Publications
Kuijpers, M. M., Lusetti, M., Lendvai, P., & Rebora, S. (2024). Validation of the Story World Absorption Scale through Annotation of Online Book Reviews. Journal of Cultural Analytics, 9(1).
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Loi, C., Kuijpers, M. M., Ensslin, A., & Lauer, G. (2023). Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance
online publication.
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Loi, C., Hakemulder, F., Kuijpers, M. M., & Lauer, G. (2023). On how Fiction Impacts the Self-Concept: Transformative Reading Experiences and Storyworld Possible Selves. Scientific Study of Literature, 12(1), 44–67.
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Kuijpers, M. M., Lendvai, P., Lusetti, M., Rebora, S., Ruh, L., Tadres, J., Ternes, T., & Vogelsanger, J. (2023). Absorption in Online Reviews of Books: Presenting the English-Language AbsORB Metadata Corpus and Annotation Guidelines. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 9(13), pp. 1–7.
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Lehmann, M., Heumann, A., Kuijpers, M. M., Lauer, G., & Lüdtke, J. (2023). The ChildPoeDE Corpus: 1082 German Children’s Poems for Computational and Experimental Studies on Poetry Reception. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 9: 6, pp. 1–6.
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Kuijpers, M. M. (2022). Bodily involvement in readers’ online book reviews: Applying Text World Theory to examine absorption in unprompted reader response. Journal of Literary Semantics, 51(2), 111-129.
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Kuiken, D., Douglas, S., & Kuijpers, M. M. (2021). Openness to experience, absorption-like states, and the aesthetic, explanatory, and pragmatic effects of literary reading. Scientific Study of Literature, 11(2), 148-195.
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Kuijpers, M. M. (2021). Exploring the dimensional relationships of story world absorption. A commentary on the role of attention during absorbed reading. Scientific Study of Literature, 11(2), 266-281.
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Kuijpers, M. M., Bálint, K., & Douglas, S. (2021). Narrative Absorption: An Overview. In D. Kuiken & A. Jacobs (Eds.), Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies (pp. 279-304). Amsterdam: DeGruyter.
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Rebora, S., Boot, P., Pianzola, F., Gasser, B., Herrmann, J. B., Kraxenberger, M., Kuijpers, M. M., Lauer, G., Lendvai, P., Messerli, T. C., & Sorrentino, P. (2021). Digital humanities and digital social reading. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36 (2), p. ii230-ii250.
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Kuijpers, M. M. (2021). Postscript: Toward a reconciliation of empirical traditions in the investigation of reading and literature. In A. Bell, S. Browse, A. Gibbons, & D. Peplow (Eds.), Style and Response: Minds, Media, Methods (217-229). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
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Eekhof, L. S., Kuijpers, M. M., Faber, M., Gao, X., Mak, M., Van den Hoven, E., & Willems, R. M. (2021). Lost in a Story, Detached from the Words. Discourse Processes, 58(7), 595-616.
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Rebora, S., Kuijpers, M. M., & Lendvai, P. (2020). Mining Goodreads. A Digital Humanities Project for the Study of Reading Absorption. In Sharing the Experience: Workflows for the Digital Humanities. Proceedings of the DARIAH-CH Workshop 2019. Neuchâtel: DARIAH-CAMPUS.
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Lange, E. B., Thiele, D., & Kuijpers, M. M. (2020). Narrative aesthetic absorption in audiobooks is predicted by blink rate and acoustic features. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 16(1), 110–124.
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Lendvai, P., Darányi, S., Geng, C., Kuijpers, M. M., Lopez de Lacalle, O., Mensonides, J.-C., Rebora, S., & Reichel, U. (2020). Detection of Reading Absorption in User-Generated Book Reviews: Resources Creation and Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 4835–4841. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association.
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Kuijpers, M. M., Douglas, S., & Kuiken, D. (2020). Capturing the ways we read: Introducing the Reading Habits Questionnaire. Anglistik, 31(1), 53–69.
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Lendvai, P., Rebora, S., & Kuijpers, M. M. (2019). Identification of reading absorption in user-generated book reviews. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2019), Germany (pp. 271–272).
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Kuijpers, M. M., Douglas, S., & Kuiken, D. (2019). Personality traits and reading habits that predict absorbed narrative fiction reading. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 13(1), 74–88.
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Kuijpers, M. M., & Hakemulder, F. (2018). Understanding and appreciating literary texts through rereading. Discourse Processes, 55(7), 619–641.
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Kuijpers, M. M. (2018). Bibliotherapy in the age of digitization. First Monday, 23(10), Article 5.
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Hakemulder, F., Kuijpers, M. M., Tan, E. S. H., Balint, K., & Doicaru, M. M. (Eds.) (2017). Narrative Absorption. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
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Kuijpers, M. M., & Hakemulder, F. (2017). Narrative absorption: Introduction and overview. In F. Hakemulder, M. M. Kuijpers, E. S. H. Tan, K. Bálint & M. M. Doicaru (Eds.), Narrative absorption (pp. 1–10). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
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Kuijpers, M. M., Hakemulder, F., Balint, K., Doicaru, M. M., & Tan, E. S. H. (2017). Towards a new understanding of absorbing reading experiences. In F. Hakemulder, M. M. Kuijpers, E. S. H. Tan, K. Bálint & M. M. Doicaru (Eds.), Narrative absorption (pp. 29–47). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
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Tan, E. S. H., Hakemulder, F., Balint, K., Kuijpers, M. M., & Doicaru, M. M. (2017). Into film. Does absorption in a movie’s story world pose a paradox? In F. Hakemulder, M. M. Kuijpers, E. S. H. Tan, K. Bálint & M. M. Doicaru (Eds.), Narrative absorption (pp. 97–118). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
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Bálint, K., Doicaru, M. M., & Kuijpers, M. M. (2017). The effect of suspense structure on felt suspense and narrative absorption in literary and filmic narratives. A media comparative study. In F. Hakemulder, M. M. Kuijpers, E. S. H. Tan, K. Bálint & M. M. Doicaru (Eds.), Narrative absorption (pp. 177–197). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
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Bálint, K., Hakemulder, F., Kuijpers, M. M., Doicaru, M. M., & Tan, E. S. H. (2016). Reconceptualizing foregrounding. Identifying response strategies to deviation in absorbing narratives. Scientific Study of Literature, 6(2), 176–207.
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Kuijpers, M. M., Hakemulder, F., Tan, E. S. H., & Doicaru, M. M. (2014). Exploring absorbing reading experiences. Developing and validating a self-report scale to measure story world absorption. Scientific Study of Literature, 4(1), 89–122.
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Kuijpers, M. M. (2014). Absorbing stories. The effects of textual devices on absorption and evaluative responses. (Doctoral dissertation). Utrecht University, Utrecht.
Kuijpers, M. M., & Miall, D. S. (2011). Bodily Involvement in Literary Reading: An Experimental Study of Readers' Bodily Experiences during Reading. In F. Hakemulder (Eds.), De stralende lezer. Wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar de invloed van het lezen (pp. 160-174). Delft: Eburon.