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Research paper thumbnail of The Self-Regulation of Emotion

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Research paper thumbnail of How automatic is “automatic vigilance”? The role of working memory in attentional interference of negative information

Cognition and Emotion, Jan 1, 2009

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Research paper thumbnail of Clearing the mind: A working memory model of distraction from negative mood.

Emotion, Jan 1, 2007

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Research paper thumbnail of Tuning down the emotional brain: An fMRI study of the effects of cognitive load on the processing of affective images

Neuroimage, Jan 1, 2009

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Research paper thumbnail of Digitalisering maakt strafrechtspraktijk kleurig. Met alle onbekende gevolgen van dien

PROCES, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Derailing the streetcar named desire. Cognitive distractions reduce individual differences in cravings and unhealthy snacking in response to palatable food

Appetite, 2016

People who are sensitive to food temptations are prone to weight gain and obesity in food-rich en... more People who are sensitive to food temptations are prone to weight gain and obesity in food-rich environments. Understanding the factors that drive their desire to eat is key to limiting their reactions to available food. This study tested whether individual differences in sensitivity to hedonic food cues are cognitively based and, accordingly, can be regulated by blocking cognitive resources. To this end, one lab study (study 1; N=91) and one field study (study 2; N=63) measured sensitivity to hedonic food cues using the Power of Food Scale (PFS; Lowe et al., 2009) and assessed participants' appetitive responses to high-calorie food options. To test the role of cognitive elaboration of food cues, participants completed a menu-selection task to induce food cravings and then were free to elaborate those cravings (control group) or were blocked from doing so by cognitive distraction (playing Tetris, solving puzzles; experimental group). Compared to non-sensitive participants, sensitive participants displayed a greater attentional bias to high-calorie food (Study 1), reported stronger cravings (Study 2), and more often chose an unhealthy snack (Studies 1 & 2), but only when they had not been distracted. When distracted, all participants were similarly unresponsive to high-calorie food. This finding suggests that temptation can be effectively controlled by blocking people's cognitive resources, even for people highly sensitive to hedonic food cues.

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Research paper thumbnail of Derailing the streetcar named desire. Cognitive distractions reduce individual differences in cravings and unhealthy snacking in response to palatable food

Appetite, Jan 12, 2015

People who are sensitive to food temptations are prone to weight gain and obesity in food-rich en... more People who are sensitive to food temptations are prone to weight gain and obesity in food-rich environments. Understanding the factors that drive their desire to eat is key to limiting their reactions to available food. This study tested whether individual differences in sensitivity to hedonic food cues are cognitively based and, accordingly, can be regulated by blocking cognitive resources. To this end, one lab study (study 1; N=91) and one field study (study 2; N=63) measured sensitivity to hedonic food cues using the Power of Food Scale (PFS; Lowe et al., 2009) and assessed participants' appetitive responses to high-calorie food options. To test the role of cognitive elaboration of food cues, participants completed a menu-selection task to induce food cravings and then were free to elaborate those cravings (control group) or were blocked from doing so by cognitive distraction (playing Tetris, solving puzzles; experimental group). Compared to non-sensitive participants, sensit...

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Research paper thumbnail of Emotion regulation through action

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Research paper thumbnail of Dealing with Negative Feelings : The Role of Working Memory in Emotion Regulation

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Research paper thumbnail of Looking into the crystal ball of our emotional lives: emotion regulation and the overestimation of future guilt and shame

Cognition & emotion, Jan 4, 2016

In the present study, we examined the impact of emotion regulation on the intensity bias in guilt... more In the present study, we examined the impact of emotion regulation on the intensity bias in guilt and shame. Fifty-two undergraduates either forecasted their emotions and emotion regulation following a guilt- and shame-eliciting situation or reported their actual experienced emotions and employed emotion regulation. Results showed a clear intensity bias, that is, forecasters predicted to experience more guilt and shame than experiencers actually experienced. Furthermore, results showed that forecasters predicted to employ less down-regulating emotion regulation (i.e. less acceptance) and more up-regulating emotion regulation (i.e. more rumination) than experiencers actually employed. Moreover, results showed that the intensity differences between forecasted and experienced guilt and shame could be explained (i.e. were mediated) by the differences between forecasted and actually employed emotion regulation (i.e. acceptance and rumination). These findings provide support for the hypot...

