Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor and Chair

Psychology Department

University of St. Francis

Joliet, IL


Education

Research Interests

  • Language and Discourse Processing
  • Moral Reasoning
  • Analogical Reasoning and Comparison
  • Statistical Methods & Computational Modeling
  • Corpus Statistics
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Tower Hall, Room S211
Joliet, IL 60435

Email: ESagi@stfrancis.edu
Office: (815) 740-3866
Cell: (312) 285-0287

Publications

Journal Articles

2019
Sagi, E. (2019). Taming big data: Applying the experimental method to naturalistic data sets. Behavior Research Methods, 51(4), 1619-1635. doi:10.3758/s13428-018-1185-6
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2017
Sagi, E., & Diermeier, D. (2017). Language Use and Coalition Formation in Multiparty Negotiations. Cognitive Science, 41, 259-271. doi:10.1111/cogs.12325
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2016
Dehghani, M., Johnson, K., Hoover, J., Sagi, E., Garten, J., Parmar, N. Jitendra, et al. (2016). Purity Homophily in Social Networks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 366-375. doi:10.1037/xge0000139
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2015
Iliev, R., Dehghani, M., & Sagi, E. (2015). Automated Text Analysis in Psychology: Methods, Applications and Future Developments. Language and Cognition, 7(2), 265-290. doi:10.1017/langcog.2014.30
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2014
Sagi, E., & Rips, L. J. (2014). Identity, Causality, and Pronoun Ambiguity. Topics in Cognitive Science, 6, 663-680. doi:10.1111/tops.12105
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Sagi, E., & Dehghani, M. (2014). Measuring Moral Rhetoric in Text. Social Science Computer Review, 32(2), 132-144. doi:10.1177/0894439313506837
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2013
Sagi, E., Diermeier, D., & Kaufmann, S. (2013). Identifying Issue Frames in Text. PLoS ONE, 8(7), e69185. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069185
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2012
Sagi, E., Gentner, D., & Lovett, A. (2012). What Difference Reveals About Similarity. Cognitive Science, 36(6), 1019 - 1050. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01250.x
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Book Chapters

2011
German, J., Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Clark, B. (2011). The role of speaker beliefs in determining accent placement. In A. Bentz, Ebert, C., Jager, G., & van Rooij, R. (Eds.), Language, games, and evolution (pp. 92–116). New York, NY: Springer.
Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Clark, B. (2011). Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis. In K. Allan & Robinson, J. A. (Eds.), Current Methods in Historical Semantics (pp. 161-183). Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Refereed Conference Papers & Other Publications

2018
Sagi, E., & Jones, B. K. (2018). Cognition and Emotion in Narratives of Redemption: An Automated Analysis. In T. T. Rogers, Rau, M., Zhu, X., & Kalish, C. W. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2382-2387). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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2017
Sagi, E. (2017). Is it fair? Textual effects on the salience of moral foundations. In G. Gunzelmann, Howes, A., Tenbrink, T., & Davelaar, E. J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3028-3032).
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2015
Sagi, E., Gann, T. M., & Matlock, T. (2015). The Moral Rhetoric of Climate Change. In D. C. Noelle, Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio, P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2063-2068).
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2014
Sagi, E., & Dehghani, M. (2014). Moral Rhetoric in Twitter: A Case Study of the U.S. Federal Shutdown of 2013. In P. Bello, Guarini, M., McShane, M., & Scassellati, B. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1347-1352).
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2013
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Sagi, E., & Diermeier, D. (2013). The Time Course of Language Use in Multiparty Negotiations. In M. Knauff, Pauen, M., Sebanz, N., & Wachsmuth, I. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3343-3347).
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2010
Sagi, E. (2010). Discourse Structure Effects on the Global Coherence of Texts. In M. Finlayson (Ed.), Computational Models of Narrative, Papers from the 2010 AAAI Fall Symposium (Vol. AAAI Technical report FS-10-04). Retrieved from https://aaai.org/papers/02275-2275-discourse-structure-effects-on-the-global-coherence-of-texts/
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2009
Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Clark, B. (2009). Culture in the Mirror of Language: A Latent Semantic Analysis Approach to Culture. In N. Taatgen, van Rijn, H., Schomaker, L., & Nerbonne, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 637-642). Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Lovett, A., Gentner, D., Sagi, E., & Forbus, K. (2009). Modeling Perceptual Similarity as Analogy Resolves the Paradox of Difference Detection. In B. Kokinov, Holyoak, K., & Gentner, D. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Analogy Conference (pp. 320-329). Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Boussidan, A., Sagi, E., & Ploux, S. (2009). Phonaesthemic and Etymological effects on the Distribution of Senses in Statistical Models of Semantics. In Y. Peirsman, Versley, Y., & Van de Cruys, T. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Conference 2009 Workshop on Distributional Semantics beyond Concrete Concepts (pp. 35-40). Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Clark, B. (2009). Semantic Density Analysis: Comparing Word Meaning across Time and Phonetic Space. In R. Basili & Pennacchiotti, M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on GEMS: Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics (pp. 104-111). Athens, Greece.
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2008
Otis, K., & Sagi, E. (2008). Phonaesthemes: A Corpus-Based Analysis. In B. C. Love, McRae, K., & Sloutsky, V. M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 65-70).
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2007
Lovett, A., Sagi, E., & Gentner, D. (2007). Analogy as a mechanism for comparison. In A. Schwering, Krumnack, U., Kühnberger, K. - U., & Gust, H. (Eds.), Proceedings of Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities (pp. 27-30).
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2006
Sagi, E. (2006). Context and the Processing of Discourse: Priming and Genre Effects on Discourse Comprehension. In R. Sun & Miyake, N. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2071-2076).
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Gentner, D., & Sagi, E. (2006). Does "Different" Imply a Difference? A Comparison of Two Tasks. In R. Sun & Miyake, N. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 261-266). Vancouver, BC.
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Posters & Presentations

