(Last modification 3 November 2015)
1. PERSONALIA
Name:
De Houwer
First Names:
Jan Baptist Lieva
Date of Birth:
12 December 1968
Current Position
Affiliation:
Professor (Gewoon Hoogleraar)
Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology
Ghent University
Address
Henri Dunantlaan 2
9000 Gent
Telefone:
0032 9 264 64 45
Fax:
0032 9 264 64 89
E-mail:
Jan.DeHouwer@UGent.be
2. ACADEMIC DEGREES
- 1991: Master in Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1997: PhD in Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
3. AWARDS
- 2015: Psychonomic Society: Best article of the year award for CABN 2015 (Schouppe et al., 2015)
- 2004: Laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
4. STAYS ABROAD
- November 2008-January 2009: Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia.
5. ACADEMIC CAREER
Position
Research Assistant
AFFILIATION
University of Leuven
from (d/m/y) To (d/m/y)
01/10/1991
30/09/1992
Research Assistant for the FWO
(Flanders, Belgium)
Civil Service
University of Leuven
01/10/1992
31/11/1993
St. Camillus, Bierbeek, Belgium
01/12/1993
31/09/1994
Research Assistant for the FWO
(Flanders, Belgium)
University of Leuven
01/10/1994
31/08/1997
Post-doctoral researcher for the
FWO (Flanders, Belgium)
University of Leuven
01/08/1997
31/08/1998
Lecturer in Psychology
University of Southampton
01/09/1998
30/09/2001
Senior Lecturer (hoofddocent)
Ghent University
01/10/2001
30/09/2004
Professor (hoogleraar)
Ghent University
01/10/2004
30/09/2010
Professor (gewoon hoogleraar)
Ghent University
01/10/2010
present
6. TEACHING
I.1. At the University of Southampton
a) Thinking Psychologically: 1998-2001
b) Acting Psychologically: 1998-1999
c) Current Debates in Psychology: 1998-2001
d) Cognition and Emotion: 1999-2001
e) Introduction to Psychology: 2000-2001
I.2. At Ghent University
a) Learning Psychology: 2002-present
b) Cognition and Emotion: 2006-2007
7. PUBLICATIONS
Books
(b1) author or co-author of books
/
(b2) Chapters in books
De Houwer, J., & Moors, A. (2015). Levels of analysis in social psychology. In B. Gawronski & G.
Bodenhausen (Eds.), Theory and Explanation in Social Psychology (pp. 24-40). NY: Guilford.
De Houwer, J. (2014). Why a propositional single-process model of associative learning deserves
to be defended. In J. W. Sherman, B. Gawronski, & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual processes in social psychology
(pp. 530-541). NY: Guilford.
Gawronski, B., & De Houwer, J. (2014). Implicit measures in social and personality psychology. In
H. T. Reis, & C. M. Judd (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology (2nd
edition, pp. 283-310). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
De Houwer, J., & Moors, A. (2012). How to define and examine implicit processes? In R. Proctor &
J. Capaldi (Eds.). Implicit and explicit processes in the psychology of science (pp. 183-198). NY: Oxford
University Press.
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
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.
De Houwer, J. (2011). Evaluative conditioning: A review of functional knowledge and mental
process theories. In T. R. Schachtman & S. Reilly (Eds). Applications of learning and conditioning (pp.
399-416). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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). Hove, UK:
Psychology Press.
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 (pp.
176-193). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Moors, A., Spruyt, A., & De Houwer, J. (2010). In search of a measure that qualifies as implicit:
Recommendations based on a decompositional view of automaticity. In B. Gawronski, & B. K. Payne
(Eds.), Handbook of implicit social cognition: Measurement, theory, and applications (pp. 19-37). New York,
NY: Guilford Press.
Verschuere, B., & De Houwer, J. (2010). Detecting deception within less than a second: Response
latency based measures. In B. Verschuere, G. Ben-Shakhar, & E. H. Meijer, (Eds.), Memory detection:
Theory and application of the concealed information test (pp. 46-62). Cambridge University press.
De Houwer, J. (2009). Priming (affective). In D. Sander and K. R. Sherer (Eds.), Oxford
Companion to Affective Sciences (p. 315). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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 (pp.
151-166). New York: Psychology Press.
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 (pp. 361-390). New
York: Psychology Press.
De Houwer, J. (2008). Learning theory. In R. F. Baumeister and K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia
of Social Psychology. Sage Publications.
De Houwer, J. (2007). Impliciete maten van persoonlijkheid. In R. Verheul & J. H. Kamphuis (Eds.).
De toekomst van persoonlijkheidsstoornissen (pp. 54-61). Houten, Nederland: Bohn, Stafleu, van Loghum.
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: Guilford Press.
Moors, A., & De Houwer, J. (2007). What is automaticity? An analysis of its component features
and their interrelations. In J. A. Bargh (Ed.), Automatic Processes in Social Thinking and Behavior (pp.
11-50). Hove, England: Psychology Press.
De Houwer, J. (2006). What are implicit measures and why are we using them. In R. W. Wiers & A.
W. Stacy (Eds.), The handbook of implicit cognition and addiction (pp. 11-28). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publishers.
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).
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
De Houwer, J. (2003). A structural analysis of indirect measures of attitudes. In J. Musch & K.C.
Klauer (Eds.), The Psychology of Evaluation: Affective Processes in Cognition and Emotion (pp. 219-244).
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
De Houwer, J., Demeyere, R., Verhamme, B., & Eelen, P. (1996). Intra- and post-operative effects
of information presented during CABG surgery with sufentanil anaesthesia. In B. Bonke, J. G. Bovill, & N.
Moerman (Eds.), Memory and Awareness in Anesthesia III (pp. 243-255). Assen, The Netherlands: Van
Gorcum.
(b3) books as editor
Gast, A., Gawronski, B., & De Houwer, J. (2012). New directions in evaluative conditioning
research. [A special issue of the journal Learning & Motivation]. Elsevier.
De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (2010). Cognition & Emotion: Reviews of current research and
theories. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., & Matute, H. (2007). Human contingency learning [A special issue of
the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology]. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Eder, A. B., Hommel, B., & De Houwer, J. (Eds.). (2007). How distinctive is affective processing? [A
special issue of the Journal Cognition and Emotion]. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Wiers, R. W., De Houwer, J., & Teachman, B. (2007). Implicit cognitive processes in
psychopathology [A special issue of the Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry].
Amsterdam, Nederland: Elsevier.
De Houwer, J., Baeyens, F., & Field, A. (2005). Associative learning of likes and dislikes. [A special
issue of the Journal Cognition and Emotion]. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (Eds.). (2001). Automatic affective processing [A special
issue of the Journal Cognition and Emotion]. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Articles
(a1) Articles listed in Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, Arts and Humanities
Citation Index
In press
De Houwer, J., Barnes-Holmes, Y., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (in press). Riding the waves: A
functional-cognitive perspective on the relations among Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy,
and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. International Journal of Psychology.
De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (in press). Associative learning as higher-order
cognition: Learning in human and nonhuman animals from the perspective of propositional theories and
Relational Frame Theory. Journal of Comparative Psychology.
Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (in press). The moderating impact of distal
regularities on the effect of stimulus pairings: A novel perspective on evaluative conditioning. Experimental
Psychology.
Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Perugini, M. (in press). Expanding the boundaries of evaluative
learning research: How intersecting regularities shape our likes and dislikes. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General.
Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Perugini, M. (in press). The functional-cognitive framework for
psychological research: Controversies and resolutions. International Journal of Psychology.
Liefooghe, B., & De Houwer, J. (in press). A functional approach for research on cognitive control:
Analyzing cognitive control tasks and their effects in terms of operant conditioning. International Journal of
Psychology.
Mertens, G., Kuhn, M., Raes, A. K., Kalisch, R., De Houwer, J., & Lonsdorf, T. B. (In press). Fear
expression and the return of fear following threat instruction with or without direct contingency experience.
Cognition and Emotion.
Mertens, G., Raes, A. K., & De Houwer, J. (In press). Can prepared fear conditioning result from
verbal instructions? Learning and Motivation.
Perugini, M., Costantini, G., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (in press). A functional perspective on
personality. International Journal of Psychology.
Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Contingency learning tracks with stimulus-response
proportion: No evidence of misprediction costs. Experimental Psychology.
Spruyt, A., Klauer, K. C., Gast, A., De Schryver, M., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Feature-specific
attention modulates the generalization of recently acquired likes and dislikes. Experimental Psychology.
Tibboel, H., Liefooghe, B., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Attention to future actions: the influence of
instructed S-R versus S-S mappings on attentional control. Psychological Research.
Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., & Van Bockstaele, B. (In press). Implicit measures of "wanting" and
"liking" in humans. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., & Gast, A. (in press). Approach-avoidance training effects are
moderated by awareness of stimulus-action contingencies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Van Dessel, P. , De Houwer, J., Roets, A., & Gast, A. (in press). Failures to change stimulus
evaluations by means of subliminal approach and avoidance training. Journal of Social and Personality
Psychology.
Van Ryckeghem, D. M. L., De Houwer, J., Van Bockstaele, B., Van Damme, S., De Schryver, M., &
Crombez, G. (in press). Implicit associations between pain and self-schema in chronic pain patients. Pain.
Wenke, D., De Houwer, J., De Winne, J., & Liefooghe, B. (in press). Learning through instructions
vs. learning through practice: Flanker congruency effects from instructed and applied S-R mappings.
Psychological Research.
2015
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Debey, E., Liefooghe, B., De Houwer, J., & Verschuere, B. (2015). Lie, truth, lie: the role of task
switching in a deception context. Psychological Research, 79, 478-488.
222
Debey, E., Ridderinkhof, R., De Houwer, J., De Schryver, M., & Verschuere, B. (2015).
Suppressing the truth as a mechanism of deception: Delta plots reveal the role of response inhibition in
lying. Consciousness & Cognition, 37, 148-159.
221
De Houwer, J., Heider, N., Spruyt, A., Roets, A., & Hughes, S. (2015). The Relational Responding
Task: Toward a New Implicit Measure of Beliefs. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:319. doi:
10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00319
220
Eder, A. B., Rothermund, K., De Houwer, J., & Hommel, B. (2015). Directive and incentive functions
of affective action consequences: An ideomotor approach. Psychological Research, 48, 185-191.
219
Gawronski, B., Gast, A., & De Houwer, J. (2015). Is evaluative conditioning really resistant to
extinction? Evidence for changes in evaluative judgments without changes in evaluative representations.
Cognition & Emotion, 29, 816-830.
218
Gawronski, B., Hu, X., Rydell, R. J., Vervliet, B., & De Houwer, J. (2015). Generalization versus
contextualization in automatic evaluation revisited: A meta-analysis of successful and failed replications.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, E50-E64.
217
Heider N., Spruyt A., and De Houwer J. (2015). Implicit beliefs about ideal body image predict body
image dissatisfaction. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:1402. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01402
216
Maes, E., De Filippo, G., Inkster, A., Lea, S. E. G., De Houwer, J., D’Hooge, R., Beckers, T., &
Wills, A. J. (2015). Feature- versus rule-based generalization in rats, pigeons and humans. Animal
Cognition, 18, 1267–1284.
215
Schouppe, N., Braem, S., De Houwer, J., Silvetti, M., Verguts, T., Ridderinkhof, K. R., & Notebaert,
W. (2015). No pain, no gain: The affective valence of congruency conditions changes following a successful
response. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 251-261. *CABN 2015 best article of
the year award*
214
Smith, C.T., & De Houwer, J. (2015). Hooked on a feeling: Affective anti-smoking messages are
more effective than cognitive messages at changing implicit evaluations of smoking. Frontiers in
Psychology, 6:1488. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01488
213
Spruyt, A., Lemaigre, V., Salhi, B., Van Gucht, D., Tibboel, H., Van Bockstaele, B., De Houwer, J,
Van Meerbeeck, J., & Nackaerts, K. (2015). Implicit attitudes towards smoking predict long-term relapse in
abstinent smokers. Psychopharmacology, 232, 2551-2561.
212
Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., Spruyt, A., Brevers, D., Roy, E., & Noël, X. (2015). Heavy social
drinkers score higher on implicit wanting and liking for alcohol than alcohol-dependent patients and light
social drinkers. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 48, 185-191.
211
Theeuwes, M., De Houwer, J., Eder, A. & Liefooghe, B. (2015). Congruency effects on the basis of
instructed response-effect contingencies. Acta Psychologica, 158, 43-50.
210
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.
2014
209
Bossuyt, E., Moors, A., & De Houwer, J. (2014). Exploring the relations between regret,
self-agency, and the tendency to repair using experimental methods and structural equation modeling. The
Psychological Record, 64, 841-857.
208
Bossuyt, E., Moors, A., & De Houwer, J. (2014). On angry approach and fearful avoidance: The
goal-dependent nature of emotional approach and avoidance tendencies. Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology, 50, 118-124.
207
Bossuyt, E., Moors, A., & De Houwer, J. (2014). Unexpected and just missed: The separate
influence of the appraisals of expectancy and proximity on negative emotions. Emotion, 14, 284-300.
206
Debey, E., De Houwer, J., & Verschuere, B. (2014). Lying relies on the truth. Cognition, 132, 324–
334. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2014.04.009
205
De Houwer, J. (2014). A propositional perspective on context effects in human associative learning.
Behavioral Processes, 104, 20-25.
204
Everaert, T., Spruyt, A., Rossi, V., Pourtois, G., & De Houwer, J. (2014). Feature-specific attention
allocation overrules the orienting response to emotional stimuli. Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience, 9, 1352-1359.
203
Everaert, T., Theeuwes, M., Liefooghe, B., & De Houwer, J. (2014). Automatic motor activation by
mere instruction. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 1300-1309.
202
Gawronski, B., Ye, Y., Rydell, R. J., & De Houwer, J. (2014). Formation, representation, and
activation of contextualized attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 54, 188-203.
201
Raes, A. K., De Houwer, J., De Schryver, M., Brass, M., & Kalisch, R. (2014). Do CS-US pairings
actually matter? A within-subject comparison of instructed fear conditioning with and without actual CS-US
pairings. PLoS ONE 9(1): e84888. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084888
200
Remue, J., Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & De Raedt, R. (2014). To be or want to be: Disentangling
the role of actual versus ideal self in implicit self-esteem. PLoS ONE 9(9): e108837.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108837
199
Schmidt, J. R., Lemercier, C., & De Houwer, J. (2014) Context-specific temporal learning with
non-conflict stimuli: proof-of-principle for a learning account of context-specific proportion congruent
effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1241. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01241
198
Smith, C. T., & De Houwer, J. (2014). The impact of persuasive messages on IAT performance is
moderated by source attractiveness and likeability. Social Psychology, 45, 437-448 .
197
Theeuwes, M., Liefooghe, B. , & De Houwer, J. (2014). Eliminating the Simon effect by instruction.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 40, 1470-1480.
196
Van Bockstaele, B., Verschuere, B., Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., Crombez, G., & Koster, E. (2014).
A review of current evidence for the causal impact of attentional bias on fear and anxiety. Psychological
Bulletin, 140, 682-721.
195
Vogt, J., & De Houwer, J. (2014). Emotion regulation meets emotional attention: The influence of
emotion suppression on emotional attention depends on the nature of the distracters. Emotion, 14,
840-845.
194
Zanon, R., De Houwer, J., Gast, A., & Smith, C. T. (2014). When does relational information
influence evaluative conditioning? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 2105-2122.
2013
193
Aarts, K., De Houwer, J., & Pourtois, G. (2013). Erroneous and correct actions have a different
affective valence: Evidence from ERPs. Emotion, 13, 960-973.
192
Asendorpf, J. B., Conner, M., De Fruyt, F., De Houwer, J., Denissen, J. J. A., Fiedler, K., Fiedler, S.,
Funder, D. C., Kliegl, R., Nosek, B. A., Perugini, M., Roberts, B. W., Schmitt, M., van Aken, M. A. G, Weber,
H., & Wicherts, J. M. (2013). Recommendations for increasing replicability in psychology. European Journal
of Personality, 27, 108-119.
191
Asendorpf, J. B., Conner, M., De Fruyt, F., De Houwer, J., Denissen, J. J. A., Fiedler, K., Fiedler, S.,
Funder, D. C., Kliegl, R., Nosek, B. A., Perugini, M., Roberts, B. W., Schmitt, M., van Aken, M. A. G, Weber,
H., & Wicherts, J. M. (2013). Replication is more than hitting the lottery twice. European Journal of
Personality, 27, 108-119.
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De Houwer, J., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Moors, A. (2013). What is learning? On the nature and merits
of a functional definition of learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 631-642. DOI:
10.3758/s13423-013-0386-3
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De Houwer, J., Gawronski, B., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2013). A functional-cognitive framework for
attitude research. European Review of Social Psychology, 24, 252-287.
188
De Houwer, J., & Smith, C. (2013). Go with your gut! Effects of Affect Misattribution Procedures
become stronger when participants are encouraged to rely on their gut feelings. Social Psychology, 44,
299-302.
187
Eder, A. B., Rothermund, K., & De Houwer, J. (2013). Affective compatibility between stimuli and
response goals: A primer for a new implicit measure of attitudes. PLoS ONE 8(11): e79210.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079210
186
Everaert, T., Spruyt, A., & De Houwer, J. (2013). On the malleability of automatic attentional biases:
Effects of feature-specific attention allocation. Cognition and Emotion, 27, 385-400.
185
Gast, A., & De Houwer, J. (2013). The influence of extinction and counterconditioning instructions
on evaluative conditioning effects. Learning and Motivation, 44, 312-325.
184
Krieglmeyer, R., De Houwer, J., & Deutsch, R. (2013). On the nature of automatically triggered
approach-avoidance behavior. Emotion Review, 5, 280-284. DOI: 10.1177/1754073913477501
183
Moors, A., De Houwer, J., Hermans, D., Wanmaker, S., van Schie, K., Van Harmelen, A., De
Schryver, M., De Winne, J., & Brysbaert, M., (2013). Norms of valence, arousal, dominance, and age of
acquisition for 4300 Dutch words. Behavior Research Methods, 45, 169-177.
182
Remue, J., De Houwer, J., Barnes-Holmes, D., Vanderhasselt, M.-A., & De Raedt, R. (2013).
Self-esteem revisited: Performance on the implicit relational assessment procedure as a measure of selfversus ideal self-related cognitions in dysphoria. Cognition & Emotion, 27, 1441-1449. doi:
10.1080/02699931.2013.786681
181
Smith, C. T., De Houwer, J., & Nosek, B. A. (2013). Consider the source: Persuasion of implicit
evaluations is moderated by source credibility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 193-205.
180
Spruyt, A., De Houwer, J., Tibboel, H., Verschuere, B., Crombez, G., Verbanck, P., Hanak, C.,
Brevers, D., & Noël, X. (2013). On the predictive validity of automatically activated approach/avoidance
tendencies in abstaining alcohol-dependent patients. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 127, 81-86. DOI:
10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2012.06.019
179
Slabbinck, H., De Houwer, J., & Van Kenhove, P. (2013). 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, 27, 30-38. DOI: 10.1002/per.1846
178
Suchotzki, K., Verschuere, B., Crombez, G., & De Houwer, J. (2013). Reaction time measures in
deception research: Comparing the effects of irrelevant and relevant stimulus-response compatibility. Acta
Psychologica, 144, 224-231.
177
Vadillo, M. A., De Houwer, J., De Schryver, M., Ortega-Castro, N., & Matute, H. (2013). Evidence
for an illusion of causality when using the Implicit Association Test to measure learning. Learning and
Motivation, 44, 303-311.
176
Van Ryckeghem, D. M. L., Crombez, G., Goubert, L., De Houwer, J., Onraedt, T., & Van Damme,
S. (2013). The predictive value of attentional bias towards pain-related information in chronic pain patients:
A diary study. Pain, 154, 468-475. DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.12.008
175
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Van Damme, S., & Crombez, G. (2013). Competing for attentional priority:
Temporary goals versus threats. Emotion, 13, 587-598. doi: 10.1037/a0027204
2012
174
Aarts. K., De Houwer, J., & Pourtois, G. (2012). Evidence for the automatic evaluation of
self-generated actions. Cognition, 124, 117-127.
De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (2012). Editorial. Cognition & Emotion, 26, 1. [editorial material]
173
Dymond S., Schlund, M. W., Roche, B., De Houwer, J., Freegard, G. P. (2012). Safe from harm:
Learned, instructed, and symbolic generalization pathways of human threat-avoidance. PLoS ONE, 7(10):
e47539. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047539
172
Gast, A., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Evaluative conditioning without directly experienced pairings of
the conditioned and the unconditioned stimuli. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65,
1657-1674. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2012.665061
171
Gast, A., De Houwer, J., & De Schryver, M. (2012). Evaluative Conditioning can be modulated by
memory of the CS-US pairings at the time of testing. Learning and Motivation, 43, 116-126.
170
Gast, A., Gawronski, B., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Evaluative Conditioning: Recent developments
and future directions. Learning and Motivation, 43, 79-88.
169
Liefooghe, B., Wenke, D., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Instruction-based task-rule congruency effects.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 38, 1325-1335.
168
Schmidt, J., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Learning, awareness, and instruction: Subjective contingency
awareness does matter in the colour-word contingency learning paradigm. Consciousness and Cognition,
21, 1754-1768.
167
Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Contingency Learning with Evaluative Stimuli: Testing the
Generality of Contingency Learning in a Performance Paradigm. Experimental Psychology, 59,175-182.
166
Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Adding the goal to learn strengthens learning in an
unintentional learning task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 723-728.
165
Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Does temporal contiguity moderate contingency learning in
a speeded performance task? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 408-425.
164
Schouppe, N., De Houwer, J., Ridderinkhof, K. R., & Notebaert, W. (2012). Conflict: Run! Reduced
Stroop interference with avoidance responses. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65,
1052-1058.
163
Slabbinck, H., De Houwer, J., & Van Kenhove, P. (2012). The Pictorial Attitude Implicit Association
Test for need for affiliation. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 838-842.
162
Spruyt, A., De Houwer, J., Everaert, T., & Hermans, D. (2012). Unconscious semantic activation
depends on feature-specific attention allocation. Cognition, 122, 91-95.
161
Van Bockstaele, B., Koster, E., Verschuere, B., Crombez, G., & De Houwer, J. (2012). Limited
transfer of threat bias following attentional retraining. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental
Psychiatry, 43, 794-800.
160
Zanon, R., De Houwer, J., & Gast, A. (2012). Context effects in evaluative conditioning of implicit
evaluations. Learning & Motivation, 43, 155-165.
2011
159
Declercq, M., & De Houwer, J. (2011). Evidence against the occasion setting account of avoidance
learning. Learning and Motivation, 42, 46-52.
158
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.
157
De Houwer, J., Fiedler, K., & Moors, A. (2011). Strengths and limitations of theoretical explanations
in psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 161-162.
De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (2011). Editorial. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 1-2. [editorial material]
156
Dewitte, M., & De Houwer, J. (2011). Attachment-style differences in the appraisal of the
attachment figure. European Journal of Personality, 25, 173-183.
155
Everaert, T., Spruyt, A., & De Houwer, J. (2011). On the (un)conditionality of automatic attitude
activation: The valence proportion effect. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 125-132.
154
Field, M., Caren, R., Fernie, G., & De Houwer, J. (2011). Alcohol approach tendencies in heavy
drinkers: Comparison of effects in a Relevant Stimulus-Response Compatibility Task and an approach /
avoidance Simon task. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25, 466-476.
153
Hughes, S., Barnes-Holmes, D., & De Houwer, J. (2011). The dominance of associative theorising
in implicit attitude research: Propositional and behavioral alternatives. The Psychological Record, 61,
465-498.
152
Krieglmeyer, R., De Houwer, J., & Deutsch, R. (2011). How farsighted are behavioral tendencies of
approach and avoidance? The effect of stimulus valence on immediate versus ultimate distance change.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 622-627.
151
Notebaert, L., Crombez, G., Van Damme, S., De Houwer, J., & Theeuwes, J. (2011). Signals of
threat do not capture, but prioritize attention: a classical conditioning approach. Emotion, 11, 81-89.
150
Notebaert, L., Crombez, G., Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Van Damme, S., & Theeuwes, J. (2011).
Attempts to control pain prioritize attention towards signals of pain: An experimental study. Pain, 152,
1068-1073.
149
Raes, A. K., De Houwer, J., Verschuere, B., & De Raedt, R. (2011). Return of fear after
retrospective inferences about the absence of an unconditioned stimulus during extinction. Behavior
Research and Therapy, 49, 212-218.
148
Schmidt, J. R., & De Houwer, J. (2011). Now you see it, now you don't: Controlling for contingencies
and stimulus repetitions eliminates the Gratton effect. Acta Psychologica, 138, 176-186.
147
Slabbinck, H., De Houwer, J., & Van Kenhove, P. (2011). A Pictorial Attitude IAT as a Measure of
Implicit Motives. European Journal of Personality, 25, 76-86.
146
Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., Spruyt, A., Field, M., Kemps, E., & Crombez, G. (2011). Testing the
validity of implicit measures of wanting and liking. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental
Psychiatry, 42, 284-292.
145
Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., Spruyt, A., & Crombez, G. (2011). The Attentional Blink is diminished
for targets that form coherent semantic categories. Acta Psychologica, 136, 321-328.
