Rolf Zwaan, PhD.

Full Professor Biological & Cognitive Psychology

 

 

 

Visiting address:
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam
T-building, 13th floor, T13-40

 

 

 

Postal address:
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Institute of Psychology
Woudestein,
T13-40
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam

 

 

Work:
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E-mail:

010 408 8647
010 408 9009

zwaan@fsw.eur.nl

   

 

Curriculum Vitae
- Degrees and Awards
- Memberships in Professional Organizations
- Grants
- Reviewing
- Consultant on promotion/tenure decisions
- Invited presentations
- Graduate students/postdocs supervised as major professor
- Service

Research Areas
Teaching Areas
Publications
Personal Interests
WWW links of Interest

Curriculum Vitae


Born September 13, 1962

1988-1992 Research Associate and instructor, the Research Institute for History and Culture, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

1992-1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, USA

1994-1998 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida State University, USA

1987-1988 Research Associate, Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands

1998-2002 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida State University, USA

2002-2007 Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida State University, USA

2007- Chair, Biological & Cognitive Psychology, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Degrees and Awards

1986 MA. cum laude, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
1992 Ph.D. cum laude, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
1999 Developing Scholar Award, Florida State University, USA
2002 Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 3
2003 Fellow, Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst Germany
2006 Named the F.C. Donders Professor of Psychology, Florida State University

Memberships in Professional Organizations

American Psychological Association, Fellow
Psychonomic Society, Member
American Psychological Society, Member
Cognitive Science Society, Member
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Member


Grants

National Science Foundation, 2005-2007. “Sensorimotor processes in language comprehension” $140,000, Principal Investigator.

National Institute of Mental Health, 2002-2007. “Perceptual aspects of language comprehension” $735,000. Principal Investigator.

National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1998-2003. “Smoking addiction and higher- level cognitive processes” $382,423. Principal Investigator.

National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1996-1997. “Smoking addiction and language processing” $47,065. Principal Investigator.

Florida State University, 1995. “The processing of temporal and causal information during story comprehension.” First Year Assistant Professor Award, $14,000.

Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Scientific Research (NWO), 1988-1992. “The comprehension of literary texts.” Dissertation research grant, approximately $ 90,000 in current USD.


Reviewing
  • Editorial board of Discourse Processes (1994-)
  • Editorial board of Memory & Cognition (2000-)
  • Editorial board of Cognition (2007-)
  • Editorial board of Linguistics and Language Compass (2007-)
  • Panel member Human Cognition and Perception Program, National Science Foundation (2002-2003)
  • Ad hoc reviewer for: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Psychological Science; Psychological Bulletin; Behavioral & Brain Sciences; Cognition; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Science; Psychological Review; Journal of Memory and Language; Memory & Cognition; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Trends in Cognitive Sciences; Neuropsychology; Language and Cognitive Processes; Brain & Language; Visual Cognition; Developmental Psychology; Psychology and Aging; Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Neuropsychologia; Cerebral Cortex; Connection Science; Aphasiology; Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Acta Psychologica; Psychophysiology; Scientific Studies of Reading; Applied Cognitive Psychology; Swiss Journal of Psychology; Addiction; Poetics; American Educational Research Association: Division C (Language and Literacy); Cambridge Universiy Press; Oxford University Press; Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company; John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  • Grant proposals: National Science Foundation, Human Perception & Cognition Program, Linguistics Program; National Institute of Mental Health; National Institute on Drug Abuse
Consultant on promotion/tenure decisions

Tufts University; University of California at Davis;
University of Colorado at Boulder;
University of Hawaii at Manoa;
University of Southern California;
Northern Illinois University;
University of California at Santa Cruz.


