Sharon Lee Armstrong
Associate Professor of Psychology
Office: Wister M-13
Phone: 215-951- 1297
E-mail: Armstron@lasalle.edu

Education:
B.A., Ph.D., Cognition and Learning, University of Delaware; Postdoctoral study in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania.


Publications:

• Maida, D. M., & Armstrong, S. L. (2005).
• The Classification of Muscle Dysmorphia. International Journal of Men's Health, 4(1), 73-91.
• Armstrong, S. L., Gleitman, L. R. & Gleitman, H. (1999). What some concepts might not be. In E. Margolis & S. Laurence (Eds.), Concepts: Core Readings. Cambridge, MA: MIT press.
• Mahmood, C. K., & Armstrong, S. L. (1992). Do Ethnic Groups Exist?: A Cognitive Perspective on the Concept of Cultures. Ethnology, 31(1), 1-14.
• Armstrong, S. L., Gleitman, L. R. & Gleitman, H. (1983). What some concepts might not be. Cognition, 13(3), 263-308.

Research Interests:
My areas of expertise within the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science are cognition, psycholinguistics, categorization, and reasoning. My research program focuses on semantic/conceptual/categorical structures inherent in judgement and reasoning processes in adults and children.

Some ongoing projects include:

• Patterns of inductive judgements in racial and gender categories
• The "Someday, so sooner" fallacy
• Category based induction

Courses taught at La Salle University:

• Psych 180 Principles of Psychology
• Psych 273/SLH 100 Introduction to Language & Communication
• Psych 330 Experimental Psychology I
• Psych 331 Experimental Psychology II
• Psych 415 Cognitive Psychology
• Psych 485 Practicum
• Psych 508 Cognition and Learning
• Psych 515 Theories of Personality
• Psych 770 Research Methods
• Psych 771 Statistics
• Psych 772 Dissertation Seminar