144
Tibboel, H., Van Bockstaele, B., & De Houwer, J. (2011). Is the emotional modulation of the
attentional blink driven by response bias? Cognition & Emotion, 25, 1176-1183.
143
Van Bockstaele, B., Verschuere, B., Koster, E. H. W., Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G.
(2011). Effects of Attention Training on Self-Reported, Implicit, Physiological and Behavioural Measures of
Spider Fear. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 42, 211-218.
142
Van Bockstaele, B., Verschuere, B., Koster, E. H. W., Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G.
(2011). Differential Predictive Power of Self Report and Implicit Measures on Behavioural and Physiological
Fear Responses to Spiders. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 79, 166-174.
141
Vandenbosch, K., & De Houwer, J. (2011). Failures to induce implicit evaluations by means of
approach-avoid training. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 1311-1330.
140
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G. (2011). Multiple goal management starts with attention:
Goal prioritising affects the allocation of spatial attention to goal-relevant events. Experimental Psychology,
58, 55-61.
139
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., & Moors, A. (2011). Unintended allocation of spatial attention to
goal-relevant but not to goal-related events. Social Psychology, 42, 48-55.
138
Vogt, J., Lozo, L., Koster, E. H. W., & De Houwer, J. (2011). On the role of goal relevance in
emotional attention: Disgust evokes early attention to cleanliness. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 466-477.
2010
137
Bar-Anan, Y., De Houwer, J., & Nosek, B. (2010). Evaluative conditioning and conscious
knowledge of contingencies: A correlational investigation with large samples. Quarterly Journal of
Experimental Psychology, 63, 2313-2335.
136
De Houwer, J., & Tibboel, H. (2010). Stop what you are not doing! Emotional pictures interfere
with the task not to respond. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 699-703.
135
De Houwer, J., & Vandorpe, S. (2010). Using the Implicit Association Test as a measure of causal
learning does not eliminate effects of rule learning. Experimental Psychology, 57, 61-67.
134
Dewitte, M., De Houwer, J., Goubert, L., & Buysse, A. (2010). A Multi-Modal Approach to the Study
of Attachment-Related Distress. Biological Psychology, 85, 149-162.
133
Gawronski, B., Rydell, R. J., Vervliet, B., & De Houwer, J. (2010). Generalization versus
contextualization in automatic evaluation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139, 683-701.
Hermans, D., & De Houwer, J. (2010). Editorial. Cognition & Emotion, 24, 1-2. [editorial material]
132
Hofmann, W., De Houwer, J., Perugini, M., Baeyens, F., & Crombez, G. (2010). Evaluative
conditioning in humans: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 390-421.
131
Krieglmeyer, R., Deutsch, R., De Houwer, J., & De Raedt, R. (2010). Being moved: Valence
activates approach-avoidance behavior independent of evaluation and approach-avoidance intentions.
Psychological Science,21, 607-613.
130
Notebaert, L., Crombez, G., Van Damme, S., De Houwer, J., & Theeuwes, J. (2010). Looking out
for danger: An attentional bias towards spatially predictable threatening stimuli. Behaviour Research and
Therapy, 48, 1150-1154.
129
Schmidt, J., R., De Houwer, J., & Besner, D. (2010). Contingency learning and unlearning in the
blink of an eye: A resource dependent process. Consciousness & Cognition, 19, 235-250.
128
Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., & Field, M. (2010). Reduced attentional blink for alcohol-related stimuli
in heavy social drinkers. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 24, 1349-1356.
127
Van Bockstaele, B., Verschuere, B., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G. (2010). On the Costs and
Benefits of Directing Attention towards or away from Threat-Related Stimuli: A Classical Conditioning
Experiment. Behavior Research and Therapy, 48, 692-697.
126
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Moors, A., Van Damme, S., & Crombez, G. (2010). The automatic orienting
of attention to goal-relevant stimuli. Acta Psychologica, 134, 61-69.
2009
125
Beckers, T., Vandorpe, S., Debeys, I., & De Houwer, J. (2009). Three-Year-Olds’ Retrospective
Revaluation in the Blicket Detector Task: Backward Blocking or Recovery From Overshadowing?
Experimental Psychology, 56, 27-32.
124
Declercq, M., & De Houwer, J. (2009). Transfer of avoidance responding to a sensory
preconditioned cue: Evidence for the role of S-S and R-S knowledge in avoidance learning. Learning and
Motivation, 40, 197-208.
123
Declercq, M. & De Houwer, J. (2009). Evidence for a hierarchical structure underlying avoidance
behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, 123-128.
122
De Houwer, J. (2009). The propositional approach to associative learning as an alternative for
association formation models. Learning & Behavior, 37, 1-20.
121
De Houwer, J. (2009). What are association formation models good for? Learning and Behavior;
37, 25-27.
De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (2009). Editorial. Cognition & Emotion, 23, 1-2. [editorial material]
120
De Houwer, J., Teige-Mocigemba, S., Spruyt, A., & Moors, A. (2009). Implicit measures: A
normative analysis and review. Psychological Bulletin, 135, 347-368.
119
De Houwer, J., Teige-Mocigemba, S., Spruyt, A., & Moors, A. (2009). Theoretical claims
neccesitate basic research. Psychological Bulletin, 135, 377-379.
118
Huijding, J., Field, A. P., De Houwer, J., Van den Bosch, K., Rinck, M., & van Oeveren, M. (2009). A
behavioural route to disfunctional representations: The effects of training approach or avoidance
tendencies towards novel animals in children. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 471-477.
117
Mitchell, C. J., De Houwer, J., & Lovibond, P. F. (2009). The propositional nature of human
associative learning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 183-198.
116
Mitchell, C. J., De Houwer, J., & Lovibond, P. F. (2009). Link-based learning theory creates more
problems than it solves. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 230-246.
115
Raes, A. K., De Raedt, R., Verschuere, B. & De Houwer, J. (2009). Failure to loose fear: The impact
of cognitive load and trait anxiety on extinction. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 1096-1101.
114
Spruyt, A., De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (2009). Modulation of semantic priming by
feature-specific attention allocation. Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 37-54.
113
Verschuere, B., Prati, V., & De Houwer, J. (2009). Cheating the lie detector: Faking in the
Autobiographical IAT. Psychological Science, 20, 410-413..
2008
112
Declercq, M., & De Houwer, J. (2008). Evidence for the interchangeability of an avoidance behavior
and a negative occasion setter. Learning & Behavior, 36, 290-300.
111
Declercq, M., & De Houwer, J. (2008). On the role of US expectancies in avoidance behavior.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 99-102.
110
Declercq, M., De Houwer, J., & Baeyens, F. (2008). Evidence for an expectancy-based theory of
avoidance behavior. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1803-1812.
De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (2008). Editorial. Cognition and Emotion, 22, 1-2. [editorial
material]
109
Dewitte, M., & De Houwer, J. (2008). Proximity and distance motives in adult attachment. European
Journal of Personality, 22, 675-694.
108
Dewitte, M., De Houwer, J., & Buysse, A. (2008). On the role of the implicit self-concept in adult
attachment. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 24, 282-289.
107
Dewitte, M., De Houwer, J., Buysse, A., & Koster, E. (2008). Proximity seeking in adult attachment:
Examining the role of automatic approach-avoidance tendencies. British Journal of Social Psychology, 47,
557-573
106
Dewitte, M., & De Houwer, J. (2008). Adult attachment and attention to positive and negative
emotional face expressions. Journal of Research in Personality, 2, 498-505.
105
Duyck, W., & De Houwer, J. (2008). Semantic access in second-language visual word processing:
Evidence from the semantic Simon paradigm. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 961-966.
104
Franck, E., De Raedt, R., & De Houwer, J. (2008). Activation of latent selfschemas as a cognitive
vulnerability factor for depression: the potential role of implicit self-esteem. Cognition and Emotion, 22,
1588-1599.
103
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Koster, E. H. W., Van Damme, S., & Crombez, G. (2008). Allocation of
spatial attention to emotional stimuli depends upon arousal and not valence. Emotion, 8, 880-885.
2007
102
De Houwer, J. (2007). A conceptual and theoretical analysis of evaluative conditioning. The
Spanish Journal of Psychology, 10, 230-241.
101
De Houwer, J., Beckers, T., & Moors, A. (2007). Novel attitudes can be faked on the Implicit
Association Test. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 972-978.
100
De Houwer, J., & De Bruycker, E. (2007). The identification-EAST as a valid measure of implicit
attitudes toward alcohol-related stimuli. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 38,
133-143.
99
De Houwer, J., & De Bruycker, E. (2007). Implicit attitudes toward meat and vegetables in
vegetarians and non-vegetarians. International Journal of Psychology, 42, 158-165.
98
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.
De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (2007).Editorial. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 1-2. [editorial
material]
97
De Houwer, J., Vandorpe, S., & Beckers, T. (2007). Statistical contingency has a different impact
on preparation judgements than on causal judgments. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60,
418-432.
96
Dewitte, M., De Houwer, J., Koster, E. H. W., & Buysse, A. (2007). What’s in a name: Attachtment
-related attentional bias. Emotion, 7, 535-545.
95
Dewitte, M., Koster, E. H. W., De Houwer, J., & Buysse, A. (2007). Attentive processing of threat
and adult attachment: a dot-probe study. Behavior Research and Therapy, 45, 1307-1317.
94
Eder, A. B., Hommel, B., & De Houwer, J. (2007). How distinctive is affective processing? On the
implications of using cognitive paradigms to study affect and emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 21,
1137-1154.
93
Franck, E., De Raedt, R., & De Houwer, J. (2007). Implicit but not explicit self-esteem predicts
future depressive symptomatology. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 2448-2455.
92
Koster, E.H.W., Crombez, G., Verschuere, B., Vanvolsem, P., & De Houwer, J. (2007). Attentional
cueing by threatening scenes. Experimental Psychology, 54, 161-171.
91
Spruyt, A., De Houwer, J., Hermans, D., & Eelen, P. (2007). Affective priming of non-affective
semantic categorization responses. Experimental Psychology, 54, 44-53.
90
Spruyt, A., Hermans, D., De Houwer, J., Vandekerckhove, J., & Eelen, P. (2007). On the predictive
validity of indirect attitude measures: Prediction of consumer choice behavior on the basis of affective
priming in the picture – picture naming task. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,43, 599-610.
89
Spruyt, A., Hermans, D., De Houwer, J., Vandromme, H., & Eelen, P. (2007). On the nature of the
affective priming effect: Effects of stimulus onset asynchrony and relatedness proportion in naming and
evaluative categorization. Memory & Cognition, 35, 95-106.
88
Vandorpe, S., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2007). Outcome maximality and additivity training
also influence cue competition in causal learning when learning involves many cues and events. Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 356-368.
87
Vandorpe, S., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2007). The role of memory for compounds in cue
competition. Learning and Motivation, 38, 195-207.
86
Verbruggen, F., & De Houwer, J. (2007). Do emotional stimuli interfere with response inhibition?
Evidence from the stop signal paradigm. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 391-403.
85
Wiers, R. W., Teachman, B., & De Houwer, J. (2007). Implicit cognitive processes in
psychopathology: An introduction. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 38, 95-104.
2006
84
Beckers, T., Miller, R. R., De Houwer, J., & Urushihara, K. (2006). Reasoning rats: Forward
blocking in Pavlovian animal conditioning is sensitive to constraints of causal inference. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 92-102.
83
Craeynest, M., Crombez, G., De Houwer, J., Deforche, B., & De Bourdeaudhuij, I. (2006). Do
chidren with obesity implicitly identify with sedentariness and fat food. Journal of Behavior Therapy and
Experimental Psychiatry, 37, 347-357.
82
De Houwer, J. (2006). Using the implicit association test does not rule out an impact of conscious
propositional knowledge on evaluative conditioning. Learning and Motivation, 37, 176-187.
81
De Houwer, J., Custers, R., & De Clercq, A. (2006). Do smokers have a negative implicit attitude
towards smoking? Cognition and Emotion, 20, 1274-1284.
80
De Raedt, R., Schacht, R., Franck, E., & De Houwer, J. (2006). Self-esteem and depression
revisited: Implicit positive self-esteem in depressed patients? Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44,
1017-1028.
79
Koster, E.H.W., Crombez, G., Verschuere, B., & De Houwer, J. (2006). Mechanisms underlying
attentional bias in trait anxiety. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 30, 635-643.
78
Moors, A., & De Houwer, J. (2006). Automaticity: A conceptual and theoretical analysis.
Psychological Bulletin, 132, 297-326.
77
Moors, A., & De Houwer, J. (2006). Problems with dividing the realm of cognitive processes.
Psychological Inquiry, 17, 199-204.
76
Tanner, R. J., Stopa, L., & De Houwer, J (2006). Implicit views of the self in social anxiety. Behavior
Research and Therapy, 44, 1397-1409.
