Professor James Hampton • City, University of London

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Professor James Hampton D406, Rhind Building [D]
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
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Overview

After studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge, Professor Hampton took his PhD in Psychology at University College London before moving to City University London in 1977. Since then he has had Visiting Appointments in the USA at Stanford, Cornell, Chicago, Yale and New York Universities, as well as being a Visiting Fellow at the Institut Jean Nicod, ENS in Paris, the Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, and the University of Utrecht. In 1996 he was a Senior Fulbright Fellow.

His research interests have broadly concerned the interface between psychology, philosophy and linguistics as applied to the problem of concepts and word meaning.

Professor Hampton has championed a view of concepts known as the Prototype Model, according to which people represent concepts by concentrating on clear central examples rather than on the boundary cases between one concept and another.

He has also published a series of studies of Conceptual Combination, in which he showed that the way in which simple logical connectives such as "and", "or" and "not" operate in natural language is only approximately related to their operation in set logic. An explanation is provided by the proposal that when we form a complex concept such as "Bird that is also a Pet", a process is invoked that seeks to integrate the prototype information representing each concept into a single composite.

Qualifications

PhD, University College London, United Kingdom, Oct 1972 – Jul 1976

Employment

External Examiner, University of Glasgow, Sep 2012 – Aug 2016
External Examiner, University of Surrey, Sep 2012 – Aug 2015
External Examiner, Birkbeck, University of London, 1997 – 2000
External Examiner, University of Hertfordshire, 1996 – 2000
External Examiner, Open University, 1994 – 1998
Head of Department, City, University of London, 1992 – 2000

Languages

French (can read, write, speak and understand spoken) and Italian (can read, speak and understand spoken).

Teaching

Modules Taught on BSc Psychology

- PS1002 Professional Development for Psychology
- PS2001 Research Methods in Psychology
- PS3002 Concepts and categorization
- PS3001 Psychology Project

Contribution to Masters Programmes

MSc Research Methods in Psychology
- PSM518 Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience
MSc in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership
- INM407 Psychology of Creativity and Innovation

Research

Professor Hampton's research concerns the psychology of concepts and categorization, including the way in which people understand the world by classifying objects, people, events or situations into different conceptual types or categories, and problems arising from the vagueness of word meanings

Publications

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Books (3)

Hampton, J.A. and Winter, Y. (Eds.), (2017). Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-45975-2.
Moss, H. and Hampton, J. (2004). Conceptual Representation. Hove: Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-84169-958-5.
Mechelen, I.V., Hampton, J.A., Michalski, R.S. and Theuns, P. (1993). Categories and concepts: Theoretical views and inductive data analysis. London: Academic Press.

Chapters (38)

Hampton, J. (2020). Investigating Individual Differences in Concepts. In Marques, T. and Wikforss, A. (Eds.), Shifting Concepts The Philosophy and Psychology of Conceptual Variability (pp. 67–82). Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-880333-1.
Hampton, J.A. (2020). Investigating Differences in People’s Concept Representations. Shifting Concepts (pp. 67–82). Oxford University Press.
Hampton, J. and Winter, Y. (2017). Introduction. Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology (pp. 1–7). Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-45977-6.
Hampton, J. (2017). Compositionality and Prototype Concepts. In Hampton, J.A. and Winter, Y. (Eds.), Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology (pp. 95–121). Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-45977-6.
Hampton, J.A. (2017). Compositionality and Concepts. Language, Cognition, and Mind (pp. 95–121). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-45975-2.
Hampton, J.A. and Winter, Y. (2017). Introduction. Language, Cognition, and Mind (pp. 1–7). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-45975-2.
Hampton, J.A. and Winter, Y. (2017). Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology Introduction. COMPOSITIONALITY AND CONCEPTS IN LINGUISTICS AND PSYCHOLOGY (pp. 1–7). ISBN 978-3-319-45975-2.
Barque Duran, A., Pothos, E.M., Yearsley, J.M., Hampton, J.A., Busemeyer, J.R. and Trueblood, J.S. (2016). Similarity Judgments: From Classical to Complex Vector Psychological Spaces. Contextuality from Quantum Physics to Psychology (pp. 415–448). WORLD SCIENTIFIC.
Hampton, J.A. (2016). Categories, prototypes and exemplars. ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SEMANTICS (pp. 125–141). ISBN 978-0-415-66173-7.
Hampton, J. (2015). Concepts in the Semantic Triangle. In Margolis, E. and Laurence, S. (Eds.), The Conceptual Mind New Directions in the Study of Concepts (pp. 655–676). MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-02863-9.
Hampton, J.A. (2015). Categories, prototypes and exemplars. The Routledge Handbook of Semantics (pp. 124–141). ISBN 978-0-415-66173-7.
Hampton, J.A. and Jönsson, M.L. (2012). Typicality and compositionality: The logic of combining vague concepts. In Werning, M., Hinzen, W. and Machery, E. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of compositionality Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954107-2.
Hampton, J.A. (2011). Concepts and natural language. In Bělohlávek, R. and Klir, G.J. (Eds.), Concepts and Fuzzy Logic (pp. 233–258). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01647-6.
Hampton, J.A. (2011). Conceptual combinations and fuzzy logic. In Bělohlávek, R. and Klir, G.J. (Eds.), Concepts and Fuzzy Logic (pp. 209–231). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01647-6.
Hampton, J.A. (2010). Concepts in human adults. In Mareschal, D., Quinn, P.C. and Lea, S.E.G. (Eds.), The making of human concepts (pp. 293–311). Oxford: Oxford Univ Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954922-1.
Hampton, J.A. (2009). Stability in concepts and evaluating the truth of generic statements. In Pelletier, F.J. (Ed.), Kinds, things and stuff: Concepts of generics and mass terms (pp. 80–99). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-538289-1.
Hampton, J.A. (2009). 5 Stability in Concepts and Evaluating the Truth of Generic Statements. Kinds, Things, and Stuff (pp. 80–99). Oxford University PressNew York.
Braisby, N.R., Franks, B. and Hampton, J.A. (2007). Essentialism, word use and concepts. In Hanks, P. (Ed.), Lexicology: Critical concepts in linguistics (pp. 27–68). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-70098-6.
Hampton, J.A. (2001). Prototype representations. Encyclopedia of cognitive science London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-79261-2.
Hampton, J.A. (2001). The role of similarity in natural categorization. In Hahn, U. and Ramscar, M. (Eds.), Similarity and categorization (pp. 13–28). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850628-7.
Hampton, J.A. (1999). Concepts. In Wilson, R.A. and Keil, F.C. (Eds.), The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences (pp. 176–179). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-73144-7.
Hampton, J.A. (1998). Between subjects designs. In Nunn, J. (Ed.), Laboratory psychology (pp. 15–38). Hove: Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-86377-711-0.
Hampton, J.A. (1998). Similarity-based categorization and fuzziness of natural categories. In Sloman, S.A. and Rips, L.J. (Eds.), Similarity and symbols in human thinking (pp. 1–79). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-69214-4.
Hampton, J.A. (1998). The role of similarity in how we categorize the world. In Holyoak, K., Gentner, D. and Kokinov, B. (Eds.), Advances in analogy research: Integration of theory and data from the cognitive, comparative and neural sciences Sofia: New Bulgarian University.
Braisby, N., Franks, B. and Hampton, J.A. (1997). Essential contradictions: Psychological essentialism and concepts. In Dubois, D. (Ed.), Catégorisation et cognition: De la perception au discours (pp. 106–128). Paris: Editions Kimé. ISBN 978-2-84174-101-4.
Hampton, J.A. (1997). Conceptual combination. In Lamberts, K. and Shanks, D.R. (Eds.), Knowledge, concepts, and categories (pp. 135–162). Hove: Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-262-62118-2.
Hampton, J.A. (1997). Emergent attributes in combined concepts. In Ward, T.B., Smith, S.M. and Viad, J. (Eds.), Creative thought: An investigation of conceptual structures and processes (pp. 83–110). Washington DC: American Psychological Association Press. ISBN 978-1-55798-404-3.
Hampton, J.A. (1997). Psychological representations of concepts. In Conway, M.A. (Ed.), Cognitive models of memory (pp. 81–110). Hove: Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-262-53148-1.
Hampton, J.A. (1997). Similarity and categorization. In Ramscar, M., Hahn, U., Cambouropolos, U. and Pain, H. (Eds.), Proceedings of SimCat 1997: An interdisciplinary workshop on similarity and categorisation (pp. 103–109). Edinburgh: Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University.
Hampton, J.A. and Dubois, D. (1993). Psychological models of concepts. In Mechelen, I.V. (Ed.), Categories and concepts: Theoretical views and inductive data analysis (pp. 11–34). London: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-714175-6.
Bowler, D.M., Blacher, D., Nazhat, J. and Hampton, J.A. (1993). The effects of additional cues on children's understanding of false belief. In Rudingher, G., Rietz, C., Kleimas, U. and Meiser, T. (Eds.), Developmental psychology in a changing Europe Bonn: Pace.
Hampton, J.A. (1993). Prototype models of concept representation. In Mechelen, I.V. (Ed.), Categories and concepts: Theoretical views and inductive data analysis (pp. 67–69). London: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-714175-6.
Hampton, J.A. (1991). The combination of prototype concepts. In Schwanenflugel, P.J. and Research, U.O.G.I.F.B. (Eds.), The psychology of word meanings Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. ISBN 978-0-8058-0661-8.
Hampton, J.A. (1990). Finding a meaning. In Beaumont, J.G. (Ed.), Brain power Scranton: Harpercollins. ISBN 978-0-06-018197-0.
Hampton, J.A. (1990). Attribute inheritance under negation. In Franks, , Braisby, and Meyer, (Eds.), Proceedings of the first Edinburgh round table on the mental lexicon Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh.
Hampton, J.A. (1987). Principles from language. In Gardiner, M.M. and Christie, B. (Eds.), Applying cognitive psychology to user-interface design London: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-91184-5.
Hampton, J.A. (1982). Giving the Grid/Group dimensions an operational definition. In Douglas, M. (Ed.), Essays in the sociology of perception London: Routledge Kegan & Paul. ISBN 978-0-7100-0881-7.
Gaskell, G. and Hampton, J.A. (1982). A note on styles in accounting. In Douglas, M. (Ed.), Essays in the sociology of perception London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-415-29111-8.

