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Overview

Rolf A. Zwaan is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their primary research contributions lie in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist has authored works covering various topics, including:

  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Language and cultural evolution

Rolf A. Zwaan has published frequently in several academic venues. The most common publication outlets include:

  • Memory & Cognition
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Discourse Processes
  • Language and Cognition
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

The scientist's recent academic papers are as follows:

  • "A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)", 2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "Registered Replication Report on Fischer, Castel, Dodd, and Pratt (2003)", 2020, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • "Two Challenges to "Embodied Cognition" Research And How to Overcome Them", 2021, Journal of Cognition
  • "The process of replication target selection in psychology: what to consider?", 2023, Royal Society Open Science
  • "The processing and evaluation of news content on social media is influenced by peer-user commentary", 2021, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

The scientist often collaborates with colleagues, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Katinka Dijkstra
  • Arnout B. Boot
  • Lara N. Hoeben Mannaert
  • Marek Vranka
  • Sau-Chin Chen

Best Publications

  • Situation Models in Language Comprehension and Memory

    Rolf A. Zwaan;Gabriel A. Radvansky

  • The Construction of Situation Models in Narrative Comprehension: An Event-Indexing Model

    Rolf A. Zwaan;Mark C. Langston;Arthur C. Graesser

  • Embodied language: A review of the role of the motor system in language comprehension

    Martin H. Fischer;Rolf A. Zwaan

  • The Immersed Experiencer: Toward An Embodied Theory Of Language Comprehension

    Rolf A. Zwaan

  • Language Comprehenders Mentally Represent the Shapes of Objects

    Rolf A. Zwaan;Robert A. Stanfield;Richard H. Yaxley

  • Seeing, acting, understanding: motor resonance in language comprehension.

    Rolf A. Zwaan;Lawrence J. Taylor

  • Dimensions of situation model construction in narrative comprehension.

    Rolf A. Zwaan;Joseph P. Magliano;Arthur C. Graesser

  • The Effect of Implied Orientation Derived from Verbal Context on Picture Recognition

    Robert A. Stanfield;Rolf A. Zwaan

  • Grounding cognition : the role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking

    Diane Pecher;Rolf A. Zwaan

  • Discourse comprehension.

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  • Effect of genre expectations on text comprehension.

    Rolf A. Zwaan

  • Making replication mainstream

    Rolf A. Zwaan;Alexander Etz;Richard E. Lucas;M. Brent Donnellan

  • Processing Narrative Time Shifts

    Rolf A. Zwaan

  • Justify your alpha

    Daniel Lakens;Federico G. Adolfi;Federico G. Adolfi;Casper J. Albers;Farid Anvari

  • Registered Replication Report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper (1988)

    E. J. Wagenmakers;Titia Beek;Laura Dijkhoff;Quentin F. Gronau

  • Situation Models: The Mental Leap Into Imagined Worlds

    Rolf A. Zwaan

  • Perception of motion affects language processing

    Michael P. Kaschak;Carol J. Madden;David J. Therriault;Richard H. Yaxley

  • Processing negated sentences with contradictory predicates: Is a door that is not open mentally closed?

    Barbara Kaup;Jana Lüdtke;Rolf A. Zwaan

  • Embodied Sentence Comprehension

    Rolf A. Zwaan;Carol J. Madden

  • Moving words: dynamic representations in language comprehension

    Rolf A. Zwaan;Carol J. Madden;Richard H. Yaxley;Mark E. Aveyard

  • Body posture facilitates retrieval of autobiographical memories.

    Katinka Dijkstra;Michael P. Kaschak;Rolf A. Zwaan

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred Paas
Fred Paas Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tamara van Gog
Tamara van Gog Utrecht University
Joseph P. Magliano
Joseph P. Magliano Georgia State University
Diane Pecher
Diane Pecher Erasmus University Rotterdam
Gabriel A. Radvansky
Gabriel A. Radvansky University of Notre Dame
Michael P. Kaschak
Michael P. Kaschak Florida State University
René Zeelenberg
René Zeelenberg Erasmus University Rotterdam
Arthur C. Graesser
Arthur C. Graesser University of Memphis
Anique B. H. de Bruin
Anique B. H. de Bruin Maastricht University
Richard D. Morey
Richard D. Morey Cardiff University

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