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Research paper thumbnail of From Distraction to Mindfulness: Psychological and neural mechanisms of attention strategies in self-regulation. Biobehavioral Foundations of Self-Regulation. Eds. Gendolla, G., Tops, M., & Koole. S. L. New York: Springer

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Research paper thumbnail of How automatic is “automatic” vigilance? The impact of working memory load on interference of negative information

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Research paper thumbnail of The self-regulation of emotion

In the present chapter, we contribute to the ongoing integration between self-regulation and emot... more In the present chapter, we contribute to the ongoing integration between self-regulation and emotion regulation research by reviewing contemporary research on the self-regulation of emotion. This chapter has a fourfold plan. First, we consider the "emotion" part of emotion regulation, by discussing the kinds of responses that people may target in the emotion regulation process. Second, we turn to the "regulation" part of emotion regulation, by discussing the control processes that may underlie emotion regulation. Here, we review models that emphasize effortful control processes (Erber & Erber, 2000; McRae, Oschner, and Gross, this volume; Ochsner & Gross, 2008), as well as models that touch upon more intuitive aspects of emotion regulation (Koole, 2009). Third, we consider the emerging literature on training self- and emotion-regulatory skills and how it may be informed by recent models of emotion regulation. Fourth and last, we provide a summary of our main conc...

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Research paper thumbnail of Met een zuivere blik: Het effect van aandachtscontrole op walging in morele oordelen

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Research paper thumbnail of Looking with different eyes: The psychological meaning of categorisation goals moderates facial reactivity to facial expressions

Cognition & emotion, 2014

In the present research we examined whether the psychological meaning of people's categorisat... more In the present research we examined whether the psychological meaning of people's categorisation goals affects facial muscle activity in response to facial expressions of emotion. We had participants associate eye colour (blue, brown) with either a personality trait (extraversion) or a physical trait (light frequency) and asked them to use these associations in a speeded categorisation task of angry, disgusted, happy and neutral faces while assessing participants' response times and facial muscle activity. We predicted that participants would respond differentially to the emotional faces when the categorisation criteria allowed for inferences about a target's thoughts, feelings or behaviour (i.e., when categorising extraversion), but not when these lacked any social meaning (i.e., when categorising light frequency). Indeed, emotional faces triggered facial reactions to facial expressions when participants categorised extraversion, but not when they categorised light freq...

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Research paper thumbnail of Schadenfreude and the desire for vengeance

Understanding Pleasure at the Misfortune of Others, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of From Distraction to Mindfulness: Psychological and Neural Mechanisms of Attention Strategies in Self-Regulation

Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to Self-Regulation, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of Leaving a Flat Taste in Your Mouth: Task Load Reduces Taste Perception

Psychological Science, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of On the Role of Attention and Emotion in Morality: Attentional Control Modulates Unrelated Disgust in Moral Judgments

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2012

The emotion of disgust can influence people&a... more The emotion of disgust can influence people's moral judgments, even if this emotion objectively is unrelated to the moral judgment in question. The present work demonstrates that attentional control regulates this effect. In three studies, disgust was induced. In an unrelated part of the studies, participants then judged a moral transgression. Disgust resulted in more severe moral judgments when attentional control (either measured by means of individual predisposition or manipulated with experimental control) was weak as opposed to strong (Studies 1-3). Findings further showed that attentional control mediated the positive relation between the intensity of participants' disgust responses and the severity of their moral judgments (Study 2). Moreover, attentional control has its effects through the regulation of affective processing (Study 3). Taken together, the findings suggest that unrelated influences of disgust on moral judgments are contingent on the attention system.

