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Sid Horton is an Associate Professor and Director of Cognitive Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. He holds affiliations with the Northwestern Department of Linguistics and the Center for Technology and Social Behavior. Horton’s research focuses on psycholinguistics and pragmatics, exploring how social and cognitive factors influence language use, particularly in discourse production and comprehension of non-literal language. His work also examines epistemic judgments and theory-of-mind development.
Education: B.S. Psychology/German (Duke University, 1991), M.A. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (University of Chicago, 1994 and 1999). Postdoctoral training at SUNY-Stony Brook and Georgia Institute of Technology. Editorial roles include Associate Editorships at Discourse Processes and Memory & Cognition.
Research Interests: Pragmatics, discourse processing, figurative language, common ground, and aging effects on communication. His recent work investigates typing cues in written messages and analogical reasoning’s role in theory of mind.
- Awards: Fellow, Society for Text and Discourse (2011–2017).
- Teaching: Cognitive Psychology (PSYCH 228), Research Methods (PSYCH 205), and graduate courses on experimental pragmatics and dialogue.
- Labs: Cognition and Communication Lab (Swift 217 and Cresap 108), supervising undergraduate and graduate research on topics like bilingualism, emoji usage, and perspective-taking.