Conference papers and proceedings (12)

Barque-Duran, A., Pothos, E.M., Yearsley, J.M. and Hampton, J.A. (2017). The impact of the Digital Age in Moral Judgments.
Hampton, J.A. (2017). Perceptual contrast and response assimilation in sequential categorization without feedback.
Yearsley, J.M., Pothos, E.M., Hampton, J.A. and Barque Duran, A. (2015). Towards a Quantum Probability Theory of Similarity Judgments. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-15931-7_11
Barque-Duran, A., Pothos, E.M., Yearsley, J.M. and Hampton, J.A. (2015). Moral Dynamics In Everyday Life: How Does Morality Evolve In Time?
Yearsley, J.M., Pothos, E.M., Duran, A.B. and Hampton, J.A. (2015). Diagnosticity: Some theoretical and empirical progress.
Hampton, J.A., Heussen, D., Argel, Z. and Kanbi, H. (2013). Disambiguating NN combinations with left/right stress.
Heussen, D., Poirier, M., Hampton, J.A. and Aldrovandi, S. (2011). An effect of semantic memory on immediate memory in the visual domain.
Hampton, J.A., Jönsson, M.L. and Passanisi, A. (2009). The modifier effect: Default inheritance in complex noun phrases.
Heussen, D., Aldrovandi, S., Kusev, P. and Hampton, J.A. (2009). Explanations of comparative facts: A shift in focus.
Heussen, D. and Hampton, J.A. (2008). Ways of explaining properties.
Hampton, J.A., Francis, D. and Robson, G. (2007). Imagery and the interpretation of ambiguous noun-noun combinations.
Hampton, J.A. and Heussen, D. (2007). ‘Emeralds are expensive because they are rare’; plausibility of property explanations.

Journal articles (97)

