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Jos J. A. Van Berkum

Jos J. A. Van Berkum

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
37
Citations
9347
World Ranking
6120
National Ranking
239

Overview

Jos J. A. Van Berkum is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and focuses research primarily in the fields of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Social Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The scientist's research addresses topics such as Language, Metaphor, and Cognition; Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment; Deception Detection and Forensic Psychology; Emotions and Moral Behavior; Media Influence and Health; Narrative Theory and Analysis; and Mental Health via Writing.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jos J. A. Van Berkum include:

  • Marijn Struiksma
  • Hannah N. M. De Mulder
  • Frank Hakemulder
  • Fayette Klaassen
  • Caroline Junge

The scientist has published in a variety of academic journals, with recurrent contributions to Frontiers in Communication, Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, Communication Theory, Mind & Society, and PsycTESTS Dataset.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Jos J. A. Van Berkum include:

  • "Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability." (2021), Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • "Negative affect increases reanalysis of conflicts between discourse context and world knowledge" (2022), Frontiers in Communication
  • "Do People Get Used to Insulting Language?" (2022), Frontiers in Communication
  • "The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message's perceived convincingness" (2022), Communication Theory
  • "Reading About Us and Them: Moral but no Minimal Group Effects on Language-Induced Emotion" (2021), Frontiers in Communication

Best Publications

  • Anticipating upcoming words in discourse: Evidence from ERPs and reading times

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Colin M. Brown;Pienie Zwitserlood;Valesca Kooijman

  • Semantic Integration in Sentences and Discourse: Evidence from the N400

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown

  • When Peanuts Fall in Love: N400 Evidence for the Power of Discourse

    Mante S. Nieuwland;Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Jos J. A. Van Berkum

  • The neural integration of speaker and message

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Danielle van den Brink;Cathelijne M. J. Y. Tesink;Miriam Kos

  • How robust is the language architecture? The case of mood

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Dieuwke De Goede;Petra M. Van Alphen;Emma R. Mulder

  • Beyond the sentence given.

    Peter Hagoort;Jos J. A. Van Berkum

  • Early referential context effects in sentence processing: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Colin M. Brown;Peter Hagoort

  • When and how do listeners relate a sentence to the wider discourse? Evidence from the N400 effect

    Jos J.A. van Berkum;Pienie Zwitserlood;Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown

  • Retrieval and Unification of Syntactic Structure in Sentence Comprehension: an fMRI Study Using Word-Category Ambiguity

    Tineke M. Snijders;Theo Vosse;Gerard Kempen;Jos J.A. Van Berkum

  • On the use of verb-based implicit causality in sentence comprehension : Evidence from self-paced reading and eye tracking

    Arnout W. Koornneef;Jos J. A. Van Berkum

  • Establishing reference in language comprehension: An electrophysiological perspective

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Arnout W. Koornneef;Marte Otten;Mante S. Nieuwland

  • Right or Wrong? The Brain's Fast Response to Morally Objectionable Statements

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Bregje Holleman;Mante S. Nieuwland;Mante S. Nieuwland;Marte Otten;Marte Otten

  • Discourse-Based Word Anticipation During Language Processing: Prediction or Priming?

    Marte Otten;Jos J. A. Van Berkum

  • Event-related brain potentials reflect discourse-referential ambiguity in spoken-language comprehension

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Colin M. Brown;Peter Hagoort;Pienie Zwitserlood

  • Individual differences and contextual bias in pronoun resolution: Evidence from ERPs

    Mante S. Nieuwland;Jos J. A. Van Berkum

  • Testing the limits of the semantic illusion phenomenon: ERPs reveal temporary semantic change deafness in discourse comprehension

    Mante S. Nieuwland;Jos J. A. Van Berkum

  • Beyond the Language Given: The Neural Correlates of Inferring Speaker Meaning

    Jana Basnakova;Kirsten Weber;Karl Magnus Petersson;Jos J. A. Van Berkum

  • Event-related theta power increases in the human EEG during online sentence processing

    Marcel C.M. Bastiaansen;Jos J.A. van Berkum;Peter Hagoort

  • Empathy matters: ERP evidence for inter-individual differences in social language processing

    Daniëlle van den Brink;Jos J.A. Van Berkum;Marcel C.M. Bastiaansen;Cathelijne M.J.Y. Tesink

  • TRAIT ANXIETY, DEFENSIVENESS, AND THE STRUCTURE OF WORRY

    Michael W. Eysenck;Jos J. A. Van Berkum

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Mante S. Nieuwland
Mante S. Nieuwland Max Planck Society
Colin M. Brown
Colin M. Brown Max Planck Society
Karl Magnus Petersson
Karl Magnus Petersson University of Algarve
Marcel C. M. Bastiaansen
Marcel C. M. Bastiaansen Tilburg University
Pienie Zwitserlood
Pienie Zwitserlood University of Münster
Jan K. Buitelaar
Jan K. Buitelaar Radboud University
Ton de Jong
Ton de Jong University of Twente
Michael W. Eysenck
Michael W. Eysenck Royal Holloway University of London
Peter Goodyear
Peter Goodyear University of Sydney

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