Invited presentations
  • Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1987);
  • University of Memphis, Memphis, TN (1991); University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (1997);
  • Max-Planck-Institute für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (1998); Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands (1998);
  • University of Maryland, College Park, MD (1998); University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (2001);
  • Keynote speaker: “4th International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse”, Ittre, Belgium (2001);
  • University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany (2003);
  • Invited speaker, Hanse Conference on Higher Language Processes in the Brain, Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany (2003);
  • Keynote Speaker, 13th Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Madrid, Spain (2003);
  • Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany (2003); Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2003);
  • Fellow Lecture, Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany (2003); University of Turku, Turku, Finland (2004);
  • Presidential Symposium, Western Psychological Association, Palm Springs, CA (2006);
  • University of Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany (2006); University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (2006);
  • University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2007);
  • Emory University, Atlanta, GA (2007);
  • Invited Speaker Interdisciplinary College “Embodied Minds,” Günne at Lake Möhne, Germany (2007);
  • Invited Speaker “Cognitive Science of Semantics Conference,” Tufts University, Boston, MA (2007);
  • University of Lyon, Lyon, France (2007),
  • Invited Speaker Symposium on embodiment and sentence comprehension, Saarbruecken, Germany (2007);
  • Invited Speaker Symposium on time in language, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (2007).

Graduate students/postdocs supervised as major professor

Master’s degree:
Leonore Kneepkens, 1992, Amy E. Hilliard, 1998, Timothy P. Truitt, 1998, Robert A. Stanfield, 2000, Carol J. Madden, 2000, Richard H. Yaxley, 2003, Mark E. Aveyard, 2004, Lawrence J. Taylor (2007).

Dissertations:
Carol J. Madden (2004), Richard H. Yaxley (2006).

Current Students:
Mark E. Aveyard, Lawrence J. Taylor

Current postdoc:
Tobias Richter (PhD, University of Cologne, Germany)
.

Former students/postdocs:

Carol J. Madden (graduate student 1998-2004). Currently postdoctoral fellow, Department of Psychology, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

David J. Therriault (postdoc 2002-2004); currently Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Florida, US.

Johanna Kaakinen, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Turku Finland (postdoc 2005); currently tutor, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland.

Richard H. Yaxley, (graduate student 2000-2006).


Supervision of visiting students:

2005:
Shane Lindsay, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK;
Judith Kamalski, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

2006:
Inga Hoever, University of Cologne, Germany;
Alke Daniels, University of Aachen, Germany;
Charlotte Conrad, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
Yurena Morera, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain
Saskia van Dantzig, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.


Student awards:

Outstanding Student Presentation Award, Rob Stanfield, 10th Annual Meeting of The Society for Text and Discourse, Lyon, France, 2000.

Outstanding Student Presentation Award, Carol Madden, 13th Annual Meeting of The Society for Text and Discourse, Madrid, Spain, 2003.


Service

Departmental/University
  • Faculty Development Committee (2005-)
  • Search Committee Hispanic Linguistics, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (2005-2006)
  • Insititute for Cognitive Sciences, Florida State University, Director (2004-)
  • Graduate Student Research Day Committee, Chair, (2003-2005)
  • Science Area Promotion and Tenure Committee, Member, College of Arts & Sciences, Florida State University (2002)
  • Cognitive Search Committee, Chair (2002-2003)
  • Reading Center Search Committee, Member (2002-2003)
  • Director of the Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences Area (1999-2003)
  • Departmental Executive Committee (1999-2003)
  • Departmental Space Committee (2000-2002)
  • Faculty Development Committee (1999)
  • Cognitive Search Committee (1998-1999)
  • Departmental Facilities Committee (1998-1999).
  • Faculty Senate (1997-1999)
  • Departmental Graduate Training Committee (1997-1998)
  • Departmental Undergraduate Training Committee (1995-1996)
  • Departmental Library Committee (1994-1996)

Outside University:
  • Governing Board, Society for Text & Discourse (1999-2005).
  • Editorial Boards, Discourse Processes (1994-),
  • Memory & Cognition (1999-), Cognition (2007-), Language and Linguistics Compass (2007-).
  • National Science Foundation, Human Cognition and Perception panel (2002-2003).
  • Member, NSF Science of Learning Center site visit team, University of Chicago (2004).
  • Consultant on on pomotion (to associate and full professor) and tenure decisions: Tufts University; The University of Colorado at Boulder; The University of California at Davis; The University of Hawaii at Manoa; The University of Southern California; the University of Northern Illinois; the University of California at Santa Cruz.
  • Dissertation opponent, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland (2004).
  • External Dissertation Reviewer, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Canada (2007).

Research Areas

Language comprehension, embodied cognition

Teaching Areas


Undergraduate: Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Language, Research Methods, Statistics, Mind and Cognition.

Graduate: Cognition & Perception, Psychology of Language, Cognitive Science, Language & Cognition,

Publications

in press

Zwaan, R.A. (in press). Experiential traces and mental simulations in language comprehension. In DeVega, M., Glenberg, A.M., & Graesser, A.C. (pp ). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Fischer, M.H., & Zwaan, R.A. (in press). The role of the motor system in language comprehension. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Taylor, L.J., & Zwaan, R.A. (in press). Motor resonance and linguistic focus. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Yaxley, R.H., & Zwaan, R.A. (in press). Simulating visibility during language
comprehension. Cognition.

Kaup, B., Yaxley, R.H., Madden, C.J., Zwaan, R.A., & Luedtke, J. (in press). Experiential simulations of negated text information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Kaup, B., Zwaan, R.A., & Lüdke, J. (in press). The experiential view of language comprehension. How is negation represented? In Schmalhofer, F., & Perfetti, C.A. (Eds.). Higher language processes in the brain. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Zwaan, R.A. (in press). Situation model. In: Herman, D., Jahn, M., & Ryan, M.L. (Eds.). Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. London: Routledge.

Zwaan, R.A., & Kaschak, M.P. (in press). Language comprehension as a means of “re-situating” oneself. In P. Robbins & M. Aydede (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2007

Dijkstra, K., Kaschak, M. P., & Zwaan, R. A. (2007). Body posture facilitates retrieval of autobiographical memories. Cognition, 102, 139-149.

2006

Zwaan, R.A., & Rapp, D.N. (2006). Discourse comprehension. In: M.A. Gernsbacher & M.J. Traxler (Eds.). Handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 725-764). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.

Madden, C.J., & Zwaan, R.A. (2006). Perceptual representation as a mechanism of lexical ambiguity resolution: an investigation of span and processing time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 32, 1291-1303.

Kaup, B., Lüdtke, J., & Zwaan, R.A. (2006) Processing negated sentences with contradictory predicates: Is a door that is not open mentally closed? Journal of Pragmatics, 38, 1033-1050.

Kaschak, M.P., Zwaan, R.A., Aveyard, M., & Yaxley, R.H. (2006). Perception of auditory motion affects language processing. Cognitive Science, 30, 733-744.

Zwaan, R.A., & Taylor, L.J. (2006). Seeing, acting, understanding: motor resonance in language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 1-11. Lead article.

Zwaan, R.A., & Kaschak, M.P. (2006). Language, visual cognition and motor action. In: Brown, K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2nd ed., vol 6, (pp. 648-651). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

Therriault, D. J, Rinck, M., & Zwaan, R.A. (2006). Assessing the influence of dimensional focus during situation model construction. Memory & Cognition, 34, 78-89.

2005

Yaxley, R.H., & Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Attentional bias affects change detection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 1106-1111.

Radvansky, G.A., Copeland, D.E., & Zwaan, R.A. (2005). A novel study: investigating the structure of narrative and autobiographical memories. Memory, 13, 796-814.

Sundermeier, B.A., van den Broek, P., & Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Causal coherence and the availability of locations and objects during narrative comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 33, 462-470.

Kaup, B., Lüdtke, J., & Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Effects of negation, truth value, and delay on picture recognition after reading affirmative and negative sentences, In: Bara, B.G., Barsalou, L.W., & Bucciarelli, M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1114-1119). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Kaschak, M.P., Madden, C.J., Therriault, D.J., Yaxley, R.H., Aveyard, M., Blanchard, A.A., & Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Perception of motion affects language processing. Cognition, 94, B79-B89.

Pecher, D., & Zwaan, R.A., (Eds.). (2005). Grounding cognition: The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Pecher, D., & Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Introduction to grounding cognition. In: D. Pecher & R.A. Zwaan (Eds.). Grounding cognition: The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking (pp. 1-7). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Zwaan, R.A., & Madden, C.J. (2005). Embodied sentence comprehension. In: D. Pecher & R.A. Zwaan (Eds.). Grounding cognition: The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking (pp. 224-245). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Situation models: The mental leap into imaginary worlds. In B.A.Spellman & D.T. Willingham (Eds.). Current Directions in Cognitive Science (pp. 146-151). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. (reprinted from Zwaan, R.A. (1999). Situation models: the mental leap into imagined worlds. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8,15-18.)

