Jan De Houwer
Mailing address: Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Henri Dunantlaan 2
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium
Phone: 0032 9 264 64 45
Fax: 0032 9 264 64 89
E-mail: Jan.DeHouwer@UGent.be
SHORT CV
I received my Master and PhD degree in
Psychology from the
My research concerns the manner in which spontaneous
(automatic) preferences are learned and can be measured. Regarding the learning
of preferences, I focus on the role of stimulus pairings (associative learning)
and instructions about stimulus pairings. With regard to the measurement of
preferences, I developed new reaction time measures and examined the processes
underlying various measures. In 2008, I received a 7 year Methusalem grant to
continue my research on these topics (see http://www.implicit.ugent.be/ ). Other research interests include
associative learning, stimulus-response compatibility, and attentional bias.
I (co-)authored more than 160 publications in
international journals including Psychological Bulletin, Journal of
Experimental Psychology: General, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences. I am
currently editor of the journal “Cognition and Emotion” and member of the
editorial board of Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Experimental
Psychology, Journal of Behaviour
Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, and Journal of Contextual Behavioral
Science.
I am head of the research group “Learning and
Implicit Processes” at
CONTENT OF SITE:
In press paper + download preprints / chapters
Main research topics + download main
publications
Teaching and admin
Editorial Duties
Download
full CV here (last update 3
April 2012) including a reference to all my publications.
For reprints:
Some papers (mainly in press papers, chapters and difficult to locate papers) can be found below
Most of my papers are available at the following webpage: http://www.implicit.ugent.be/liplab/pub.html (password is “implicit”)
If you have problems locating papers, please email me at : Jan.DeHouwer@UGent.be
Research
In Press papers + Download
preprints / chapters
In press papers:
- Gast, A., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Evaluative conditioning in the absence of directly experienced CS-US pairings. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Click here
- Gast, A., De Houwer, J., & De Schryver, M. (in press). Evaluative Conditioning Can be Modulated by Memory of the CS-US Pairings at the Time of Testing. Learning and Motivation. Click here
- Liefooghe, B., Wenke, D., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Instruction-based task-rule congruency effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. Click here
- Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Contingency Learning with Evaluative Stimuli: Testing the Generality of Contingency Learning in a Performance Paradigm. Experimental Psychology. Click here
- Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Goal-dependent learning in the colour-word contingency learning paradigm: Adding the goal to learn strengthens learning in an unintentional learning task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Click here
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Schouppe, N., De Houwer,
J., Ridderinkhof, K. R.,
& Notebaert, W. (in
press). Conflict: Run! Reduced Stroop
interference with avoidance responses. Quarterly Journal of Experimental
Psychology. Click here
- Slabbinck, H., De Houwer, J., & Van Kenhove, P. (in press). Convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity of the Pictorial Attitude Implicit Association Test and the Picture Story Exercise as measures of the implicit power motive. European Journal of Personality. Click here
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Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Van Damme,
S., & Crombez, G. (in
press). Competing for attentional priority: Temporary goals versus threats.
Emotion. Click here
Chapters + Difficult to find
papers:
- De Houwer, J., & Moors, A. (in press). How to define and examine implicit processes? In R.
Proctor & J. Capaldi
(Eds.). Implicit and explicit processes in the psychology of science.
Click here
- De Houwer, J. (2012).
Evaluative conditioning. In N. R. Seel
(Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning (pp. 1179-1181). NY:
Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_1031 Click here
- De Houwer, J. (2011).
Evaluative conditioning: Methodological considerations. In Klauer, K. C., Stahl, C.,
& Voss, A. (Eds.) Cognitive methods in social psychology (pp.
124-147). New York: Guilford. Click here
- De Houwer, J. (2011).
Evaluative conditioning: A review of procedure knowledge and mental
process theories. In T. R. Schachtman
& S. Reilly. Applications of
learning and conditioning.
