(Last modification 3 June 2017)
1. PERSONALIA
Name: / De HouwerFirst Names: / Jan Baptist Lieva
Date of Birth: / 12 December 1968
Current Position / Professor (Gewoon Hoogleraar)
Affiliation: / 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: /
2. ACADEMIC DEGREES
- 1991: Master in Psychology (Licentiaat), 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)
- 2012: Fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology
- 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 / AFFILIATION / from (d/m/y) / To (d/m/y)Research Assistant / University of Leuven / 01/10/1991 / 30/09/1992
Research Assistant for the FWO
(Flanders, Belgium) / University of Leuven / 01/10/1992 / 31/11/1993
Civil Service / 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 (sabbatical break in 2017)
b) Cognition and Emotion: 2006-2007
7. PUBLICATIONS
Books
(b1) author or co-author of books
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(b2) Chapters in books
De Houwer, J., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Barnes-Holmes, Y. (in press). What is cognition? A functional-cognitive perspective. In S. C. Hayes and S. G. Hofmann (Eds.), Core Processes of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
De Houwer, J. (in press). Extrinsic Affective Simon Task. In V. Zeigler-Hill T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. NY: Springer.
Boddez, Y., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (in press). The inferential reasoning theory of causal learning: Towards a multi-process propositional account. In M. R. Waldmann (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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
Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Perugini, M. (2016). The functional-cognitive framework for psychological research. A special section of the International Journal of Psychology. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., & Dwyer, D. (2016). Reasoning Versus Association in Animal Cognition: Current Controversies and Possible Ways Forward. A special section of the Journal of Comparative Psychology. Washington, USA: American Psychological Association.
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
Brass, M., Liefooghe, B., Braem, S., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Following new task instructions: Evidence for a dissociation between knowing and doing. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
De Houwer, J. (in press). A functional-cognitive framework for cooperation between functional and cognitive researchers in the context of stimulus relations research. The Behavior Analyst.
De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (in press). Environmental regularities as a concept for carving up the realm of learning research: Implications for Relational Frame Theory. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.
De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Brass, M. (in press). Toward a unified framework for research on instructions and other messages: An introduction to the special section on the power of instructions. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
Dewittte, M., De Schryver, M., Heider, N., & De Houwer, J. (in press). The actual and ideal sexual self-concept in the context of genital pain using implicit and explicit measures. Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Gawronski, B., Rydell, R. J., De Houwer, J., Brannon, S. M., Ye, Y., Vervliet, B., & Hu, Xiaoqinq (in press). Contextualized attitude change. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology.
Heider, N., Spruyt, A., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Body dissatisfaction revisited: On the importance of implicit beliefs about actual and ideal body image. Psychologica Belgica.
Hütter, M., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Examining the contributions of memory-dependent and memory-independent components to evaluative conditioning via instructions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Kissi, A., Hughes, S., Mertens, G., Barnes-Holmes, D., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G. (in press). A systematic review of pliance, tracking, and augmenting. Behavior Modification.
Meiran, M., Liefooghe, B., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Powerful instructions: Automaticity without practice. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
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., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (in press). The contextual malleability of approach-avoidance training effects: Approaching or avoiding fear conditioned stimuli modulates effects of approach-avoidance training. Cognition & Emotion.
Moors, A., Boddez, Y., & De Houwer, J. (in press). The power of goal-directed processes in the causation of emotional and other actions. Emotion Review.
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.
Theeuwes, M., Liefooghe, B., De Schryver, M., & De Houwer, J. (in press). The role of motor imagery in learning via instruction. Acta Psychologica.
Tibboel, H., De Houwer, J., Dirix, N., & Spruyt, A. (in press). Beyond associations: Do implicit beliefs play a role in smoking addiction? Journal of Psychopharmacology
Vanaelst, J., Spruyt, A., Everaert, T., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Extinction of likes and dislikes: Effects of feature-specific attention allocation. Cognition and Emotion.
Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., & Smith, C. T. (in press). Relational information moderates approach-avoidance instruction effects on implicit evaluation. Acta Psychologica.
Van Dessel, P., Mertens, G., Smith, C. T., & De Houwer, J. (in press). The mere exposure instruction effect: Mere exposure instructions influence liking. Experimental Psychology.
2017
255 Braem, S., Liefooghe, B., De Houwer, J., Brass, M., & Abrahamse, E. (2017). There are limits to the effects of task instructions: Making the automatic effects of task instructions context-specific takes practice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 43, 394-403.
254 De Cuyper, K., De Houwer, J., Vansteelandt, K., Perugini, M., Pieters, G., Claes, L., & Hermans, D. (2017). Using indirect measurement tasks to assess the self-concept of personality: A systematic review and meta-analyses. European Journal of Personality, 31, 8-41.
256 De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2017). Psychological engineering: A functional-cognitive perspective on applied psychology. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 1-13.
255 De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2017). Bridging the divide between functional and cognitive psychology. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 47-50.
254 Heider, N., Spruyt, A., & De Houwer, J. (2017). On the Automaticity of Relational Stimulus Processing. Psychological Research, 81, 99-118.
253 Koning, I. M., Spruyt, A., Doornwaard, S., Turrisi, R., Heider, N., & De Houwer, J. (2017). A different view on parenting: automatic and explicit parenting cognitions in adolescents’ drinking behavior. Journal of Substance Use, 22, 96-101. DOI:10.1080/14659891.2016.1217088.240
252 Van Dessel, P., Gawronski, B., Smith, C. T., & De Houwer, J. (2017). Mechanisms underlying approach-avoidance instruction effects on implicit evaluation: Results of a preregistered adversarial collaboration. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 23-32.
251 Vogt, J., Koster, E. H. W., & De Houwer, J. (2017). Safety first: Instrumentality for reaching safety determines attention allocation under threat. Emotion, 17, 528-537.
2016
250 Beckers, T., De Houwer, J., & Dwyer, D. (2016). Reasoning versus association in animal cognition: Current controversies and possible ways forward. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130, 187-191.