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Agnes Moors

Agnes Moors

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
10692
World Ranking
9679
National Ranking
138

Overview

Agnes Moors is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and focuses their research primarily within the field of Psychology, with 55 publications. Their work spans several subfields, notably Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Applied Psychology, and General Decision Sciences.

Their research covers a range of main topics including Mental Health Research Topics, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Emotions and Moral Behavior, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Cultural Differences and Values, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

Among recent publications, key papers authored or coauthored by Agnes Moors include:

  • The rise of affectivism, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Comparison of the determinants for positive and negative affect proposed by appraisal theories, goal-directed theories, and predictive processing theories, 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • A goal-directed account of action slips: The reliance on old contingencies., 2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Tackling fear: Beyond associative memory activation as the only determinant of fear responding, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Neurophysiological evidence for evaluative feedback processing depending on goal relevance, 2020, NeuroImage

Their frequent coauthors include Massimo Köster, Eike Kofi Buabang, Yannick Boddez, Jan De Houwer, and Maja Fischer.

Agnes Moors has published in several venues repeatedly, reflecting a consistent engagement in certain journals. These include Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Motivation Science, Cognition & Emotion, Collabra Psychology, and Current Addiction Reports.

Additionally, Agnes Moors has contributed to book publications, notably with Cambridge University Press, with a book titled Demystifying Emotions published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Automaticity: A Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis.

    Agnes Moors;Jan De Houwer

  • Appraisal Theories of Emotion: State of the Art and Future Development

    Agnes Moors;Phoebe C. Ellsworth;Klaus R. Scherer;Nico H. Frijda

  • Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review.

    Jan De Houwer;Sarah Teige-Mocigemba;Adriaan Spruyt;Agnes Moors

  • What Is Learning? on the Nature and Merits of a Functional Definition of Learning

    Jan De Houwer;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Agnes Moors

  • The Emotion Process: Event Appraisal and Component Differentiation

    Klaus R. Scherer;Klaus R. Scherer;Agnes Moors;Agnes Moors

  • Theories of emotion causation: A review

    Agnes Moors

  • Norms of valence, arousal, dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words.

    Agnes Moors;Jan De Houwer;Dirk Hermans;Sabine Wanmaker

  • How to Define and Examine the Implicitness of Implicit Measures.

    Jan De Houwer;Agnes Moors

  • Implicit measures: similarities and differences

    Jan De Houwer;Agnes Moors

  • Automaticity: Componential, Causal, and Mechanistic Explanations

    Agnes Moors

  • On the Causal Role of Appraisal in Emotion

    Agnes Moors

  • The rise of affectivism

    Daniel Dukes;Daniel Dukes;Kathryn Abrams;Ralph Adolphs;Mohammed E. Ahmed

  • The Power of Goal-Directed Processes in the Causation of Emotional and Other Actions:

    Agnes Moors;Agnes Moors;Yannick Boddez;Jan De Houwer

  • Automatic Constructive Appraisal as a Candidate Cause of Emotion

    Agnes Moors

  • Flavors of Appraisal Theories of Emotion

    Agnes Moors

  • Novel attitudes can be faked on the Implicit Association Test

    Jan De Houwer;Tom Beckers;Agnes Moors

  • Automatic appraisal of motivational valence: Motivational affective priming and Simon effects

    Agnes Moors;Jan De Houwer

  • Can cognitive methods be used to study the unique aspect of emotion: An appraisal theorist's answer

    Agnes Moors

  • The automatic orienting of attention to goal-relevant stimuli

    Julia Vogt;Jan De Houwer;Agnes Moors;Stefaan Van Damme

  • The role of appraisal in emotion

    Agnes Moors;Klaus R. Scherer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University
Peter Kuppens
Peter Kuppens KU Leuven
Klaus R. Scherer
Klaus R. Scherer University of Geneva
Adriaan Spruyt
Adriaan Spruyt Ghent University
Paul Eelen
Paul Eelen KU Leuven
Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven
Tom Beckers
Tom Beckers KU Leuven
Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Phoebe C. Ellsworth University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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