Roger Kreuz

Roger J. Kreuz

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Professional Experience

Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Memphis, 2014-present

Associate Chair, Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis, 2011-2014

Director, Master of Science in General Psychology Program, The University of Memphis, 2004-2014

Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis, 2000-present

Visiting Scholar, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Spring 1998

Visitor, Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Spring 1998

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis, 1993-2000

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Memphis State University, 1988-1993

Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1987-1988

Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1983-1987


Education

Years
Degree
Institution Concentration/Major
1985-87
PhD
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Cognitive Psychology
1983-85
MA
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Cognitive Psychology
1979-83
BA
The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Psychology
1979-83
BA
The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Linguistics

Courses Offered

Term
Course
Course Title Days Times
Fall 2024
PSYC 7/8407
Cognition & Emotion* Tues 9:00-12:00

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Office Hours

Fall 2024: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, 8:30-9:00, and by appointment

Other Courses Offered

PSYC 33304: Perceptual Psychology

PSYC 33303: Thinking and Cognitive Processes

PSYC 3106: Social Psychology

PSYC 7/8503: Seminar: Psychology of Language

PSYC 7/8211: Cognitive Processes

PSYC 7/8503: Pragmatics and Figurative Language


Research Interests

I am an experimental psychologist with research interests in cognitive psychology and the psychology of language. My specific areas of research are the following:

Discourse processing and pragmatics

Experimental studies of communication strategies (e.g., how people go about fulfilling their communicative goals).

Figurative language

How (and why) do people communicate using nonliteral means, such as with irony or hyperbole?

Computer-mediated communication

How do mediums like e-mail, texts, and tweets affect the communication process?


Honors and Awards

University Research Professor, The University of Memphis, 2021-2024

Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Research in the Social Sciences, Business & Law, The University of Memphis, 2015

Chair’s Special Appreciation Award, Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis, 2013

Professional Development Assignment, The University of Memphis, Spring 1998


Professional Memberships

Fellow and charter member, The Association for Psychological Science

Fellow, The Psychonomic Society

Fellow, The Society for Text and Discourse


Professional Service

Member, Association for Psychological Science Fellows Selection Committee, 2024-2027

Editorial board member, Metaphor and Symbol, 2001 to present

Secretary/Treasurer, The Society for Text and Discourse, 1997 to 2000

Webmaster, Psychology of Language Page of Links, a resource listing for researchers in psycholinguistics, 1996 to 2006

Editorial board member, Discourse Processes, 1994 to 2002


Publications

Citation counts and indices can be found at my Google Scholars profile.

Authored Books

Kreuz, R. (under contract). Strikingly similar: Plagiarism and appropriation from Chaucer to Chatbot. Cambridge University Press.

Kreuz, R. (2023). Linguistic fingerprints: How language creates and reveals identity (xiii + 241 pp.). Prometheus.

Kreuz, R. (2023). Failure to communicate: Why we misunderstand what we hear, read, and see (xvi + 275 pp.). Prometheus.

Kreuz, R. (2020). Irony and sarcasm [Essential Knowledge series] (xv + 207 pp.). MIT Press.

Kreuz, R., & Roberts, R. (2019). Changing minds: How aging affects language and how language affects aging (xii + 268 pp.). MIT Press.

Kreuz, R., & Roberts, R. (2017). Getting through: The pleasures and perils of cross-cultural communication (xxii + 276 pp.). MIT Press.

Roberts, R., & Kreuz, R. (2015). Becoming fluent: How cognitive science can help adults learn a foreign language (xviii + 226 pp.). MIT Press.

Edited Books

Fussell, S. R., & Kreuz, R. J. (Eds.). (1998). Social and cognitive approaches to interpersonal communication (ix + 298 pp.). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315805917

Kreuz, R. J., & MacNealy, M. S. (Eds.). (1996). Empirical approaches to literature and aesthetics. In R. O. Freedle (series editor), Advances in discourse processes, volume LII (xx + 729 pp.). Ablex.
[Table of Contents]

Edited Journal Issues

Kreuz, R. J., & Dews, S. (Eds.). (1995). Nonliteral language: Processing and use [special issue]. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 10(1).

Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews

Riordan, M. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (in press). Humanizing AI agents using Communication Accommodation Theory. To appear in H. Giles, D. Markowitz, & D. Clementson (Eds.), New directions for, and panaceas arising from, Communication Accommodation Theory. Peter Lang.

Caucci, G., Kreuz, R., & Buder, E. (2024). What’s a little sarcasm between friends: Exploring the sarcastic tone of voice. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 43(4), 486-502.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X241233001

Johnson, A. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (2023). Sarcasm across time and space: Patterns of usage by age, gender, and region in the United States. Discourse Processes, 60(1), 1-17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2022.2085475

Kreuz, R. J., & Johnson, A. A. (2020). The production of verbal irony: How to be an ironist. In J. Barnden & A. Gargett (Eds.), Producing figurative expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives (pp. 263-295). John Benjamins.
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.10.10kre

Riordan, M. A., Johnson, A. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (2020). Communicating affect: Face-to-face and online. In M. Filimowicz & V. Tzankova (Eds.), Reimagining communication (volume 2): Experience (pp. 97-116). Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351015356-6

Ransom, T., G., Dale, R., Kreuz, R. J., & Tollefsen, D. (2019). How do different types of alignment affect perceived entity status? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 48(5), 961-985.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-019-09642-1

Kreuz, R. J., & Riordan, M. A. (2018). The art of transcription: Systems and methodological issues. In A. H. Jucker, K. P. Schneider, & W. Bublitz (Eds.), Methods in pragmatics, HoPs 10 (pp. 95-120). Mouton de Gruyter (revised version of Kreuz & Riordan 2011 “The transcription of face-to-face interaction”).
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424928-003

Riordan, M. A., Kreuz, R. J., & Blair, A. N. (2018). The digital divide: Conveying subtlety in online communication. Journal of Computers in Education, 5(1), 49-66.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40692-018-0100-6

Kreuz, R. J. (2018). Does verbal irony have a place in the workplace? In F. Maon, A. Lindgreen, J. Vanhamme, R. J. Angell, & J. Memery (Eds.), Not all claps and cheers: Humor in business and society relationships (pp. 204-215). Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315277288-15

Tollefsen, D., Kreuz, R., & Dale, R. (2014). Flavors of "togetherness": Experimental philosophy and theories of joint action. In T. Lombrozo, J. Knobe, & S. Nichols (Eds.), Oxford studies in experimental philosophy, volume one (pp. 232-252). Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718765.003.0010

Riordan, M.A., Kreuz, R.J., & Olney, A. M. (2014). Alignment is a function of conversational dynamics. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 33(5), 465-481.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X13512306

Kreuz, R. J., & Riordan, M. A. (2014). Exaggeration. In S. Attardo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of humor studies (pp. 222-224). Sage.
https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/encyclopedia-of-humor-studies/i3520.xml

Kovaz, D., Kreuz, R. J., & Riordan, M. A. (2013). Distinguishing sarcasm from literal language: Evidence from books and blogging. Discourse Processes, 50(8), 598-615.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2013.849525

Caucci, G. M., & Kreuz, R. J. (2012). Social and paralinguistic cues to sarcasm. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 25(1), 1-22.
https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2012-0001

Duran, N. D., Dale, R., & Kreuz, R. J. (2011). Listeners invest in an assumed other's perspective despite cognitive cost. Cognition, 121(1), 22-40.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.06.009

Kreuz, R. J., & Riordan, M. A. (2011). The transcription of face-to-face interaction. In W. Bublitz & N. Norrick (Eds.), Foundations of pragmatics (pp. 657-679). Mouton de Gruyter.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214260.657

Riordan, M. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (2010a). Emotion encoding and interpretation in computer-mediated communication: Reasons for use. Computers in Human Behavior, 26(6), 1667-1673.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.06.015

Riordan, M. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (2010b). Cues in computer-mediated communication: A corpus analysis. Computers in Human Behavior, 26(6), 1806-1817.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.07.008

Kreuz, R. J., & Caucci, G. M. (2009). Social aspects of verbal irony use. In H. Pishwa (Ed.), Language and social cognition: Expression of the social mind (pp. 325-345). Mouton de Gruyter.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216080.2.325

Dress, M. L., Kreuz, R. J., Link, K. E., & Caucci, G. M. (2008). Regional variation in the use of sarcasm. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 27(1), 71-85.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X07309512

Kreuz, R. J., & Caucci, G. M. (2007). The concept of salience in cognitive psychology. In C. Gascoigne (Ed.), Assessing the impact of input enhancement in second language acquisition: Evolution in theory, research and practice (pp. 19-36). New Forums Press.