75
Vandorpe, S., & De Houwer, J. (2006). A comparison of cue competition in a simple and a complex
design. Acta Psychologica, 122, 234-246.
74
Vandorpe, S., & De Houwer, J. (2006). People want to see information that will help them make
valid inferences in human causal learning. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1133-1139.
2005
73
Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., Pineno, O., & Miller, R. R. (2005). Outcome additivity and outcome
maximality influence cue competition in human causal learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 31, 238-249.
72
Beckers, T., Van den Broeck, U., Renne, M., Vandorpe, S., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (2005).
Blocking Is Sensitive to Causal Structure in 4-Year-Old and 8-Year-Old Children. Experimental Psychology,
52, 264-271.
71
Crayenest, M., Crombez, G., De Houwer, J., Deforche, B., Tanghe, A., & De Bourdeaudhuij, I.
(2005). Explicit and implicit attitudes toward food and physical activity in childhood obesity. Behaviour
Research and Therapy, 43, 1111-1120.
70
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.
69
De Houwer, J., Beckers, T., & Vandorpe, S. (2005). Evidence for the role of higher-order reasoning
processes in cue competition and other learning phenomena. Learning & Behavior, 33, 239-249.
68
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.
67
De Houwer, J., Crombez, G., & Baeyens, F. (2005). Avoidance behavior can function as a negative
occasion setter. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 101-106.
66
De Houwer, J., Geldof, T., & De Bruycker, E. (2005). The Implicit Association Test as a general
measure of similarity. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 228-239.
65
Koster, E.H.W, Crombez, G., Van Damme, S., Verschuere, B., & De Houwer, J. (2005). Signals for
threat modulate attentional capture and holding: Fear-conditioning and extinction during the exogenous
cueing
task. Cognition & Emotion, 19, 771-780.
64
Meersmans, T., De Houwer, J., Baeyens, F., Randell, T., & Eelen, P. (2005). Beyond evaluative
conditioning: Searching for associative transfer of non-evaluative stimulus properties. Cognition and
Emotion, 19, 283-306.
63
Moors, A., & De Houwer, J. (2005). Automatic processing of dominance and submissiveness.
Experimental Psychology, 52, 296-302.
62
Moors, A., De Houwer, J., Hermans, D., & Eelen, P. (2005). Unintentional processing of
motivational valence. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: A, 58A, 1043-1063.
61
Rothermund, K., Wentura, D., & De Houwer, J. (2005). Retrieval of Incidental Stimulus-Response
Associations as a Source of Negative Priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and
Cognition, 31, 482-495.
Rothermund, K., Wentura, D., & De Houwer, J. (2005). Validity of the salience asymmetry account
of the IAT: Reply to Greenwald, Nosek, Banaji, and Klauer (2005). Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General, 134, 426-430. [comment]
60
Vandorpe, S., & De Houwer, J. (2005). A comparison of forward blocking and reduced
overshadowing in human causal learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 945-949.
59
Vandorpe, S., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2005). Further evidence for the role of inferential
reasoning in forward blocking. Memory & Cognition, 33, 1047-1056.
58
Vantomme, D., Geuens, M., De Houwer, J., & De Pelsmacker, P. (2005). Implicit attitudes toward
green consumer behavior. Psychologica Belgica, 45, 217-239.
2004
57
Bradley, B., Field, M., Mogg, K., & De Houwer, J. (2004). Attentional and evaluative biases for
smoking cues in nicotine dependence: component processes of biases in visual orienting. Behavioural
Pharmacology, 15, 29-36.
56
De Houwer, J. (2004). Spatial Simon effects with non-spatial responses. Psychonomic Bulletin &
Review, 11, 49-53.
55
De Houwer, J., & Randell, T. (2004). Robust affective priming effects in a conditional pronunciation
task: Evidence for the semantic representation of evaluative information. Cognition and Emotion, 18,
251-264.
54
De Houwer, J., Crombez, G., Koster, E. H. W., & De Beul, N. (2004). Implicit alcohol-related
cognitions in a clinical sample of heavy drinkers. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry,
35, 275-286.
53
Koster, E. H. W., Crombez, G., Van Damme, S., Verschuere, B., & De Houwer, J. (2004). Does
imminent threat capture and hold attention? Emotion, 4, 312-317.
52
Koster, E. H. W., Crombez, G., Verschuere, B., & De Houwer, J. (2004). Selective attention to
threat in the dot probe paradigm: Differentiating vigilance and difficulty to disengage. Behaviour Research
and Therapy, 42, 1183-1192.
51
Moors, A., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (2004). Automatic stimulus-goal comparisons: Evidence from
motivational affective priming studies. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 29-54.
50
Sonuga-Barke, E. J. S., De Houwer, J., De Ruiter, K., Ajzenstzen, M., & Holland, S. (2004). AD/HD
and the capture of attention by briefly exposed delay-related cues: Evidence from a conditioning paradigm.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45, 274-283.
49
Spruyt, A., Hermans, D., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (2004). Non-associative semantic priming:
Episodic affective priming of naming responses. Acta Psychologica, 116, 39-54.
48
Spruyt, A., Hermans, D., Pandelaere, M., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (2004). On the replicability of
the affective priming effect in the pronunciation task. Experimental Psychology, 51, 109-115.
2003
47
De Houwer, J. (2003). The extrinsic affective Simon task. Experimental Psychology, 50, 77-85.
46
De Houwer, J. (2003). On the role of stimulus-stimulus and stimulus-response compatibility in the
Stroop effect. Memory & Cognition, 31, 360-368.
45
De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2003). Secondary task difficulty modulates forward blocking in
human contingency learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56B, 345-357.
44
Hermans, D., Spruyt, A., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (2003). Affective priming with subliminally
presented pictures. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57, 97-114.
43
Mogg, K., Bradley, B. P., Field, M., & De Houwer, J. (2003). Eye movements to smoking-related
pictures in smokers: Relationship between attentional biases and implicit and explicit measures of stimulus
valence. Addiction, 98, 825-836.
2002
42
Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (2002). Automatic integration of non-perceptual action
effect features: The case of the associative affective Simon effect. Psychological Research, 66, 166-173.
41
De Houwer, J. (2002). Forward blocking depends on retrospective inferences about the presence
of the blocked cue during the elemental phase. Memory and Cognition, 30, 24-33.
40
De Houwer, J. (2002). The implicit association test as a tool for studying dysfunctional associations
in psychopathology: Strengths and limitations. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry,
33, 115-133.
39
De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2002). Higher-order retrospective revaluation in human causal
learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55B, 137-151.
38
De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2002). Second-order backward blocking and unovershadowing in
human causal learning. Experimental Psychology, 49, 27-33.
37
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. [review]
36
De Houwer, J., Beckers, T., & Glautier, S. (2002). Outcome and cue properties modulate blocking.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55A, 965-985.
35
De Houwer, J., Hermans, D., Rothermund, K., & Wentura, D. (2002). Affective priming of semantic
categorization responses. Cognition and Emotion, 16, 643-666.
34
De Houwer, J., & Randell, T. (2002). Attention to primes modulates affective priming of
pronunciation responses. Experimental Psychology, 49, 163-170.
33
Hermans, D., Smeesters, D., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (2002). Affective priming for associatively
unrelated primes and targets. Psychologica Belgica, 42, 191-212.
32
Spruyt, A., Hermans, D., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (2002). On the nature of the affective priming
effect: Affective priming of naming responses. Social Cognition, 20, 225-254.
2001
31
Baeyens, F., Eelen, P., Crombez, G., & De Houwer, J. (2001). On the role of beliefs in
observational flavor conditioning. Current Psychology, 20, 183-203.
30
De Houwer, J. (2001). A structural and process analysis of the Implicit Association Test. Journal of
Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 443-451.
De Houwer, J. (2001). Contingency awareness and evaluative conditioning: When will
it be enough? Consciousness and Cognition, 10, 550-558. [editorial material]
29
De Houwer, J., Crombez, G., Baeyens, F., & Hermans, D. (2001). On the generality of the affective
Simon effect. Cognition and Emotion, 15, 189-206.
28
De Houwer, J., Hermans, D., & Spruyt, A. (2001). Affective priming of pronunciation responses:
Effects of target degradation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 85-91.
27
De Houwer, J., Rothermund, K., & Wentura, D. (2001). Stimulus- feature specific negative priming.
Memory and Cognition, 29, 931-939.
26
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.
[review]
25
Hermans, D., De Houwer J., & Eelen, P. (2001). A time course analysis of the affective priming
effect. Cognition and Emotion, 15, 143-165.
24
Moors, A., & De Houwer, J. (2001). Automatic appraisal of motivational valence: Motivational
affective priming and simon Effects. Cognition and Emotion, 15, 749-766.
2000
23
De Houwer, J., Baeyens, F., Vansteenwegen, D., & Eelen, P. (2000). Evaluative conditioning in the
picture-picture paradigm with random assignment of CSs to USs. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Animal Behavior Processes, 26, 237-242.
1998
22
Baeyens, F., De Houwer, J. , Vansteenwegen, D., & Eelen, P. (1998). Evaluative conditioning is a
form of associative learning: On the artificial nature of Field and Davey’s (1997) artifactual account of
evaluative learning. Learning and Motivation, 29, 461-474.
21
De Houwer, J. (1998). The semantic Simon effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,
51A, 683-688.
20
De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (1998). An affective variant of the Simon paradigm. Cognition and
Emotion, 12, 45-61.
19
De Houwer, J., Hermans, D., & Eelen, P. (1998). Affective and identity priming with episodically
associated stimuli. Cognition and Emotion, 12, 145-169.
18
De Houwer, J., Hermans, D., & Eelen, P. (1998). Affective Simon effects using facial expressions
as affective stimuli. Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 45, 88-98.
1997
17
De Houwer, J. (1997). Differences in intentional retrieval during inclusion and exclusion tasks.
Memory, 5, 379-400.
16
De Houwer, J., Baeyens, F., & Hendrickx, H. (1997). Implicit learning of evaluative associations.
Psychologica Belgica, 37, 115-130.
15
De Houwer, J., Hendrickx, H., & Baeyens, F. (1997). Evaluative learning with "subliminally"
presented stimuli. Consciousness and Cognition, 6, 87-107.
14
Hendrickx, H., & De Houwer, J. (1997). Implicit covariation detection. Psychologica Belgica, 37,
29-50.
13
Hendrickx, H., De Houwer, J., Baeyens, F., Eelen, P., & Van Avermaet, E. (1997). Hidden
Covariation Detection might be very hidden indeed. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, and Cognition, 23, 201-220.
12
Hendrickx, H., De Houwer, J., Baeyens, F., Eelen, P., & Van Avermaet, E. (1997). Hidden
Covariation Detection: hide-and-seek. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and
Cognition, 23, 229-231.
1996
11
Baeyens, F., Crombez, G., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (1996). No evidence for modulation of
evaluative flavor-flavor associations in humans. Learning and Motivation, 27, 200-241.
10
Baeyens, F., Vansteenwegen, D., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G. (1996). Observational
conditioning of food valence in humans. Appetite, 27, 235-250.
9
Baeyens, F., Wrzesniewski, A., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (1996). Toilet rooms, body massages,
and smells: Two field studies on human evaluative odor conditioning. Current Psychology, 15, 77-96.
8
Hermans, D., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (1996). Evaluative decision latencies mediated by
induced affective states. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34, 483-488.
1995
7
Baeyens, F., & De Houwer, J. (1995). Evaluative conditioning is a qualitatively distinct form of
classical conditioning: A reply to Davey (1994). Behaviour Research and Therapy, 33, 825-831. [Note]
1994
Baeyens, F., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (1994). Awareness inflated, evaluative conditioning
underestimated. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 396-397. [Discussion]
6
De Houwer, J., Baeyens, F., & Eelen, P. (1994). Verbal evaluative conditioning with undetected
stimuli. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 32, 629-633. [Note]
5
De Houwer, J., & d'Ydewalle, G. (1994). Stroop-like interference in naming intrinsic colours: A test
of the Glaser and Glaser (1989) model. Acta Psychologica, 85, 123-137.
4
De Houwer, J., Fias, W., & d'Ydewalle, G. (1994). Comparing color-word and picture-word
Stroop-like effects: A test of the Glaser and Glaser (1989) model. Psychological Research, 56, 293-300.
3
De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (1994). Differences in the affective processing of words and pictu-
res. Cognition and Emotion, 8, 1-20.
2
Hermans, D., & De Houwer, J. (1994). Affective and subjective familiarity ratings of 740 Dutch
words. Psychologica Belgica, 34, 115-140.
1
Hermans, D., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (1994). The affective priming effect: Automatic activation
of evaluative information in memory. Cognition and Emotion, 8, 515-533.