2004

Zwaan, R.A., & Yaxley, R.H. (2004). Lateralization of object-shape information in semantic processing. Cognition, 94, B35-B43.

Zwaan, R.A., Madden, C.J., Yaxley, R.H., & Aveyard, M.E. (2004). Moving words: Dynamic mental representations in language comprehension. Cognitive Science, 28, 611-619.

Dijkstra, K., Yaxley, R.H., Madden, C.J., & Zwaan, R.A. (2004). The role of age and perceptual symbols in language comprehension. Psychology and Aging, 19, 352-356.

Zwaan, R.A. (2004). The immersed experiencer: toward an embodied theory of language comprehension. In: B.H. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 44 (pp. 35-62). New York: Academic Press

Zwaan, R.A., & Madden, C.J. (2004). Updating situation models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 283-288.

2003

Zwaan, R.A., & Yaxley, R.H. (2003). Spatial iconicity affects semantic-relatedness judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 954-958.

Madden, C.J. & Zwaan, R.A. (2003). How does verb aspect constrain event representations? Memory & Cognition, 31, 663-672.

Kaup, B., & Zwaan, R.A. (2003). Effects of negation and situational presence on the accessibility of text information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 439-446.

Zwaan, R.A., & Yaxley, R.H. (2003). Hemispheric differences in semantic-relatedness judgments. Cognition, 87, B79-B86.

Radvansky, G.A., Copeland, D.E., & Zwaan, R.A. (2003). Aging and functional spatial relations in comprehension and memory. Psychology & Aging, 18, 161-165.

Zwaan, R.A., & Dijkstra, K. (2003). Literacy: narrative comprehension and production. In: Guthrie, J.W. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed (pp. 1500-1504). New York: MacMillan Reference.

Zwaan, R.A., & Singer, M. (2003). Text comprehension. In: Graesser, A.C., Gernsbacher, M.A., & Goldman, S.R. (Eds.). Handbook of discourse processes (pp. 83-121). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

2002

Zwaan, R.A., Stanfield, R.A., Yaxley, R.H. (2002). Language comprehenders mentally represent the shapes of objects. Psychological Science, 13, 168- 171.

Zwaan, R.A. (2002). An experiential view of language comprehension: implications for document design. Document Design, 3, 54-64.

Zwaan, R.A., Radvansky, G.A., & Whitten, S.N. (2002). Themes and situation models. In: Lauwerse, M., & van Peer , W. (Eds.), Thematics: Interdisciplinary studies (pp. 35-53). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2001

Madden, C.J., & Zwaan, R.A. (2001). The impact of smoking urges on working Memory performance. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 9, 418-424.

Stanfield, R.A. & Zwaan, R.A. (2001). The effect of implied orientation derived From verbal context on picture recognition. Psychological Science, 12,153-156.

Radvansky, G.A., Zwaan, R.A., Curiel, J.M., & Copeland, D.E. (2001). Situation models and aging. Psychology & Aging, 16, 145-160.

Magliano, J.P., Miller, J., & Zwaan. R.A. (2001). Indexing space and time in film understanding. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15, 533-545.

Zwaan, R.A (2001). Language comprehension as guided experience. In: Degand, L., Bestgen, Y., Spooren, W. & van Waes, L. (eds.). Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse (pp. 1-9). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Uitgaven Stichting Neerlandistiek VU.

Zwaan, R.A., Madden, C.J., & Stanfield, R.A. (2001). Time in narrative comprehension. In: Schram, D.H., & Steen, G.J. (Eds.). Psychology and Sociology of Literature (pp. 71-86). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Zwaan, R.A. (2001). Situation models. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (pp. 14137-14141). Amsterdam: Pergamon Press.

2000

Zwaan, R.A., Stanfield, R.A., & Madden, C.J. (2000). How persistent is the effect of smoking urges on cognitive performance? Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 8, 518-523.

Zwaan, R.A., Madden, C.J., & Whitten, S.N. (2000). The presence of an event in the narrated situation affects its availability to the comprehender. Memory & Cognition, 28, 1022-1028.