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Research paper thumbnail of Turning a blind eye to temptation: How cognitive load can facilitate self-regulation

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of The Self-Regulation of Emotion

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Research paper thumbnail of How automatic is “automatic vigilance”? The role of working memory in attentional interference of negative information

Cognition and Emotion, Jan 1, 2009

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Research paper thumbnail of Clearing the mind: A working memory model of distraction from negative mood.

Emotion, Jan 1, 2007

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Research paper thumbnail of Tuning down the emotional brain: An fMRI study of the effects of cognitive load on the processing of affective images

Neuroimage, Jan 1, 2009

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Research paper thumbnail of Digitalisering maakt strafrechtspraktijk kleurig. Met alle onbekende gevolgen van dien

PROCES, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Derailing the streetcar named desire. Cognitive distractions reduce individual differences in cravings and unhealthy snacking in response to palatable food

Appetite, 2016

People who are sensitive to food temptations are prone to weight gain and obesity in food-rich en... more People who are sensitive to food temptations are prone to weight gain and obesity in food-rich environments. Understanding the factors that drive their desire to eat is key to limiting their reactions to available food. This study tested whether individual differences in sensitivity to hedonic food cues are cognitively based and, accordingly, can be regulated by blocking cognitive resources. To this end, one lab study (study 1; N=91) and one field study (study 2; N=63) measured sensitivity to hedonic food cues using the Power of Food Scale (PFS; Lowe et al., 2009) and assessed participants' appetitive responses to high-calorie food options. To test the role of cognitive elaboration of food cues, participants completed a menu-selection task to induce food cravings and then were free to elaborate those cravings (control group) or were blocked from doing so by cognitive distraction (playing Tetris, solving puzzles; experimental group). Compared to non-sensitive participants, sensitive participants displayed a greater attentional bias to high-calorie food (Study 1), reported stronger cravings (Study 2), and more often chose an unhealthy snack (Studies 1 & 2), but only when they had not been distracted. When distracted, all participants were similarly unresponsive to high-calorie food. This finding suggests that temptation can be effectively controlled by blocking people's cognitive resources, even for people highly sensitive to hedonic food cues.

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Research paper thumbnail of Derailing the streetcar named desire. Cognitive distractions reduce individual differences in cravings and unhealthy snacking in response to palatable food

Appetite, Jan 12, 2015

People who are sensitive to food temptations are prone to weight gain and obesity in food-rich en... more People who are sensitive to food temptations are prone to weight gain and obesity in food-rich environments. Understanding the factors that drive their desire to eat is key to limiting their reactions to available food. This study tested whether individual differences in sensitivity to hedonic food cues are cognitively based and, accordingly, can be regulated by blocking cognitive resources. To this end, one lab study (study 1; N=91) and one field study (study 2; N=63) measured sensitivity to hedonic food cues using the Power of Food Scale (PFS; Lowe et al., 2009) and assessed participants' appetitive responses to high-calorie food options. To test the role of cognitive elaboration of food cues, participants completed a menu-selection task to induce food cravings and then were free to elaborate those cravings (control group) or were blocked from doing so by cognitive distraction (playing Tetris, solving puzzles; experimental group). Compared to non-sensitive participants, sensit...

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Research paper thumbnail of Emotion regulation through action

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Research paper thumbnail of Dealing with Negative Feelings : The Role of Working Memory in Emotion Regulation

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Research paper thumbnail of Looking into the crystal ball of our emotional lives: emotion regulation and the overestimation of future guilt and shame

Cognition & emotion, Jan 4, 2016

In the present study, we examined the impact of emotion regulation on the intensity bias in guilt... more In the present study, we examined the impact of emotion regulation on the intensity bias in guilt and shame. Fifty-two undergraduates either forecasted their emotions and emotion regulation following a guilt- and shame-eliciting situation or reported their actual experienced emotions and employed emotion regulation. Results showed a clear intensity bias, that is, forecasters predicted to experience more guilt and shame than experiencers actually experienced. Furthermore, results showed that forecasters predicted to employ less down-regulating emotion regulation (i.e. less acceptance) and more up-regulating emotion regulation (i.e. more rumination) than experiencers actually employed. Moreover, results showed that the intensity differences between forecasted and experienced guilt and shame could be explained (i.e. were mediated) by the differences between forecasted and actually employed emotion regulation (i.e. acceptance and rumination). These findings provide support for the hypot...