Yearsley, J.M., Pothos, E.M., Barque-Duran, A., Trueblood, J.S. and Hampton, J.A. (2022). Context effects in similarity judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(3), pp. 711–717. doi:10.1037/xge0001097.
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Passanisi, A., Pace, U., Kabir, K.T. and Hampton, J.A. (2021). Ducks lay eggs and lions have manes: The acceptability of gender-specific minority generic sentences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(12), pp. 1998–2020. doi:10.1037/xlm0001081.
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Thorne, S.R., Quilty‐Dunn, J., Smortchkova, J., Shea, N. and Hampton, J.A. (2021). Concept Appraisal. Cognitive Science, 45(5). doi:10.1111/cogs.12978.
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Anns, S., Gaigg, S.B., Hampton, J.A., Bowler, D.M. and Boucher, J. (2020). Declarative Memory and Structural Language Impairment in Autistic Children and Adolescents. Autism Research, 13(11), pp. 1947–1958. doi:10.1002/aur.2282.
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Hofstad, T., Hampton, J.A. and Hofmann, B. (2020). What Makes Some Diseases More Typical than Others? A Survey on the Impact of Disease Characteristics and Professional Background on Disease Typicality. INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 57, pp. 4695802097281–4695802097281. doi:10.1177/0046958020972813.
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Ayton, P., Murray, S. and Hampton, J.A. (2019). Terrorism, dread risk and bicycle accidents. Judgment and Decision Making, 14(3), pp. 280–287.
Cucchi, A., Hampton, J.A. and Moulton-Perkins, A. (2018). Using the validated Reflective Functioning Questionnaire to investigate mentalizing in individuals presenting with eating disorders with and without self-harm. PeerJ, 6. doi:10.7717/peerj.5756.
Hampton, J.A., Djalal, F.M., Storms, G. and Heyman, T. (2018). Relationship between extensions and intensions in categorization: A match made in heaven? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, pp. 655–666. doi:10.1037/xlm0000469.
Poirier, M., Heussen, D., Aldrovandi, S., Daniel, L., Tasnim, S. and Hampton, J.A. (2017). Reconstructing the recent visual past: Hierarchical knowledge-based effects in visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(6), pp. 1889–1899. doi:10.3758/s13423-017-1277-9.
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Yearsley, J., Barque-Duran, A., Scerrati, E., Hampton, J. and Pothos, E. (2017). The triangle inequality constraint in similarity judgments. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology., 130(Part A), pp. 26–32. doi:10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.03.005.
Barque-Duran, A., Pothos, E.M., Hampton, J.A. and Yearsley, J.M. (2017). Contemporary morality: Moral judgments in digital contexts. Computers in Human Behavior, 75, pp. 184–193. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.020.
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Barque-Duran, A., Pothos, E.M., Yearsley, J.M. and Hampton, J.A. (2016). Patterns and evolution of moral behaviour: moral dynamics in everyday life. Thinking & Reasoning, 22(1), pp. 31–56. doi:10.1080/13546783.2015.1051585.
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Hampton, J.A. and Passanisi, A. (2016). When intensions do not map onto extensions: Individual differences in conceptualization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(4), pp. 505–523. doi:10.1037/xlm0000198.
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Pothos, E.M., Barque-Duran, A., Yearsley, J.M., Trueblood, J.S., Busemeyer, J.R. and Hampton, J.A. (2015). Progress and current challenges with the quantum similarity model. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00205.
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Molesworth, C., Chevallier, C., Happé, F. and Hampton, J.A. (2015). Children with autism do not show sequence effects with auditory stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(1), pp. 48–57. doi:10.1037/a0038204.
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Hampton, J.A. (2014). The inherence heuristic is inherent in humans. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(5), pp. 490–491. doi:10.1017/s0140525x13003749.
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Hampton, J.A. (2014). Conceptual Combination: Extension and Intension. Commentary on Aerts, Gabora, and Sozzo. Topics in Cognitive Science, 6(1), pp. 53–57. doi:10.1111/tops.12069.
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Hampton, J.A. (2013). Quantum probability and conceptual combination in conjunctions. Behav Brain Sci, 36(3), pp. 290–291. doi:10.1017/S0140525X12002981.