Kreuz, R. J., & Ashley, A. (2006). Nonliteral language, persuasion, and memory. In H. Pishwa (Ed.), Language and memory: Aspects of knowledge representation (pp. 425-443). Mouton de Gruyter.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110895087.425

Fridland, V., Bartlett, K., & Kreuz, R. (2005). Making sense of variation: Pleasantness and education ratings of regional vowel variants. American Speech, 80(4), 366-387.
https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-80-4-366

Link, K. E., & Kreuz, R. J. (2005a). The comprehension of ostensible speech acts. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 24(3), 1-25.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X05278384

Link, K. E., & Kreuz, R. J. (2005b). Do men and women differ in their use of nonliteral language when they talk about emotions? In H. L. Colston & A. N. Katz (Eds.), Figurative language comprehension: Social and cultural influences (pp. 153-180). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781410611628-9

Kreuz, R. J. (2004, November 9). Empirical potpourri [Review of The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory, vol. 44]. PsycCRITIQUES--Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 49, Supplement 7.
http://doi.org/10.1037/040064

Fridland, V., Bartlett, K., & Kreuz, R. (2004). Do you hear what I hear? Experimental measurement of the perceptual salience of acoustically manipulated vowel variants by Southern speakers in Memphis, TN. Language Variation and Change, 16(1), 1-16.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394504161012

Stewart, C. O., & Kreuz, R. J. (2003). On the communicative function of exaggeration: How to be a million times clearer. Communication Research Reports, 20(4), 331-340.
https://doi.org/10.1080/08824090309388832

Kreuz, R. J., & Link, K. E. (2002). Asymmetries in the perception of verbal irony. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 21(2), 127-143.
https://doi.org/10.1177/02627X02021002002

Kreuz, R. J. (2001). Literary texts: Comprehension and memory. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences, vol. 13 (pp. 8981-8984). Pergamon.
https://doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-043076-7/01539-4

Link, K. E., Kreuz, R. J., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001). Factors that influence the perception of feedback delivered by a pedagogical agent. International Journal of Speech Technology,4(2), 145-153.
https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017383528041

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Kreuz, R. J., Pomeroy, V., & the Tutoring Research Group (2001). Simulating human tutor dialog moves in AutoTutor. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education,12, 23-39.
https://telearn.hal.science/hal-00197320

Dressler, R. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (2000). Transcribing oral discourse: A survey and a model system. Discourse Processes, 29(1), 25-36.
https://doi.org/10.1207/S15326950dp2901_2

Graesser, A. C., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Kreuz, R., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Marquis, K. (2000). QUAID: A questionnaire evaluation aid for survey methodologists. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 32(2), 254-262.
https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03207792

Kreuz, R. J. (2000). The production and processing of verbal irony. Metaphor and Symbol, 15(1-2), 99-107.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2000.9678867

Graesser, A. C., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Kreuz, R., & the Tutoring Research Group. (1999). AutoTutor: A simulation of a human tutor. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research,1(1), 35-51.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1389-0417(99)00005-4

Kreuz, R. J. (1999). Proverbs and psychology: Strange bedfellows? The American Journal of Psychology, 112(2), 318-321.
https://doi.org/10.2307/1423357

Kreuz, R. J., Kassler, M. A., Coppenrath, L., & McLain Allen, B. (1999). Tag questions and common ground effects in the perception of verbal irony. Journal of Pragmatics, 31(12), 1685-1700.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00010-7

Roberts, R. M., & Kreuz, R. J. (1999). La produzione del linguaggio figurato: tutti i tropi sono creati uguali? [The production of figurative language: Are all tropes created equal?]. In A. Nemesio (Ed.), L'esperienza del testo (pp. 101-110). Meltemi.

