Research and Publications

Submissions under review or in revision are not listed. The most recent publication of mine to appear in print are:

Ramey, C. H. (in press). Review of the book Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st century. Philosophical Psychology.

Ramey, C. H., & Sauro, C. (2009). Clothing as extended memory. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Toronto, Canada.

Ramey, C. H. (2009, February 25). [Review of the book The reflexive nature of consciousness]. PsycCRITIQUES – APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 54 (No. 8), Article 6.

Representative Publications

Ramey, C. H. (2005). Did God create psychologists in His image? Re-conceptualizing cognitivism and the subject matter of psychology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 25, 173-190.

Ramey, C. H. (2007). Review of the book Creativity in science: Chance, logic, genius, and Zeitgeist. Philosophical Psychology, 20, 135-139.

Ramey, C. H. (2007). Review of the book Consciousness and its objects. Philosophical Psychology, 20, 547-551.

Ramey, C. H. (2007-2008). Culture as extended mind and body. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 27(2)-28(1), 146-169.

Ramey, C. H., & Chrysikou, E. G. (2005). The scientific denial of the real and the dialectic of scientism and humanism. American Psychologist, 60, 346-347.

Ramey, C. H., & Weisberg, R. W. (2004). The ‘poetical activity’ of Emily Dickinson: A further test of the hypothesis that affective disorder enhances creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 16, 173-185.

Reilly, J., Chrysikou, E. G., & Ramey, C. H. (2007). Support for a hybrid model of the age of acquisition of English nouns. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 1164-1170.

Reilly, J., Ramey, C. H., & Milsark, G. (2004). Confounds in the distinction between high and low imageability words: Phonological, etymological, and morphological differences. Brain and Language, 91, 147-149.

Conference proceedings

Chrysikou, E. G., & Ramey, C. H. (2006). Shaping time: Conceptualizations of time through shape metaphors. In R. Sun, N. Miyake, C. Schunn, & S. Lane (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1121-1126). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Chrysikou, E. G., & Ramey, C. H. (2007). Factors influencing the adoption of time metaphors. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual Cognitive Science Society (p. 1724). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Liu, J., Golinkoff, R. M., Piper, K., Chung, H. L., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Ramey, C. H., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2000). Point-light displays illuminate the abstract nature of children’s motion verb representations. In L. R. Gleitman & A. K. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 794-799). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Ramey, C. H. (2005, July). Is presentation order a confound for modifier-noun combinations? Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Stresa, Italy. [In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Annual Cognitive Science Society (p. 2544). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.]

Ramey, C. H. (2005). ‘For the sake of others’: The ‘personal’ ethics of human-android interaction. (pp. 137-148). [July 2005, Stresa, Italy]

Ramey, C. H. (2005). The uncanny valley of similarities concerning abortion, baldness, heaps of sand, and humanlike robots. In Proceedings of Views of the Uncanny Valley Workshop: IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (pp. 8-13). [December 2005, Tsukuba, Japan]

Ramey, C. H., & Lee, E. S.† (2006, July). Twenty-five years after ‘Metaphors we live by’: The absence of the topic of metaphor in introductory psychology textbooks. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, Canada. [In R. Sun, N. Miyake, C. Schunn, & S. Lane (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Cognitive Science Society (p. 2593). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.]

Ramey, C. H. (2006). An inventory of reported characteristics for home computers, robots, and human beings: Applications for android science and the uncanny valley. In Proceedings of the ICCS/CogSci-2006 Long Symposium: Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science (pp. 21-25). [July 2006, Vancouver, Canada]; or Proceedings of the ICCS: 2006 Workshop: Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science (pp. 43-47).

Ramey, C. H. (2006). Conscience as a design benchmark in social robots. Proceedings of RO-MAN 06: The 15^th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: Getting to Know Socially Intelligent Robots, Toward Psychological Benchmarks in Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 486-491). [September 2006, Hatfield, UK]

Ramey, C. H., & Chrysikou, E. G. (2008). Good times, bad times: Valence influences the adoption of spatio-temporal metaphors. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Cognitive Science Society (p. 2279). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

† notes undergraduate collaborators.

