Lance Rips

Lance Rips
Born	Lance Jeffrey Rips (1947-12-19) December 19, 1947 (age 77)
Nationality	American
Education	Swarthmore College Stanford University
Awards	Fulbright Fellowship (2004–05) Guggenheim Fellowship (2008)
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	Northwestern University
Thesis	Induction and Natural Categories  (1974)

Lance Jeffrey Rips (born December 19, 1947) ^[1] is an American psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. Before joining Northwestern in 1994, he taught at the University of Chicago for nineteen years. His research has focused on human memory and deductive reasoning, among other topics. He received a Fulbright Fellowship in 2004 and 2005, and he was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2008. In addition, he is a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. ^[2]

Research

Rips's research has ranged from studies of human concepts to reasoning and to autobiographical memory and survey methods. Along with Edward Smith, Edward Shoben, and Eleanor Rosch, he helped establish the role of prototypes in people's knowledge of natural categories. ^[3] His experiments on prototypes in inductive reasoning started a stream of research on category-based inductive reasoning. Later work focused on deductive reasoning, developing a computational theory along the lines of natural deduction in logic. ^[4] More recent work includes studies of number systems, concepts of individual objects, and explanation. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Selected works

Articles

• Rips, L. J. (2020). Possible objects: Topological approaches to individuation. Cognitive Science, 44(11).
• Rips, L. J., & Hespos, S. J. (2015). Divisions of the physical world: Concepts of objects and substances. Psychological Bulletin, 141, 786-811.
• Rips, L. J., & Thompson, S. (2014). Possible number systems. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 3-23.
• Rips, L. J., Bloomfield, A., & Asmuth, J. (2008). From numerical concepts to concepts of number. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 623-642.
• Rips, L. J., Blok, S., & Newman, G. (2006). Tracing the identity of objects. Psychological Review, 113, 1-30.
• Rips, L. J. (2000). The cognitive nature of instantiation. Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 20-43.

Authored books

• Rips, L. J. (2011). Lines of thought: Central concepts in cognitive psychology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Tourangeau, R., Rips, L. J., & Rasinski, K. (2000). The psychology of survey response. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Rips, L. J. (1994). The psychology of proof: Deduction in human thinking. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

References

1. "Rips, Lance J." Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
2. "Lance Rips". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
3. Categories and Concepts. Harvard University Press. 1981. ISBN   9780674102750.
4. Rips, Lance J. (January 2003). The Psychology of Proof: Deductive Reasoning in Human Thinking. MIT Press. ISBN   9780262517218.
5. Rips, Lance J.; Thompson, Samantha (2014). "Possible number systems" . Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 14 (1): 3–23. doi:10.3758/s13415-013-0209-z. PMID   24326965. S2CID   15670876.
6. "APA PsycNet".
7. Brem, Sarah K.; Rips, Lance J. (2000). "Explanation and Evidence in Informal Argument". Cognitive Science. 24 (4): 573–604. doi: 10.1207/s15516709cog2404_2 .

External links

• Faculty page
• Lance Rips publications indexed by Google Scholar