Social and cognitive aspects of reading behaviour in a digital world

The digital world has transformed the way we read, offering both challenges and opportunities. To understand these challenges and opportunities it is important to consider reading processes and outcomes from multiple perspectives. This project has two main objectives:

  1. Testing a model that integrates social and cognitive aspects of reading behavior in digital context and
  2. translating the model into methods that serve as a shared foundation to design education interventions directed at promoting reading behavior.

In the project we address questions such as how do students form reading goals? How can we challenge them to engage in reading and to attend to text? How is this affected by the social environment? In this project, which is part of the Nationale Wetenschapsagenda '‘Becoming literate in a digital age: Adapting reading education in the Netherlands’, we collaborate with educational developers and AI experts, teachers and students to address these questions.

Involved researchers

  • Matija Culjak

    PhD Candidate
  • working as part of the LeesEvolutie consortium to investigate the cognitive and behavioral factors that influence reading in a digital age

  • dr. Tim van Timmeren

    Assistant Professor
  • I am an assistant professor interested in human habits and (behavioural) addictions. I am involved in several projects studying basic and applied questions, such as smartphone use

  • prof. dr. Henk Aarts

    Professor
  • I am a professor in Psychology, interested in human habits, goals, and autonomy. I am involved in several projects studying basic and applied questions, such as intentionality, Human-AI interactions and health

Collaboration

  • Consortium national research programme (Nationale Wetenschapsagenda) ‘Becoming literate in a digital age: Adapting reading education in the Netherlands’.

Funding