- De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (2010). Do feelings have a mind of
their own? In J. De Houwer & D. Hermans (Eds.), Cognition &
Emotion: Reviews of current research and theories (pp. 38-65).
- De Houwer, J., & Moors, A. (2010). Implicit measures:
Similarities and differences. In B. Gawronski, & B. K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook
of implicit social cognition: Measurement, theory, and applications.
- De Houwer, J. (2009).
Conditioning as a source of liking: There is nothing simple about it. In Wänke, M. (Ed.). Frontiers
of Social Psychology: The Social Psychology of Consumer Behavior.
- De Houwer, J. (2009). Comparing measures of attitudes at the procedural and functional
level. In R. Petty, R. H. Fazio, & P. Brinol (Eds.), Attitudes: Insights from the
new implicit measures. Erlbaum. Click here
- De Houwer, J. (2009).
The propositional approach to associative learning as an alternative for
association formation models. Learning & Behavior, 37, 1-20. Click here
- De Houwer, J. (2007). A
conceptual and theoretical analysis of evaluative conditioning. The
Spanish Journal of Psychology, 10, 230-241. Click here
- De Houwer, J., & Moors, A. (2007). How to define and
examine the implicitness of implicit measures. In B. Wittenbrink & N.
Schwarz (Eds.). Implicit measures of attitudes: Procedures and
controversies (pp. 179-194). NewYork:
- De Houwer, J., Vandorpe,
S., & Beckers, T. (2005). On the role of controlled
cognitive processes in human associative learning. In A. Wills (Ed.), New
directions in human associative learning (pp. 41-63).
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MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS
Automatic Affective
Processing:
Main publications on this topic:
- De Houwer, J., Teige-Mocigemba, S., Spruyt, A., & Moors, A. (2009). Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review. Psychological Bulletin, 135, 347-368. Click here
- De Houwer, J., & Moors, A.
(2010). Implicit measures: Similarities and differences. In B.
Gawronski, & B. K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of implicit social cognition:
Measurement, theory, and applications.
- De Houwer, J., & De Bruycker, E. (2007). The Implicit Association Test outperforms the Extrinsic Affective Simon Task as a measure of interindividual differences in attitudes. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 401-421. Click here
Here you can
download an Inquisit
program for a standard EAST experiment (similar to Experiment 1 of my EAST
paper).
(be sure to enter "1" or "2" as subject code because this
determines which counterbalancing condition will be applied)
See CV for all references.
Evaluative Conditioning:
Main publications on this topic:
- Hofmann, W., De Houwer, J., Perugini, M., Baeyens, F., & Crombez, G. (2010). Evaluative conditioning in humans: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin 136, 390-421. Click here
- De Houwer, J. (2007). A conceptual and theoretical analysis of evaluative conditioning. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 10, 230-241. Click here
- De Houwer, J., Baeyens, F., & Field, A. P. (2005). Associative learning of likes and dislikes: Some current controversies and possible ways forward. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 161-174. Click here
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De Houwer, J., Thomas, S., & Baeyens,
F. (2001). Associative learning of likes and dislikes: A review of 25 years of
research on human evaluative conditioning. Psychological Bulletin, 127,
853–869. Click here
See CV for all references.
Associative Learning:
Main publications on this topic:
- Mitchell, C. J., De Houwer, J., & Lovibond, P. F. (2009). The propositional nature of human associative learning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 183-198. Click here
- De Houwer, J. (2009). The propositional approach to associative learning as an alternative for association formation models. Learning & Behavior, 37, 1-20. Click here
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De Houwer, J., & Beckers,
T. (2002). A review of recent developments in research and theory on human
contingency learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55B,
289-310. Click here
See CV for all references.
Learning via instruction:
Main publications on this
topic:
- Liefooghe, B., Wenke, D., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Instruction-based task-rule congruency effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. Click here
- De Houwer, J., Beckers, T., Vandorpe, S., & Custers, R. (2005). Further evidence for the role of mode-independent short-term associations in spatial Simon effects. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 659-666. Click here
See
CV for all references.