Fussell, S. R., & Kreuz, R. J. (1998). Social and cognitive approaches to interpersonal communication: Introduction and overview. In S. R. Fussell & R. J. Kreuz (Eds.), Social and cognitive approaches to interpersonal communication (pp. 3-17). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315805917-2

Graesser, A. C., Kassler, M. A., Kreuz, R. J., & McLain Allen, B. (1998). Verification of statements about story worlds that deviate from normal conceptions of time: What is true about "Einstein's Dreams"? Cognitive Psychology, 35(3), 246-301.
https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.1998.0680

Kreuz, R. J. (1998). Review of "Understanding Metaphor in Literature: An Empirical Approach." Journal of Pragmatics, 29(6), 805-807.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(98)80017-9

Kreuz, R. J., Kassler, M. A., & Coppenrath, L. (1998). The use of hyperbole in discourse: Cognitive and social facets. In S. R. Fussell & R. J. Kreuz (Eds.), Social and cognitive approaches to interpersonal communication (pp. 91-111). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315805917-7

Kreuz, R. J. (1997). Review of "Irony in Context." Journal of Pragmatics, 27(2), 247-250.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(97)80961-7

Sell, M. A., Kreuz, R. J., & Coppenrath, L. (1997). Parents' use of nonliteral language with preschool children. Discourse Processes, 23(2), 99-118.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01638537709544985

Kreuz, R. J. (1996). The use of verbal irony: Cues and constraints. In J. S. Mio & A. N. Katz (Eds.), Metaphor: Implications and applications (pp. 23-38). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315789316-2

Kreuz, R. J., Roberts, R. M., Johnson, B. K., & Bertus, E. L. (1996). Figurative language occurrence and co-occurrence in contemporary literature. In R. J. Kreuz & M. S. MacNealy (Eds.), Empirical approaches to literature and aesthetics (pp. 83-97). Ablex.

Kreuz, R. J., & Roberts, R. M. (1995). Two cues for verbal irony: Hyperbole and the ironic tone of voice. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 10(1), 21-31.
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327868ms1001_3

Person, N. K., Kreuz, R. J., Zwaan, R. A., & Graesser, A. C. (1995). Pragmatics and pedagogy: Conversational rules and politeness strategies may inhibit effective tutoring. Cognition and Instruction, 13(2), 161-188.
https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci1302_1

Person, N. K., Graesser, A. C., Magliano, J. P., & Kreuz, R. J. (1994). Inferring what the student knows in one-to-one tutoring: The role of student questions and answers. Learning and Individual Differences, 6(2), 205-229.
https://doi.org/10.1016/1041-6080(94)90010-8

Roberts, R. M., & Kreuz, R. J. (1994). Why do people use figurative language? Psychological Science, 5(3), 159-163.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1994.tb00653.x

Roberts, R. M., Kreuz, R. J., Gilbert, D. K., & Bainbridge, E. A. (1994). Discourse expectation and perceived coherence. In H. van Oostendorp & R. A. Zwaan (Eds.), Naturalistic text comprehension (pp. 189-202). Ablex.

Graesser, A. C., & Kreuz, R. J. (1993). A theory of inference generation during text comprehension. Discourse Processes, 16(1-2), 145-160.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01638539309544833

Kreuz, R. J., & Graesser, A. C. (1993). The assumptions behind questions in letters to advice columnists. Text, 13(1), 65-89.
https://doi.org/10.1515/text.1.1993.13.1.65

Kreuz, R. J., & Roberts, R. M. (1993a). When collaboration fails: Consequences of pragmatic errors in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 19(3), 239-252.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(93)90030-S

Kreuz, R. J., & Roberts, R. M. (1993b). On satire and parody: The importance of being ironic. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity,8(2), 97-109.
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327868ms0802_2

Kreuz, R. J., & Roberts, R. M. (1993c). The empirical study of figurative language in literature. Poetics, 22(1-2), 151-169.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-422X(93)90026-D

Roberts, R. M., & Kreuz, R. J. (1993). Nonstandard discourse and its coherence. Discourse Processes, 16,(4) 451-464.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01638539309544849

Kreuz, R. J., & Graesser, A. C. (1991). Aspects of idiom interpretation: Comment on Nayak and Gibbs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 120(1), 90-92.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.120.1.90

