Anne Roefs

a.roefs@maastrichtuniversity.nl


Over the years my research has focused on:

• The role of implicit cognition in obesity, dieting and eating disorders (PhD thesis)
• The role of attentional bias in body dissatisfaction (PhD project Elke Smeets)

At the moment I do research on:

• The reward value of high-fat and low-fat foods for obese people and Anorexia Nervosa patients, studied with fMRI (PhD projects of Nicolette Siep and Astrid Frankort)
• The relationship between attentional bias for high-caloric foods and craving for obese people and successful weight losers (PhD project Jessica Werthmann)

• September 2010-September 2015: Co-promotor and supervisor of Drs. Renate Neimeijer on a project about attentional bias and eating disorders. The project takes place at Groningen University, the Netherlands. Prof. Dr. P. de Jong is the promoter.
• September 2009-Augustus 2012: Co-promotor and supervisor of Drs. Jessica Werthmann on a project about attentional bias and craving. The project will be in collaboration with Profs. Karin Mogg and Brendan Bradley. Prof. Dr. A. Jansen is the promotor.
• January 2009 - December 2012: Co-promotor and supervisor of Ir. Astrid Frankort on a project financed by NWO on fMRI research related to eating disorders and obesity. Prof. Dr. A. Jansen is the promotor.
• September 2006 –April 2010: Co-promotor and supervisor of Drs. Nicolette Siep on a project on fMRI research related to eating disorders and obesity. Prof. Dr. A. Jansen is the promotor. PhD thesis has been approved and will be defended in November 2010.
• September 2006 - current: advisor of four PhD students (Drs. Lotte Bamelis, Drs. Sjoertje Vos, Drs. Fritz Renner & Drs. Lotte Lemmens) on projects of Dr. M. Huibers and Prof. Dr. A. Arntz for design and analyses of cognitive paradigms.
• September 2005 - August 2009: Co-promotor and supervisor of Drs. Elke Smeets (PhD student of Prof. Dr. A. Jansen) – NWO financed project on visual attention and body image.

• Coordinator of the course “Bad Habits”, a course in the curriculum of the master ‘Experimental Health Psychology’. This course is about Bad Habits in the broad sense of the word. It primarily focuses on theories, models, and research that help explaining why people engage in unhealthy, undesired, and maladjusted behaviour. In the practical of the course, students design their own Implicit Association Test, and test their own hypothesis by conducting a small experiment.
• Member of the course planning group for a master's course on self-control, and a third-year course on laboratory skills and programming.
• Supervision of research for master theses. Students can participate in my ongoing lines of research, or they can come up with their own idea in the field of eating research.
• Coordinator of a skills training on cognitive paradigms in the research master
• Coordinator research internships for the Research Master – track Psychopathology
• Member of the Board of Exams
• Head of board of admissions regular master

Lebens, H., Roefs, A., Martijn, C., Houben, K., Nederkoorn, C., & Jansen, A. (in press). Making implicit measures of associations with snack foods more negative through evaluative conditioning. Eating Behaviors.

Werthmann, J., Roefs, A., Nederkoorn, C., Mogg, K., Bradley, B. P., & Jansen, A. (in press). Can(not) take my eyes off it: Attention bias for food in overweight participants. Health Psychology.

Coelho, J. S., Roefs, A., Havermans, R., Salvy, S., & Jansen, A. (2011). Effects of exercising before versus after eating on dieting and exercise evaluations: A preliminary investigation. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 43, 63-67.

Hou, R., Mogg, K., Bradley, B. P., Moss-Moris, R., Peveler, R., & Roefs, A. (2011). External eating, impulsivity and attentional bias to food cues. Appetite, 56, 424-427

Jansen, A., Nederkoorn, C., Roefs, A., Bongers, P., Teugels, T., & Havermans, R. (2011). The proof of the pudding is in the eating: Is the DEBQ – External eating scale a valid measure of external eating? International Journal of Eating Disorders, 44, 164-168.

