Rolf A. Zwaan

25.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
169 papers, 12.9k citations indexed

About

Rolf A. Zwaan is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rolf A. Zwaan has authored 169 papers receiving a total of 12.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 54 papers in Social Psychology and 54 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Rolf A. Zwaan's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (84 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (45 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (38 papers). Rolf A. Zwaan is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (84 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (45 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (38 papers). Rolf A. Zwaan collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Australia. Rolf A. Zwaan's co-authors include Gabriel A. Radvansky, Arthur C. Graesser, Richard H. Yaxley, Robert A. Stanfield, Lawrence J. Taylor, Martin H. Fischer, Diane Pecher, Carol J. Madden, Katinka Dijkstra and Barbara Kaup and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Rolf A. Zwaan

166 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Situation models in language comprehension and memory.

1998 1.7k citations Rolf A. Zwaan et al. profile →
Embodied Language: A Review of the Role of the Motor System in Language Comprehension

2008 625 citations Rolf A. Zwaan et al. profile →
The Construction of Situation Models in Narrative Comprehension: An Event-Indexing Model

1995 581 citations Rolf A. Zwaan et al. Psychological Science profile →
Language Comprehenders Mentally Represent the Shapes of Objects

2002 517 citations Rolf A. Zwaan, Richard H. Yaxley et al. Psychological Science profile →
Seeing, acting, understanding: Motor resonance in language comprehension.

2006 503 citations Rolf A. Zwaan et al. profile →
Making replication mainstream

2017 289 citations Rolf A. Zwaan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rolf A. Zwaan Netherlands	56	6.7k	5.2k	4.7k	4.4k	1.5k	169	12.9k
Arthur M. Glenberg United States	50	5.5k 0.8×	5.1k 1.0×	5.5k 1.2×	4.6k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	130	12.1k
Lawrence W. Barsalou United States	64	10.8k 1.6×	6.9k 1.3×	9.6k 2.1×	10.8k 2.5×	2.5k 1.7×	128	24.6k
Morton Ann Gernsbacher United States	54	3.2k 0.5×	5.1k 1.0×	6.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.3×	1.2k 0.8×	140	11.2k
Jean M. Mandler United States	50	2.9k 0.4×	5.0k 1.0×	2.5k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	959 0.6×	116	9.1k
Boaz Keysar United States	42	3.2k 0.5×	1.9k 0.4×	2.4k 0.5×	2.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	74	7.3k
Marc Brysbaert Belgium	75	6.8k 1.0×	11.9k 2.3×	13.9k 3.0×	2.5k 0.6×	5.0k 3.3×	267	23.5k
Walter Schneider United States	30	3.6k 0.5×	3.1k 0.6×	8.5k 1.8×	2.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	67	13.7k
Arthur M. Jacobs Germany	67	4.8k 0.7×	6.3k 1.2×	9.6k 2.1×	2.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	256	14.4k
Allan Paivio Canada	58	8.5k 1.3×	8.9k 1.7×	8.0k 1.7×	3.7k 0.8×	2.3k 1.5×	171	22.4k
Marcia K. Johnson United States	84	4.7k 0.7×	5.1k 1.0×	16.5k 3.5×	5.5k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	220	21.8k

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Zwaan, Rolf A.. (2024). Comprehension: from clause to conspiracy narrative. Discourse Processes. 61(4-5). 166–179. 2 indexed citations

Li, Jian‐An, Katinka Dijkstra, & Rolf A. Zwaan. (2023). Deictic shift in the production of direct and indirect speech. Language and Cognition. 1–15.

Dijkstra, Katinka, et al.. (2022). Linguistic and non-linguistic cues in motion event endpoint description: The selection between English to and towards. Memory & Cognition. 51(4). 982–996. 1 indexed citations

Flecken, Monique, et al.. (2019). Going places in Dutch and mandarin Chinese: conceptualising the path of motion cross-linguistically. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 35(4). 498–520. 3 indexed citations

Zwaan, Rolf A.. (2017). Prose Comprehension Beyond the Word Revisited. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints).

Morey, Richard D., Chris Chambers, Peter J. Etchells, et al.. (2016). The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative: incentivizing open research practices through peer review. Royal Society Open Science. 3(1). 150547–150547. 133 indexed citations

Thomas, Laura E., Agustín Ibáñez, John L. Jones, et al.. (2016). Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) Pre-registered Replication. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 3 indexed citations

Pouw, Wim, Tamara van Gog, Rolf A. Zwaan, & Fred Paas. (2016). Augmenting Instructional Animations with a Body Analogy to Help Children Learn about Physical Systems. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 860–860. 11 indexed citations

Dijkstra, Katinka, et al.. (2015). Leidt het lezen van literaire fictie tot meer empathie? : een replicatiestudie van Kidd en Castano (2013). 50(10). 10–21. 1 indexed citations

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Pouw, Wim, et al.. (2014). Toward a more embedded/extended perspective on the cognitive function of gestures. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 359–359. 82 indexed citations

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Camp, Gino, et al.. (2014). The benefit of retrieval practice over elaborative restudy in primary school vocabulary learning. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 3(3). 177–182. 27 indexed citations

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Eerland, Anita, Tulio Guadalupe, & Rolf A. Zwaan. (2011). Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller. Psychological Science. 22(12). 1511–1514. 44 indexed citations

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Elk, Michiel van, Hein T. van Schie, Rolf A. Zwaan, & Harold Bekkering. (2010). The functional role of motor activation in language processing: Motor cortical oscillations support lexical-semantic retrieval. NeuroImage. 50(2). 665–677. 124 indexed citations

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Gootjes, Liselotte, et al.. (2010). Effects of recent word exposure on emotion-word Stroop interference: An ERP study. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 79(3). 356–363. 51 indexed citations

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Pecher, Diane & Rolf A. Zwaan. (2005). Grounding cognition : the role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 327 indexed citations

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Lüdtke, Jana, et al.. (2005). Effects of Negation, Truth Value, and Delay on Picture Recognition after Reading Affirmative and Negative Sentences. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 30 indexed citations

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Goldstone, Robert L., et al.. (2005). Conceptual Grounding in Cognitive Processes. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 1 indexed citations

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Zwaan, Rolf A. & Richard H. Yaxley. (2003). Spatial iconicity affects semantic relatedness judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 10(4). 954–958. 153 indexed citations

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Zwaan, Rolf A., et al.. (1998). Constructing meaning during reading. 1 indexed citations

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Zwaan, Rolf A. & Anton J. Nederhof. (1990). Some aspects of scholarly communication in linguistics: An empirical study. Language. 66(3). 553–557. 13 indexed citations

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