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De Houwer, J., & Boddez, Y. (in press). Over de rol van associaties in betekenisanalyses: Een kritische evaluatie en mogelijke alternatieven. Gedragstherapie.

Huzoaica, F. G., De Houwer, J., Perugini, M., Rusu, A., & Sava, F. A. (in press). Beyond valence transfer in an evaluative conditioning paradigm: On the nature of the phenomenon and its relation to personality. Collabra: Psychology. Supplementary Materials

Nevejans, M., Wiersema, J. R., De Houwer, J., & Cracco, E. (in press). The impact of model eyesight and social reward on automatic imitation in virtual reality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Raemaekers, M., Finn, M., & De Houwer, J (in press). Stimulus Relations Can Have Stimulus Functions. Collabra Psychology.

Rothermund, K., Kapinos, L., De Houwer, J., & Schmidt, J. R. (in press). Long-term contingency learning depends on contingency awareness. Journal of Cognition.

Rougier, M., Van Dessel, P., Moran, T., & Smith, C. T. (in press). Can approach-avoidance instructions influence facial representations? A distinction between past- and future-oriented inferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Van Dessel, P., Hughes, S., Perugini, M., Smith, C. T., Mao, Z.-F., & De Houwer, J. (in press). The role of awareness and demand in evaluative learning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

2024

Bunghez, C., De Houwer, J., Rusu, A., & Sava, F. A. (2024). Exploring the association between neuroticism and negativity bias in evaluative counterconditioning. Learning & Motivation, 88, 102039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2024.102039

Bunghez, C., Rusu, A., De Houwer, J., Perugini, M., Boddez, Y., & Sava, F. A. (2024). The moderating role of neuroticism on evaluative conditioning: Evidence from ambiguous learning situations. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231191861

De Houwer, J., Finn, M., Boddez, Y., Hughes, S., & Cummins, J. (2024). Relating different perspectives on how outcomes of behavior influence behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 121, 123–133. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.887

Hughes, S., Unkelbach, C., Rougier, M., & De Houwer, J. (2024). The shared feature principle in person perception: Shared features lead to assumptions about other features. Collabra:Psychology, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.117780

Palenciano, A. F., González-García, C., De Houwer, J., Liefooghe, B., & Brass, M. (2024). Concurrent response and action effect representations across the somatomotor cortices during novel task preparation. Cortex, 177, 150-169.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.05.003

Rougier, M., & De Houwer, J. (2024). Updating stereotypical attributions in light of new information: The attractiveness halo effect changes when attractiveness changes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54, 364–379. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3017

Van Dessel, P., Boddez, Y., Moors, A., Buabang, E.K., Köster, M., & De Houwer, J. (2024). Exploring the Role of Goal-Dependent Processes in Action Slips under Time Pressure. Motivation Science, 10(2), 128–137. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000323

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. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001280

Cummins, J. (2023). On the measurement of relational responding. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2023.10.003

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. (2023). Over Skinner, regel-geleid gedrag, en Relational Frame Theory: Denken als gedrag. Gedragstherapie, 56(4), 402-415.

De Houwer, J., Boddez, Y., & Van Dessel, P. (2023). What is intuiting and deliberating? A functional-cognitive perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e117. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x22003028

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

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. https://doi.org/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. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.68050

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). 10.1177/20438087231178123

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 effect of SMART Relational Skills training on Intelligence Quotients Controlling for Individual Differences in Attentional Skills and Baseline IQ. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2023.03.012

Rougier, M., & De Houwer, J. (2023). Unconstraining evaluative conditioning research by using the reverse correlation task. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231217526

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. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.84560 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., Pan, T., Van Dessel, P., Rinck, M., & Lindenmeyer, J. (2023). Approach-Bias Retraining and Other Training Interventions as Add-On in the Treatment of AUD Patients. Current Topics in Behavioural Neurosciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2023_421

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.

Wisniewski, D., Braem, S., González-García, C., De Houwer, J., & Brass, M. (2023). Effects of experiencing CS-US pairings on instructed fear reversal. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43(30), 5546–5558. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0665-22.2023

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

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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)
Some further thoughts on the definition of learning (by Jan De Houwer. First posted on 29 August 2024).