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Research paper thumbnail of From Distraction to Mindfulness: Psychological and neural mechanisms of attention strategies in self-regulation. Biobehavioral Foundations of Self-Regulation. Eds. Gendolla, G., Tops, M., & Koole. S. L. New York: Springer

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Research paper thumbnail of How automatic is “automatic” vigilance? The impact of working memory load on interference of negative information

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Research paper thumbnail of The self-regulation of emotion

In the present chapter, we contribute to the ongoing integration between self-regulation and emot... more In the present chapter, we contribute to the ongoing integration between self-regulation and emotion regulation research by reviewing contemporary research on the self-regulation of emotion. This chapter has a fourfold plan. First, we consider the "emotion" part of emotion regulation, by discussing the kinds of responses that people may target in the emotion regulation process. Second, we turn to the "regulation" part of emotion regulation, by discussing the control processes that may underlie emotion regulation. Here, we review models that emphasize effortful control processes (Erber & Erber, 2000; McRae, Oschner, and Gross, this volume; Ochsner & Gross, 2008), as well as models that touch upon more intuitive aspects of emotion regulation (Koole, 2009). Third, we consider the emerging literature on training self- and emotion-regulatory skills and how it may be informed by recent models of emotion regulation. Fourth and last, we provide a summary of our main conc...

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Research paper thumbnail of Met een zuivere blik: Het effect van aandachtscontrole op walging in morele oordelen

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Research paper thumbnail of Looking with different eyes: The psychological meaning of categorisation goals moderates facial reactivity to facial expressions

Cognition & emotion, 2014

In the present research we examined whether the psychological meaning of people's categorisat... more In the present research we examined whether the psychological meaning of people's categorisation goals affects facial muscle activity in response to facial expressions of emotion. We had participants associate eye colour (blue, brown) with either a personality trait (extraversion) or a physical trait (light frequency) and asked them to use these associations in a speeded categorisation task of angry, disgusted, happy and neutral faces while assessing participants' response times and facial muscle activity. We predicted that participants would respond differentially to the emotional faces when the categorisation criteria allowed for inferences about a target's thoughts, feelings or behaviour (i.e., when categorising extraversion), but not when these lacked any social meaning (i.e., when categorising light frequency). Indeed, emotional faces triggered facial reactions to facial expressions when participants categorised extraversion, but not when they categorised light freq...

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Research paper thumbnail of Schadenfreude and the desire for vengeance

Understanding Pleasure at the Misfortune of Others, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of From Distraction to Mindfulness: Psychological and Neural Mechanisms of Attention Strategies in Self-Regulation

Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to Self-Regulation, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of Leaving a Flat Taste in Your Mouth: Task Load Reduces Taste Perception

Psychological Science, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of On the Role of Attention and Emotion in Morality: Attentional Control Modulates Unrelated Disgust in Moral Judgments

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2012

The emotion of disgust can influence people&a... more The emotion of disgust can influence people's moral judgments, even if this emotion objectively is unrelated to the moral judgment in question. The present work demonstrates that attentional control regulates this effect. In three studies, disgust was induced. In an unrelated part of the studies, participants then judged a moral transgression. Disgust resulted in more severe moral judgments when attentional control (either measured by means of individual predisposition or manipulated with experimental control) was weak as opposed to strong (Studies 1-3). Findings further showed that attentional control mediated the positive relation between the intensity of participants' disgust responses and the severity of their moral judgments (Study 2). Moreover, attentional control has its effects through the regulation of affective processing (Study 3). Taken together, the findings suggest that unrelated influences of disgust on moral judgments are contingent on the attention system.

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Research paper thumbnail of Turning a blind eye to temptation: How cognitive load can facilitate self-regulation

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2013

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