Lara Jones

projects
Concepts & Cognition Lab (Verbal Analogy; Relational Integration) (ongoing)
Concepts and Cognition Laboratory (Verbal Analogy; Relational Integration) (closed)

Faculty Profile

Associate Professor
eg3564@wayne.edu

Department

Psychology

Office

Rm. 8306.4  (8th floor of 5057 Woodward)

News mentions

Emoji Misinterpretations Can Muddy Business Communications (December 8, 2021), REALTOR Magazine 

Here's What It Means if You Can't Stop Sending People Emojis (June 24, 2022) Elite Daily

Selected publications

  • Wunder, Z.I., & Jones, L.L. (2024). Mindful metacognition: Attention, beliefs, and skills in the acceptance of experiences. Mindfulness, 14, 2917-2931.
  • Jones, L.L., Kmiecik, M.J., Irwin, J.L., & Morrison, R.G. (2022). Differential effects of semantic distance, distractor salience, and relations in verbal analogy. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02062-8
  • Jones, L. L., Wurm, L. H., Norville, G. A., & Mullins, K. L. (2020). Sex differences in emoji use, familiarity, and valence. Computers in Human Behavior, 108.
  • Jones, L. L., Norville, G. A., & Wright, A. M. (2017). Narcissism, self-esteem, and the phenomenology of autobiographical memory. Memory, 25, 800-815
  • Jones, L. L., & Estes, Z. (2015). Convergent and divergent thinking in verbal analogy. Thinking & Reasoning, 21, 473-500
  • Jones, L. L., & Brunell, A. B. (2014). Clever and crude but not kind: Narcissism, self-esteem, and the self-reference effect. Memory, 22, 307-322
  • Estes, Z.*, Jones, L. L., & Golonka, S. (2012). Emotion affects similarity via social projection. Social Cognition, 30(5), 582-607.
  • Jones, L. L., & Golonka, S. (2012). Different influences on lexical priming for integrative, thematic, and taxonomic relations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6:205
  • Jones, L. L., & Estes, Z. (2012). Lexical priming: Associative, semantic, and thematic influences on word recognition. In J. S. Adelman (Ed.), Word Recognition (Vol. 2). Hove, UK: Psychology Press

 

Research Description

Dr. Lara Jones teaches Cognitive Psychology (PSY/LIN 3080) and specializes in semantic priming, verbal analogy, concepts and categories, as well as underlying individual differences that may influence these cognitive processes. Her primary research interests pertains to conceptual relations: do we recognize the word BOOK more quickly after seeing AUTHOR, EDITOR, TRAVEL, or ARTICLE? More specifically, her research interests include the activation of directly and indirectly related concepts (i.e., semantic priming and mediated priming), the representation of relations and relational roles in conceptual combination and verbal analogy, and the influence of executive functions in priming and verbal analogy. Her work has been published in several prestigious journals including the Journal of Memory and Language, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, and The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. In 2014, Dr. Jones and her collaborators published a paper in the Journal of Memory and Language further investigating priming by relational integration. In 2012, Dr. Jones published two journal articles and one book chapter related to her interests in semantic priming: “Prospective and retrospective processing in associative mediated priming” in Journal of Memory and Language, “Different influences on lexical priming for integrative, thematic, and taxonomic relations” in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience and "Lexical priming: Associative, semantic, and thematic influences on word recognition" in Word Recognition (Vol. 2): Meaning and context, individuals and development, J. S. Adelman (Ed.).

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