Douglas J Herrmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 158123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas J Herrmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas J |
| FAMILY NAME | Herrmann |
| SIGNATURE | HERRMANN D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hamilton College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Basic and Applied Memory Research
Basic and Applied Memory Research
Aspects of the unity of consciousness and everyday memory failures
Gender, Age, and Rape-Supportive Rules
The Latent Structure of Memory
Confirmatory factor analysis was used to investigate the nature of memory distinctions underlying the performance of two samples: a sample of male Vietnam War veterans who had not received head injuries, and a second sample of male Vietnam War veterans who had suffered penetrating head injuries resulting in relatively small lesions (<10 cc volume loss). For these two groups, comparisons were made of the fit of seven theory-based memory models, co…
Cognition and Survey Research
Mapping Mortality
Use of color for representing health data on maps raises many unanswered questions. This research addresses questions about which colors allow accurate map reading and which colors map users prefer. Through the combination of a review of previous color research and an experiment designed to test specific combinations of colors on maps, criteria were established and evaluated for selecting colors for choropleth maps of mortality data. The color-se…
Palmtop computerized reminding devices
Antonymy and Semantic Relations
There is an enduring debate concerning the degree to which linguis tic phenomena are culturally specific or universal. We review evi dence that suggests that many linguistic processes are cross-culturally common and likely to be a function of human physiology, but we also acknowledge strong evidence for particularistic linguistic phe nomena relating to content and communication context. In support of our position, we examine subject responses to …
Vietnam as a class war
This article reports an extension of the analyses of the fatalities in the Vietnam War presented by Barnett, Stanley, and Shore (1992) as printed in the September‐October 1992 Operations Research. The additional analyses involved an examination of results by Barnett et al. in numeric as well as percentage form and a consideration of how the revised analyses generalize to the population of all American fatalities in Vietnam. These analyses yielded…
Gender‐linked differences in everyday memory performance
Recent research has demonstrated that people hold beliefs about how well others perform everyday memory tasks according to another's sex. For example, meta‐memory ratings indicate that other men and other women are believed to differ in their success at performing certain memory tasks (Crawford, Herrmann, Holdsworth, Randall & Robbins, 1989). In the present study, two experiments investigated whether gender stereotypes concerning everyday memory …
A Cross-Cultural Examination of Semantic Relations
This article reports on a cross-cultural investigation of semantic relations that examines the responses of subjects from 8 different cultures to 15 semantic relations. The semantic relations include antonyms, synonyms, class inclusion, and part-whole inclusion. These were chosen due to their use in prior research, and because linguists and cognitive psychologists regard them as linguistically important. Findings reveal significant cross-cultural…
Retrieval and Comparison Processes in Part-Whole Decisions
Undergraduate students were presented with word pairs (e.g., egg-yolk) and were timed as they decided whether one word named part of the thing named by the other word. In Experiment 1, "no" responses to nonpart pairs (e.g., fish-flaps) were slowed by the similarity of the stimulus part (flaps) to a part that the stimulus object did possess (fins). This suggested that decisions were made by retrieving parts of the stimulus object from memory and c…
Gender and beliefs about memory
Beliefs about subjects' own memory performances and about the memory performances of others were studied as a function of gender in two experiments. Both experiments used adaptations of the Inventory of Memory Experiences (IME) that employed somewhat different response scales. The first experiment used a small sample, heterogeneous with respect to age; the second used a large homogeneous sample of college students. In both experiments, gender was…
Pliny
Anonymous Rhetorica Ad Herennium
Anonymous Mnemosyne (memory)
Hesiod
Aristophanes
Anonymous Dialexeis
Memory in Historical Perspective
Effects of Relation Similarity on Part-Whole Decisions
Subjects were presented with word pairs (e.g., bed-mattress) and timed as they decided whether one word named part of the item named by the other word. Yes responses were facilitated, and no responses were impeded, by relation similarity (i.e., the similarity of the relation between the two stimulus items to the part-whole relation). Item similarity, the similarity of the two stimulus items to each other, had no effect. The results support the vi…
Only connections
Only connections
This article examines theories that assume that semantic networks account for the mental representation of meaning. It assesses their similarities and divergencies, and argues that as a class of theories they remain too powerful to be refuted by empirical evidence. The theories are also confronted by a number of problematical semantic phenomena that arise because networks deal with the connections between concepts rather than with their connectio…
Know thy memory
Similarities and Differences in Meaning in Six Cultures
