James A. Hampton

James Antony Hampton is a British cognitive psychologist and cognitive scientist, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at City St George's, University of London. His research focuses on concepts, categorization, semantic memory, and the cognitive and linguistic structure of conceptual knowledge.

Academic career Hampton spent the majority of his academic career at City St George's, University of London. He joined the institution in 1977 as a lecturer in psychology. In 1997, he was appointed professor of psychology, a position he held until 2021, when he became Professor Emeritus.

Prior to this appointment, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University College London, collaborating with the anthropologist Mary Douglas. He has also held visiting positions at Stanford University, University of Chicago, Cornell University, Yale University, and New York University.

Editorial Hampton has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Memory & Cognition, and Philosophical Psychology. He is currently an action editor for Cognitive Science.

Honours and awards

2000 – Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2011 – Fellow of the British Psychological Society 2012 – Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences 2012 – Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science 2014 – Fellow of the Psychonomic Society 2018 – University Research Supervisor of the Year, City, University of London