Meta-theory :
Inspired
by the work of my mentor Paul Eelen
(1980), I have started thinking about the strengths and weaknesses of current
practice in psychological research and theorizing. This resulted in a paper (De
Houwer, 2011) that was published in a special section of Perspectives on
Psychological Science that I edited together with Klaus Fiedler and Agnes
Moors. I’m working on related paper that apply these ideas to attitude
research, learning research, cognitive control, and the relevance of
conditioning research for anxiety disorders.
Main publications on this topic:
- De Houwer, J. (2011). Why the cognitive approach in
psychology would profit from a functional approach and vice versa. Perspectives on Psychological Science,
6, 202-209. Click here
Stimulus-Response
Compatibility:
The Stroop effect was the topic of my Master thesis (completed in 1991). In a number of experiments, I tested the model of Stroop performance proposed by Glaser and Glaser. As a spin-off of my research on the Extrinsic Affective Simon Task, I've also written some papers on the role extrinsic (i.e., short-term) S-R associations in various SRC tasks (e.g., De Houwer, 2003, 2004; De Houwer et al., 2005).
Attentional bias:
I have been involved in a number of recent studies on attentional bias effects, mainly as a collaborator of Ernst Koster, Karin Mogg, and Brendan Bradley. More recently, Julia Vogt has been conducting research on the effects of goals on attentional bias (see Vogt et al., 2009). I’m also supervising the PhD of Helen Tibboel who is conducting research using the attentional blink paradigm (see Tibboel et al., 2009).
Teaching, Graduate Supervision, and Admin
Since 2002, I teach the second year course on Learning Psychology. I am also
supervising the PhD of Evelien
Bossuyt (with Agnes Moors),
Tom Everaert (with Adriaan Spruyt), Hendrik
Slabbinck (Department of
Marketing; with Patrick Van Kenhove),
Riccardo Zanon (with Anne Gast), Marijke Theeuwes
(with Baptist Liefooghe),
and Niclas Heider (with Adriaan Spruyt).
I have been the (co-)supervisor of the PhD of Tom Beckers (now a Senior Lecturer at the University of
Leuven), Agnes Moors (who is now working as a post-doc and part-time lecturer
in my lab), Tom Meersmans, Adriaan Spruyt (now a post-doc in my lab), Delphine Vantomme, Els
De Bruycker, Stefaan Vandorpe, Marieke
Dewitte (now a postdoc at
my department and lecturer at the University of Maastricht), Mieke Declercq, Julia Vogt (now a postdoc in my lab), and
Helen Tibboel (now a
postdoc at my lab).
I’m
head of the research group “Learning and Implicit processes” at
Editorial Duties
Current:
Co-editor (together with Dirk
Hermans), Cognition & Emotion (2008 - 2013)
Member of the Editorial
Board, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Member of the Editorial
Board, Experimental Psychology (2002-...)
Member of the Editorial
Board, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry (2006-...)
Advisor, Journal of
Contextual Behavioral Science
Past:
Associate Editor, Cognition
& Emotion (2001-2006)
Editor-Designate (together
with Dirk Hermans), Cognition & Emotion, 2007.
Associate Editor, Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Psychology (2005-2006)
Consulting Editor for Journal
of Experimental Psychology: General (2005-2006)
Curriculum Vitae
12-12-1968:
Born in
1991:
Master in Psychology,
1997:
PhD in Psychology,
1998:
Lecturer in Psychology,
2001:
Senior Lecturer,
2004:
Professor,
2004:
Awarded the prize of Laureate of the Royal Academy of Sciences (
2006:
Proximus for the Honorary Doctoral
Degree awarded to Prof. Robert Rescorla.
2007:
Appointed as Co-editor of Cognition and Emotion (together with Dirk Hermans)
2008:
Awarded Methusalem financing
2012:
Awarded IUAP financing
Last modified 4 April 2012.