Working Papers
Flusberg, S. J., DellaValle+, M., & Thibodeau, P. H. (under revision). How linguistic framing and political ideology shape lay theories of mental disorders
Flusberg, S. J., Shapiro+, D., Collister+, K., & Thibodeau, P. H. (under revision). Things are looking up: Vertical eye gaze in the environment affects perceptions of emotional valence in sad faces
Thibodeau*, P. H., Matlock*, T. & Flusberg*, S. J. (under review). The role of metaphor in communication and thought. 

2018

​Holmes, K. J. Flusberg, S. J., & Thibodeau, P. H. (in press). Compound words reflect cross-culturally shared bodily metaphors. ​Cognitive Science.
​Flusberg*, S. J., Matlock*, T., & Thibodeau*, P. H. (2018). War metaphors in public discourse. Metaphor & Symbol, 33(1), 1-18.

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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. 

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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.

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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 [online edition].
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
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.  

2009
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.

2008
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.

2007 and earlier
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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