Publications
* undergraduate/post-bac co-author
bolded author = Thought Lab member/alum
Flusberg, S. J., Holmes, K. J., Thibodeau, P. H., Nabi, R. L., & Matlock, T. (in press). The psychology of framing: How everyday language shapes the way we think, feel, and act. Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
Holmes, K. J., *Kassin, L., & Flusberg, S. J. (to appear). When does suggestive language shape memory for car accidents? Assessing the role of elaboration and pragmatics in a classic framing effect. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Marghetis, T., *Ortega, A. V., & Holmes, K. J. (to appear). Ecological relativity of spatial cognition: Humans think about space egocentrically in urban environments. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
*Rook, E. D., & Holmes, K. J. (2023). How language shapes anti-fat bias: Comparing the effects of disease and fat-rights framing. Frontiers in Communication. [doi] [pdf] [osf]
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Holmes, K. J. (2023). Lab meets world: The case for use-inspired basic research in affective science. Affective Science, 4, 591-599. [doi] [pdf]
*Elpers, N., Jensen, G., & Holmes, K. J. (2022). Does grammatical gender affect object concepts? Registered replication of Phillips and Boroditsky (2003). Journal of Memory and Language, 127, 104357. [doi] [pdf] [osf]
Flusberg, S. J., Thibodeau, P. H., & Holmes, K. J. (2022). Even simple framing effects are rational: Commentary on Bermúdez. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e228. [doi] [pdf]
Flusberg, S. J., *van der Vord, J., *Husney, S. Q., & Holmes, K. J. (2022). Who’s the “real” victim? How victim framing shapes attitudes toward sexual assault. Psychological Science, 33(4), 524-537. [doi] [pdf] [osf]
Holmes, K. J., *Doherty, E. M., & Flusberg, S. J. (2022). How and when does syntax perpetuate stereotypes? Probing the framing effects of subject-complement statements of equality. Thinking & Reasoning, 28(2), 226-260. [doi] [pdf] [osf]
Pitt, B., . . . Marghetis, T., Holmes, K. J., *Star-Lack, M., *Chacon, S., et al. (2022). Dimensions of diversity in spatial cognition: Culture, context, age, and ability. In J. Culbertson et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 24-25). [pdf]
Colling, L. J., . . . Holmes, K. J., . . . *Tummino, T. A., et al. (2020). Registered replication report on Fischer, Castel, Dodd, and Pratt (2003). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(2), 143-162. [doi] [pdf] [osf]
*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. In S. Denison et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1591-1597). [pdf]
Holmes, K. J. (2020). Addressing twenty-first-century problems by engaging undergraduates in use-inspired basic research. Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 3(3), 46. [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., *Alcat, C., & Lourenco, S. F. (2019). Is emotional magnitude spatialized? A further investigation. Cognitive Science, 43(4), e12727. [doi] [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Roberts, T.-A. (2019). Mentor as sculptor, makeover artist, coach, or CEO: Evaluating contrasting models for mentoring undergraduates’ mesearch toward publishable research. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 231. [doi] [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., Flusberg, S. J., & Thibodeau, P. H. (2018). Compound words reflect cross-culturally shared bodily metaphors. Cognitive Science, 42(8), 3071-3082. [doi] [pdf] [osf]
Holmes, K. J., *Moty, K., & Regier, T. (2017). Revisiting the role of language in spatial cognition: Categorical perception of spatial relations in English and Korean speakers. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(6), 2031-2036. [doi] [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Regier, T. (2017). Categorical perception beyond the basic level: The case of warm and cool colors. Cognitive Science, 41(4), 1135-1147. [doi] [pdf]
Lourenco, S. F., Aulet, L. S., Ayzenberg, V., Cheung, C.-N., & Holmes, K. J. (2017). Right idea, wrong magnitude system: Commentary on Leibovich et al. (2017). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e177. [doi] [pdf]
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. In G. Gunzelmann et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3320-3325). [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., *Ayzenberg, V., & Lourenco, S. F. (2016). Gamble on gaze: Eye movements reflect the numerical value of blackjack hands. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(6), 1974-1981. [doi] [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., *Moty, K., & Regier, T. (2016). Categorical perception of spatial relations: A cross-linguistic difference. In M. Hegarty et al. (Eds.), Spatial Cognition 2016 Conference Proceedings (pp. 77-82). Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center. [pdf]
Wagenmakers, E.-J., . . . Holmes, K. J., *Jones, J. L. H., . . . *Liao, J. D., . . . *Shea-Shumsky, N. B., et al. (2016). Registered replication report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper (1988). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(6), 917-928. [doi] [pdf] [osf]
Wolff, P., *Ritter, S., & Holmes, K. J. (2014). Causation, force, and the sense of touch. In P. Bello et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1784-1789). [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Lourenco, S. F. (2013). When numbers get heavy: Is the mental number line exclusively numerical? PLOS ONE, 8(3), e58381. [doi] [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Wolff, P. (2013). Spatial language and the psychological reality of schematization. Cognitive Processing, 14(2), 205-208. [doi] [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Wolff, P. (2013). When is language a window into the mind? Looking beyond words to infer conceptual categories. In M. Knauff et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 597-602). [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Wolff, P. (2013). Spatial language as a window on representations of three-dimensional space: Commentary on Jeffery et al. (2013). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(5), 550-551. [doi] [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Lourenco, S. F. (2012). Orienting numbers in mental space: Horizontal organization trumps vertical. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(6), 1044-1051. [doi] [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Wolff, P. (2012). Does categorical perception in the left hemisphere depend on language? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(3), 439-443. [doi] [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Lourenco, S. F. (2011). Common spatial organization of number and emotional expression: A mental magnitude line. Brain and Cognition, 77(2), 315-323. [doi] [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Lourenco, S. F. (2011). Horizontal trumps vertical in the spatial organization of numerical magnitude. In L. Carlson et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2276-2281). [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Wolff, P. (2011). Simulating realism in language comprehension. In L. Carlson et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2884-2889). [pdf]
Matlock, T., Holmes, K. J., Srinivasan, M., & Ramscar, M. (2011). Even abstract motion influences the understanding of time. Metaphor and Symbol, 26(4), 260-271. [doi] [pdf]
Wolff, P., *Hausknecht, M., & Holmes, K. J. (2011). Absent causes, present effects: How omissions cause events. In J. Bohnemeyer & E. Pederson (Eds.), Event representation in language and cognition (pp. 228-252). Cambridge University Press. [pdf]
Wolff, P., & Holmes, K. J. (2011). Linguistic relativity. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2(3), 253-265. [doi] [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Wolff, P. (2010). Simulation from schematics: Dorsal stream processing and the perception of implied motion. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2704-2709). [pdf]
Holmes, K. J., & Lourenco, S. F. (2009). Spatial organization of magnitude in the representation of number and emotion. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2402-2407). [pdf]
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