Zwaan, R.A., & Truitt, T.P. (2000). Inhibition of smoking-related information in smokers and nonsmokers. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 8, 192-197.

1999

Zwaan, R.A., Stanfield, R.A., & Madden, C.J. (1999). Perceptual symbols in language comprehension: can an empirical case be made? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 636-637.

Zwaan, R.A. (1999). Embodied cognition, perceptual symbols, and situation models. Discourse Processes, 28, 81-88.

Zwaan, R.A. (1999). Situation models: the mental leap into imagined worlds. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 15-18.

Zwaan, R.A. (1999). Five dimensions of situation-model construction. In: S. R. Goldman, A. C. Graesser, and P. Van den Broek (Eds.). Narrative comprehension, causality, and coherence: Essays in honor of TomTrabasso (pp. 93-110). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Magliano, J.P., Zwaan, R.A., & Graesser, A.C. (1999). The role of situational continuity in narrative understanding. In: S.R. Goldman & H. van Oostendorp (Eds.). The construction of mental representations during reading (pp. 219-245). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum .

1998

Radvansky, G.A., Zwaan, R.A., Franklin, N., & Federico, T. (1998). Retrieval from temporally organized situation models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1224-1237.

Zwaan, R.A., & Truitt, T.P. (1998). Smoking urges affect language processing. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 6, 325-330.

Zwaan, R.A., & Graesser, A.C. (1998). Introduction to special issue of SSR: Constructing meaning during reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 2, 195-198.

Zwaan, R.A, Radvansky, G.A., Hilliard, A.E., & Curiel, J.M. (1998). Constructing multidimensional situation models during reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 2, 199-220.

Zwaan, R.A., & Radvansky, G.A. (1998). Situation models in language comprehension and memory. Psychological Bulletin, 123, 162-185.

Zwaan, R.A., & Graesser, A.C. (Eds.). (1998). Constructing meaning during reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 2, 195-300.

1997

Graesser, A.C., Millis, K.K., & Zwaan, R.A. (1997). Discourse comprehension. Annual Review of Psychology, 48, 163-189.

1996

Magliano, J.P., Dijkstra, K., & Zwaan, R.A. (1996). Predictive inferences in movies. Discourse Processes, 22, 199-224.

Zwaan, R.A. (1996). Processing narrative time shifts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 1196-1207.

Zwaan, R.A., & Brown, C.M. (1996). The influence of language proficiency and comprehension skill on situation model construction. Discourse Processes, 21,289-327.

Zwaan, R.A. (1996). How empirical is the empirical study of literature? In H. Hendrix, J.J. Kloek, S.A. Levie, and W. van Peer (Eds.). The search for a new alphabet (pp. 321-326). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Zwaan, R.A. (1996). Towards a model of literary comprehension. In: B.K. Britton & A.C. Graesser (Eds.) Models of understanding text (pp. 241-255). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

1995

Zwaan, R.A., Langston, M.C., & Graesser, A.C. (1995) The construction of situation models in narrative comprehension: an event-indexing model. Psychological Science, 6, 292-297.

Zwaan, R.A., Magliano, J.P., & Graesser, A.C. (1995) Dimensions of situation-model construction in narrative comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 386-397.

Dijkstra, K., Zwaan, R.A., Magliano, J.P., & Graesser, A.C. (1995). Reader and character emotions in literary narrative. Poetics, 23, 139-157.

Kneepkens, E.W., & Zwaan, R.A. (1995) Emotions and literary text comprehension. Poetics, 23, 125-138.

Person, N.K., Kreuz, R.J., Zwaan, R.A., & Graesser., A.C. (1995). Pragmatics and pedagogy: Conversational rules and politeness strategies may inhibit effective tutoring. Cognition and Instruction, 13, 161-188.

Graesser, A.C., & Zwaan, R.A. (1995). Inference generation and the construction of situation models. In: C. Weaver, S. Mannes, & C.R. Fletcher (Eds.) Discourse comprehension: Strategies and processes revisited. Essays in honor of Walter Kintsch (pp. 117-139). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Graesser, A. C., Kassler, M. A., Dijkstra, K., Zwaan, R. A., McLain Allen, B. (1995). Comprehending novel mental models of time in Einstein’s Dreams. In G. Rusch (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (348-353), Siegen, Germany: Siegen University Press.

