Curriculum Vitae

 

Margery Marie Lucas

 

Department of Psychology

Wellesley College

Wellesley, MA 02481

(781) 283 3008

mlucas@wellesley.edu

 

 

 

Education

 

1980-1984                 Ph.D. in Psychology. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Doctoral Thesis: "Lexical access during sentence comprehension: Context effects, frequency effects, and decision processes."

1977-1980                 M.A. in Psychology. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

1971-1975                 B.S. in Psychology awarded with Distinction. Pennsylvania State

                                    University, University Park, PA.

 

 

 

Professional Experience

 

1999- Present           Wellesley College, Professor, Department of Psychology      

                                    Director, Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences Program     

1991-1999                 Wellesley College, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

1991-1992                 Stanford University, Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Language & Information  

1984-1991                 Wellesley College, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

1983-1984                 University of Rochester, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology and Program in Cognitive Science

1980-1983                 University of Rochester, Instructor, Part-time, Department of Psychology

 

 

 

Professional Organizations

 

American Psychological Society

Human Behavior & Evolution Society

Behavioral & Brain Sciences, Associate Member

Women in Cognitive Science

  

 

 

Grants

 

2007-2009                 Wellesley College Faculty Award: Fertility risk and bargaining

2003                           Mellon Mid-Career Enrichment Grant for Release Time

1994                           Wellesley College Faculty Award for research on lexical acess

                                    (also 1984, 1986, 1988, and 1989)

1993                           Wellesley College Faculty Award, "The semantic Representation of Spatial Locative Terms"(with Annette Herskovits and Andrea Levitt)

1992                           Stanford University Center for the Study of Language and    Information Seed Money Grant for research project on the resolution problem in syntactic processing, (with Ivan Sag and Michael Tanenhaus).

1991-93                     Brachman Hoffman Fellowship Award for research on word meaning       

1990                           Hughes Curriculum Development Grant

1990                           Ford Foundation Summer grant

1989                           Faculty Research Development Grant from Technology Studies                               

 

 

 

Publications

 

Lucas, M, & Koff, E.  (2010). Delay discounting is associated with the 2D:4D ratio in

women but not men. Personality and Individual Differences, 48 (2), 182-186.

 

Lucas, M. (2009). Your mind on money: A review of the Cambridge Handbook of

Psychology and Economic Behaviour. PsycCritiques, 54 (19).

 

Lucas, M.M., Wagner, L., & Chow, C. (2008). Fair Game: The intuitive economics of

resource exchange in four-year olds. Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and

Cultural Psychology. 2(3), 74-88.

 

Lucas, M.M., Koff, E.K., & Skeath, S. (2007). Pilot study of relationship between fertility

risk and bargaining. Psychological Reports, 101, 302-310.

 

Lucas, M. & Wagner, L. Born selfish? (2005). Rationality, altruism, and the initial state.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(6), 829-830.

 

Lucas, M. (2001). Essential and Perceptual attributes of words in reflective and on-line

processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30 (6), 605-25.

 

Lucas, M. (2000). Semantic priming without Association: A meta-analytic review.

            Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1, 618-630.

 

Lucas, M. (1999). Selection pressures for language prerequisites: constraints and

limitations. Psycholoquy, 10.050. 1999.

 

Lucas, M. (1999). Context effects in lexical access: A meta-analysis.  Memory and

Cognition, 27, 375-398.

 

Lucas, M. (1991). Semantic representation of meaning: A defense. Psychological

Bulletin, 110, 254-263.

 

Lucas, M.M, Tanenhaus, M.K, & Carlson, G. (1990). Levels of representation in

anaphoric reference and instrument inference, Memory and Cognition, 18, 611-

631.

 

Lucas, M. (1987). Frequency effects on the processing of ambiguous words in sentence

contexts. Language and Speech, 25-46.

 

Tanenhaus, M.K, & Lucas, M.M. (1987). Context effects in lexical processing.

Cognition, 25, 213-234. Reprinted in U.H.Frauenfelder and L.K. Tyler (Eds.),

Spoken Word Recognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987.

Lucas, M. (1983). Lexical access during sentence comprehension: Frequency and context effects.  Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Small, S. & Lucas, (1983). M. A computer model of language comprehension.

Richerche de Psicologia, 25, 89-158.

 

Lucas, M. & Bub, D. (1981). Can practice result in the ability to divide attention between

two complex language tasks? A reply to Hirst et al. Journal of Experimental

Psychology: General, 110, 495-498.

 

 

 

Presentations

 

2007               [with Elissa Koff and Susan Skeath] The effects of conception risk on women’s economic decision-making: Changes in bargaining behavior across the menstrual cycle. 19^th Annual Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Williamsburg, VA, May 22-25, 2007.

 

2005               [with Candice Chow and Laura Wagner]  Pre-school children show sophisticated performance  on economics tasks. Poster presented at the 17^th Annual Association for Psychological Science Convention. Los Angeles, CA., May 26-29, 2005.

 

1995              "Activation of word meaning during sentence comprehension."   Language and Cognition Research Group, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. 5/23.

 

1995               [with Devorah Klein '95] "Feature priming in conceptual combinations". Paper presented at Creative Concepts Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, May 18-21.

 

1995               "Concepts and Words" A tale of two research programs. Brachman Hoffman Lecture at Wellesley College, 4/18

 

1994               "What's wrong with studies of lexical access?" Psycholinguistics Research Club, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. 4/26

 

1993                  "The semantic representation of spatial locative terms: A case study of across." Spatial Cognition Lab Group, Department of Psychology, Stanford University. 1/11.

 

1992                    "The role of prototypes in spatial concepts." Department of Psychology, University of San Francisco, 3/22.

 

1992                    [with Annette Herskovits, Andrea Levitt, and Laura Wagner]. "The mental representation of the meaning of across"   Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 1/29.

 

1991                    "The role of prototypes in understanding category concepts: a critical assessment." Commentary presented at Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 6/9.

 

1987                    [with Michael Tanenhaus and Greg Carlson]. "Inferences in sentence        comprehension: The role of constructed representations". Paper presented at The Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,7/16.

 

1985                    [with Michael Tanenhaus, Greg Carlson, and Debra Senytka]. "The level of representation involved in the processing of anaphoric reference during sentence comprehension". Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, Boston, MA. 3/22.

 

1983                   "Lexical access during sentence comprehension: Frequency and context ." Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Rochester, NY. 5/18.