Hampton, J.A. (2012). Thinking Intuitively: The Rich (and at Times Illogical) World of Concepts. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21(6), pp. 398–402. doi:10.1177/0963721412457364.
Murphy, G.L., Hampton, J.A. and Milovanovic, G.S. (2012). Semantic memory redux: An experimental test of hierarchical category representation. JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE, 67(4), pp. 521–539. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2012.07.005.
Hampton, J.A., Aina, B., Andersson, J.M., Mirza, H. and Parmar, S. (2012). The Rumsfeld Effect: the unknown unknown. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition, 38, pp. 340–355.
Jönsson, M.L. and Hampton, J.A. (2012). The modifier effect in within-category induction: Default inheritance in complex noun phrases. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, pp. 90–116.
Gibbert, M., Hampton, J.A., Estes, Z. and Mazursky, D. (2012). The Curious Case of the Refrigerator-TV: Similarity and Hybridization. Cognitive Science, 36, pp. 992–1018.
Hampton, J.A. (2012). Generics as reflecting conceptual knowledge. Special Issue of Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes, 41, pp. 9–24.
Hampton, J.A., Passanisi, A. and Jonsson, M.L. (2011). The modifier effect and property mutability. J MEM LANG, 64(3), pp. 233–248. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2010.12.001.
Thompson, E.H. and Hampton, J.A. (2011). The effect of relationship status on communicating emotions through touch. COGNITION EMOTION, 25(2), pp. 295–306. doi:10.1080/02699931.2010.492957.
Gibbert, M., Hampton, J.A., Estes, Z. and Mazursky, D. (2011). The curious case of the refrigerator-TV: similarity and hybridization. Cognitive Science.
Hampton, J.A., Dillane, M., Oren, L. and Worgan, L. (2011). Conjunctions of social categories considered from different points of view. Anthropology and Philosophy, 10, pp. 31–57.
Heussen, D., Voorspoels, W., Verheyen, S., Storms, G. and Hampton, J.A. (2011). Raising argument strength using negative evidence: A constraint on models of induction. Memory & Cognition, 39, pp. 1496–1507.
Verheyen, S., Hampton, J.A. and Storms, G. (2010). A probabilistic threshold model: Analyzing semantic categorization data with the Rasch model. ACTA PSYCHOL, 135(2), pp. 216–225. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.07.002.
Hampton, J.A. (2010). Concept talk cannot be avoided. Behav Brain Sci, 33(2-3), pp. 212–213. doi:10.1017/S0140525X10000361.
Hampton, J.A., Storms, G., Simmons, C.L. and Heussen, D. (2009). Feature integration in natural language concepts. MEM COGNITION, 37(8), pp. 1150–1163. doi:10.3758/MC.37.8.1150.
Hampton, J.A. (2008). Context, categories and modality: Challenges for the Rumelhart model. BEHAV BRAIN SCI, 31(6), p. 716. doi:10.1017/S0140525X0800592X.
Molesworth, C.J., Bowler, D.M. and Hampton, J.A. (2008). When prototypes are not best: judgments made by children with autism. J Autism Dev Disord, 38(9), pp. 1721–1730. doi:10.1007/s10803-008-0557-7.
Jonsson, M.L. and Hampton, J.A. (2008). On prototypes as defaults (Comment on Connolly, Fodor, Gleitman and Gleitman, 2007). COGNITION, 106(2), pp. 913–923. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2007.02.009.
Hampton, J.A., Estes, Z. and Simmons, S. (2007). Metamorphosis: Essence, appearance, and behavior in the categorization of natural kinds. MEM COGNITION, 35(7), pp. 1785–1800.
Hampton, J.A. (2007). Typicality, graded membership, and vagueness. COGNITIVE SCI, 31(3), pp. 355–384.
Jonsson, M.L. and Hampton, J.A. (2006). The inverse conjunction fallacy. J MEM LANG, 55(3), pp. 317–334. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2006.06.005.
Hampton, J.A., Dubois, D. and Yeh, W. (2006). Effects of classification context on categorization in natural categories. MEM COGNITION, 34(7), pp. 1431–1443.
Hampton, J.A. (2006). Concepts as prototypes. PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MOTIVATION: ADVANCES IN RESEARCH AND THEORY, VOL 46, 46, pp. 79–113. doi:10.1016/S0079-7421(06)46003-5.
Hampton, J.A. (2005). Modeling category coordination: Comments and complications. BEHAV BRAIN SCI, 28(4), p. 496.
Hampton, J.A. (2005). Rules and similarity - a false dichotomy. BEHAV BRAIN SCI, 28(1), p. 26.
Molesworth, C.J., Bowler, D.M. and Hampton James, A. (2005). The prototype effect in recognition memory: intact in autism? JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, 46(6), pp. 661–672. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00383.x.
Hampton James, A., Estes, Z. and Simmons, C.L. (2005). Comparison and contrast in perceptual categorization. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION, 31(6), pp. 1459–1476. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.31.6.1459.