Kreuz, R. J., Long, D. L., & Church, M. B. (1991). On being ironic: Pragmatic and mnemonic implications. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 6(3), 149-162.
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327868ms0603_1

Kreuz, R. J., & Glucksberg, S. (1989). How to be sarcastic: The echoic reminder theory of verbal irony. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 118(4), 374-386.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.118.4.374

Kreuz, R. J. (1987). The subjective familiarity of English homophones. Memory & Cognition, 15(2), 154-168.
https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03197027

Glucksberg, S., Kreuz, R. J., & Rho, S. H. (1986). Context can constrain lexical access: Implications for models of language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 12(3), 323-335.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.12.3.323


Conference Proceedings

Riordan, M. A., Dale, R., Kreuz, R. J., & Olney, A. (2011). Evidence for alignment in a computer-mediated text-only environment. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T. F. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2411-2416). Cognitive Science Society.
[conference paper]

Roche, J., Dale, R., & Kreuz, R. J. (2010). The resolution of ambiguity during conversation: More than mere mimicry? In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 206-211). Cognitive Science Society.
[conference paper]

Kreuz, R. J., & Caucci, G. M. (2007). Lexical influences on the perception of sarcasm. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Figurative Language (pp. 1-4). Association for Computational Linguistics.
[conference paper]

Graesser, A., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Kreuz, R. (2000). The gold standard of question quality on surveys: Experts, computer tools, versus statistical indices. In JSM Proceedings, Research Methods Section (pp. 459-64). American Statistical Association.
[conference paper]

Link, K., Pomeroy, V., DiPaolo, R., Rajan, S., Klettke, B., Bautista, L., Kreuz, R., Graesser, A., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000). The effectiveness of tutorial dialog in an automated conversational tutor. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp. 18-19).
[conference paper]

Person, N. K., Bautista, L., Kreuz, R. J., Graesser, A. C., & the Tutoring Research Group (2000). The dialog advancer network: A conversation manager for AutoTutor. In Modeling Human Teaching: Tactics and Strategies, Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2000 (pp. 86-92).
[conference paper]

Stewart, C. O., & Kreuz, R. J. (2000). Are you trying to be funny? The importance of exaggeration on discourse goal clarity. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (pp. 126-127).
[conference paper]

Wiemer-Hastings, K., Wiemer-Hastings, P., Rajan, S., Graesser, A. C., Kreuz, R. J., & Karnavat, A. (2000). DP: A detector for presuppositions in survey questions. In Proceedings of the Applied Natural Language Processing Conference (pp. 90-96).
[conference paper]

Person, N. K., Klettke, B., Link, K., Kreuz, R. J., & the Tutoring Research Group (1999). The integration of affective responses into AutoTutor. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Affect in Interactions (pp. 167-178).

Wiemer-Hastings, P., Graesser, A. C., Harter, D., Franklin, S., Garzon, M., Gholson, B., Hacker, D., Hu, X., Kreuz, R., Marks, B., Person, N., Nolan, F., & the Tutoring Research Group (1998). The foundations and architecture of Autotutor. In B. P. Goettl & V. J. Shute (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 1452 (pp. 334-343).
[conference paper]

Graesser, A. C., Kassler, M. A., Dijkstra, K., Kreuz, R. J., Zwaan, R. A., & McLain Allen, B. (1995). Comprehending novel mental models of time in “Einstein’s Dreams.” In G. Rusch (Ed.), Empirical Approaches to Literature: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, IGEL, Budapest 1994 (pp. 348-353). LUMIS-Publications Special Issue Volume VI.
[proceedings table of contents]

Roberts, R. M., & Kreuz, R. J. (1991). In the eye of the beholder: The coherence of nonstandard discourse. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 19-24). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
[conference paper]


Conference Presentations

2010-present

Johnson, A., Olney, A., & Kreuz, R. (2020, November 19-21). Short and extreme: Signaling sarcasm online [Virtual poster session]. 61st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
[poster]

Johnson, A., Braasch, J. & Kreuz, R. (2020, July 21-22). Detrimental effects of seductive details on multiple text inference generation [Virtual poster session]. 30th annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse.
[poster]    ●    [preprint]

Johnson, A. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (2020, June-September). Who’s using verbal irony? Age and gender play a role [poster, APS Poster Showcase]. Association for Psychological Science.
[poster]

