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Bunghez, C., Rusu, A., De Houwer, J., Perugini, M., Boddez, Y., & Sava, F. A. (in press). The moderating role of neuroticism on evaluative conditioning: Evidence from ambiguous learning situations. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Cummins, J. (In press). On the measurement of relational responding. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.

De Houwer, J., & Boddez, Y. (in press). Over Skinner, regel-geleid gedrag, en Relational Frame Theory: Denken als gedrag. Gedragstherapie.

De Houwer, J., Finn, M., Boddez, Y., Hughes, S., & Cummins, J. (in press). Relating different perspectives on how outcomes of behavior influence behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.887  

Mansueto, A.C., Pan, T., Van Dessel, P., & Wiers, R.W. (2023). Ecological Momentary Assessment and Personalized Networks in Cognitive Bias Modification Studies on Addiction: Advances and Challenges. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 14(2). doi:10.1177/20438087231178123

Rougier, M., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Unconstraining evaluative conditioning research by using the reverse correlation task. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Rougier, M., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Updating stereotypical attributions in light of new information: The attractiveness halo effect changes when attractiveness changes. European Journal of Social Psychology. 

Van Dessel, P., Boddez, Y., Moors, A., Buabang, E.K., Köster, M., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Exploring the Role of Goal-Dependent Processes in Action Slips under Time Pressure. Motivation Science.

Wiers, R.W., Pan, T., Van Dessel, P., Rinck, M., & Lindenmeyer, J. (in press). Approach-Bias Retraining and Other Training Interventions as Add-On in the Treatment of AUD Patients. Current Topics in Behavioural Neurosciences.

Wisniewski, D., Braem, S., González-García, C., De Houwer, J., & Brass, M. (in press). Effects of experiencing CS-US pairings on instructed fear reversal. Journal of Neuroscience.

2023

Boddez, Y., Scheveneels, S., Van Dessel, P. (2023). Let’s play pretend: Towards effective modelling in experimental psycho(patho)logy. Journa lof Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 80, 101809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101809.

Buabang, E., Köster, M., Boddez, Y., Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., & Moors, A. (2023). A goal-directed account of action slips: The reliance on old contingencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(2), 496–508.

Cummins, J., Nevejans, M., Colbert, D., & De Houwer, J. (2023). On The Structure of Relational Responding. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 27, 16-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2022.11.006

De Houwer, J., (2023). Putting relating at the core of language of thought. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

46, e272. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23001978

De Houwer, J., Boddez, Y., & Van Dessel, P. (2023). What is intuiting and deliberating? A functional-cognitive perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e117

De Houwer, J., Buabang, E. K., Boddez, Y., Köster, M., & Moors, A. (2023). Reasons to remain critical about the literature on habits: A commentary on Wood et al. (2021). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(4), 871-875. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221131508

De Houwer, J., Finn, M., Raemaekers, M., Cummins, J., & Boddez, Y. (2023). Thinking of learning phenomena as instances of relational behavior. Learning & Behavior, 51, 219–227. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-022-00567-9

De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2023). Learning in individual organisms, genes, machines, and groups: A new way of defining and relating learning in different systems. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18, 649-663. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221114886

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De Houwer, J., & Koster, E. H. W. (2023). Attentional biases in anxiety and depression: current status and clinical considerations. World Psychiatry, 22(3), 473-474. DOI:10.1002/wps.21117

Finn, M., Raemaekers, M., & De Houwer, J. (2023). Instructing via relations: Function transformations of response and consequence functions of upcoming contingencies. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 30, 203 - 209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2023.11.005 

 

Kasran, S., Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2023). The role of causal attributions in observational conditioning. Collabra: Psychology, 9 (1), 68050. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.68050

Moran, T., Nudler, Y., & Bar Anan, Y. (2023). Evaluative Conditioning: Past, Present, and Future. Annual Review of Psychology, 74, 245-269. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-032420-031815

Hughes, S. Cummins, J., & Hussey, I. (2023). Effects on the Affect Misattribution Procedure are Strongly Moderated by Influence Awareness. Behavioral Research Methods, 55(4), 1558–1586. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01879-4

Roche, B., Cummins, J., Cassidy, S., Dillon, A., Moore, L., & Grey, I. (2023). The effectofSMART Relational Skills training on Intelligence Quotients Controlling for Individual Differences in Attentional Skills and Baseline IQ. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.

Rougier, M., De Houwer, J., Richetin, J., Hughes, S., & Perugini, M. (2023). From Halo to Conditioning and Back Again: Exploring the Links Between Impression Formation and Learning. Collabra: Psychology. Supplementary materials can be found here.

Van Dessel, P., Cummins, J., & Wiers, R.W. (2023). ABC-Training As a New Intervention For Hazardous Alcohol Drinking: Two Proof-of-Principle Randomized Pilot Studies. Addiction, 118 (11), 2141-2155. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16271

Wiers, R.W., & Van Dessel, P. (2023). Mechanisms underlying Alcohol Approach Bias and its Modification. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 3 (3), 317-318, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2023.02.010.

2022

Barry, T., Boddez, Y., Chiu, C., & Raes, F. (2022). The sharing of autobiographical memories elicits social support. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

Boddez, Y., Hermans, D., Eelen, P., Scheveneels, S., & Vervliet, B. (2022). Leertheoretische benaderingen van psychopathologie. In van Hooren, S. (Ed.), Klinische Psychologie. Noordhoff Uitgevers: Groningen / Houten.

