Here you will find the favorite publication of each researcher of our group. For a complete list of publications, see the personal pages of each member of our research group.



"Because this study led to a new theory on body image of patients with eating disorders."

Jansen, A., Nederkoorn, C. & Mulkens, S. (2005). Selective visual attention for ugly and beautiful body parts in eating disorders. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 183-196.[Download PDF]

"Because it confirms my suspicion that brief manipulations affect implicit measures more than do relatively stable person characteristics."

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]

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"I very much enjoyed doing the research for our recent article on evaluative conditioning and body dissatisfaction. Together with masterstudent Marlies Vanderlinden, we learned women who were concerned about their weight and body shape, to associate pictures of their bodies with positive social feedback (smiling faces). We observed that this association resulted in higher body satisfaction. Being a social psychologist, I believe that how people perceive and evaluate their bodies is (also) based on how people think that others will react to their appearance. Positive social feedback, such as a smiling face signals approval and acceptance. Thus, when people experience and anticipate that other appreciate their appearance this is likely to result in a positive body image. Interestingly, the conditioning effect (i.e., the association of the own body with smiling faces) occurred outside awareness: the women were not aware of the fact that their pictures were always followed by a grin."

Martijn, C., Vanderlinden, M., Roefs, A., Huijding, J., & Jansen, A. T. M. (in press). Increasing body satisfaction of body concerned women through evaluative conditioning using social stimuli, Health Psychology.

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"My favourite publication is our 2007 paper on automatic processes and self-control performance, because it clearly illustrates how our behaviour can be guided by processes that operate outside conscious awareness. In addition, the results show that a well established effect like ego depletion can be easily circumvented by means of subtle manipulations."

Alberts, H.J.E.M. , Martijn, C., Greb, J., Merckelbach, H. & de Vries, N.K. (2007). Carrying on or giving in: The role of automatic processes in overcoming ego depletion. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 383-399.

"Because this study demonstrates that the concurrent schedules task objectively assesses one’s motivation for snack foods relative to an alternative option such as fruit, and unlike self-report of food liking is able to discriminate food preferences between overweight and normal-weight persons."

Giesen, J.C.A.H., Havermans, R.C., Douven, A., Tekelenburg, M., & Jansen, A. (2010). Will work for snack food: The association of BMI and snack reinforcement. Obesity, 18, 966-970.[Download PDF]

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"After a few years of research on alcohol, this is the first study in which I applied my knowledge on the domain of eating behaviour. This is also one of the first studies that shows that people, who chronichally try to control their eating behaviour, are more positive towards unhealthy food in contrast to people who do not diet."

Houben, K., Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (in press). Guilty pleasures: Implicit preferences for high calorie food in restrained eating. Appetite. [Download PDF]

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"This publication is my favourite. In the two studies we use very simple manipulations that strongly affect eating behaviour. In that sense these studies are among the first to confirm a causal connection between impulsivity and overeating."

Guerrieri, R., Nederkoorn, C., Schrooten, M., Martijn, C., & Jansen, A. (2009). Inducing impulsivity leads restrained eaters into overeating, whereas current dieters stick to their diet. Appetite, 53, 93-100.

"I like my publication pertaining to a simple study in which we investigated whether it’s possible to condition a preference for a certain vegetable flavour by adding sugar to it. Toddlers had to taste a vegetable mash with and a different mash without sugar repeatedly on two consecutive days. Next, they had to evaluate these vegetables mashes now served without any sugar and it was found that in most cases the toddler would prefer the flavour of the mash previously sweetened with sugar. Therefore, it’s possible to condition increased vegetable liking in very young children in a very short amount of time." Read all about it in:

Havermans, R.C., & Jansen, A. (2007). Increasing children’s liking of the taste of vegetables through flavour-flavour learning. Appetite, 48, 259-262.

"A simple, but elegant experimental design: why do it the hard way?"

Mulkens, S., & Jansen, A. (2009). Mirror gazing increases attractiveness in satisfied, but not dissatisfied individuals: a model for Body Dysmorphic Disorder? Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 40 , 211-218.[Download PDF]