The present study explores use of multidimensional scaling to cross-cultural investigation involving six cultures and two categories varying in abstractness: animals and emotions. Cross-cultural agreement in the scaling solutions was quite high but highest for the Emotions category. Additionally, the solutions of both categories across cultures revealed details that reflected culture-specific meaning. Thus, the results demonstrate the utility of …
Gender, Age, and Rape-Supportive Rules
Only connections
This article examines theories that assume that semantic networks account for the mental representation of meaning. It assesses their similarities and divergencies, and argues that as a class of theories they remain too powerful to be refuted by empirical evidence. The theories are also confronted by a number of problematical semantic phenomena that arise because networks deal with the connections between concepts rather than with their connectio…
Mapping Mortality
Use of color for representing health data on maps raises many unanswered questions. This research addresses questions about which colors allow accurate map reading and which colors map users prefer. Through the combination of a review of previous color research and an experiment designed to test specific combinations of colors on maps, criteria were established and evaluated for selecting colors for choropleth maps of mortality data. The color-se…
An old problem for the new psychosemantics
Antonymy and Semantic Relations
There is an enduring debate concerning the degree to which linguis tic phenomena are culturally specific or universal. We review evi dence that suggests that many linguistic processes are cross-culturally common and likely to be a function of human physiology, but we also acknowledge strong evidence for particularistic linguistic phe nomena relating to content and communication context. In support of our position, we examine subject responses to …
Vietnam as a class war
This article reports an extension of the analyses of the fatalities in the Vietnam War presented by Barnett, Stanley, and Shore (1992) as printed in the September‐October 1992 Operations Research. The additional analyses involved an examination of results by Barnett et al. in numeric as well as percentage form and a consideration of how the revised analyses generalize to the population of all American fatalities in Vietnam. These analyses yielded…
A Cross-Cultural Examination of Semantic Relations
This article reports on a cross-cultural investigation of semantic relations that examines the responses of subjects from 8 different cultures to 15 semantic relations. The semantic relations include antonyms, synonyms, class inclusion, and part-whole inclusion. These were chosen due to their use in prior research, and because linguists and cognitive psychologists regard them as linguistically important. Findings reveal significant cross-cultural…
Effects of Relation Similarity on Part-Whole Decisions
Subjects were presented with word pairs (e.g., bed-mattress) and timed as they decided whether one word named part of the item named by the other word. Yes responses were facilitated, and no responses were impeded, by relation similarity (i.e., the similarity of the relation between the two stimulus items to the part-whole relation). Item similarity, the similarity of the two stimulus items to each other, had no effect. The results support the vi…
Gender and beliefs about memory
Beliefs about subjects' own memory performances and about the memory performances of others were studied as a function of gender in two experiments. Both experiments used adaptations of the Inventory of Memory Experiences (IME) that employed somewhat different response scales. The first experiment used a small sample, heterogeneous with respect to age; the second used a large homogeneous sample of college students. In both experiments, gender was…
Accuracy of Category-Size Estimates from the Battig and Montague (1969) Category Norms
Accuracy of Category-Size Estimates from the Battig and Montague (1969) Category Norms." The Journal of General Psychology, 96(2), pp. 319–320
Number of Available Associations and Rate of Association For Categories in Semantic Memory
Bousfield and Sedgewick showed that the cumulative number of associations produced to a category as a function of time could be described by an exponential function having the parameters m (rate of association) and C (total number of associates produced). In two experiments using male and female college students (N = 16 and N = 14, respectively), the present study investigated the hypothesis suggested by previous research, that the values of m an…
Number of Available Associations and Rate of Association For Categories in Semantic Memory
Bousfield and Sedgewick showed that the cumulative number of associations produced to a category as a function of time could be described by an exponential function having the parameters m (rate of association) and C (total number of associates produced). In two experiments using male and female college students (N = 16 and N = 14, respectively), the present study investigated the hypothesis suggested by previous research, that the values of m an…
Relationship between Personality Factors and Adaptation to Stress in a Military Institution
Personality factors mediating the adaptation to stress in military institutions were investigated. A comparison of Cattell 16 Factor PF scores was performed for Naval Academy plebes who dropped-out before the end of the first semester for non-academic reasons and those who remained. One personality factor significantly differentiated these two groups. Dropouts scored lower than remainders on the factor reflecting group-dependence. The results are…