Hampton, J.A. and Cannon, I. (2004). Category-based induction: An effect of conclusion typicality. MEM COGNITION, 32(2), pp. 235–243.
Ruts, W., Storms, G. and Hampton, J. (2004). Linear separability in superordinate natural language concepts. MEMORY & COGNITION, 32(1), pp. 83–95. doi:10.3758/BF03195822.
Hampton, J.A. and Moss, H.E. (2003). Concepts and meaning: Introduction to the special issue on conceptual representation. LANG COGNITIVE PROC, 18(5-6), pp. 505–512. doi:10.1080/01690960344000161.
Hampton, J.A. (2003). Abstraction and context in concept representation. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 358(1435), pp. 1251–1259. doi:10.1098/rstb.2003.1314.
Dolley, T., Adams, B.D. and Hampton, J.A. (2003). Ideal and actual referral choices for mental health problems in primary care. Counselling Psychology Review, 18, pp. 20–33.
Hampton, J.A. (2002). Language's role in enabling abstract, logical thought. BEHAV BRAIN SCI, 25(6), p. 688.
Hampton, J.A. (2000). Concepts and Prototypes. MIND LANG, 15(2-3), pp. 299–307. doi:10.1111/1468-0017.00134.
Hampton, J.A. (2000). Concepts and prototypes. Mind and Language, 15(2-3), pp. 299–307. doi:10.1111/1468-0017.00134.
Hampton, J.A. (1999). Implicit and explicit knowledge: One representational medium or many? BEHAV BRAIN SCI, 22(5), p. 769.
Storms, G., De Boeck, P., Hampton James, A. and Van Mechelen, I. (1999). Predicting conjunction typicalities by component typicalities. PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW, 6(4), pp. 677–684. doi:10.3758/BF03212978.
Hampton, J.A. (1999). Conceptions of concepts. Perspectives in Cognitive Science, 4, pp. 27–38.
Hampton, J.A. (1998). Folk biology and external definitions. BEHAV BRAIN SCI, 21(4), p. 574.
Hampton, J.A. (1998). Staying in touch: Externalism needs descriptions. BEHAV BRAIN SCI, 21(1), p. 74.
Hampton, J.A. (1998). Similarity-based categorization and fuzziness of natural categories. COGNITION, 65(2-3), pp. 137–165.
Hampton, J.A. (1997). Conceptual combination: Conjunction and negation of natural concepts. MEM COGNITION, 25(6), pp. 888–909.
Hampton, J.A. (1997). Associative and similarity-based processes in categorization decisions. MEM COGNITION, 25(5), pp. 625–640.
Hampton, J.A. (1996). Conjuctions of visually based categories: overextension and compensation. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 22(2), pp. 378–396. doi:10.1037//0278-7393.22.2.378.
Braisby, N, , Franks, B., and Hampton, J.A. (1996). Essentialism, word use, and concepts. Cognition, 59, pp. 247–274.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1995). SIMILARITY-BASED CATEGORIZATION - THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROTOTYPE THEORY. PSYCHOLOGICA BELGICA, 35(2-3), pp. 103–125.
Hampton, J.A. (1995). Testing the prototype theory of concepts. Journal of Memory and Language, 34(5), pp. 686–708. doi:10.1006/jmla.1995.1031.
Braisby, N., Franks, B. and Hampton, J.A. (1994). On the psychological basis of rigid designation. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Hampton James, A. (1992). FORMING CONJUNCTIVE COMBINATIONS OF FUZZY CONCEPTS. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 27(3-4), pp. 98–98.
Hampton James, A. (1992). CATEGORIZATION OF CONJUNCTIVELY DEFINED FUZZY-SETS OF VISUAL-STIMULI. BULLETIN OF THE PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY, 30(6), pp. 448–448.
Davey, GCL, , Hampton, J.A., Farrell, J, and Davidson, S, (1992). Some characteristics of worrying: Evidence for worrying and anxiety as separate constructs. Personality and Individual Differences, 13, pp. 133–147.
HAMPTON, J.A. (1989). 5. Concepts and Correct Thinking. Mind & Language, 4(1-2), pp. 35–42. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0017.1989.tb00238.x.
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HAMPTON JAMES, A. and SPRINGER, K. (1989). LONG SPEECHES ARE BORING - VERIFYING PROPERTIES OF CONJUNCTIVE CONCEPTS. BULLETIN OF THE PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY, 27(6), pp. 508–508.
Hampton, J.A. (1989). Concepts and correct thinking. Mind and Language, 4, pp. 35–41.
Hampton, J.A. (1989). Commentary on G.Lakoff, Women, fire and dangerous things. Mind and Language, 4(1-2), pp. 130–137. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0017.1989.tb00245.x.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1988). OVEREXTENSION OF CONJUNCTIVE CONCEPTS - EVIDENCE FOR A UNITARY MODEL OF CONCEPT TYPICALITY AND CLASS INCLUSION. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION, 14(1), pp. 12–32.
