As the science communication officer of the LANCAR group, she is responsible for social media accounts and other science communication channels and activities. For more information, please …

LANCAR Seminar. University of Amsterdam, January 27, 2023. Workshop Talk – V. Kostadinova & J.H.M. Wagemans (2022). Statement type annotation. Workshop “Empirical studies of discourse and …

Language and Cognition in Argumentation (LANCAR) is a thematic research group within the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) at the Faculty of Humanities of the …

The results of the empirical research lines are combined with theoretical insights about argument detection and mapping, argument type identification, and argumentation assessment to develop a reli…

The members of the LANCAR group work across several interconnected research lines. Each of these comprises several projects that study various aspects of persuasive communication, with a particular …

LANCAR Podcasts This page hosts a growing collection of AI-generated podcasts based on scientific papers written by members of our research group. Each episode presents a spoken version of a …

LANCAR coordinator Jean Wagemans is participating in the Academic Workshop on Disinformation organized by the City of Amsterdam. Together with scientific experts, civil servants from various …

Dec 18, 2025 · On Friday, November 21, 2025, Jean Wagemans delivered a lecture and served on a panel on the role of cognition and communication in bringing about social change. Both activities …

Aug 8, 2025 · Coordinator: Jean Wagemans This project aims to contribute to the improvement of people’s rhetorical literacy and critical thinking skills by developing procedures for assessing …

Dec 26, 2025 · Why do we keep arguing about fallacies, and why do those arguments so often go nowhere? In their new paper “Two-Tier Fallacy Theory: A New Approach to Assessing Argument …