: A case study in India. Proceedings of the 38th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Thibodeau, P. H., Myers+, D. J. & Flusberg, S. J. (2016). Similarity-based reasoning is shaped by recent learning experience. Proceedings of the 38th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2015
Thibodeau, P. H., Fein+, M. J., Goodbody+, E. S., & Flusberg, S. J. (2015). The depression schema: How labels, features, and causal explanations affect lay conceptions of depression. Frontiers in Cognitive Science, 6:1728, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01728
Thibodeau, P. H., Perko+, V. L., & Flusberg, S. J. (2015). The relationship between narrative classification of obesity and support for public policy interventions. Social Science & Medicine, 141, 27-35
Flusberg, S. J., DellaValle+, M., & Thibodeau, P. H. (2015). Framing effects and the folk psychiatry of addiction. Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, California
​Thibodeau, P. H., Winneg+, A. W., Frantz, C. M., & Flusberg, S. J. (2015). Systemic metaphors promote systems thinking. Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, California

2014
​Flusberg, S. J. & McClelland, J. L. (2014). Connectionism and the emergence of mind. Oxford University Press Handbook of Cognitive Science
Thibodeau, P. H. & Tesny+, E. M., & Flusberg, S. J. (2014). Accounting for the relational shift and context sensitivity in the development of generalization. Proceedings of the 36th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec, Canada

2013
​Curtis*, M. & Flusberg*, S. J. (2013). Cognition & Language. In Psychology in the Fastlane. Bypass Publishing
Thibodeau, P. H., Flusberg, S. J., Glick, J. J., & Sternberg, D. A. (2013). An emergent approach to analogical inference. Connection Science, 25(1), 27-53

2012
Davidenko, N. & Flusberg, S. J. (2012). Environmental inversion effects in face perception. Cognition, 123(3), 442-447
Toskos Dils, A., Flusberg, S. J., & Boroditsky, L. (2012). Viewing and performing actions can change what you see. Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan

2011
Flusberg, S. J. & Boroditsky, L. (2011). Embodiment & Embodied Cognition. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press
Palmer, E. M., Fencsik, D. E., Flusberg, S. J., Horowitz, T. S., & Wolfe, J. M. (2011). Signal detection evidence for limited capacity in visual search.  Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73(8), 2413-2424
Flusberg, S. J. & Boroditsky, L. (2011). Are things that are hard to physically move also hard to imagine moving? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18(1), 158-164

          Read about this study in Art Markman's Ulterior Motives blog at Psychology Today
Thibodeau, P., Flusberg, S. J., Sternberg, D. A. & Glick, J. J. (2011). On the emergence of analogical inference. Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston
Davidenko, N. & Flusberg, S. J. (2011). Beyond the retina: Evidence for a face inversion effect in the environmental frame of reference. Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston

2010 and earlier
Flusberg S. J., Thibodeau, P. H., Sternberg, D. A., & Glick, J. J. (2010). A connectionist approach to embodied conceptual metaphor. Frontiers in Psychology, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00197
Flusberg, S. J., Toskos Dils, A., & Boroditsky, L. (2010). Motor affordances in object perception. Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland
Toskos Dils, A. & Flusberg, S. J. (2010). Massive redeployment or distributed modularity?  A commentary on Anderson. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 33(4), 292-3
Flusberg, S. J., Jenkins, G. W., & Boroditsky, L. (2009). Motor affordances in mental rotation: When minds reflect the world and when they go beyond. Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam
Gentner, D., Simms, N., & Flusberg, S. (2009). Relational language helps kids reason analogically. Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam
Kunar, M.A., Flusberg, S.J., & Wolfe, J.M. (2008). The role of memory and restricted context in repeated visual search. Perception & Psychophysics. 70(2), 314-28
Kunar, M.A., Flusberg, S.J., & Wolfe, J.M. (2008). Time to Guide: Evidence for delayed attentional guidance in contextual cueing. Visual Cognition, 16(6), 804-825
Kunar, M.A., Flusberg, S.J., Horowitz, T.S., & Wolfe, J.M. (2007). Does contextual cueing guide the deployment of attention? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(4), 816-828
Flusberg, S.J. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2006). Autism, language, and the folk psychology of souls: A commentary on Bering.  Behavioral & Brain Sciences. 29(5), 473
Kunar, M.A., Flusberg, S.J., & Wolfe, J.M. (2006). Contextual cueing by global features. Perception & Psychophysics, 68(7),1204-1216
Miller, C.T., Flusberg, S., & Hauser, M.D. (2003). Interruptibility of long call production in tamarins: implications for vocal control. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 206(15), 2629-2639
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