Max van Duijn
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. M.J. van Duijn
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 7903
- m.j.van.duijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl
I am assistant professor at Media Technology, part of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS).
In 2018 I have co-founded the Creative Intelligence Lab (CIL) together with Tessa Verhoef. 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.
My background is in linguistics, literature, and cognitive science. My PhD thesis The Lazy Mindreader (Leiden and Oxford; defended 2016) studied multiple-order intentionality (A believes that B wants that C thinks...etc.) in relation to language and narrative. In my current research I continue to connect topics and methods from the sciences and humanities, focusing particularly on the links between socio-cognitive development and narrative competence in children. My work is published in English and Dutch, in scholarly as well as popular venues.
In 2013 I have co-initiated the Fraternity Friendship Study (FFS), a currently running longitudinal investigation of friendship and social networks among European students, in collaboration with Prof Anna Rotkirch (Väestöliitto, Helsinki), Dr Tamas David-Barrett (University of Oxford), and Prof Robin Dunbar (University of Oxford). One of the areas of interest is mentalising in relation to social network formation.
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): www.kennislink.nl/facesofscience/wetenschappers/max-van-duijn--3
My personal website is www.mjvd.nl.
News
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Doing science in the mud at Lowlands -
Children's stories as inspiration for an artificial brain -
Chinese whispers in the name of science at Lowlands -
These are the seven Veni winners of the Faculty of Science -
Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers -
Children as storytellers and mindreaders -
‘Man's empathy comes from language and stories’
Assistant professor
- Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen
- Leiden Inst. Advanced Computer Sciences
- 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).
- 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. & Arie Verhagen (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.
- Penningmeester en lid dagelijks bestuur
- Onderzoeker/mede-initiatiefnemer