Kreuz, R. J., & Johnson, A. A. (2018, November 15-18). “Still feeling lucky?” Features of sarcasm in the context of failed predictions [Poster session]. 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
[poster]

Johnson, A. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (2018, July 17-19). Beyond the university sample: Using crowdsourcing to explore verbal irony use across age and gender [Poster session]. 28th annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Brighton, UK.
[poster]

Blair, A. N., Braasch, J. L. G., & Kreuz, R. J. (2015, November 19-22). "Oswald assassinates Lincoln": The effect of transportation on misinformation [Poster session]. 56th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.
[poster]

Kovaz, D., Wilson, J. D., Rogers, J. W., Dahlke, L. A., Black, R. K., Sable, J. J., & Kreuz, R. J. (2015, November 19-22). Are you laughing when you lol?: Examining emotion in texting shortcuts using event-related potentials [Poster session]. 56th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.
[poster]

Kovaz, D., & Kreuz, R. J. (2014, November 20-23). Recognizing sarcasm in Twitter: A comparison of neural network and human performance [Poster session]. 55th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
[poster]

Kovaz, D., Riordan, M., Trichtinger, L., & Kreuz, R. (2014, November 20-23). The effects of cooperation and relationship status on alignment in conversation [Poster session]. 55th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
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Kreuz, R. J., Blair, A. N., & Riordan, M. A. (2014, August 4-6). Digital immigrants evaluate text messages differently than digital natives [Poster session]. 24th annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL.
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Caucci, G. M., Dale, R., & Kreuz, R. J. (2014, August 4-6). When I move, you move: Coordination in conversation [Poster session]. 24th annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL.
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Kovaz, D., & Kreuz, R. J. (2014, July 23-26). Recognizing sarcasm in Twitter: A neural network approach. In B. Wallace & L. Kertz (organizers), Can cognitive scientists help computers recognize irony? [Paper presentation]. Workshop conducted at the 36th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada.

Kovaz, D., Riordan, M. A., Boyd, W. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (2013, November 14-17). "That's ur opinion": Alignment and agreement in computer-mediated communication [Poster session]. 54th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.
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Riordan, M. A., Kreuz, R. J., & Olney, A. (2012, November 15-18). Alignment is a function of conversational and relational dynamics [Poster session]. 53rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.
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Kovaz, D., & Kreuz, R. J. (2012, May 7). Lexical features of sarcasm in Twitter and Google Books [Poster session]. 2nd annual Midwest Cognitive Science Conference, Bloomington, IN.
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Riordan, M. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (2012, May 7). The communicative efficacy of email: The effect of situation and interpersonal context [Paper presentation]. 2nd annual Midwest Cognitive Science Conference, Bloomington, IN.

Roche, J., Dale, R., & Kreuz, R. J. (2012, March 14-16). Communication breakdown induces audience design strategies [Poster session]. 25th annual meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York City, NY.
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Riordan, M. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (2011, November 3-6). :-) = happy? Nonverbal cues fulfill a variety of communication goals [Poster session]. 52nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.
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Riordan, M. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (2011, August 4-8). Expressing emotion online: What we've got here is a failure to communicate [Paper presentation]. 17th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning (CSAIL), Hood River, OR.

Riordan, M. A., Dale, R., Kreuz, R. J., & Olney, A. (2011, July 20-23). Evidence for alignment in a computer-mediated text-only environment [Paper presentation]. 33rd annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.

Riordan, M. A. & Kreuz, R. J. (2011, July 11-13). How to laugh and cry online: Nonverbal cues in CMC [Paper presentation]. 21st annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Poitiers, France.

