Metaphor and analogy
George, T., Christofalos, A. L., & Pambuccian, F. S. (2025). Generating distant analogies increases metaphor production. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32, 1402-1410. View Article.
George, T. & Chesebrough, C. (2023). Retrieval dynamics in resolving relational inconsistency during verbal analogical reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. View Article
George, T. & Wiley, J. (2021). Forgetting of competing solutions as a consequence of analogical problem solving attempts. Memory, 29, 1058-1075. View Article
George, T., & Wiley, J. (2019). When is literal meaning inhibited? Evidence from nonsense in the metaphor-induced lexical forgetting paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 869-880. View Article
George, T., & Wiley, J. (2016). Forgetting the literal: The role of inhibition in metaphor comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 42, 1324-1330. View Article
Metacognition
Salvi, C., Mielicki, M. K., Cancer, A., Iannello, P., & George, T. (in press). Exploring metacognitive inaccuracies and socio-cognitive polarization in conspiratorial beliefs. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science.
Wiley, J., George, T. & Griffin, T. (in press). Benefits from sketching for improving comprehension monitoring from illustrated texts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. View Article
George T., & Kiran Rao, T. (2025). The role of subjective accessibility in metacognitive judgments of creative performance. Thinking & Reasoning, 31, 425-437. View Article
George, T. & Salvi, C. (2023). Putting the framework to work: comment on “A Systematic Framework of Creative Metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek. Physics of Life Reviews. View Article
George, T. & Mielicki, M. K. (2022). Bullshit receptivity, problem solving, and metacognition: Simply the BS, not better than all the rest. Thinking & Reasoning. View Article.
George, T., Mielicki M. K., & Wiley, J. (2021). Great expectations: Misleading effects of images in the alternate uses task. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. View Article.
Creative Idea Generation
George, T., & *Chen, N. (2025). The effect of constraints and cognitive load on the novelty and usefulness of ideas. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. View Article.
George, T., & *Lasher, K. (2023). Limited imagination: Effects of constraints and individual differences in working memory capacity on idea generation. Creativity Research Journal. View Article.
George, T., & Wiley, J. (2020). Need something different? Here’s what’s been done: Effects of examples and task instructions on creative idea generation. Memory & Cognition, 48, 226-243. View Article.
George, T., Wiley, J., Koppel, R. H. & Storm, B. C. (2019). Constraining or constructive? The effects of examples on idea novelty. The Journal of Creative Behavior 53, 396-403 View Article
George, T., & Wiley, J. (2019). Fixation, flexibility, and forgetting during alternate uses tasks. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13, 305-313. View Article
Book chapters, Reviews, and Commentary
Beaudoin, M. E., Jones, K. M., Jerome, B., Martinez, D., George, T., & Pandža, N. B. (2024). Systematic research is needed on the potential impacts of lifelong technology exposure on cognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1335864. View Article.
Koppel, R., George, T. & Wiley, J. (2024). Overcoming Internal and External Fixation in Problem Solving. In C. Salvi, J. Wiley, & S. M. Smith (Eds.), The Emergence of Insight (pp. 60–83). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Storm, B.C., Ditta, A.S., & George, T., (2020). Memory. In M. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (3rd ed., pp. 116–120). Elsevier, Academic Press. View Article
George T., & Wiley, J. (2018). Breaking past the surface: Analogical transfer as creative insight. In F. Vallée-Tourangeau (Ed.), Insight: On the origin of new ideas (pp. 143-168). New York, NY: Routledge. View Article
Cognitive neuroscience and Eye-tracking
Wiley, J., George, T., & Rayner, K. (2018). Baseball fans don't like lumpy batters: Influence of domain knowledge on the access of subordinate meanings. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 93-102. View Article
O’Rourke, P., Haarmann, H.J., George, T., Smaliy, A., Grunewald, K., & Dien, J. (2015). Hemispheric alpha asymmetry and self-rated originality of ideas. Laterality: Asymmetries of the Body, Brain and Cognition, 20, 685-698. View Article
Haarmann, H.J., George, T., Smaliy, A., & Dien, J. (2012). Remote associates test and alpha brain waves. The Journal of Problem Solving, 4, Article 5. View Article