Whitney Tabor

Associate Professor

Psychological Sciences

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Research Interests

• Change in structured systems
• Sentence processing
• Language change
• Group coordination

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Teaching

Undergraduate

• Cognitive Psychology
• Psychology of Language

Graduate

• Sentence and Discourse Processing
• Dynamics of Language and Cognition

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Publications

Representative

Conrad, M. & Tabor, W. (2024). Intermediate flexibility in cooperation games prevents free riding, polarization, and societal disintegration.
Collective Intelligence, 3-4: 1-16. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26339137241303908

Tabor, W., Smith, G., & Dankowicz, H. (2024). Escape from fraught states in a coordination game. Royal Society Open Science, 11: 231314. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231314

Villata, S. & Tabor, W. (2022). A self-organized sentence processing theory of gradience: The case of islands. Cognition, 222: 104943. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027721003668?via%3Dihub (Code on Github)

Tabor, W. (2021). On the relationship between syntactic and semantic encoding in metric space language models. Journal of Cognitive Science, 22(2): 135-155. Access an archive of this publication