(a2) Reviewed articles in other international journals (* = VABB listed)
De Houwer, J. (2014). A Propositional Model of Implicit Evaluation. Social and Personality
Psychology Compass, 8, 342-353.*
De Houwer, J. (2009). How do people evaluate objects? A brief review. Social and Personality
Psychology Compass, 3, 36-48. *
De Houwer, J. (2005). What are implicit and indirect measures of attitudes? Social Psychology
Review, 7, 18-20. [comment]
Crayenest, M., Crombez, G., De Bourdeaudhuij, I., De Houwer, J., Deforche, B, Tanghe, A. (2004).
Expliciete en impliciete attitudes ten aanzien van voeding en beweging bij kinderen met obesitas. Gedrag
en Gezondheid, 32, 28-39. *
De Houwer, J. (1998). Leren is eenvoudig, doen is moeilijk: Een nieuwe visie op het onderscheid
tussen evaluatieve en Pavloviaanse conditionering. Gedragstherapie, 31, 49-66. *
Hermans, D., Baeyens, F., Crombez, G., & De Houwer, J. (1996). Automatische processen in de
activatie van emoties. Gedragstherapie, 29, 229-251. *
Vantomme, D., Geuens, M., De Houwer, J., & De Pelsmacker, P. (2006). Explicit and implicit
determinants of fair-trade buying behavior. Advances in Consumer Research, 33, 699-703.
(a3) Reviewed articles in other national journals
(a4) Articles in other journals
De Houwer, J. (1996). Realiteits-Oriëntatie-Training bij Korsakov patiënten. Psychiatrie en
Verpleging, 72, 30-39.
De Houwer, J. (1994). Intacte geheugencapaciteiten bij Korsakov patiënten. Psychiatrie en
Verpleging, 70, 69-76.
Other publications
(c1) Articles in proceedings
Vantomme, D., Geuens, M., De Houwer, J., & De Pelsmacker, P. (2006). Implicit attitudes toward
green consumer behavior. Proceedings of the Society of Consumer Psychology, Winter Conference 2004.
De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (May, 1998). Referential learning in an associative S-R compatibility
paradigm. In G. Peeters, & B. Vanden Bavière (Eds.), Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Belgian
Psychological Society (pp. 46-47). Brussels: Belgian Psychological Society.
De Houwer, J., Rothermund, K., & Wentura, D. (May, 1998). Negative priming of ignored but not of
attended stimulus-features. In G. Peeters, & B. Vanden Bavire (Eds.), Proceedings of Annual Meeting of
the Belgian Psychological Society (pp. 46-47). Brussels: Belgian Psychological Society.
De Houwer, J. (April, 1997). An affective variant of the Simon paradigm. In A. Cleeremans, R.
Kolinsky, & P. Mousty (Eds.), Proceedings of the 50th anniversary meeting of the Belgian psychological
society (p. 25). Brussels: Belgian Psychological Society.
8. OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
(a) Sabbaticals
29 October 2008 – 2 February 2009: Visiting professor at the University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia.
(b) Organization of conferences and symposia
De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (July, 2014). Evaluative learning: Intersecting contingencies as a new
way to change implicit and explicit evaluations. Symposium at the 2014 General Meeting of the EASP,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (May, 2014). Building bridges between functional and cognitive
psychology. Ghent, Belgium.
Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., Maes, E., & Beurms, S. (December, 2013). Animal Cognition. Ghent,
Belgium.
Liefooghe, B., & De Houwer, J. (May, 2013). Learning via instruction. FWO Expert meeting, Ghent,
Belgium.
Storms, G., De Houwer, J., Tuerlinckx, F., Van Overwalle, F., & Van Paemel, W. (February, 2013).
Moving beyond questionable research practices: Symposium on good research in behavioral sciences.
Brussels, Belgium.
Spruyt, A., Maio, G., Haddock, G., & De Houwer, J (May, 2012). 4th EASP meeting on Attitudes.
Ghent, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (May, 2012). Do we need more than one learning system? Invited symposium ant
the 2012 BAPS-SEPEX meeting, Liége, 10-11 May 2012.
Member of the Scientific Committe of the 2012 BAPS-SEPEX meeting, Liége, 10-11 May 2012.
Descheemaekers, M., Hermans, D., & De Houwer, J. (February, 2012). Special interest meeting on
the acquisition and activation of evaluative information. Leuven, Belgium.
Gast, A., & De Houwer, J. (December, 2010). Evaluative conditioning. FWO Expert meeting,
Ghent, Belgium.
De Houwer, J., & Soetens, E. (May, 2010). Learned changes in the speed of responding.
Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science, Brussels, Belgium.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 3rd CERE meeting, Lille, France, 22-24 April 2010.
Fiedler, K., De Houwer, J., Freitag, P., & Moors, A. (December, 2009). What Should Psychology As
a Basic Science Aim For? Strengths and Limitations of Theoretical Explanations in Psychology, Nierstein,
Germany.
Mesquita, B., Hermans, D., Lens, W., Rimé, B., De Houwer, J., Zech, E., Kuppens, P., & Stouten, J.
(2009). Bi-annual meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Leuven, Belgium. (member
of the organizing and scientific committee).
Gawronski, B., & De Houwer, J. (2008). Associative learning of implicit attitudes. Symposium at the
International Conference of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.
De Houwer, J., Vandorpe, S., Crombez, G., & De Raedt, R. (December, 2007). Opening meeting of
the FWO research community “Automatic processes in psychopathology and health related behavior”.
Gent, Belgium.
Beckers, T., Blaisdell, A., Waldmann, M., & De Houwer, J. (May, 2007). FWO special interest
meeting on the Origins of Causal Cognition, Le Lignely, Belgium.
Koster, E., De Houwer, J., De Raedt, R., & Crombez, G. (May, 2006). Third Belgian Meeting on
Experimental Psychopathology. Ghent, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (March, 2006). Learning Psychology in Belgium. Ghent, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (May, 2005). Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences.
Ghent, Belgium.
Degner, J., Wentura, D., & De Houwer, J. (April, 2005). Special interest meeting on the Extrinsic
Affective Simon Task, Jena, Germany.
De Houwer, J., & Wiers, R. H. (July, 2004). Implicit cognition and health behavior. Ghent, Belgium.
Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., & Matute, H. (May, 2004). Human contingency learning. Le Lignely,
Belgium.
De Houwer, J., de Jong, P., & Crombez, G. (August, 2003). Special interest meeting on the use of
indirect measures of attitudes and other associations in clinical and health psychology. Diksmuide,
Belgium.
Baeyens, F., De Houwer, J., & Field, A. (May, 2002). Evaluative conditioning. Le Lignely, Belgium.
De Houwer, J., & Field, A. (April, 2002). Evaluative conditioning. Symposium at the Joint Meeting of
the BPS and EPS, Leuven, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. & Eelen, P. (April 2002). First European meeting of experimental psychopathology
research groups, Diksmuide, Belgium.
Hermans, D., Corneille, O., & De Houwer, J. (May 2001). Affective priming and implicit
stereotyping. Le Lignely, Belgium.
De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (December 1998). FWO-workshop on Automatic Affective
Processing. Leuven, Belgium.
(c) Presentations at international conferences and symposia
De Houwer, J. (July, 2016). A functional-cognitive approach to psychology. Invited speaker at the
International Conference of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan.
De Houwer, J. (December, 2015). Nouvelles perspectives sur un phénomène bien connu :
pourquoi le conditionnement classique est toujours pertinent pour la psychologie clinique. Keynote
presentation at the AFTCC annual conference, Paris, France.
De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Perugini, M. (November, 2015). Expanding the Boundaries of
Evaluative Learning Research: How Intersecting Regularities Shape Our Likes and Dislikes. Talk presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, USA.
De Houwer, J. (August, 2015). Levels of explanation and levels of analysis in psychological
research. Keynote presentation at the International Summer School 2015 on "Theories and Methods in
Judgment and Decision Making Research". Nuremberg, Germany.
De Houwer, J. (July, 2015). A functional-cognitive framework for psychological research. Talk at the
European Conference of Psychology, Milan, Italy.
De Houwer, J. (June, 2015). Propositional models are not necessarily inferential or rational:
Relational information as the core ingredient of propositions and relational responding as the core
challenge for association formation models. Invited talk at the Small Group Meeting on Associative and
Propositional Learning, Warsaw, Poland.
De Houwer, J. (March, 2015). Plenary Keynote talk at the annual meeting of the research school
“Experimental Psychopathology”, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
De Houwer, J. (March, 2015). Capturing Changes in Spontaneous Processes and Behavior.
Invited talk at the International Convention for Psychological Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
De Houwer, J. (March, 2015). Implicit measures. Invited workshop at the International Convention
for Psychological Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
De Houwer, J. (March, 2015). The relational responding task. Talk at the International Convention
for Psychological Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
De Houwer, J. (July, 2014). Intersecting regularities as a new route to changing liking. Talk at the
2014 General Meeting of the EASP, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
De Houwer, J. (June, 2014). Riding the waves: On the relation between behavior therapy, cognitive
behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. Plenary keynote lecture at the Annual
Meeting of the Society for Contextual Behavioral Science, Minneapolis, USA.
De Houwer, J. (June, 2014). A new conceptual analysis of evaluative conditioning. Invited talk at
the expert meeting on evaluative conditioning, Tübingen, Germany.
De Houwer, J. (May, 2014). A functional-cognitive approach to psychology. Opening presentation
at the expert meeting on building bridges between functional and cognitive psychology, Ghent, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (April, 2014). On the role of relational information in associative learning. Talk
presented at the Associative Learning Meeting, Gregynog, UK.
De Houwer, J. (April, 2014). Associative learning via instructions. Poster presented at the
Associative Learning Meeting, Gregynog, UK.
De Houwer, J. (February, 2014). Who needs associations anyway? Automatic effects are mediated
by propositional knowledge. Invited talk at the annual SPSP meeting, Austin, USA.
De Houwer, J. (February, 2014). Why a propositional single-process model of associative learning
deserves to be defended. Invited talk at the SPSP Social Cognition Pre-conference, Austin, USA.
Debey, E., Verschuere, B., Ridderinkhof, R., & De Houwer, J. (2013, June). Delta plots reveal the
role of response inhibition in lying. In E. Debey (Chair), The cognitive psychology of deception. Symposium
conducted at the SARMAC X Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
De Houwer, J. (July, 2013). Implicit measures. Plenary keynote lecture at the 12th European
Conference on Psychological Assessment, San Sebastian, Spain.
De Houwer, J. (May, 2013). A propositional perspective on context effects in human associative
learning. Invited talk presented at the meeting of the Society for Quantative Analysis of Behavior,
Minneapolis, USA.
De Houwer, J. (March, 2013). What is learning? On the nature and merits of a functional definition
of learning. Talk presented at the 55th Annual TEAP Meeting, Vienna, Austria.
Gast, A., Vervliet, B., & De Houwer, J. (March, 2013). Is the valence due to evaluative conditioning
represented in episodic format? Talk presented at the 55th Annual TEAP Meeting, Vienna, Austria.
Debey, E., Verschuere, B., & De Houwer, J. (March, 2013). Step by step: Capturing the initial truth
activation during deception. Poster to be presented at the 55th Annual TEAP Meeting, Vienna, Austria.
Heider, N., Spruyt, A., & De Houwer, J. (March, 2013). Task misapplication as a mechanism to
explain automatic activation of propositional knowledge in sequential priming tasks. Paper to be presented
at the 55th Annual TEAP Meeting, Vienna, Austria.
De Houwer, J., Gast, A., & Zanon, R. (October, 2012). Evidence for a Propositional Account of
Implicit Evaluation. Talk presented at the 2012 SESP meeting, Austin, USA.
Smith, C. T., De Houwer, J., & Nosek, B. A. (October, 2012). Using Explicit Persuasion Techniques
to Change Implicit Evaluations. Talk presented at the 2012 SESP meeting, Austin, USA.
De Houwer, J. (October, 2012). A propositional account of automatic evaluation. Talk presented at
the 2012 PMIG meeting, Austin, USA.
Van Ryckeghem, D. M. L., Goubert, L., Crombez, G., De Houwer, J., , Van Damme, S. (2012,
August). The predictive value of attentional bias towards pain-related information in chronic pain patients:
A diary study. Poster presented at the 14th World Congress on Pain of IASP, Milan, Italy.
De Houwer, J. (July 2012). What are the limits of propositionally mediated associative learning?
Talk presented at the International Conference on Thinking, London, UK.
De Houwer, J. (July 2012). Evaluative conditioning: Definitions, methodology, theories, and
evidence. Invited talk presented at the First International Meeting of the Society for Consumer Psychology.
Florence, Italy.
