I'm a cognitive psychologist with a primary interest in psycholinguistics. The focus of most of my research has been how people use and understand language, but lately I have been branching out and exploring a range of methodological and statistical issues...
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Stony Brook University
M.A., Psychology, Stony Brook University
B.A., Psychology with minor in Spanish, University of Minnesota
PSYC 101 - General Psychology
PSYC 202 - Statistics For Psychology
PSYC 450 – Advanced Statistics in PsychologyStudent authors are shown in bold
Westbury, C., & Wurm, L.H. (2022). Is it you you're looking for? Personal relevance as a principal component of semantics. The Mental Lexicon, 17(1), 1-33. doi: 10.1075/ml.20031.wes
Wurm, L.H. (2022). Studying emotion effects in language. In G.L. Schiewer, J. Altarriba, & B.C. Ng (Eds.), Language and emotion (pp. 570-585). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110347524-027
Hernández-Colón, I.R., Caño, A., Wurm, L.H., Sanders, G., & Nava, J. (2021). Instructional set moderates the effect of GRE on faculty appraisals of applicant competence: A vignette study with implications for holistic review. Frontiers in Psychology, 12 (749621), 1-8. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.749621
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, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2020.106305
Pester, B.D., Caño, A., Kostecki, T., & Wurm, L.H. (2020). How do I help my partner in pain? Partners’ helping behaviors are linked to lower pain and greater perceived validation during an experimental pain task. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 54(4), 280-290. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaz047
Regalski, A.J., & Wurm, L.H. (2020). 3017: Six years in the life of an ill-fated neologism. The Mental Lexicon, 15(3), 509-532. doi: 10.1075/ml.19014.reg
van Rij, J., Vaci, N., Wurm, L.H., & Feldman, L.B. (2020). Alternative quantitative methods in psycholinguistics: Implications for theory and design. In V. Pirrelli, I. Plag, & W.U. Dressler (Eds.), Word knowledge and word usage: A cross-disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon (pp. 83-126). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110440577-003