Boddez, Y., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J.(2022). Learned helplessness and its relevance for psychological suffering: A new perspective illustrated with attachment problems, burn-out, and fatigue complaints. Cognition and Emotion, 36, 1027-1036.

Buabang, E., Boddez, Y., Wolf, O., & Moors, A. (2022). The Role of Goal-Directed and Habitual Processes in Food Consumption Under Stress After Outcome Devaluation with Taste Aversion. Behavioral Neuroscience.

Cathelyn, F., Van Dessel, P., Cummins, J., & De Houwer, J. (2022). Do evaluation and self-identification relate to self-reported and actual social media use? Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 11, 557–566.

Cathelyn, F., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2022). Testing the practical utility of implicit measures of beliefs for predicting drunk driving. PLoS One, 17(9), e0275328. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275328

Cummins, J., & De Houwer, J. (2022). Are relational implicit measures sensitive to relational information? Collabra: Psychology.

8(1). 38621. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.38621

Cummins, J., Hussey, I., & Spruyt, A. (2022). The role of attitude features in the reliability of IAT scores. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 101, 104330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104330

De Houwer, J., & Boddez, Y. (2022). Bias in implicit measures as instances of biased behavior under suboptimal conditions in the laboratory. Psychological Inquiry, 33, 173-176. DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2022.2106755.

De Houwer, J. & Cummins, J. (2022). Forwarding the ACBS Task Force recommendations: Thecase for the Functional-Cognitive framework and out-of-sample prediction. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.

Delios et al. (2022). Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(30).

Kasran, S., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2022). Observational evaluative conditioning is sensitive to relational information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Kasran, S., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2022). Learning via instructions about observations: Exploring similarities and differences with learning via actual observations. Royal Society Open Science. 9, 220059. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220059

Koning, I. M., Doornwaard, S. M., Van der Rijst, V. G., De Houwer, J., & Vollebergh, W. (2022). Effects of automatic and explicit parenting on adolescents’ alcohol use. Cogent Psychology.

Moran, T., Cummins, J., & De Houwer, J. (2022). Examining automatic stereotyping from a propositional perspective: Is automatic stereotyping sensitive to relational and validity information? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(7), 1024-1038. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211024121  

Moran, T., Hughes, S., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2022). The role of trait inferences in evaluative conditioning. Collabra: Psychology

Peuters, C., Cummins, J., Vandendriessche, A., DeSmet, A., & Crombez, G. (2022). Assessing sleep-related attitudes with the Implicit Association Test: A prospective study in young adults. Journal of Sleep Research.  

Scheveneels, S., & Boddez, Y. (2022). Fear Conditioning Biases in Anxiety Disorders: A Matter of Interpretation? In Wood, M. (Ed.), Interpretational processing biases in emotional psychopathology - From experimental investigation to clinical practice. Springer: New York.

Van Dessel, P., Boddez, Y., & Hughes, S. (2022). Nudging societally relevant behavior by promoting cognitive inferences. Scientific Reports, 12, 9201. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12964-1

 

The author's accepted version (after reviews, before typesetting) of most of our publications can be downloaded here . Just enter the name of a lab member in the search function to retrieve all publications of that lab member.

Blogs

• Thoughts on idionomic vs. group-based approaches to predicting the behavior of individuals (by Jamie Cummins & Jan De Houwer, First posted on 15 December 2022)

Recommended readings

De Houwer, J. (2018). Propositional models of evaluative conditioning. Social Psychological Bulletin, 13, e28046.

De Houwer, J. (2019). Implicit Bias Is Behavior: A Functional-Cognitive Perspective on Implicit Bias. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(5), 835-840.

De Houwer, J. (2019). Moving Beyond System 1 and System 2. Experimental Psychology, 66(4) , 257-265.

De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2020). The psychology of learning: A functional-cognitive introduction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

- download the free open access pdf at www.psychologyoflearning.be

- buy your paper copy at the MIT Press website

De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (in press). Learning in individual organisms, genes, machines, and groups: A new way of defining and relating learning in different systems. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221114886

De Houwer, J., Richetin, J., Hughes, S., & Perugini, M. (2019). On the assumptions that we make about the world around us: A conceptual framework for feature transformation effects. Collabra: Psychology, 5(1): 43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.229

De Houwer, J., Van Dessel, P., & Moran, T. (2020). Attitudes beyond associations: On the role of propositional representations in stimulus evaluation. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 61, 127-183.

Gawronski, B., & De Houwer, J. (2014). Implicit measures in social and personality psychology. Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology, 2, 283-310.

Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2016). Relational Frame Theory: An Overview. In S. Hayes, D. Barnes-Holmes, R. Zettle, and T. Biglan (Eds.), Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science. New York: Wiley.

Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Perugini, M. (2016). The functional‐cognitive framework for psychological research: Controversies and resolutions. International Journal of Psychology, 51(1), 4-14.

Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., Mattavelli, S., & Hussey, I. (2020). The shared features principle: If two objects share a feature, people assume those objects also share other features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000777

Van Dessel, P., Boddez, Y., & Hughes, S. (2022). Nudging societally relevant behavior by promoting cognitive inferences. Scientific Reports, 12, 9201. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12964-1

Van Dessel, P., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2019). How do actions influence attitudes? An inferential account of the impact of action performance on stimulus evaluation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 23(3), 267-284.

Van Dessel, P., Cummins, J., Hughes, S., Kasran, S., Cathelyn, F., & Moran, T. (2020). Reflecting on Twenty-Five Years of Research Using Implicit Measures: Recommendations for their Future Use. Social Cognition, 38, 223-242. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2020.38.supp.s223