Smeets, E., Jansen, A., Lindelauf, T., & Roefs, A. (2011). Bias for the (un)attractive self: On the role of attention in causing body (dis)satisfaction. Health Psychology, 30, 360-367

Smeets, E., Tiggeman, M., Kemps, E., Mills, J., Holitt, S., Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (2011). Body Checking induces an attentional bias for body-related cues. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 44, 50-57.

Roefs, A., Huijding, J., Smulders, F. T. Y., MacLeod, C. M., de Jong, P., Wiers, R. W., & Jansen, A. (2011). Implicit measures of association in psychopathology research. Psychological Bulletin, 137, 149-193.[Download PDF]

Coelho, J. S., Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (2010). The role of food-cue exposure and negative affect in the experience of thought-shape fusion. Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 41, 409-417.

Houben, K., Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (2010). Guilty pleasures: Implicit preferences for low and high calorie food in restrained eating. Appetite, 55, 18-24.

Jansen, A., Stegerman, S., Roefs, A., Nederkoorn, C., & Havermans, R. (2010). Decreased salivation to food cues in formerly obese successful dieters. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 79, 257-258.

Martijn, C., Vanderlinden, M., Huijding, J., Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (2010). Give us a smile and lighten us up: Increasing body and weight satisfaction through classical conditioning. Health Psychology, 29, 514-520.

Nederkoorn, C., Houben, K., Hofmann, W., Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (2010). Control yourself or just eat what you like? Weight gain over a year is predicted by an interactive effect of response inhibition and a preference for high fat foods. Health Psychology, 29, 389-393.

Smeets, E., Jansen, A., Vossen, E., Ruf, L., & Roefs, A. (2010). Feeling body dissatisfied after viewing thin-ideal pictures is mediated by self-activation.Body Image, 7, 335-340.

Veenstra, E. M., de Jong, P. J., Koster, E. H. M., & Roefs, A. (2010). Attentional avoidance of high-fat food in unsuccessful dieters. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 41, 282-288.

Coelho, J. S., Jansen, A., Roefs, A., & Nederkoorn, C. (2009). Eating behavior in restrained and unrestrained eaters after food-cue exposure: Examining the cue reactivity and counteractive-control models. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 23, 131-139.

Fett, A., Lattimore, P., Roefs, A., Geschwind, N., & Jansen, A. (2009). Food cue exposure and body image satisfaction: The moderating role of BMI and dietary restraint. Body Image, 6, 14-18.

Havermans, R. C., Janssen, T., Giesen, J. C. A. H., Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (2009). Food liking, food wanting, and sensory-specific satiety. Appetite, 52, 222-225.

Hofmann, W., Friese, M., & Roefs, A. (2009). Three ways to resist temptation: The independent contributions of executive attention, inhibitory control, and affect regulation to the impulse control of eating behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 431-435.

Nederkoorn, C., Guerrieri, R., Havermans, R., Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (2009). The interactive effect of hunger and impulsivity on food intake and purchase in a virtual supermarket. International Journal of Obesity, 33, 905-912.

Siep, N., Roefs, A., Roebroeck, A., Havermans, R., Bonte, M. L., Jansen, A. (2009). Hunger is the best spice: An fMRI study of the effects of attention, hunger, calorie content on food reward processing in the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex. Behavioural Brain Research, 198, 149-158.

Smeets, E., Roefs, A., & Jansen (2009). Experimentally inducing chocolate craving leads to an attentional bias in increased distraction. Appetite, 53, 370-375.

Werrij, M. Q., Roefs, A., Janssen, I., Stapert, D., Wolters, G., Mulkens, S., Hospers, H. J., & Jansen, A. (2009). Early associations with palatable foods in obesity are not disinhibition related but restraint related. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 40, 136-146.

Geschwind, N., Roefs, A., Lattimore, P., Fett, A., & Jansen, A. (2008). Dietary restraint moderates the effects of food exposure on women’s body and weight satisfaction. Appetite, 51, 735-738.