Riordan, M. A., Dale, R., Kreuz, R. J., & Olney, A. (2011, May 26-30). Verbal and nonverbal alignment in a synchronous chat environment [Poster session]. 61st annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Boston, MA.
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Duran, N. D., Dale, R., & Kreuz, R. (2010, November 18-21). Nonlinear dynamics of perspective taking [Paper presentation]. 51st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

Riordan, M. A., Kreuz, R. J., & Dale, R. (2010, November 18-21). Interactive alignment in simulated online computer-mediated communication [Poster session]. 51st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in St. Louis, MO.
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Roche, J., Dale, R., & Kreuz, R. (2010, November 18-21). Don't rush the navigator: Disambiguation strategies require cognitive flexibility [Poster session]. 51st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.
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Riordan, M. A., Kreuz, R. J., & Dale, R. (2010, November 18). Socially facilitated alignment and novelty in an interactive micro-task with online crowdsourcing [Poster session]. 40th annual meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, St. Louis, MO.
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Roche, J. M., Riordan, M. A., Duran, N. D., Kreuz, R. J., & Dale, R. (2010, September 27-28). Conditions guiding coordinative and adaptive dynamics in human interaction [Poster session]. Human and Social Dynamics Grantees Conference, Arlington, VA.
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Riordan, M. A., Dale, R., & Kreuz, R. J. (2010, August 11-14). Socially facilitated alignment and novelty in separate channels of communication [Poster session]. 32nd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR.
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Roche, J. M., Dale, R., & Kreuz, R. J. (2010, August 11-14). The resolution of ambiguity during conversation: More than mere mimicry? [Paper presentation]. 32nd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR.

Riordan, M. A., & Kreuz, R. J. (2010, April 7-11). Emotion expression online: Cues-filtered out or cues filtered-in? In C. O. Stewart (Chair), Discursive management of potentially problematic communication [Paper presentation]. 80th annual meeting of the Southern States Communication Association, Memphis, TN.

Caucci, G. M., & Kreuz, R. J. (2010, March 6-9). How to be funny without being literal: Facial and vocal cues for verbal irony In S. Attardo, E. Urios-Aparisi, & M. Wagner (Chairs), Humor and multimodal markers of humor [Paper presentation]. American Association of Applied Linguistics, Atlanta, GA.

2000-2009

1986-1999


Research Grants

Principal Investigator, 2012-2013 (Co-Principal Investigator, 2008-2012), Conditions Guiding Coordinative and Adaptive Dynamics in Human Interaction (R. Dale, Principal Investigator, 2008-2012). Human and Social Dynamics, National Science Foundation (BCS 0826825), September 2008 to August 2013, $673,079.

Principal Investigator, Survey of Southern Speech (Research Experience for Undergraduates). National Science Foundation (sponsor: V. Fridland, University of Nevada Reno), July 2002 to February 2006, $6,200.

Principal Investigator, Using Figurative Language to Increase Advertising Effectiveness. Office of Naval Research (N00014-00-1-0667), April 2000 to April 2002, $104,875.

Co-Principal Investigator, Simulating Tutors with Natural Dialog and Pedagogical Strategies (A. C. Graesser, Principal Investigator). Learning and Intelligent Systems Initiative, National Science Foundation (SBR 9720314), September 1997 to August 2000, $900,000.

Principal Investigator, Factors that Influence the Perception of Discourse Coherence. Memphis State University Faculty Research Grant, November 1990 to May 1991, $2,700.


Curent and Former Students

Josie Steen, current master's student

Katherine Pierce, MS 2024

Alex Johnson, MS 2019

David Kovaz, PhD 2015

Now a senior quantitative statistician with Statistics Solutions (Clearwater, FL)

Gina M. Caucci, MS 2008, PhD 2011

Now an Associate Professor of Teaching at The University of Memphis (Memphis, TN)

Crystal Godwin Hough, MS 2011

Monica A. Riordan, MS 2008, PhD 2011

Now a Professor of Psychology at Chatham University (Pittsburgh, PA)

Megan L. Dress, MS 2006

Now a business manager at Germantown Speech Language & Learning Clinic (Germantown, TN)

Aaron L. Ashley, PhD 2004

Now an Associate Professor and chair of Psychology at Weber State University (Ogden, UT)

Kristen E. Link Logan, MS 1999, PhD 2001

Now a Senior Software Engineer, Innovative Interfaces (Syracuse, NY)

Craig O. Stewart, MS 2000

Now a Professor of Communication & Film at The University of Memphis (Memphis, TN)

Max A. Kassler, MS 1993, PhD 1996

Now a Senior User Experience Researcher, Dell Technologies (Round Rock, TX)

Richard M. Roberts, PhD 1992

Now a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. State Department (Brasília, Brazil)


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