Max van Duijn
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. M.J. van Duijn
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 7903
- m.j.van.duijn@liacs.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0798-9598
I am an assistant professor at Leiden University’s Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), where I co-founded the Creative Intelligence Lab (CIL). This lab brings together researchers from the cognitive and computer sciences who have a shared interest in the foundations of intelligence, both ‘in carbo’ and ‘in silico’, and who recognise creativity and playfulness as key factors in scientific innovation.
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I am an assistant professor at Leiden University’s Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), where I co-founded the Creative Intelligence Lab (CIL). This lab brings together researchers from the cognitive and computer sciences who have a shared interest in the foundations of intelligence, both ‘in carbo’ and ‘in silico’, and who recognise creativity and playfulness as key factors in scientific innovation.
I have a background in linguistics, literature, and cognitive science; my research has always connected topics and methods from both the sciences and humanities. Within my NWO Veni project (started 2020) I collect a large number of stories told by children aged 4-12 and extract features relevant to ‘fictional minds’ using computational techniques. This fuels new ways in which the development of Theory of Mind (ToM) can be modelled and understood. I am involved in the NWO Zwaartekracht Hybrid Intelligence and the Helsinki-based NetResilience; in both projects my involvement centres around modelling ToM and related forms of social intelligence.
In addition, I am a fervent educator, involved in (setting up) the BSc Data Science & Artificial Intelligence and the MSc in Media Technology. I supervise two internal PhD candidates and will soon open a vacancy for a third position.
My work is published in English and Dutch, in scholarly as well as popular venues. In June 2014 I was selected as a popular science blogger featured on the "Faces of Science"-webpage of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW): facesofscience
Assistant professor
- Science
- Leiden Inst of Advanced Computer Science
- Duijn M.J. van, Dijk B.M.A. van & Spuit M.R. (2022), Looking from the inside: how children render character’s perspectives in freely told fantasy stories. In: Clark E., Brahman F. & Iyyer M. (Eds.) ACL Proceedings of the 4th workshop of narrative understanding (WNU2022). Seattle. 66-76.
- Dijk B.M.A. van & Duijn M.J. van (2021), Modelling characters’ mental depth in stories told by children aged 4-10. In: Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society. no. 43: The Cognitive Science Society. 2384-2391.
- Duijn M. van, Preuss M., Spaiser V., Takes F.W. & Verberne S. (Eds.) (2020), Disinformation in Open Online Media Lecture Notes in Computer Science no. 12259. Cham: Springer.
- Mason C., Putten P.W.H. van der & Duijn M. van (2020), How Identity and Uncertainty Affect Online Social Influence. In: Duijn, M.J. van; Preuss, M.; Spaiser, V.; Takes, F.; Verberne, S. (Eds.) Disinformation in Open Online Media. Lecture Notes in Computer Science no. 12259 Cham: Springer. 174-190.
- Laakasuo M., Rotkirch A., Duijn M.J. van, Berg V., Jokela M., David-Barrett T., Miettinen A., Pearce E. & Dunbar R. (2020), Homophily in personality enhances group success among real-life friends, Frontiers in Psychology 11: 710.
- Towns R.J., Gómez-Maureira M.A., Sommer K., Duijn M.J. van & Verhoef T. (2020), The evolution of spatial devices in gestural storytelling. In: Ravignani, A.; Barbieri, C.; Jadoul, Y.; Lattenkamp, E.; Martins, M.; Flaherty, M.; Mudd, K.; Little, H.; Verhoef, T. (Eds.) The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (Evolang13) . Nijmegen, The Netherlands: The Evolution of Language Conferences. 454-456.
- Roele M., Ward J. & Duijn M.J. van (2020), Tweet with a smile: The selection and use of emoji on Twitter in the Netherlands and England, First Monday 25(4).
- Peeperkorn M. Kouwenhoven T. Duijn M. van (14 November 2019), Displaced Grooming Events: An agent-based model investigating displaced social bonding activities. The Cogntition, Behavior & Evolution Network 14 11 2019-15 11 2019 [conference poster].
- Gómez Maureira M.A., Kniestedt I., Duijn M.J. van, Rieffe C. & Plaat A. (2019), Shinobi Valley: Studying curiosity for virtual spatial exploration through a video game. In: Arnedo, J.; Nacke, L.E. (Eds.) CHI PLAY '19 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts.: Association for Computing Machinery. 421–428.
- Duijn M.J. van & Verhagen A. (2019), Beyond triadic communication: a three-dimensional conceptual space for modeling intersubjectivity, Pragmatics and Cognition 25(2): 398-430.
- Duijn M.J. van & Verhagen A. (2019), Recursive embedding of viewpoints, irregularity, and the role for a flexible framework, Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 29(2): 198 - 225.