2023
Sagi, E., & Jabotinsky, H. Y. (2023). Man or Machine: Evaluations of Human and Machine-Generated Movie Reviews. 64th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. San Francisco, CA.
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Sagi, E. (2023). Supreme Court Oral Arguments by Amici Curiae: A comparative analysis. 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
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2018
Sagi, E., & Jones, B. K. (2018). Cognition and Emotion in Narratives of Redemption: An Automated Analysis. 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New Orleans, LA.
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Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Khatin-Zadeh, O., Yazdani-Fazlabadi, B., Tirado, C., & Sagi, E. (2018). Embodied concept mapping: redefining concepts. 2018 Meeting of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Sydney, Australia.
Sagi, E. (2018). Language Dynamics in Supreme Court Oral Arguments. 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Madison, WI.
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2017
Sagi, E. (2017). Language Dynamics in Supreme Court Oral Arguments. 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Vancouver, BC.
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2016
Jabotinsky, H. Y., & Sagi, E. (2016). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The 9th International Risk Management Conference. Jerusalem, Israel.
Jabotinsky, H. Y., & Sagi, E. (2016). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sagi, E., & Jabotinsky, H. Y. (2016). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, PA.
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Jabotinsky, H. Y., & Sagi, E. (2016). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The 11th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. Durham, NC.
Sagi, E. (2016). Priming Moral Reasoning Using Text. The 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, MA.
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2015
Sagi, E. (2015). The Influence of Causal Information on Pronoun Disambiguation. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Chicago, IL.
Jabotinsky, H. Y., & Sagi, E. (2015). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The 19th Annual Conference of the Latin and Iberian Law and Economics Association. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Jabotinsky, H. Y., & Sagi, E. (2015). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics. Vienna, Austria.
2014
Jabotinsky, H. Y., & Sagi, E. (2014). Moral Rhetoric in the Basel Accords: A Quantitative Analysis. The 10th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics. Rome, Italy.
Sagi, E. (2014). Semantic Vector Spaces as a Tool for Psychological Investigation. The 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Long Beach, CA.
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2010
Sagi, E. (2010). Nouns are more stable than Verbs: Patterns of semantic change in 19th century English. The 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, OR.
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Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., Clark, B., & Diermeier, D. (2010). Tracking Changes in Word Meaning and Use. Workshop on Interactive Visual Analysis for Natural Language Processing. Stuttgart, Germany.
2009
Sagi, E. (2009). The perceived importance of explanations in narrative and procedural texts. 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Clark, B. (2009). Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis. The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, CA.
2008
Sagi, E. (2008). Discourse Relations in Context: Structural effects in the comprehension of texts. The 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, DC.
Sagi, E. (2008). Effects of Hierarchical Discourse Structures on the Processing and Comprehension of Texts. The 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, IL.

Invited Talks

2009
Sagi, E., Kaufmann, S., & Clark, B. (2009). Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis. Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) weekly seminar series, Evanston, IL.


Last modified November 24th, 2019