1994

Zwaan, R.A., (1994). Effect of genre expectations on text comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 920-933.

Van Oostendorp, H., & Zwaan, R.A. (Eds.) (1994). Naturalistic text comprehension. Advances in Discourse Processing, Vol. LIII. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Zwaan, R.A., & van Oostendorp, H. (1994). Spatial information and naturalistic story comprehension. In H. van Oostendorp and R.A. Zwaan (Eds.) Naturalistic text comprehension (pp. 97-114). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Van Oostendorp, H. and Zwaan, R.A. (1994). Naturalistic texts and naturalistic tasks. In H. van Oostendorp & R.A. Zwaan (Eds.) Naturalistic text comprehension (pp. 1-8). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

1993

Zwaan, R.A. (1993). Aspects of literary comprehension: A cognitive approach. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Zwaan, R.A., & Van Oostendorp, H. (1993) Do readers construct spatial representations in naturalistic story comprehension? Discourse Processes, 16, 125-143.

Zwaan, R.A., & Graesser, A.C. (1993). Reading goals and situation models: A commentary on Glenberg & Mathew. Psycoloquy 4(5).reading.inference.5.

Zwaan, R.A., & Graesser, A.C. (1993). There is no empirical evidence that inferences are generated automatically or partially: A commentary on Garnham. Psycoloquy (5).reading-inference.6.

1991

Zwaan, R.A., (1991). Some parameters of literary and news comprehension: Reading rate and surface-structure representation in literary and news comprehension. Poetics,20, 139-156.

Nederhof, A.J. and Zwaan, R.A. (1991). Quality judgments of journals as indicators of research performance in the humanities and the social sciences: results of an international mail-survey. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42, 332-340.

Zwaan, R.A. (1991) The literary situational-action model and the comprehension process. In: E. Ibsch, D.H. Schram, and G.J. Steen (Eds.) Empirical studies of literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 167-174.

Zwaan, R.A. (1991). Conventie (Convention). In: W. van Peer & K. Dijkstra (Eds.) Sleutelwoorden: kernbegrippen uit de hedendaagse literatuurwetenschap (Keywords: core terms in contemporary literary studies) (pp. 24-33). Leuven, Belgium: Garant.

1990

Zwaan, R.A. & Nederhof, A.J. (1990). Some aspects of scholarly communication in linguistics: an empirical study. Language, 66, 553-557.

Zwaan, R.A., & Meutsch, D. (Eds.) (1990). Computer models and technology in media research. Amsterdam/New York: Elsevier Science Publishers.

Zwaan, R.A., & Meutsch, D. (Eds.). (1990). Computer models and technology in media research. Poetics, 19, 1-220

Meutsch, D. & Zwaan, R.A. (1990). On the role of computer models and technology in literary and media research. Poetics, 19, 1-12. (Reprinted in R.A. Zwaan and D. Meutsch (eds.)).

1989

Nederhof, A.J., Zwaan, R.A., de Bruin, R.E., & Dekker, P.J. (1989). Assessing the usefulness of bibliometric indicators of the humanities and the social and behavioral sciences: a comparative study. Scientometrics, 15, 423- 435.

1987

Zwaan, R.A. (1987). The computer in perspective: towards a relevant use of the computer in literary studies. Poetics, 16, 553-568.  


Technical reports

Nederhof, A.J., Zwaan, R.A., de Bruin, R.E., & Dekker, P.J. (1988). Produktiviteit en kwaliteit in alfa- en gammawetenschappen; een haalbaarheidonderzoek. (Productivity and quality in the humanities and social sciences: a feasibility study.) Zoetermeer: Ministerie van Onderwijs en Wetenschappen. (Netherlands Department of Science and Education). ISBN 90 346 15812.

Nederhof, A.J., & Zwaan, R.A. (1988). Developments in research output in psychology, the social sciences, linguistics, and language behavior: Research Report for the Netherlands Advisory Council for Science Policy (Report SSU-88-05). Leiden, Netherlands: University of Leiden, Science Studies Unit, LISBON Institute.

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