lotte van dillen | Leiden University (original) (raw)
Papers by lotte van dillen
sanderkoole.com
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Cognition and Emotion, Jan 1, 2009
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Emotion, Jan 1, 2007
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Neuroimage, Jan 1, 2009
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
PROCES, 2013
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
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.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
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...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
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...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
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...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
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...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Understanding Pleasure at the Misfortune of Others, 2014
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to Self-Regulation, 2014
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Psychological Science, 2013
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
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.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2013
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
sanderkoole.com
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Cognition and Emotion, Jan 1, 2009
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Emotion, Jan 1, 2007
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Neuroimage, Jan 1, 2009
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
PROCES, 2013
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
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.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
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...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
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...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
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...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
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...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Understanding Pleasure at the Misfortune of Others, 2014
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to Self-Regulation, 2014
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Psychological Science, 2013
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
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.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2013
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact