Lawrence J Taylor

Biographic Data

ID3619019
NAMELawrence J Taylor
GIVEN NAMESLawrence J
FAMILY NAMETaylor
SIGNATURETAYLOR L J
AFFILIATIONSLafayette College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS29
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • The paradox of information abundance: Answers provided by popular information-seeking tools lead to differences in trust, memorability and desire for more information

    Open AccessMerryn Dale Constable, Jason Rajsic et al.ARTICLETelematics and Informatics2025

    People judged ChatGPT and Google Snippets responses to trivia and how-to queries. • People trust ChatGPT’s longer responses to queries more than Google’s short answers. • ChatGPT’s responses are more ‘fluent’ and less likely to prompt a desire for additional information. • Google’s shorter responses are more memorable than ChatGPT’s longer responses. • Paradox of information abundance: People prefer longer answers but remember them less. Search e…

  • Lean in: Posture affects judgment and memory of emotional language

    Open AccessLawrence J Taylor, Dimana KardzhievaARTICLEActa Psychologica2025References: 2

  • Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective

    Marcus Banks, Roy Dilley et al.BOOKDebating authenticity2022Cited by: 2

    The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…

  • Grenzen

    Open AccessLorne J Taylor, Lawrence J TaylorCHAPTERLexikon der Globalisierung2011

  • Moral Entrepreneurs and Moral Geographies on the US/Mexico Border

    Open AccessLorne J Taylor, Lawrence J TaylorARTICLESocial & Legal Studies2010Cited by: 8References: 11

    This article explores the difference and interplay between the border as legal/political fact and the borderland as complex social/cultural reality through the development and application of the theoretical concepts of moral geography and moral entrepreneur. I argue that these concepts provide a bridge between macro, structural views of ‘the production of (borderland) space’ as used by critical geographers and the more experiential orientation su…

  • Centre and Edge: Pilgrimage and the Moral Geography of the US/Mexico Border

    Lorne J Taylor, Lawrence J TaylorARTICLEMobilities2007Cited by: 2References: 4

    This essay posits two forms of pilgrimage – to the centre and to the edge – as forms of meaningful movement that contribute to the moral geography of peoples and nations. This model is applied to a variety of disparate, current movements through the desert borderlands of the United States and Mexico, all of which can be read as employing pilgrimage in the task of inscribing versions of America on a highly contested landscape. Keywords: Pilgrimage…

  • Seeing, acting, understanding: Motor resonance in language comprehension.

    Rolf A Zwaan, Lorne J Taylor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental…2006

    Observing actions and understanding sentences about actions activates corresponding motor processes in the observer-comprehender. In 5 experiments, the authors addressed 2 novel questions regarding language-based motor resonance. The 1st question asks whether visual motion that is associated with an action produces motor resonance in sentence comprehension. The 2nd question asks whether motor resonance is modulated during sentence comprehension. …

  • Material Conflicts: Parades and Visual Displays in Northern Ireland

    Lorne J Taylor, Lawrence J TaylorREVIEWAnthropological Quarterly1998

    The performance of memory. Part 1 The tradition of parading: a custom established, 1690-1790 riotous assemblies, 1769-1850 parading identity, 1870-1968. Part 2 Two communities: the glorious twelfth the endless parade our day will come - parading Irish nationalism. Part 3 Display faith: trust in God, but keep your powder dry a nation once again. Part 4 Painting the streets: at the going down of the sun hungering for peace

  • Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics

    Marilyn Cohen, Lorne J Taylor et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1998Cited by: 3

    Due to the tenacity of disciplinary boundaries in the Irish academy, only a small number of anthropologists seek to integrate past and present in their analyses. The book Occasions of faith: An anthropology of Irish Catholics makes a valuable contribution to such interdisciplinary methodologies, while it examines the beliefs and practices of residents in Southwest Donegal. Throughout the book, Taylor masterfully weaves past and present together u…

  • Merchants and Shopkeepers: A Historical Anthropology of an Irish Market Town, 1200-1991

    Lorne J Taylor, Lawrence J Taylor et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1997

  • Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics

    Michele Dillon, Lorne J Taylor et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1996

    Devotional occasions or experiences by Irish Catholics form the crux of this powerful, first book-length anthropological study of Irish Catholicism. Rich in ethnographical material, wide-ranging archival sources, insightful cultural observations, vivid accounts of individual experiences, and thoughtful scrutiny of religious questions and theories illuminate twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork. From these varied resources Lawrence Taylor create…

  • There Are Two Things that People Don't Like to Hear about Themselves: The Anthropology of Ireland and the Irish View of Anthropology

    Lorne J Taylor, Lawrence J TaylorARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1996Cited by: 4

    My title is derived from a quip by the late John Maloney, a wise publican of southwest Donegal. The year was 1973, and we had been discussing the public relations problems of anthropologists in Ireland. No doubt exaggerating, he told me that, according to his sources, neither of two ethnographers of small islands off the west coast could safely return to his research site. I asked him about a rather technical kinship article by another anthropolo…

  • Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics

    Michael Allen, Lorne J Taylor et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1996

  • Irish Travellers: Culture and Ethnicity. MAY McCann, SÉAmas Ó SÍCHÁIN, and Joseph Ruane, eds

    Open AccessLorne J Taylor, Lawrence J TaylorARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1995

  • Irish Urban Cultures

    Lorne J Taylor, Lawrence J Taylor et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1995

  • The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana

    Lorne J Taylor, Lawrence J Taylor et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana. By Rob Kroes. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. x, 161 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-252-01931-8.) Get access Lawrence J. Taylor Lawrence J. Taylor Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1495–1496, https://doi.org/1…

  • Peter's pence: Official catholic discourse and Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century

    Lawrence J TaylorARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1993References: 2

    The intimate relationship between Catholicism and nationalism in nineteenth century Ireland is generally recognised. So well acknowledged, in fact, that the loyalty of a peasantry, the great majority of whom were oppressed and impoverished, to a Church that was growing visibly more rich and comfortable is taken for granted. The clergy managed to portray the Church as friend of the oppressed – indeed as the oppressed itself – even as their public …

  • Images of Faith: Expressionism, Catholic Folk Art, and the Industrial Revolution

    Lorne J Taylor, Lawrence J Taylor et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1992

  • Irish Farmers and Travellers

    Open AccessLorne J Taylor, Lawrence J TaylorARTICLEAnthropology and Humanism Quarterly1991

    Eugenia Shanklin. Donegal's Changing Traditions. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1985. xviii. 236 pp. $29.00 (cloth). Sharon Gmelch. Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman. New York: Norton, 1986. 239 pp. $15.95 (cloth

  • Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in European Society

    Caroline B Brettell, Jane Schneider et al.BOOKReligious Orthodoxy and Popular…1990

  • Candidate for Treasurer

    Open AccessE Badone, Ellen E Badone et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News1989

  • Candidates for Program Chair

    Open AccessE Badone, Ellen E Badone et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News1989

  • Bás InEirinn: Cultural Constructions of Death in Ireland

    Lorne J Taylor, Lawrence J TaylorARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1989Cited by: 1

    “Bás InEirinn” (“To die in Ireland”) is a Gaelic drinking toast whose resonance is explored in this case study of the relation of meaning and power. By viewing death as opportunity as well as problem, I interpret varying cultural constructions of Irish death in light of the historical dialectic between the Catholic Church and popular practice. Whereas the Church has generally assumed control of the ritualization of death, there are also striking …

  • Dutchmen on the Bay: The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community

    M Estellie Smith, Lorne J Taylor et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1985

  • Dutchmen on the Bay: The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community

    Andrew Habermacher, Marcus Hepburn et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1985