Conference paper presentations

Chrysikou, E. G., & Ramey, C. H. (2006, July). The neuroscience and phenomenology of object knowledge in dementia patients. Paper presented at the 26^th International Congress of Applied Psychology. Athens, Greece.

Ramey, C. H. (2006, February). Extinction of a body of thought: The neuroscience and phenomenology of where the mind and body end. Paper presented at Broken Minds/Broken Bodies: What Cognitive Science Can Learn from Neuro- Psycho- pathologies. University of Central Florida: Orlando, FL.

Ramey, C. H., Fossi, C.†, & Bridges, S.† (2006, March). High and low tones bias pleasantness judgments of neutral words. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. Atlanta, GA.

† notes undergraduate collaborators.

Conference posters

Ramey, C. H. (2004, April). Does psychology support child pornography? The assumptions of the abstract and phenomenal world in psychology. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. Washington, DC.

Ramey, C. H. (2005, May). The figurativeness of conceptual combinations and the effect of authorial intent. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society. Los Angeles, CA.

Ramey, C. H. (2005, August). A piece of psychopathological “Pi”: Using film in class. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC.

Ramey, C. H. (2006, March). Categorizing culpability: Juvenile justice and the group average. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. Atlanta, GA.

Ramey, C. H., Brunette, J.†, & Huebner, A. R.† (2007, February). An empirical analysis of the creativity of Picasso. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. New Orleans, LA.

Ramey, C. H., & Chiavuzzi, N.† (2007, February). An analysis of metaphors in King’s ‘I have a dream.’ Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. New Orleans, LA.

Ramey, C. H., & Chrysikou, E. G. (2006, July). The embodied-embedded approach: The design lessons of the distributed mind in robotics and artificial intelligence. Poster session presented at the 26^th International Congress of Applied Psychology. Athens, Greece.

Ramey, C. H., & Melson, B. A.† (2006, May). The poetic qualities of random metaphors. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. New York, NY.

Ramey, C. H., Reilly, J., & Milsark, G. (2004, October). Confounds in the distinction between high and low imageability words: Phonological, etymological, and morphological differences. Poster session presented at the Academy of Aphasia 42^nd Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.

Ramey, C. H., Ward, S. A.†, Melson, B. A.†, & Huebner, A. R.† (2008, May). Analyzing the poetic process in real time. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science. Chicago, IL.

† notes undergraduate collaborators.

Book reviews

Ramey, C. H. (2006, February 1). A Pygmalion Problem for the science of psychology [Review of the book Symbol use and symbolic representation: Developmental and comparative perspectives]. PsycCRITIQUES – APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 51 (No. 5), Article 15.

Ramey, C. H. (2006, April 12). The responsibility of individual scientists: Morality, the self, and society. [Review of the book Inwardness and morality]. PsycCRITIQUES – APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 51 (No. 15), Article 17.

Ramey, C. H. (2006, May 10). The mind of a social being. [Review of the book Interpersonal cognition]. PsycCRITIQUES – APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 51 (No. 19), Article 10.

Ramey, C. H. (2006, November 29). Taking politics out of morality. [Review of the book Putting morality back into politics]. PsycCRITIQUES – APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 51 (No. 48), Article 10.

Ramey, C. H. (2007, March 14). What the brain doesn’t do: Reclaiming the mind in psychology. [Review of the book A mind of its own: How your brain distorts and deceives]. PsycCRITIQUES – APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 52 (No. 11), Article 7.

Ramey, C. H. (2007, November 7). Breathing new life into the psychology of mind. [Review of the book Mind in life: Biology, phenomenology, and the sciences of mind]. PsycCRITIQUES – APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 52 (No. 45), Article 4.

Ramey, C. H. (2008, February 25). [Review of the book The reflexive nature of consciousness]. PsycCRITIQUES – APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 54 (No. 8), Article 6.