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Boddez, Y., Scheveneels, S., & Boddez, Y. (in press). Let’s play pretend: Towards effective modelling in experimental psycho(patho)logy. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
Boddez, Y., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Learned helplessness and its relevance for psychological suffering: a new perspective illustrated with attachment problems, burn-out, and fatigue complaints. Cognition & Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2118239
Buabang, E., Köster, M., Boddez, Y., Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., & Moors, A. (in press). A goal-directed account of action slips: The reliance on old contingencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001280
Cathelyn, F., Van Dessel, P., Cummins, J., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Do Evaluation and Self-Identification Relate to Self-Reported and Actual Social Media Use? Journal of Behavioral Addictions. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2022.02.005
De Houwer, J., Boddez, Y., & Van Dessel, P. (in press). What is intuiting and deliberating? A functional-cognitive perspective.Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Mansueto, A.C., Pan, T., Van Dessel, P., & Wiers, R.W. (in press). Ecological Momentary Assessment and Personalized Networks in Cognitive Bias Modification Studies on Addiction: Advances and Challenges.Journal of Experimental Psychopathology.
Vanderschoot, T., & Van Dessel, P. (in press). EMDR Therapy and PTSD: A Goal-Directed Predictive Processing Perspective. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research. https://doi.org/10.1891/EMDR-2022-0009
Van Dessel, P., Cummins, J., & Wiers, R.W. (in press). ABC-Training As a New Intervention For Hazardous Alcohol Drinking: Two Proof-of-Principle Randomized Pilot Studies. Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16271
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.
Wiers, R.W., & Van Dessel, P. (in press). Mechanisms underlying Alcohol Approach Bias and its Modification. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science.
2022
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
Cathelyn, F., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2022). Predicting drunk driving using a variant of the implicit association test. Journal of Safety Research, 81, 134-142. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2022.00042
Moran, T., Hughes, S., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2022). The Role of Trait Inferences in Evaluative Conditioning. Collabra: Psychology, 8, 31738. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.31738
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., Cone, J., & Gast, A. (2022). Powerful Effects of Diagnostic Information on Automatic and Self-reported Evaluation: The Moderating Role of Memory Recall. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(2), 297-314. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211007290
2021
Cathelyn, F., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2021). Predicting Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Using a Variant of the Implicit Association Test. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 51(6), 1259-1271. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12808
De Houwer, J., Van Dessel, P., & Moran, T. (2021). Attitudes as Propositional Representations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25, 870-882. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.07.003
Mattavelli, S., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2021). Why does the IAT reveal a preference for stimuli said to be paired with an unpleasant sound? Stalking the unexpected. Collabra: Psychology, 7, 18733. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.18733
Moran, T., Van Dessel, P., Smith, C.T., & De Houwer, J. (2021). Can (instructions about) stimulus pairings influence automatic and self-reported evaluations in the presence of more diagnostic evaluative information? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(8), 1249-1263. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220964638
Van De Cruys, S., & Van Dessel, P. (2021). Mental distress through the prism of predictive processing theory. Current Opinion in Psychology, 41, 107-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.07.006
Van Dessel, P., Ratliff, K., Brannon, S.M., Gawronski, B., & De Houwer, J. (2021). Illusory-Correlation Effects on Implicit and Explicit Evaluation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47, 1480-1494. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220977706
Van Dessel, P., & Tibboel, H. (2021). Assessing The Influence of Warnings with Testimonies from Former Smokers on Smoking and Quitting Behaviour. British Journal of Health Psychology, 26, 917-934. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12512
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, 127-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aesp.2019.09.004
Mertens, G., Van Dessel, P., & Engelhard, I. (2020). Does approaching puppies and avoiding a dead cat improve the effectiveness of approach-avoidance training for changing the evaluation of feared stimuli? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 66, 101509. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1592118
Smith, C.T., Calanchini, J., Hughes, S., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2020). The Impact of Instruction- and Experience-Based Evaluative Learning on IAT Performance: A Quad Model Perspective. Cognition & Emotion, 34, 21-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1592118
Van Assche, J., Politi, E., Van Dessel, P., & Phalet, K. (2020). To Punish or to Assist? Divergent Reactions to In-group and Out-group Members Disobeying Social Distancing. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59, 594-606. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12395
Van Dessel, P., Cone, J., Gast, A., & De Houwer, J. (2020). The impact of valenced verbal information on implicit and explicit evaluation: the role of information diagnosticity, primacy, and memory cueing. Cognition & Emotion, 34, 74-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1594703
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
Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., Gast, A., Roets, A., & Smith, C.T. (2020). On the Effectiveness of Approach-Avoidance Instructions and Training for Changing Evaluations of Social Groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119(2), e1-e14. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000189
Van Dessel, P., Liefooghe, B., & De Houwer, J. (2020). The Instructed Task-Switch Evaluation Effect: Is the Instruction to Switch Tasks Sufficient to Dislike Task Switch Cues? Journal of Cognition, 3(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.90
Wiers, R., Van Dessel, P., & Kopetz, C. (2020). ABC-training: a new theory-based form of cognitive bias modification to foster automatization of alternative choices in the treatment of addiction and related disorders. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29, 499-505. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420949500
Brown, P., et al. (2019). Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search. Database, 2019, baz085. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baz085
De Houwer, J., Mattavelli, S., & Van Dessel, P. (2019). Dissociations between learning phenomena do not necessitate multiple learning processes: Mere instructions about upcoming stimulus presentations differentially influence liking and expectancy. Journal of Cognition, 2, 7. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.59
Eder, A., Krishna, A., & Van Dessel, P. (2019). Operant Evaluative Conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 45(1), 102-110. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000189
Hughes, S., Ye, Y., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2019). When People Co-occur with Good or Bad Events: Graded Effects of Relational Qualifiers on Evaluative Conditioning. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 196-208. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218781340
Schakel, L., Veldhuijzen, D.S., van Middendorp, H., Manai, M., Meeuwis, S.H., Van Dessel, P., Evers, A.W. (2019). Can verbal suggestions strengthen the effects of a relaxation intervention? Plos One, 14(8), e0220112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.02.001
Vanderschoot, T., & Van Dessel, P. (2019). EMDR en exposure voor de behandeling van PTSS: zoektocht naar een gemeenschappelijke grondslag. Tijdschrift Klinische Psychologie, 49(2), 129-138.
Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2019). Hypnotic Suggestions Can Induce Rapid Change in Implicit Attitudes. Psychological Science, 30, 1362-1370. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619865183
Van Dessel, P., Gawronski, B., & De Houwer, J. (2019). Does Explaining Social Behavior Require Multiple Memory Systems? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23, 368-369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.02.001
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, 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868318795730
Van Dessel, P., Mertens, G., Smith, C. T., & De Houwer, J. (2019). Mere Exposure Effects on Implicit Stimulus Evaluation: The Moderating Role of Evaluation Task, Number of Stimulus Presentations, and Memory for Presentation Frequency. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 447-460. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218789065
Van Dessel, P., Ye, Y., & De Houwer, J. (2019). Changing Deep-rooted Implicit Evaluation in the Blink of an Eye: Negative Verbal Information Shifts Automatic Liking of Gandhi. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 45, 196-208. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617752064
Hughes, S., Barnes-Holmes, B., Van Dessel, P., de Almeida, J. H., Stewart, I., & De Houwer, J. (2018). On the Symbolic Generalization of Likes and Dislikes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 365-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.09.002
Mertens, G., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2018). The contextual malleability of approach-avoidance training effects: Approaching or avoiding fear conditioned stimuli modulates effects of approach-avoidance training. Cognition & Emotion, 32, 341-349. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2017.1308315
Schakel, L., Veldhuijzen D.S., van Middendorp H., Van Dessel P., De Houwer J., Bidarra, R., Evers A.W. (2018). The effects of a gamified approach avoidance training and verbal suggestions on food outcomes. Plos One, 13(7), e0201309. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201309
Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Hussey, I. (2018). An Analysis of the Scientific Status and Limitations of The Attitudinal Entropy Framework and an Initial Test of Some of Its Empirical Predictions. Psychological Inquiry, 29, 213-217.https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2018.1537339
Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., & Smith, C. T. (2018). Relational Information Moderates Approach-Avoidance Instruction Effects on Implicit Evaluation. Acta Psychologica, 184, 137-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.03.016
Van Dessel, P., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2018). Consequence-Based Approach-Avoidance Training: A New and Improved Method for Changing Behavior. Psychological Science, 29, 1899-1910. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618796478
Van Dessel, P., Eder, A., & Hughes, S. (2018). Mechanisms Underlying Effects of Approach-Avoidance Training on Stimulus Evaluation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 44, 1224-1241. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000514
Van Dessel, P., Smith, C.T., & De Houwer, J. (2018). Graphic cigarette pack warnings do not produce more negative implicit evaluations of smoking compared to text-only warnings. Plos One, 13(3), e0194627. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194627
Van Dessel, P., Gawronski, B., Smith, C. T., & De Houwer, J. (2017). Mechanisms underlying approach-avoidance instruction effects on implicit evaluation: Results of a preregistered adversarial collaboration. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.10.004
Van Dessel, P., Mertens, G., Smith, C. T., & De Houwer, J. (2017). The Mere Exposure Instruction Effect: Mere Exposure Instructions Influence Liking. Experimental Psychology, 64, 299-314. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000376
Lynn, M., Demanet, J., Krebs, R., Van Dessel, P., & Brass, M. (2016). Voluntary inhibition of pain avoidance behavior: an fMRI study. Brain Structure and Function, 221, 1309-1320. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-014-0972-9
Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., Roets, A. & Gast, A. (2016). Failures to change stimulus evaluations by means of subliminal approach and avoidance training. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, e1-e15. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000039
Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., Gast, A., Smith, C. T., & De Schryver, M. (2016). Instructing implicit processes: When instructions to approach or avoid influence implicit but not explicit evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 63, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.11.002
Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., & Gast, A. (2016). Approach-avoidance training effects are moderated by awareness of stimulus-action contingencies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 81-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167215615335
Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., Gast, A., & Smith, C. T. (2015). Instruction-based approach-avoidance Effects: changing stimulus evaluation via the mere instruction to approach or avoid stimuli. Experimental Psychology, 62, 161-169. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000282
Lynn, M., Van Dessel, P., & Brass, M. (2013). The influence of high-level beliefs on self-regulatory engagement: evidence from thermal pain stimulation. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 614. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00614
Van Dessel, P., & Vogt, J. (2012). When does hearing laughter draw attention to happy faces? Task relevance determines the influence of a cross-modal affective context on emotional attention. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 294. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00294