Lee Wurm, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology

I'm a cognitive psychologist with a primary interest in psycholinguistics. The focus of most of my research has been how people use and understand language, but lately I have been branching out and exploring a range of methodological and statistical issues...

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Dr. Lee Wurm

Contact Information

  • Spring 2025
    Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
    Wednesdays, 12-2 p.m.
  • (509) 313-6794

Education & Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Stony Brook University

M.A., Psychology, Stony Brook University

B.A., Psychology with minor in Spanish, University of Minnesota

Courses Taught

PSYC 101 - General Psychology

PSYC 202 - Statistics For Psychology

PSYC 450 – Advanced Statistics in Psychology
I'm a cognitive psychologist with a primary interest in psycholinguistics. The focus of most of my research has been how people use and understand language, but lately I have been branching out and exploring a range of methodological and statistical issues as well. I came to Gonzaga University in 2020 from Wayne State University in Detroit, where I taught and did research for 22 years.

Student authors are shown in bold

Westbury, C., & Wurm, L.H. (2022). Is it you you're looking for? Personal relevance as a principal component of semantics. The Mental Lexicon, 17(1), 1-33. doi: 10.1075/ml.20031.wes

Wurm, L.H. (2022). Studying emotion effects in language. In G.L. Schiewer, J. Altarriba, & B.C. Ng (Eds.), Language and emotion (pp. 570-585). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110347524-027

Hernández-Colón, I.R., Caño, A., Wurm, L.H., Sanders, G., & Nava, J. (2021). Instructional set moderates the effect of GRE on faculty appraisals of applicant competence: A vignette study with implications for holistic review. Frontiers in Psychology, 12 (749621), 1-8. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.749621

Jones, L.L., Wurm, L.H., Norville, G.A., & Mullins, K.L. (2020). Sex differences in emoji use, familiarity, and valence. Computers in Human Behavior, 108, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2020.106305

Pester, B.D., Caño, A., Kostecki, T., & Wurm, L.H. (2020). How do I help my partner in pain? Partners’ helping behaviors are linked to lower pain and greater perceived validation during an experimental pain task. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 54(4), 280-290. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaz047

Regalski, A.J., & Wurm, L.H. (2020). 3017: Six years in the life of an ill-fated neologism. The Mental Lexicon, 15(3), 509-532. doi: 10.1075/ml.19014.reg

van Rij, J., Vaci, N., Wurm, L.H., & Feldman, L.B. (2020). Alternative quantitative methods in psycholinguistics: Implications for theory and design. In V. Pirrelli, I. Plag, & W.U. Dressler (Eds.), Word knowledge and word usage: A cross-disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon (pp. 83-126). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110440577-003