Smith, C. T.., De Houwer, J., & Nosek, B. A., (January 2012). Consider the Source: Persuasion of
Implicit Evaluations is Moderated by Manipulations of Source Credibility. Poster presented at the 2012
SPSP meeting, San Diego, USA.
Everaert, T., Spruyt, A., & De Houwer, J. (September 2011). Automatic semantic processing is
modulated by feature specific allocation of attention. Talk presented at the 2011 ESCOP meeting, San
Sebastian, Spain.
De Houwer, J. (July, 2011). On the non-automaticity of automatic emotional processing. Talk
presented at the 2011 ISRE meeting, Kyoto, Japan.
Vogt, J., & De Houwer, J. (July, 2011). Automatic attentional bias to threat: Goals vs Threat. Talk
presented at the 2011 ISRE meeting, Kyoto, Japan.
De Houwer, J. (May 2011). A functional-cognitive framework for psychopathology research. Invited
talk at the FNRS meeting on Psychopathology, Brussels, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (December 2010). An integrated propositional model of evaluative conditioning. Talk
presented at the FWO Special Interest Meeting on Evaluative Conditioning. Ghent, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (December 2010). Evaluative conditioning: Definitions, methods, theories, evidence,
and implictations. Plenary keynote presentation at the 15th Winter Camp of Marketing, Leuven, Belgium.
Van Bockstaele, B., Verschuere, B., Koster, E., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G. (October 2010). The
Effects of Attention Training on Self-Reported, Implicit, Physiological and Behavioural Measures of Spider
Fear. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the SPR.
De Houwer, J. (June, 2010). (Unconscious) evaluative conditioning: Definitions, methods, theories,
and evidence. Invited talk presented at the Symposium on Unconscious Thinking and Consumer Brand
Beliefs, Attitudes, Preferences, and Behavior, Boston, USA.
De Houwer, J. (June, 2010). What are implicit and explicit processes? Invited talk presented at the
Second Conference on the Psychology of Science, West Lafayette, USA.
De Houwer, J. (May, 2010). Possible misunderstanding about propositional models of fear
conditioning. Plenary Keynote presentation presented at the Second European Fear Meeting, Affligem,
Belgium.
Spruyt, A. Everaert, T. & De Houwer, J. (2010, March). Automatic affective stimulus processing
depends on feature-specific attention allocation. Paper presented at the 52nd Tagung experimentell
arbeitender Psychologen, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., Spruyt, A., & Crombez, G. (November 2009). The attentional blink is
diminished for targets that form coherent categories. Poster presented at the 50 th Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomic Society, Boston, USA.
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Lozo, Lj., & Koster, E. H. W. (August, 2009). On the motivational basis of
emotional attention: Automatic attending to clean pictures in disgust. Talk held at the International Society
for Research on Emotion (ISRE) Conference, Leuven, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (August, 2009). How do overlearned and newly acquired automatic affective
reactions interact. Invited Talk presented the bi-annual ISRE meeting, Leuven, Belgium.
Vogt, J., & De Houwer, J. (March, 2009). The role of goals in attentional biases to emotional
stimuli. Talk held at the 51st Annual Meeting of Experimental Psychologists (Tagung experimentell
arbeitender Psychologen, TeaP), Jena, Germany.
Vogt, J., & De Houwer, J. (February, 2009). Multiple goal management starts with attention:
Automatic attending to goal-relevant stimuli reflects goal importance. Poster presented at the 10th Annual
Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Tampa, Florida, USA.
De Houwer, J. (October, 2008). Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review. Invited talk
prsented at the Psychology and Health seminar on Implicit Measures, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Moors, A., Van Damme, S., & Crombez, G. (September, 2008). Do goals
evoke attentional bias? The influence of goals on automatic attentional processing. Talk at the 10th
European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference (ESCON), Volterra, Italy.
De Houwer, J. (July, 2008). Potential pitfalls in the study of associative learning of implicit attitudes.
Invited talk presented at the International Conference of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.
De Houwer, J. (July, 2008). Automatic effects of verbally instructed negated relations. Invited talk
presented at the International Conference of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Moors, A., & Crombez, G. (July, 2008). The influence of explicit and implicit
goals on the allocation of spatial attention. Poster presented at the International Conference of Psychology
(ICP), Berlin, Germany.
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Moors, A., Van Damme, S., & Crombez, G. (May, 2008). Do goals evoke
attentional bias? Goal relevance as determinant of automatic attentional allocation. Talk held at the Annual
Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science (BAPS), Leuven, Belgium.
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Moors, A., Crombez, G., & Van Damme, S. (February, 2008). Do goals
evoke attentional bias? The influence of goals on the automatic allocation of spatial attention. Poster
presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP),
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Koster, E. H. W., Van Damme, S., Crombez, G. (February, 2008).
Attentional bias to emotional stimuli depends on arousal and not on valence. Poster presented at the
Emotion Pre-Conference to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Moors, A., & Crombez, G. (December, 2007). The influence of explicit and
implicit goals on the allocation of spatial attention. Poster presented at the Opening Meeting of the FWO
Scientific Research Community "Automatic processes in psychopathology and health related behavior",
Ghent, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (October, 2007). Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review. Invited talk
presented at the GK-Emotions Summerschool 'Methods of Affective Neuroscience', Würzburg, Germany.
De Houwer, J. (September, 2007). How should we define and study evaluative conditioning?
Invited talk at the annual meeting the Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology, Madrid, Spain. (invited
talk)
De Houwer, J. (July, 2007). Comparing measures of attitudes at the functional and procedural level.
Invited talk presented at the summerschool of the European Association for Personality Research,
Bertinoro, Italy. (invited talk)
De Houwer, J. (July, 2007). How should we define and study evaluative conditioning? Invited talk
to be held at the EAESP meeting on evaluative conditioning, Warsau, Poland. (invited talk)
Declercq, M., & De Houwer, J. (May 2007). Evidence for the role of expectancies in avoidance
learning. Talk presented at the second FWO special interest meeting on Fear and Learning, Le Lignely,
Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (May, 2007). Can we distinguish between cognition and association and do we have
to? Talk presented at the FWO special interest meeting on the Origins of Causal Cognition, Le Lignely,
Belgium
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Crombez, G., Koster, E. H. W., & Van Damme, S. (March, 2007). Was löst
den attentional bias für emotionale Stimuli aus? [What elicits the attentional bias towards emotional
stimuli?]. Talk to be held at the 49th Annual Meeting of Experimental Psychologists (Tagung experimentell
arbeitender Psychologen, TeaP). Trier, Germany.
De Houwer, J. (March, 2007). Can we distinguish between cognition and association and do we
have to? Invited talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the EPA, Philadelphia, USA. (invited talk)
De Houwer, J., & De Bruycker, E. (January, 2007). The identification EAST as a (valid?) measure of
implicit attitudes toward alcohol. Invited talk presented the Annual SPSP meeting, Memphis, USA. (invited
talk)
Vandorpe, S., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (July, 2006). The role of memory for compounds in cue
competition. Talk presented at ICOM-4, Sydney, Australia.
De Houwer, J. (July, 2006). Avoidance behavior can function as a negative occasion setter. Talk
presented at the 3rd meeting of the Australian Learning Group, Magnetic Island, Australia.
De Houwer, J. (January, 2006). How to define the implicitness of implicit measures. Invited talk
presented at the Social Cognition Pre-confrence of the SPSP meeting, Palm Springs, USA. (invited talk)
Dewitte, M., De Houwer, J., Koster, E., & Buysse A. (January, 2006). What’s in a name: Attentional
bias towards the name of the attachment figure. Poster presented at the SPSP meeting, Palm Springs,
USA.
De Houwer, J., Vandorpe, S., & Beckers, T. (November, 2005). Statistical contingency has a
different impact on preparation judgements than on causal judgments. Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.
De Houwer, J., & Moors, A. (August, 2005). A reflection on the validity of dual process models.
Inivted talk presented at the Symposium on Implicit Cognition and Attention, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
(invited talk)
De Houwer, J. (July, 2005). What are implicit measures and why are we using them? Talk
presented at the EAESP meeting, Würzburg, Germany. (invited talk)
De Houwer, J. (April, 2005). Do EAST effects provide a valid measure of interindividual differences
in attitudes? Talk presented at the EAST meeting, Jena, Germany. (invited talk)
Beckers, T., Miller., R. R., De Houwer, J., & Urushihara, K. (March, 2005). Reasoning Rats:
Inference-like Processing of Information Concerning Effect Additivity and Ceilings. Conference on
Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, Florida, USA.
De Houwer, J. (March, 2005). Avoidance behavior can function as a negative occasion setter. Talk
presented at the Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
De Houwer, J. (December, 2004). Further evidence for the role of mode-independent short-term
associations. Talk presented at the Seminar on Neuroscience and Cognitive Control, Ghent, Belgium.
(invited talk).
De Houwer, J. (August, 2004). The extrinsic affective Simon task. Talk presented at the
International Conference of Psychology, Bejing, China. (invited talk)
De Houwer, J., Beckers, T., & Vandorpe, S. (July, 2004). A deductive reasoning account of cue
competition in human causal learning. Talk presented at the Fifth International Conference on Thinking,
Leuven, Belgium.
De Houwer, J., & Spruyt, A. (June, 2004). Solving the puzzle of affective priming of pronunciation
responses. Talk presented at the EAESP meeting on unconscious attitudinal processes, Madrid, Spain.
(invited talk)
Beckers, T., Miller, R. R., & De Houwer, J. (April, 2004). Reasoning rats: Forward blocking in animal
conditioning is sensitive to constraints of causal attribution. Talk presented at the Associative Learning
Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
Vandorpe, S., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (April, 2004). Additional evidence for a deductive
reasoning account of cue competition in human associative learning. Talk presented at the Associative
Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
De Houwer, J. (April, 2004). Robust affective priming in a conditional pronunciation task. Talk
presented at the Tagung Experimentelle Psychologie, Giessen, Germany. (invited talk)
Craeynest, M., Crombez, G., De Bourdeaudhuij, I., De Houwer, J., Deforche, B., & Tanghe, A.
(2004).
Do children with obesity really like sedentariness and high-fat food? An experimental study
with the Implicit Association Task. Poster presented at the 8th International Congress of Behavioral
Medecine, August 26-28 2004, Mainz, Germany.
Craeynest, M., Crombez, G., De Houwer, J., Vandeweghe, L., & Tanghe, A, & De Bourdeaudhuij, I.
(2004). Determinants of childhood obesity: explicit and implicit attitudes towards food and physical activity.
Paper presented at the 5th Dutch Conference of Psychology and Health, May 10-12, Kerkrade, The
Netherlands.
De Houwer, J, Beckers, T., & Vandorpe, S. (November, 2003). Evidence for the role of deductive
reasonsing in human contingency learning. Talk presented that the Annual Convention of the Psychonomic
Society, Vancouver, Canada. (invited talk)
De Houwer, J. (August, 2003). Indirect measures of attitudes: What are we doing and why? Talk
presented at the Special interest meeting on the use of indirect measures of attitudes and other
associations in clinical and health psychology. Diksmuide, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (April, 2003). Evidence for the role of deductive reasoning in human contingency
learning. Talk presented at the EPS meeting, Exeter, UK. (invited talk)
De Houwer, J. (January 2003). Is the IAT a general measure of similarity? Talk presented at the 3rd
symposium on Implicit Diagnostics, Bonn, Germany. (invited talk)
De Houwer, J. (August, 2002). Higher-order retrospective revaluation. Talk presented at the Annual
APA Convention, Chicago, USA. (invited talk)
De Houwer, J., Meersmans, T., Baeyens, F., & Paul Eelen (March, 2002). Associative transfer of
non-evaluative stimulus-properties. Talk presented at the ECP meeting, Leuven, Belgium. (invited talk)
De Houwer, J. (March, 2002). Memory load and cue competition in human causal learning. Talk
presented at the Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales. (voordracht)
De Houwer, J. (January, 2002). The extrinsic affective Simon task. Talk presented at the Social
Cogniton pre-meeting of the SPSP conference, Savannah, USA. (voordracht)
De Houwer, J. (September, 2001). Indirect measure of attitudes: A review. Talk presented at the
Third meeting of the European Social Cognition Network, Houffalize, Belgium. (Invited talk).
De Houwer, J. (September, 2001). Extrinsic Simon effects. Poster presented at the ESCOP
meeting, Edinburgh, UK.
De Houwer, J. (May, 2001). The extrinsic affective Simon task. Talk presented at the Special
Interest meeting on Affective Priming and Implicit Stereotyping, Le Lignely, Belgium. (invited talk)
De Houwer, J. (April, 2001). Outcome and cue properties modulate blocking. Talk presented at the
Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
Beckers, T., & De Houwer, J. (July, 2000). Action-effect code integration and stimulus-response
compatibility: A conditioning perspective. Poster presented at Attention and Performance XIX, Munich,
Germany. (Postermededeling op uitnodiging).
