Robert E. MacLaury

1.4k total citations
23 papers, 852 citations indexed

About

Robert E. MacLaury is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert E. MacLaury has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 852 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 5 papers in Social Psychology and 4 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Robert E. MacLaury's work include Categorization, perception, and language (13 papers), Color perception and design (5 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 papers). Robert E. MacLaury is often cited by papers focused on Categorization, perception, and language (13 papers), Color perception and design (5 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 papers). Robert E. MacLaury collaborates with scholars based in United States and Japan. Robert E. MacLaury's co-authors include James Stanlaw, John R. Taylor, Robert M. Boynton, Israel Abramov, Ronald W. Casson, Kimberly A. Jameson, C. L. Hardin, David L. Miller, Stephen L. Zegura and John A. Lucy and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Annual Review of Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Robert E. MacLaury

20 papers receiving 716 citations

Peers

Robert E. MacLaury
Eleanor R. Heider United States
Chad K. McDaniel United States
Leon Bergen United States
Rita Nolan United States
Simeon Floyd Netherlands
Gareth Evans United Kingdom
Franz Brentano Belgium
Jay F. Rosenberg United States
Agustí­n Vicente Spain
Reuven Tsur Israel
Eleanor R. Heider United States
Robert E. MacLaury
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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MacLaury, Robert E., et al.. (2007). Anthropology of Color. John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks. 40 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (2005). So-Called Brightness in Color Ethnography: Potentials for LCD Technology in Fieldwork and Categorization Research. Cross-Cultural Research. 39(2). 205–227. 2 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (2003). Vantages in a Word Field: Variably Distributed Attention to Similarity. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 3(2). 114–131. 1 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (2002). Introducing vantage theory. Language Sciences. 24(5-6). 493–536. 22 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (2002). Vantages on the category of vertical extent: John R. Taylor's “high” and “tall”. Language Sciences. 25(3). 285–288. 7 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (2000). Linguistic relativity and the plasticity of categorization. 249. 5 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (1999). Asymmetry among Hering primaries thwarts the Inverted spectrum argument. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22(6). 960–961. 1 indexed citations
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Stanlaw, James & Robert E. MacLaury. (1999). Color and Cognition on Mesoamerica: Constructing Categories as Vantages. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 5(1). 114–114. 90 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (1998). Domain-specificity in folk biology and color categorization: Modularity versus global process. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 21(4). 582–583. 2 indexed citations
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Hardin, C. L., Paul Kay, B. R. Wooten, et al.. (1997). Color Categories in Thought and Language. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 266 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (1997). Ethnographic evidence of unique hues and elemental colors. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 20(2). 202–203. 24 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E., et al.. (1997). Hungarian Piros and Vörös: Color from points of view. Semiotica. 114(1-2). 24 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (1991). Social and Cognitive Motivations of Change: Measuring Variability in Color Semantics. Language. 67(1). 34–62. 33 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (1991). Prototypes Revisited. Annual Review of Anthropology. 20(1). 55–74. 17 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (1991). Exotic Color Categories: Linguistic Relativity to What Extent?. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 1(1). 26–51. 7 indexed citations
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Hill, Jane H. & Robert E. MacLaury. (1990). The Terror of Montezuma. 1 indexed citations
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Boynton, Robert M., Robert E. MacLaury, & Keiji Uchikawa. (1989). Centroids of color categories compared by two methods. Color Research & Application. 14(1). 6–15. 28 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (1989). Zapotec Body-Part Locatives: Prototypes and Metaphoric Extensions. International Journal of American Linguistics. 55(2). 119–154. 46 indexed citations
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MacLaury, Robert E.. (1987). Color‐Category Evolution and Shuswap Yellow‐with‐Green. American Anthropologist. 89(1). 107–124. 74 indexed citations
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Kempton, Willett, et al.. (1983). Tarahumara color modifiers: category structure presaging evolutionary change. American Ethnologist. 10(1). 133–149. 21 indexed citations

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