GARDINER, J.M. and HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1988). ITEM-SPECIFIC PROCESSING AND THE GENERATION EFFECT - SUPPORT FOR A DISTINCTIVENESS ACCOUNT. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 101(4), pp. 495–504. doi:10.2307/1423227.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1988). DISJUNCTION OF NATURAL CONCEPTS. MEMORY & COGNITION, 16(6), pp. 579–591. doi:10.3758/BF03197059.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1988). GOODNESS-OF-EXAMPLE EFFECTS ON CATEGORIZATION TIMES. BULLETIN OF THE PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY, 26(6), pp. 507–507.
Gardiner, J.M., Gregg, V.H. and Hampton, J.A. (1988). Word Frequency and Generation Effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 14(4), pp. 687–693. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.14.4.687.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1987). INHERITANCE OF ATTRIBUTES IN NATURAL CONCEPT CONJUNCTIONS. MEMORY & COGNITION, 15(1), pp. 55–71. doi:10.3758/BF03197712.
Hampton, J.A. (1987). Epistemology and cognition: A review. Mind and Language, 2(3), pp. 264–269. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0017.1987.tb00121.x.
HAMPTON, J.A. (1986). FEATURE INHERITANCE IN NATURAL CONCEPT CONJUNCTIONS. BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 39.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1986). CONJUNCTION, DISJUNCTION, AND NEGATION OF NATURAL CONCEPTS. BULLETIN OF THE PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY, 24(5), pp. 332–332.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. and TAYLOR, P.J. (1985). EFFECTS OF SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS ON SAME DIFFERENT DECISIONS IN A GOOD BAD CATEGORIZATION TASK. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION, 11(1), pp. 85–93.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1985). COMBINATION OF NATURAL CONCEPTS. BULLETIN OF THE PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY, 23(4), pp. 296–296.
GARDINER, J.M. and HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1985). SEMANTIC MEMORY AND THE GENERATION EFFECT - SOME TESTS OF THE LEXICAL ACTIVATION HYPOTHESIS. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION, 11(4), pp. 732–741. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.11.1-4.732.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1984). THE VERIFICATION OF CATEGORY AND PROPERTY STATEMENTS. MEMORY & COGNITION, 12(4), pp. 345–354. doi:10.3758/BF03198294.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1984). ANTONYMY AND SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS IN SAME-DIFFERENT JUDGMENTS. BULLETIN OF THE PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY, 22(4), pp. 292–292.
GARDINER, J.M. and HAMPTON, J.A. (1984). SEMANTIC MEMORY AND THE GENERATION EFFECT. BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 37(FEB).
HAMPTON, J.A. (1983). A NOTE ON DESCRIBING THE LINEAR RELATION BETWEEN A PAIR OF CORRELATED DEPENDENT-VARIABLES. BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 36(DEC), pp. 408–409.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. and GARDINER, M.M. (1983). MEASURES OF INTERNAL CATEGORY STRUCTURE - A CORRELATIONAL ANALYSIS OF NORMATIVE DATA. BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 74(NOV), pp. 491–516. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1983.tb01882.x.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1982). A DEMONSTRATION OF INTRANSITIVITY IN NATURAL CATEGORIES. COGNITION, 12(2), pp. 151–164. doi:10.1016/0010-0277(82)90010-5.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1982). COGNITIVE-PSYCHOLOGY - SOLSO,RL. BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 73(FEB), pp. 132–132.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1981). AN INVESTIGATION OF THE NATURE OF ABSTRACT CONCEPTS. MEMORY & COGNITION, 9(2), pp. 149–156. doi:10.3758/BF03202329.
HAMPTON, J.A. (1979). POLYMORPHOUS CONCEPTS IN SEMANTIC MEMORY. JOURNAL OF VERBAL LEARNING AND VERBAL BEHAVIOR, 18(4), pp. 441–461. doi:10.1016/S0022-5371(79)90246-9.
HAMPTON, J.A. (1979). PRODUCTION AND COMPREHENSION OF UTTERANCES - SCHLESINGER,IM. BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 32(APR), pp. 145–145.
HAMPTON JAMES, A. (1978). COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND MEANING - MILLER,GA. EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, 21(1), pp. 77–77.
HAMPTON, J.A. (1978). LATERAL THINKING - BONO,ED. BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 31(FEB), pp. 53–54.
Dennis, I., , Hampton, J.A. and Lea, SEG, (1973). New problem in concept formation. Nature, 243, pp. 101–102.

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