The Influence of Linguistic Structure on Typing
Touch typists, those who do not look at the keys while typing, and non-touch typists, those who do look at the keys, typed sentences which varied in linguistic complexity. Sentences were either grammatical and meaningful (GM), grammatical and anomalous (GA), or ungrammatical and meaningless (UML). Accuracy and latencies were measured. Accuracy decreased as complexity increased, i.e. from GM to GA to UML sentences, for both touch and non-touch typ…
Accuracy of Category-Size Estimates from the Battig and Montague (1969) Category Norms
Accuracy of Category-Size Estimates from the Battig and Montague (1969) Category Norms." The Journal of General Psychology, 96(2), pp. 319–320
An old problem for the new psychosemantics
The Role of Category Size in Continuous Recall from Semantic Memory
The time to recognize a word as an exemplar of a category has been found to be little influenced by the size of the category. In contrast, three recall studies have indicated that the rate of continuous recall of exemplars of a category is a function of the category's size. However, these recall studies used large categories which dealt with topics different from the small categories, confounding size effects with differences in stimulus meaning.…
An Effect of Relationship Similarity on Categorization Latency
Similarities and Differences in Meaning in Six Cultures
The present study explores use of multidimensional scaling to cross-cultural investigation involving six cultures and two categories varying in abstractness: animals and emotions. Cross-cultural agreement in the scaling solutions was quite high but highest for the Emotions category. Additionally, the solutions of both categories across cultures revealed details that reflected culture-specific meaning. Thus, the results demonstrate the utility of …
Know thy memory
Know thy memory
Only connections
Only connections
This article examines theories that assume that semantic networks account for the mental representation of meaning. It assesses their similarities and divergencies, and argues that as a class of theories they remain too powerful to be refuted by empirical evidence. The theories are also confronted by a number of problematical semantic phenomena that arise because networks deal with the connections between concepts rather than with their connectio…
Pliny
Anonymous Rhetorica Ad Herennium
Anonymous Mnemosyne (memory)
Hesiod
Aristophanes
Anonymous Dialexeis
Memory in Historical Perspective
Effects of Relation Similarity on Part-Whole Decisions
Subjects were presented with word pairs (e.g., bed-mattress) and timed as they decided whether one word named part of the item named by the other word. Yes responses were facilitated, and no responses were impeded, by relation similarity (i.e., the similarity of the relation between the two stimulus items to the part-whole relation). Item similarity, the similarity of the two stimulus items to each other, had no effect. The results support the vi…
Retrieval and Comparison Processes in Part-Whole Decisions
Undergraduate students were presented with word pairs (e.g., egg-yolk) and were timed as they decided whether one word named part of the thing named by the other word. In Experiment 1, "no" responses to nonpart pairs (e.g., fish-flaps) were slowed by the similarity of the stimulus part (flaps) to a part that the stimulus object did possess (fins). This suggested that decisions were made by retrieving parts of the stimulus object from memory and c…
Gender and beliefs about memory
Beliefs about subjects' own memory performances and about the memory performances of others were studied as a function of gender in two experiments. Both experiments used adaptations of the Inventory of Memory Experiences (IME) that employed somewhat different response scales. The first experiment used a small sample, heterogeneous with respect to age; the second used a large homogeneous sample of college students. In both experiments, gender was…
A Cross-Cultural Examination of Semantic Relations
This article reports on a cross-cultural investigation of semantic relations that examines the responses of subjects from 8 different cultures to 15 semantic relations. The semantic relations include antonyms, synonyms, class inclusion, and part-whole inclusion. These were chosen due to their use in prior research, and because linguists and cognitive psychologists regard them as linguistically important. Findings reveal significant cross-cultural…
Gender‐linked differences in everyday memory performance
Recent research has demonstrated that people hold beliefs about how well others perform everyday memory tasks according to another's sex. For example, meta‐memory ratings indicate that other men and other women are believed to differ in their success at performing certain memory tasks (Crawford, Herrmann, Holdsworth, Randall & Robbins, 1989). In the present study, two experiments investigated whether gender stereotypes concerning everyday memory …
Vietnam as a class war
This article reports an extension of the analyses of the fatalities in the Vietnam War presented by Barnett, Stanley, and Shore (1992) as printed in the September‐October 1992 Operations Research. The additional analyses involved an examination of results by Barnett et al. in numeric as well as percentage form and a consideration of how the revised analyses generalize to the population of all American fatalities in Vietnam. These analyses yielded…
Psychology (22 works) · Cognitive psychology (13 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Cognition (8 works) · History (7 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works)