Everything about Referent

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ReferentA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The effects of expert power and referent power on knowledge sharing and knowledge hidingInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Elements of StyleThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: ESTIMABILITY AND ESTIMATION IN CASE-REFERENT STUDIESCited 1,207 times
5. Go sideways: ReferenceA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Anaphora (linguistics)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• ESTIMABILITY AND ESTIMATION IN CASE-REFERENT STUDIES

  OLLI MIETTINEN · 1976 · American Journal of Epidemiology · 1,207 citations

• Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via cross-situational statistics

  Linda Smith, Chen Yu · 2008 · Cognition · 622 citations

• Referent Selection in Case-Crossover Analyses of Acute Health Effects of Air Pollution

  Drew Levy, Thomas Lumley, Lianne Sheppard · 2001 · Epidemiology · 435 citations

• The development of rhythmic attending in auditory sequences: attunement, referent period, focal attending

  Carolyn Drake, Mari Riess Jones, Clarisse Baruch · 2000 · Cognition · 428 citations

• Personal and Situational Determinants of Referent Choice

  Carol T. Kulik, Maureen L. Ambrose · 1992 · The Academy of Management Review · 419 citations

• Tear Film Osmolarity: Determination of a Referent for Dry Eye Diagnosis

  Alan Tomlinson, Santosh Khanal, Kanna Ramaesh · 2006 · Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science · 416 citations

• Referent Organizations and the Development of Inter-Organizational Domains

  Eric Trist · 1983 · Human Relations · 356 citations

• Word learning emerges from the interaction of online referent selection and slow associative learning.

  Bob McMurray, Jessica S. Horst, Larissa K. Samuelson · 2012 · Psychological Review · 294 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The effects of expert power and referent power on knowledge sharing and knowledge hiding

  Abraham Cyril Issac, Timothy Colin Bednall, Rupashree Baral · 2022 · Journal of Knowledge Management · 52 citations

• Perceptions of social norms around healthy and environmentally-friendly food choices: Linking the role of referent groups to behavior

  Elif Naz Çoker, Susan A. Jebb, Cristina Stewart · 2022 · Frontiers in Psychology · 29 citations

• The evolution of workplace risk for Covid‐19 in Canadian healthcare workers and its relation to vaccination: A nested case‐referent study

  Nicola Cherry, Trish Mhonde, Anil Adisesh · 2023 · American Journal of Industrial Medicine · 23 citations

• Does artificial intelligence cause artificial confidence? Generative artificial intelligence as an emerging social referent.

  Taly Reich, Jacob D. Teeny · 2026 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 19 citations

• Opium use and risk of bladder cancer: a multi-centre case-referent study in Iran

  Maryam Hadji, Hamideh Rashidian, Maryam Marzban · 2022 · International Journal of Epidemiology · 19 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Elements of StyleWilliam Strunk, Jr., E. B. White · 1920
• AnatomyHenry Gray F.R.S., Henry Vandyke Carter · 1858
• The World Almanac for KidsJudith S. Levey, Elaine Israel · 1995
• On CookingSarah R. Labensky, Alan M. Hause · 1994
• Misère de la philosophieKarl Marx · 1847
• The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt · 1951
• MythologyEdith Hamilton · 1940
• 📕The College GuidebookRachel Winston · 2022

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🔗 Related topics

• Reference In logic, a reference is a relationship between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object…
• Anaphora (linguistics) In linguistics, anaphora (/əˈnæfərə, -frə/) is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent)…
• Pronoun In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed pro) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally…
• Coreference In linguistics, coreference, sometimes written co-reference, occurs when two or more expressions refer to the same person or thing; they have the same…
• Opaque context An opaque context or referentially opaque context is a linguistic context in which it is not always possible to substitute "co-referential" expressions…
• Noun In grammar, a noun is a word that denotes a concrete or abstract entity, like living creatures, places, actions, events, qualities, states of existence…
• Circular definition A circular definition is a type of definition that uses the term(s) being defined as part of the description or assumes that the term(s) being described…
• Predicate (grammar) The term predicate is used in two ways in linguistics and its subfields. The first defines a predicate as everything in a standard declarative sentence…