- Kubernátová P., Friedjungová M., Duijn & M.J. van (2018), Knowledge at First Glance: A Model for a Data Visualization Recommender System Suited for Non-expert Users. In: Bernardino J., Quix C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications. no. 1 Porto, Portugal: SCITEPRESS. 208-219.
- Sophie Rust, Verhoef T. & Duijn M.J. van (2018), Transmission tales: the influence of “digital botox” (smoothened facial expressions) on story transmission in a Chinese‐whisper experiment.
- Duijn M.J. van (2018), Readers’ Mindreading Challenges, and How They Can Inform Cognitive Science, Review of General Psychology 22(2): 188-198.
- Duijn M.J. van (9 January 2017), Navigating the intentional world: stories, viewpoints, and social cognition. A History of Distributed Cognition: University of Edinburgh [blog entry].
- Rotkirch A., Duijn M.J. van & Laakasuo M. (5 January 2017), What are male coalitions good for? Sociosexual attitudes predict formation of male (but not female) groups in a real-world sample. European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) Annual Conference 6 4 2017-8 4 2017 [conference poster].
- Duijn M.J. van & Arie Verhagen (2016), Language, intersubjectivity, and recursive mindreading (Societas Linguistics Europaea/SLE, 43rd annual meeting, Napels, Italy).
- Duijn M.J van (2016), Processing embedded intentional states in literary fiction.
- Duijn M.J. van (20 April 2016), The lazy mindreader : a humanities perspective on mindreading and multiple-order intentionality (PhD thesis, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Sluiter, I.; Verhagen, A.
- Duijn M.J. van (5 April 2016), The lazy mindreader: why we rarely have to process embedded intentional states. [conference poster].
- Pearce E., Launay J., Duijn M.J. van, Rotkirch A., David-Barrett T. & Dunbar R.I.M. (2016), Singing together or apart: The effect of competitive and cooperative singing on social bonding within and between sub-groups of a university Fraternity, Psychology of Music : 1-19.
- Duijn M.J. van (2016), Van binnenuit bekeken Gedachtenlezen en ingebedde perspectieven in Mrs Dalloway en De maagd Marino, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 132(4): 383-400.
- Launay J., Pearce E., Wlodarski R., Duijn M. van, Carney J. & Dunbar R.I.M. (2015), Higher-order mentalising and executive functioning, Personality and Individual Differences (86): 6-14.
- Duijn M.J. van (2015), Lezen en gedachtenlezen. Verbetert literatuur ons inlevingsvermogen?, Vooys: tijdschrift voor letteren 33(3).
- Duijn M.J. van, Sluiter I. & Verhagen Arie (2015), When Narrative Takes Over. Mindreading and Multiple-Order Intentionality in Shakespeare's Othello, Language and Literature 24(2): 148–166.
- Duijn M.J. van (2014), Het laatste stukje vlees doorknippen. Schaamstreekgeweld in Yves Petry's De maagd Marino. In: Honings R.A.M., Jensen L., Marion O. van (Eds.) Schokkende boeken. Amsterdam: Verloren. 97-104.
- Duijn M.J. van (2014), Linguistic tools for mindreading? Representation of multiple-order intentionality in language.
- Duijn M.J. van, Rotkirch A., David-Barrett T., Jokela M. & Dunbar R.I.M. (2014), Multiple-Order Intentionality Revisited.
- Duijn M.J. van (2013), Communication and Processing of Mixed-Viewpoint Situations: Ready-Mades versus Online Constructions.
- Sluiter I., Corthals B., Duijn M.J. van & Verheij M.J.O. (2013), In het hoofd van Medea. Gedachtenlezen bij een moordende moeder, Lampas: Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse classici 46(1): 3-20.
- Beekhuizen B.F. & Duijn M.J. van (2013), Packaged and Ready-to-Go: Linguistic Tools for Communication and Mental Processing.
- Duijn M.J. van (2012), Bloed aan de handen van Alfred Issendorf, Arabian Humanities 175(4): 22-25.
- Duijn M.J. van (2012), Ik hoor het galmen in de 21e eeuw! De Procedure: strijd met God. In: Fagel S., Francken E., Honings R.A.M. (Eds.) Strijd! Polemiek en conflict in de Nederlandse letteren. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
- Duijn M.J. van (2012), Reading Minds. Narrative and Multiple-Order Intentionality. (Poster).
- Duijn M.J. van (2012), Reading Minds. (Re)Presentation of Multiple-Order Intentionality in Narrative.
- Duijn M.J. van (2011), Moord in Nooit meer Slapen?, Nieuw Letterkundig Magazijn : mededelingenblad uitgegeven door de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde 29(2): 62-68.
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