Jansen, A., Bollen, D., Tuschen, B., Roefs, A., Tanghe, A., & Braet, C. (2008). Mirror exposure reduces body dissatisfaction and anxiety in obese adolescents: a pilot study. Appetite, 51, 214-217.[Download PDF]

Jansen, A., Havermans, R., Nederkoorn, C. & Roefs, A. (2008). Jolly fat or sad fat? Subtyping non-eating disordered overweight and obesity along an affect dimension. Appetite, 51, 635-640.

Jansen, A. Vanreyten, A., van Balveren, T., Roefs, A., Nederkoorn, C., & Havermans, R. (2008). Negative affect and cue-induced overeating in non-eating disordered obesity. Appetite, 51, 556-562.[Download PDF]

Roefs, A., Jansen, A., Moresi, S., Willems, P., van Grootel, S., van der Borgh, A. (2008). Looking good: BMI, attractiveness bias and visual attention. Appetite, 51, 552-555.[Download PDF]

Smeets, E., Roefs, A., van Furth, E., & Jansen, A. (2008). Attentional bias for body and food in eating disorders: slowed disengagement, speeded detection, or both. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46, 229-238. [Download PDF]

Jansen, A., Smeets, T., Boon, B., Nederkoorn, C., Roefs, A., & Mulkens, S. (2007). Vulnerability to interpretation bias in overweight children. Psychology & Health, 22, 561-574 .

Hauer, B. J. A., Wessel, I., Merckelbach, H., Roefs, A., & Dalgleish, T. (2007). Effects of repeated retrieval of central and peripheral details in complex emotional slides. Memory, 15, 435-449.

Nederkoorn, C., Smulders, F. T. Y., Havermans, R. C., Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (2006). Impulsivity in obese women. Appetite, 47, 253-256. [Download PDF]

Roefs, A., Quaedackers, L., Werrij, M. Q., Wolters, G., Havermans, R., Nederkoorn, C., Van Breukelen, G., & Jansen, A. (2006). The environment influences whether high-fat foods are associated with palatable or with unhealthy. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 715-736. [Download PDF]

Roefs, A., Werrij, M., Smulders, F. T. Y., & Jansen, A. (2006). The value of indirect measures for assessing food preferences in abnormal eating. Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, 1, 180-186. [Download PDF]

Roefs, A., Herman, C.P., MacLeod, C.M., Smulders, F.T.Y., & Jansen, A. (2005). At first sight: how do restrained eaters respond to high-fat palatable foods?, Appetite, 44, 103-114. [Download PDF]

Roefs, A., Stapert, D., Isabella, L. A. S., Wolters, G., Wojciechowski, F., & Jansen, A. (2005). Early associations with food in anorexia nervosa patients and obese people assessed in the affective priming paradigm, Eating Behaviors, 6, 151-163. [Download PDF]

Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (2004). The effects of information about fat content on food consumption in overweight/obese and lean people. Appetite, 43, 319-322. [Download PDF]

Jansen, A., Theunissen, N., Slechten, K., Nederkoorn, C., Boon, B., Mulkens, S., & Roefs, A. (2003). Overweight children overeat after exposure to food cues. Eating Behaviors, 4, 197-209.

Merckelbach, H., Dekkers, T., Wessel, I., & Roefs, A. (2003). Amnesia, flashbacks, nightmares, and dissociation in aging concentration camp survivors. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 41, 351-360.

Merckelbach, H., Dekkers, T., Wessel, I., & Roefs, A. (2003). Dissociative symptoms and amnesia in Dutch concentration camp survivors. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 44, 65-69.

Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (2002). Implicit and explicit attitudes toward high-fat foods in obesity. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111, 517-521. [Download PDF]



Jansen, A., Nederkoorn, C., Roefs, A., Martijn, C., Havermans, R., & Mulkens (2009). Waarom obesitas in de GGZ behandeld moet worden. GZ-Psychologie, 2, 38-44.

Roefs, A., Werrij, M. Q., & Jansen, A. (2009). Boekbespreking J. S. Beck: Beck’s dieetoplossing. Train je brein, denk slank. De Psycholoog, 44, 654-655.

Siep, N., Havermans, R., Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (2008). Als het plezier in eten verdwijnt: een hypothese over de rol van voedseldevaluatie bij Anorexia Nervosa. De Psycholoog, 43, 405-410.

Roefs, A., Nederkoorn, C., & Jansen, A. (2008). De automatische verleiding van verboden vruchten. Gedragstherapie, 41, 183-198.

Roefs, A. (2005). Verslag van het landelijke congres eetstoornissen. Maandblad Geestelijke Volksgezondheid, 60, 558-560.

Roefs, A., & Nederkoorn, C. (2005). Boekbespreking over T. van Strien, De afslankmythe. Maandblad Geestelijke Volksgezondheid, 60, 178-180.

Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (2001). Lekker vet is niet vies? Hoe mensen met obesitas over vet voedsel denken. Gedrag en Gezondheid, 29, 56-65. [Download PDF]



Siep, N., Jansen, A., Havermans, R., & Roefs, A. (2010). Cognitions and emotions in eating disorders. In Kaye, W. H., & Adan, R. A. H. (Eds.), Behavioural Neurobiology of Eating Disorders, Current topics in behavioural Neurosciences 6. Berlin: Springer.

Wiers, R. W., Houben, K., Roefs, A., de Jong, P., Hofmann, W., & Stacy, A. W. (2010). Implicit cognition in health psychology: Why common sense goes out of the window. In B. Gawronski, & B. K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of Implicit Social Cognition (pp. 463-488). New York: Guilford.

Jansen, A., & Roefs, A. (in press). Kijk jezelf lelijk. Eetstoornissen. In Jansen, A., Merckelbach, H., & van den Hout, M. (Eds.). Gek. Experimentele Psychopathologie over angst, verslaving, depressie en andere ellende.

Houben, K., Wiers, R. W., & Roefs, A. (2006). Implicit reaction time measures of substance-related associations. In R. W. Wiers, & A. W. Stacy (Eds.), The handbook of implicit cognition and addiction. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publishers.

De Jong, P. J., Kindt, M., & Roefs, A. (2006). Changing implicit cognition: Findings from experimental psychopathology. In R. W. Wiers, & A. W. Stacy (Eds.), The handbook of implicit cognition and addiction. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publishers.

• Main applicant of succesful STW-NIHC-Philips Research “Healthy Lifestyle Solutions” grant: "Train your brain, think slim!" (2011), in collaboration with the department of knowledge engineering (600.000 euro)
• Co-applicant of a successful application in the Open MaGW Program (2006), in collaboration with Prof. Anita Jansen, entitled: ‘high-fat foods, craving, and neural responding in obesity and anorexia nervosa: the role of food-reward processing in overeating, self-starvation and weight loss’.
• Internal competition for PhD project funding of the Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University (2006): Funding for a 4 year PhD project entitled: Eating too much or too little: Individual differences in representations of food reward within the brain and its implications for understanding abnormal eating behavior.
• Co-applicant of a successful larger research grant from the British Academy (2006) (€ 60.000). Dr. Paul Lattimore (Liverpool, UK) was the main applicant, and Prof. Dr. Anita Jansen was the other co-applicant.
• Catharina Pijls Award (2005) (€ 10.000). This award is given every two years to a young researcher in the Netherlands in the broad field of health sciences.
• Co-applicant of a successful application in the Open MAGW Program (2004) on body image and selective visual attention. Prof. Dr. A. Jansen was the main applicant. Dr. C. Nederkoorn, Dr. C. Martijn, and Dr. W. van Zoest were the other co-applicants.
• 2001: SWOL / Universiteitsfonds Limburg travel grant for conference visit, Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Toronto, Canada.
• 2000: SWOL / Universiteitsfonds Limburg travel grant for master’s thesis research at the University of Toronto, Canada.

• Senior member of the research school Experimental Psychopathology (EPP)
• Reviewer for: Appetite, International Journal of Obesity, Cognition & Emotion, Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, Eating Behaviors, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Physiology & Behavior, Acta Psychologica, European Review of Applied Psychology, European Journal of Personality, Health Psychology Review, NWO, the UK Medical Research Council, the UK Wellcome Trust