De Houwer, J. (July, 2000). Higher-order retrospective revaluation in human causal learning. Talk
presented at the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) meeting, Cambridge, England.
De Houwer, J. (April, 2000). Higher-order retrospective revaluation in human causal learning. Talk
presented at the Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
Beckers, T., & De Houwer, J. (September, 1999). Action-effect code integration and
stimulus-response compatibility: A conditioning perspective. Poster presented at the 11 th Spanish
Conference on Comparative Psychology, Salamanca, Spain.
Glautier, S., & De Houwer, J. (August 1999). Facial EMG during classical conditioning using
positive and negative images as USs. Poster presented at the 21st International Summer School of Brain
Research: Cognition, Emotion, and Autonomic Responses, Amsterdam, Abstract Book p.105.
De Houwer, J., & Hermans, D. (June, 1999). Nine attempts to find affective priming
of pronunciation responses: Effects of SOA, degradation, and language. Talk presented at the Tagung der
Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie, Kassel, Germany. (Invited talk)
De Houwer, J. (May, 1999). A structural analysis of paradigms used to measure implicit attitudes:
What’s new? Talk presented at the Conference on Construct Validity and Implicit Social Cognition,
Chicago, USA. (Invited talk)
De Houwer, J. (May, 1999). Evidence for probabilistic models of human contingency judgements.
Talk presented at the FWO-workshop on Cue Competion, Le Lignely, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (March, 1999). Impact of instructions on backward blocking in a human contingency
judgement task. Talk presented at the Annual Conference of the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour
Group, London, UK.
De Houwer, J., Rothermund, K., & Wentura, D. (December, 1998). Sequential affective Simon
effects: Evidence for a response conflict account of affective priming. Talk presented at the FWO-workshop
on Automatic Affective Processing, Leuven, Belgium.
Beckers, T., & De Houwer, J. (March, 1998). Evaluative learning in the action-effect paradigm.
Poster presented at the FWO-workshop on Acquistion and Representation of Affect, Leuven, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (March, 1998). No affective priming of semantic categorization responses. Poster
presented at the FWO-workshop on Acquistion and Representation of Affect, Leuven, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (March, 1998). Affective Simon effects using facial expressions as affective stimuli.
Poster presented at the FWO-workshop on Acquistion and Representation of Affect, Leuven, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (September, 1997). A new paradigm for studying associative learning in humans.
Poster presented at the 9th Spanish Conference on Comparative Psychology, Salamanca, Spain.
De Houwer, J. (June, 1997). An affective variant of the Simon paradigm. Talk presented at the 6.
Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie, Konstanz, Germany.
De Houwer, J. (July, 1992) Evidence against the Glaser and Glaser model of the Stroop effect.
Poster presented at the XXVth International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, Belgium.
Hendrickx, H., De Houwer, J., Eelen, P., & Van Avermaet, E. (July, 1992). Hidden covariation
detection: Some experiments. Talk presented at the XXVth International Congress of Psychology,
Brussels, Belgium.
Hermans, D., & De Houwer, J. (July, 1992). Priming and the automatic activation of affect. Poster
presented at the XXVth International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, Belgium.
(d) Presentations at national conferences
De Houwer, J. (May, 2010). A functional-cognitive framework for psychopthology research.
Keynote lecture presented at the Groupe de contact FNRS : Psychopathologie Neuro-Cognitive, Brussels,
Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (May, 2010). Exploring a propositional approach of evaluative conditioning: How can
propositions lead to changes in liking? Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for
Psychological Science, Brussels, Belgium.
Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G. (May, 2008). The emotional modulation of the
attentional blink: Effects of taboo stimuli, expectancy, and coherence. Talk presented at the 2008 annual
meeting of the BAPS, Leuven, Belgium.
Vogt, J., De Houwer, J., Moors, A., Van Damme, S., & Crombez, G. (May, 2008). Do goals evoke
attentional bias? Goal relevance as determinant of automatic attentional allocation. Talk presented at the
2008 annual meeting of the BAPS, Leuven, Belgium.
Verschuere, B., Prati, V., & De Houwer, J. (May, 2008). Faking the autobiographical IAT. Poster
presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the BAPS, Leuven, Belgium.
Declercq, M., & De Houwer, J. (May 2008). Evidence of a hierarchical structure underlying
avoidance behavior. Poster presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the BAPS, Leuven, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (June, 2006). The distinction between procedure, effect, and theory as a general
framework for psychological research and practice. Talk presented at Associatie in Psychopathologie,
Leuven, Belgium.
Beckers, T., Vandorpe, S., De Houwer, J., & Eelen, P. (May, 2006). Pre-school children’s sensitivity
to blocking in causal learning.
Declercq, M., & De Houwer, J. (May, 2006). US-revaluation influences avoidance behavior. Talk
presented at the Annual meeting of the BAPS, Liège, Belgium.
Vandorpe, S, & De Houwer, J. (May, 2006). Forward blocking is smaller than reduced
overshadowing. Talk presented at the Annual meeting of the BAPS, Liège, Belgium.
De Bruycker, E., & De Houwer, J. (May, 2005). The ID-EAST can function as a valid measure of
interindividual differences in attitudes. Poster presented at the Second National Meeting of Experimental
Psychopathology, Leuven, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (April, 1997). An affective variant of the Simon paradigm. Talk presented at the 50th
anniversary meeting of the Belgian psychological society. Brussels, Belgium.
De Houwer, J. (September, 1994). Evaluative learning in Korsakov patients. Poster presented at
the XVIth Annual Forum of the Belgian College of Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry,
Bierbeek, Belgium.
(e) Presentations at Universities
- December 2014: Putting the functional-cognitive framework to work. University of Aachen, Aachen,
Germany.
- January 2014: Implicit measures: Past, present, future. Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
- July 2013: A functional-cognitive framework for psychology: Lessons from learning and attitude research,
Humboldt-University Berlin.
- May 2013: Implicit measures. Ghent University, Department of Political and Social Sciences.
- January 2013: A functional-cognitive framework for psychology: Lessons from learning and attitude
research, Universität Würzburg.
- October 2012: A functional-cognitive approach to attitude research. University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
- October 2012: Implicit measures: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- March 2012: Implicit measures: A review and practical. Universiteit Amsterdam, Nederland
- July 2011: A functional-cognitive framework for research on inhibition. Universiteit Amsterdam, Nederland.
- December 2009: On the role of propositional processes in evaluative conditioning. Erasmus Universiteit
Rotterdam, Nederland.
- June 2009: What should psychology as a basic science be aiming for? University of Milan, Italy.
- June 2009: What should psychology as a basic science be aiming for? University of Giessen, Germany.
- April 2009: What should psychology as a basic science be aiming for? TU Dortmund, Dortmund,
Germany.
- January 2009: What should psychology as a basic science be aiming for? University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia.
- November 2008: Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review. Southern Cross University, Coffs
Harbour, Australia.
- November 2006: How to define the implicitness of implicit measures of attitudes. University of Liverpool,
Liverpool, UK.
- June 2006: The distinction between procedure, effect, and theory as a general framework for
psychological research and practice, Universiteit Leiden, Nederland.
- 27 February 2006, How to define the implictness of implicit measures of attitudes. National University of
Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.
- 12 January 2006, Problems with dividing the realm of cognitive processes. University of Jena, Germany.
- 12 April 2005, What are implicit measures of attitudes and why are we using them? University of Geneva,
Switserland.
- 23 November 2004, What are Implicit measures of attitudes and why are we using them? University of
Osnabrück, Germany.
- 9 November 2004, What are Implicit measures of attitudes and why are we using them? University of
Saarbrücken, Germany.
- 8 December 2003, Indirect measures of attitudes: What are we doing and why? Université Nancy 2,
France
- 8 December 2003, The affective Simon task at age 5. Université Nancy 2, France.
- 29 April 2003, Evaluative conditioning, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 13 September 2002, Association and deductive reasoning in human contingency learning, Universidad
Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
- 11 July 2002, The extrinsic affective Simon task. University of Wuerzburg, Germany
- 5 June 2002, Measuring attitudes indirectly: The extrinsic affective Simon. Universiteit Maastricht,
Nederland
- April, 2002, The extrinsic affective Simon task. Universiteit Amsterdam, Nederland
- 14 February 2002, Indirect measures of attitudes. University of Kent, UK.
- 27 November 2001, The extrinsic affective Simon task. University of Sussex at Brighton, UK.
- 23 November 2001, A structural analysis of indirect measures of attitudes, University of Heidelberg,
Germany
- 9 Januari 2001, Retrospective revaluation in human contingency learning. University of Bonn, Germany.
- 2 Maart 2000, Automatic affective processing: Paradigms, results, and applications. University of
Liverpool, UK.
- 9 November 1999, The locus of the affective priming effect. University of Bristol, UK.
- Verschillende interne onderzoekslezingen, University of Southampton, UK.
(g) Presentations at Doctoral training meetings
- Doctoral training meeting of the German Society for Social Psychology, Heidelberg, Germany, May 2004
- Doctoral School EPP meeting on dual process models, Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 2006
- Summerschool of the European Society of Personality Psychology, Bertinoro, Italy, July 2007
- Summerschool DFG, Bronnbach, Germany, September 2007
- Doctoral School P&H meeting on implicit measures, Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 2008
- Autumn School Forensic Psychology, Sursee, Germany, September 2009
- Doctoral School EPP meeting on implicit measures, Heeze, The Netherlands, November 2009
- Doctoral training workshop, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, December 2009
- Erasmus Course on Pain, Hoepertingen, Belgium, March 2010.
- Doctoral training workshop on Implicit Processes, UCL, Louvain-La-Neuve, February 2012
- International Summer School 2015 on "Theories and Methods in Judgment and Decision Making
Research". Nuremberg, Germany, August 2015
(f) Grants
2014
-ERAB (European Foundation for Alcohol Research) Grant application ref. EA 14 41 (2 years): More is
caught than thought: A ground-breaking study on the role of implicit parenting processes on adolescents’
alcohol use. Ina Koning, Wilma Vollebergh, & Jan De Houwer. 55.000 euro
- Local promoter of the Odysseus I funding awarded to Dermot Barnes-Holmes
2013
- FWO research project G023113N (4 years): The role of the prefrontal cortex in the acquisition of instructed
fear. Marcel Brass and Jan De Houwer, 275.000 euro.
- BOF-VBO (Ghent University) for the visit of Marco Perugini, 3 months. €6540
2012
- IUAP-Partner, Belgian Federal Government (BELSPO) (5 years): Mechanisms of Conscious and
Unconscious Learning. De Houwer, Jan. Amount: 580.000 euro.
- FWO Scientific Research Community (5 years): Changing automatic processes in psychopathology and
health related behaviour, FWO-Vlaanderen. De Houwer, Jan. Amount: 5 x €12.500.
2011
- BOF-VBO (Ghent University) for the visit of Bertram Gawronski, 3 months. €6540
2010
- FWO research project G076611N (4 years): Darwin’s truth: Rule-based generalization and analogical
reasoning in rats. Tom Beckers, Jan De Houwer, and Rudi D’hooghe. € 348.644
- FWO Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship (Senior) for the visit of Miguel Angel Vadillo, 7 months, €14.700
2009
- FWO Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship (Junior) for the visit of James Schmidt, 12 months. €20.200
- BOF-VBO (Ghent University) for the visit of Helena Matute, 6 months. €10.600
2008
- Methusalem, Ghent University (7 years, starting 2009): New directions in research on the acquisition and
generation of attitudes. € 3.681.500
- FWO Grant for a long stay abroad: €4500
- Local promoter of the ERC Starting Grant of Gilles Pourtois
2007
- BOF-VBO grant (Ghent University) for the visit of Dr. Matt Field, 2 months, €4250
- BOF-VBO grant (Ghent University) for the visit of Dr. Jorg Huijding, 2 months, €4250
- FWO Scientific Research Community (5 years): Automatic processes in psychopathology and health
related behaviour, FWO-Vlaanderen. De Houwer, Jan. Amount: 5 x €12.500.
- FWO Travel Grant, € 530
- Grant for organizing a scientific meeting. FWO-Vlaanderen. De Houwer, Jan. Amount: €2500.
2006
- Research Project (2 years): An analysis of the styles and dimensions of adult attachment using explicit
and implicit measures, FWO-Vlaanderen. De Houwer, Jan, & Buysse, Ann. Amount: €107.606.
2005
- GOA grant, Ghent University (6 years): Do automatic processes and cognitions have a causal impact on
clinical and health related behavior? De Houwer, Jan, & Crombez, Geert. Amount: €1.400.000
2004
- Research Project (4 years): An empirical evaluation of cognitive theories of avoidance learning in humans.
