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Charles E. Osgood

Psychology · Indiana University

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Established · publishing since 1961
Language, Metaphor, and CognitionSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationCategorization, perception, and languageAcademic and Historical Perspectives in PsychologyNeurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Publications

146

Citations

22,312

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

61

Publishing since 1961

Research summary
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Charles E. Osgood's work sits at the intersection of psychology and language, exploring how people understand meaning, process language, and use figures of speech like metaphor. His research examines the mental processes behind perception, language, and cognition, and also touches on the role of psychology in broader social and international contexts.

PsycholinguisticsMetaphor and synesthesiaPerception and cognitionBehavioral analysis of languagePsychology in international affairs

The available records show only a few publications spread across recent years, with no recorded activity in the most recent years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

No award with a current end date on record.

3 earlier awards
  • NSF 7727179Jun 1978 – Nov 1982 · $92k awarded

    Cross-Cultural Research on Cognizing and Sentencing in Adult Processing and Child Development of Language

  • NSF 7420356Sep 1974 – Feb 1979 · $95k awarded

    Atlas of Affective Meaning

  • NSF 7500565Sep 1974 – Dec 1977 · $62k awarded

    Cognitive Processes of Sentence Production and Comprehension

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 478 established Psychology PIs within our index
Citations: 22,312cohort median 2,193
h-index: 47cohort median 22
Publications / year (recent): 0.0cohort median 3

Typically publishes in teams of ~1 · 100% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 1 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.0/year recently
2017: 2 publications2172018: 1 publication1819202021: 1 publication212223242526
Recent publications
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  • Indiana University Press eBooks×1
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Last updated Jul 27, 2026.

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