BOF-Ghent University, De Houwer, Jan., Amount: €157.500
- FWO travel grant € 750
- Grant for organizing a scientific meeting. FWO-Vlaanderen. De Houwer, Jan. Amount: €2500.
2003
- Research Project (3 years): An analysis of the styles and dimensions of adult attachment using explicit
and implicit measures, FWO-Vlaanderen. Buysse, Ann, & De Houwer, Jan. Amount: €170.120.
2002
- Research Project (4 years): New methods for research on automatic affective-motivational processing.
FWO-Vlaanderen. De Houwer, Jan. Amount: € 210.880
- Research Project (2 years): Automatic processing of emotion-specific appraisal patterns. BOF-Ghent
University. De Houwer, Jan. Amount: €125.152
2001
- Research Project (1 year): Associative transfer of non-evaluative stimulus properties. ESRC, UK. De
Houwer, Jan. Amount: £37.600
2000
- Research Project (1 year): Affective priming of pronunciation responses. ESRC, UK. De Houwer, Jan.
Amount: £37868.
- Research Project (2 years): Automatic processing of motivational valence. FWO-Vlaanderen. Eelen, Paul,
& De Houwer, Jan. Amount: 4.132.000 BEF
1999
- Research Project (1 year): Can elements of the consumption experience change the perception of the
product itself? Financierende instelling: Unilever Research. De Houwer, Jan. Amount: £40.465.
- Seeding Grant: Associatively induced transfer of non-evaluativer stimulus properties. University of
Southampton. De Houwer, Jan. Amount: £600
Promotor of the 4 year FWO predoctoral grant (aspirant) of
Pieter Van Dessel
Evelien Bossuyt
Stefaan Vandorpe
Promotor of the 3 year FWO postdoc grant of
Tom Beckers (prolonged with 3 more years)
Agnes Moors
Adriaan Spruyt (prolonged with 3 more years)
Stefaan Vandorpe
Marieke Dewitte (prolonged with 3 more years)
Mieke Declercq
James Schmidt (prolonged with 3 more years)
Julia Vogt
Senne Braem (co-promotor)
Promotor of the 3 year BOF postdoctoral grant of
Agnes Moors
Helen Tibboel
(g) Supervision of PhD’s
Supervisor of ongoing PhDs (main supervisor)
- Pieter Van Dessel (UGent)
- Gaëtan Mertens (UGent)
Co-supervisor of ongoing PhDs
- Niclas Heider (UGent)
- Elisa Maes (KUL)
- Sarah Beurms (KUL)
- Perine Coppens (KUL)
- Jolien Vanaelst (UGent)
- Ama Kissi (UGent)
Supervisor of completed PhDs
- Evelyne Debey (UGent), “Behavioral studies on the role of cognitive control in deception”, 4 September
2014.
- Riccardo Zanon, 2013, “The impact of relational information on implicit evaluation”
- Tom Everaert (UGent), “The impact of feature-specific attention allocation on the activation of affective
stimulus information”. 22 June 2012.
- Helen Tibboel (UGent), “Do attentional biases and implicit attitudes have a causal effect on addictive
behavior?”, 13 May 2011
- Julia Vogt (Ugent), Title: “The role of goal relevance in attentional”, May 2010.
- Mieke Declercq (UGent), Title: “An empirical evaluation of theories of avoidance learning in humans”,
March 2009.
- Marieke Dewitte (UGent), Title: “An analysis of the styles and dimensions of adult attachment using
explicit and implicit measures”, May 2008
- Stefaan Vandorpe (UGent), Title: “Motivation and opportunity for reasoning as determinants of
contingency learning”, April 2006
Co-supervisor of completed PhDs
- Marijke Theeuwes, 2015, UGent
- Evelien Bossuyt, 2012, UGent
- Hendrick Slabbinck, 2012, (UGent, Department of Marketing)
- Delphine Vantomme (UGent, Department of Marketing), 2005, Title: “The use of indirect measures of
attitudes in marketing research”
- Adriaan Spruyt (KU Leuven), 2005, Title: “Affective priming of non-affective responses”
- Tom Meersmans (KU Leuven), 2004, Title: “Associative transfer of non-evaluative stimulus properties”.
- Agnes Moors (KU Leuven), 2003, Title: “Automatic processing of motivational stimulus valence”.
- Tom Beckers (KU Leuven), 2002, Title: “Extinction in human associative learning”.
Member of PhD guidance committees
- Jan Lammertijn (ugent)
- Kim De Corte (ugent)
- Bruno Verschuere (ugent)
- Petra De Vlieger (ugent)
- Frederik Verbruggen (ugent)
- Gordy Pleyers (UCL)
- Filip Verhulst (KU Leuven)
- Baptist Liefooghe (Ugent)
- Erik Franck (Ugent)
- Evelien Christiaens (Ugent)
- Els Severens (Ugent)
- Valerie Marescau (KU Leuven)
- Saskia Baert (Ugent)
- Heleen Vandromme (KU Leuven)
- Evelien Coppens (KU Leuven)
- An Raes (UGent)
- Ann Meulders (KU Leuven)
- Els Ooms (UGent)
- Egbert Hartstra (UGent)
- Bram Van Bockstaele (UGent)
- Evelyne Lagrou (UGent)
- Ellen Demurie (UGent)
- Tim Van den Abeele (UGent)
- Kim Helsen (UGent)
- Wout Duthoo (UGent)
- Yannick Boddez (KU Leuven)
- Mathijs Franssen (KU Leuven)
- Joris Pieters (VUB)
- Wouter Durnez (UGent)
- Jolene van der Kaap- Deeder (UGent)
- Vincent Dethier (UCL)
- Kathleen De Cuyper (KUL)
- Mathilde Descheemaeker (KUL)
- Laura Vandeweghe (UGent)
- Carsten Bundt (UGent)
- Martijn Teuchies (UGent)
- Marc Bennett (KUL)
- Elisa Maes (KUL)
- Lien De Saedeleer (UGent)
- Yolandi-Eloise Janse van Rensburg (UGent)
- Malte Runge (UGent)
Member of PhD jury
External
Dr. Sarah Pratt, University of Southampton (1999)
Dr. Christine Pett, University of Southampton (2000)
Dr. Tom Beckers, KU Leuven (2002)
Dr. John Beaver, Cambridge University (2002)
Dr. Agnes Moors, KU Leuven (2003)
Dr. Tom Meersmans, KU Leuven (2004)
Dr. Anne Roefs, Universiteit Maastricht (2004)
Dr. Adriaan Spruyt, KU Leuven (2005)
Dr. Céline Douilliez, UCL (2005)
Dr. Jorg Huijding, Universiteit Groningen (2006)
Dr. Gordy Pleyers, UCL (2006)
Dr. Trinette Dirikx, KUL (2006)
Dr. Delphine Chassard, University de Nancy II (2006)
Dr. Katrijn Houben, Universiteit Maastricht (2007)
Dr. Susan Bamford, University of Wales, Bangor (2007)
Dr. Valerie Marescau, KUL (2007)
Dr. Maria Popa Roch, University of Grenoble (2008)
Dr. Oshrit Cohen-Kdoshay, Ben Gurion University, Israel (2008)
Dr. Julie Bertels, ULB (2009)
Dr. Madelein Strick, Universiteit Nijmegen (2009)
Dr. Patrick Clarke, University of Western Australia (2009)
Dr. Evelien Coppens, KUL (2009)
Dr. Inneke Kerkhofs, KUL (2010)
Dr. Kaufmann, University of Melbourne (2010)
Dr. Yannick Boddez, KUL (2012)
Dr. Kim Helsen, KUL-UGent (2013)
Ofer Rahamim, Ben-Gurion University
Dr. Angelos Krypotos, Universiteit Amsterdam (2015)
Mark Bennet, KUL (2015)
Internal
Dr. Bernie Caessens (2002)
Dr. Wendy de Moor (2002)
Dr. Mandy Ghyselinck (2002)
Dr. Stefaan Van Damme (2004)
Dr. Wouter Duyck (2004)
Dr. Denis Drieghe (2005)
Dr. Bruno Verschuere (2005)
Dr. Wim Gevers (2006)
Dr. Stefaan Vandorpe (2006)
Dr. Jan Lammertyn (2006)
Dr. Baptist Liefooghe (2006)
Dr. Barbara Soetens (2006)
Dr. Ineke Imbo (2007)
Dr. Erik Franck (2007)
Dr. Filip Van Opstal (2008)
Dr. Sarah Bernolet (2008)
Dr. Marieke Dewitte (2008)
Dr. Mieke Declercq (2009)
Dr. Julia Vogt (2010)
Dr. Elisah D'Hooge (2012)
Dr. Tom Everaert (2012)
Dr. Hendrik Slabbinck (2012)
Dr. Evelien Bossuyt (2012)
Dr. Riccardo Zanon (2013)
Dr. Evelyne Debey (2014)
Dr. Marijke Theeuwes (2015)
Dr. Niclas Heider (2015)
9. Editorial duties
Current
- Member of the Editorial Board, Psychological Bulletin (2014 – present)
- Member of the Editorial Board, Personality and Social Psychology Review (2014-present)
- Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2012-present)
- Member of the Editorial Board, Experimental Psychology (2001-present)
- Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry (2006-present).
- Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (2010 – present)
- Member of the Advisory Board, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (2012 - present)
- Member of the Editorial Board, Psychopathology Review (2013-present)
- Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Open Psychology Data (2013-present)
- Honorary member of the Editorial Board, Cognition & Emotion (2014 – present)
Past
- Editor in Chief of the journal “Cognition and Emotion” (together with Dirk Hermans) (2007: Editor
Designate; 2008 – 2012: Editor; 2013: outgoing Editor)
- Associate Editor, Cognition and Emotion (2001-2006)
- Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2005-2006)
- Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2005-2006)
- Member of the Editorial Board of: Cognition and Emotion (2000)
- Guest Editor “Journal of Comparative Psychology”, special section on higher-order processes in animal
cognition (2015)
- Guest Editor “International Journal of Psychology”, special section on the functional-cognitive framework
for psychology (2015)
- Guest Editor “Perspectives on Psychological Science”, special section on strength and limitations of
theories in psychology (2011)
- Guest Editor Cognition and Emotion, special issue on the usefulness of cognitive methods in emotion
research (scheduled to appear in 2007).
- Guest Editor Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, special issue on implicit cognitive
processes in psychopathology (2007).
- Guest Editor Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, special issue on human contingency learning
(2006).
- Guest Editor Cognition and Emotion, special issue on evaluative conditioning (February 2005)
- Guest Editor Cognition and Emotion, special issue on automatic affective processing (March 2001).
- Ad hoc Reviewer for: Addiction, Animal Learning and Behavior, Annual Review of Sex Research,
Appetite, Attention and Performance (Vol. 19), Behavior Therapy, Behavioral Neuroscience, Behavioral
Processes, Biological Psychology, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, British Journal of Social
Psychology, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Clinical Psychology Review, Cognition,
Cognition and Emotion, Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, Consciousness and Cognition,
Current Directions in Psychological Science, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Emotion, Emotion Review,
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, European Journal of Personality, European Journal of Social
Psychology, European Review of Social Psychology, Experimental Psychology, International Journal of
Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Behavior
Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, Journal of Contextual and Behavioral Science, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of
Behavior, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal
Behavior Processes, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal
of Research in Personality, L’Année Psychologique, Learning and Behavior, Medical Care, Memory &
Cognition, Pain, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Philosophical Psychology, PLoSOne,
Psychiatry Research, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Record, Psychological Reports, Psychological
Research, Psychological Review, Psychological Science, Psychology & Health, Psychology of
Consciousness, Psychology Science, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Public Opinion Quarterly,
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: A, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: B, Social
Psychology, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Social Psychology Review, Spanish Journal of
Psychology, Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie
- Grant reviewer for: FWO, FNRS, ESRC (UK), Leverhulme (UK), NSF (USA), British Academy (UK), ISF
(Israël), NWO, VICI (The Netherlands), Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Cyprus, United
States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France)
- External reviewer for appointments and job promotions at various institutions worldwide.
10. Membership of Professional organizations
Belgian Association for Psychological Science, Belgian Federation of Psychologists, Experimental
Psychology Society, Psychonomic Society, Dutch-Flemish Experimental Psychopathology Research
School, Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Association for Contextual Behavioral
Science
11. Membership of Research Councils / Advisory Boa rds
PRESENT
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Member of the Research Council of Ghent University and Chairman of the Committee for Humanities
and Social Sciences, 2013-present
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Member of the Flemish Committee for Scientific Integrity (2013 – present)
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Member of the Committee for Scientific Research (CWO), Faculty of Psychology and Educational
Sciences, Ghent University.
PAST
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Member of the Committee for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ghent University Research
Council, 2010 – 2012
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Member of the Research Council of Ghent University, 2006-2009
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Fonds National de la Reserche Scientific (Belgium), 2008-2010