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Alexandre Heeren is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their academic work spans multiple fields, primarily within psychology and neuroscience, focusing on experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, sociology, political science, and social psychology.

Their research covers several main topics including mental health research, functional brain connectivity studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, climate change communication and perception, behavioral health and interventions, and psychological well-being and life satisfaction.

Heeren has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • On climate anxiety and the threat it may pose to daily life functioning and adaptation: a study among European and African French-speaking participants, 2022, Climatic Change
  • What do measures of self-report interoception measure? Insights from a systematic review, latent factor analysis, and network approach, 2022, Biological Psychology
  • On the Measurement of Climate Change Anxiety: French Validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale, 2022, Psychologica Belgica
  • A Network Approach to Parental Burnout, 2021, Digital Access to Libraries
  • Positive and negative urgency as a single coherent construct: Evidence from a large-scale network analysis in clinical and non-clinical samples, 2021, Journal of Personality

Frequent coauthors of Alexandre Heeren include:

  • M. Annelise Blanchard
  • Yorgo Hoebeke
  • Camille Mouguiama-Daouda
  • Alba Contreras
  • Isabelle Roskam

Their research has been published in several recurring venues such as:

  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • PubMed
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)
  • Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • Psychologica Belgica

Best Publications

  • Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research

    Joël Billieux;Adriano Schimmenti;Yasser Khazaal;Pierre Maurage

  • How can we conceptualize behavioural addiction without pathologizing common behaviours

    Daniel Kardefelt-Winther;Alexandre Heeren;Adriano Schimmenti;Antonius J. van Rooij

  • The effects of mindfulness on executive processes and autobiographical memory specificity

    Alexandre Heeren;Nady Van Broeck;Pierre Philippot

  • Social media and depression symptoms: A network perspective.

    George Aalbers;Richard J. McNally;Alexandre Heeren;Sanne de Wit

  • Improving Emotional Intelligence: A Systematic Review of Existing Work and Future Challenges:

    Ilios Kotsou;Ilios Kotsou;Moïra Mikolajczak;Alexandre Heeren;Jacques Grégoire

  • Attention bias modification for social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Alexandre Heeren;Cristina Mogoașe;Pierre Philippot;Richard J. McNally

  • A Bayesian network analysis of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in adults reporting childhood sexual abuse.

    Richard J. McNally;Alexandre Heeren;Alexandre Heeren;Donald John Robinaugh

  • Attention training toward and away from threat in social phobia: effects on subjective, behavioral, and physiological measures of anxiety.

    Alexandre Heeren;Hannah Elizabeth Reese;Richard J. McNally;Pierre Philippot

  • Cross-cultural validity of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire : adaptation and validation in a French-speaking sample

    Alexandre Heeren;Céline Douilliez;Virginie Peschard;Laetitia Debrauwere

  • Commentary: A network theory of mental disorders.

    Payton J. Jones;Alexandre Heeren;Alexandre Heeren;Richard J. McNally

  • Changes in ruminative thinking mediate the clinical benefits of mindfulness : preliminary findings

    Alexandre Heeren;Pierre Philippot

  • An integrative network approach to social anxiety disorder: The complex dynamic interplay among attentional bias for threat, attentional control, and symptoms

    Alexandre Heeren;Alexandre Heeren;Richard J. McNally

  • Mapping network connectivity among symptoms of social anxiety and comorbid depression in people with social anxiety disorder

    Alexandre Heeren;Payton J. Jones;Richard J. McNally

  • Does attention bias modification improve attentional control? A double-blind randomized experiment with individuals with social anxiety disorder.

    Alexandre Heeren;Cristina Mogoase;Richard J. McNally;Anne Schmitz

  • The (neuro)cognitive mechanisms behind attention bias modification in anxiety : proposals based on theoretical accounts of attentional bias

    Alexandre Heeren;Rudi De Raedt;Ernst H. W. Koster;Pierre Philippot

  • How does attention training work in social phobia: disengagement from threat or re-engagement to non-threat?

    Alexandre Heeren;Laurent Lievens;Pierre Philippot

  • Unpacking Rumination and Executive Control: A Network Perspective:

    Emily E. Bernstein;Alexandre Heeren;Richard J. McNally

  • Tinnitus specifically alters the top-down executive control sub-component of attention: Evidence from the Attention Network Task.

    Alexandre Heeren;Pierre Maurage;Hélène Perrot;Anne De Volder

  • Disrupted regulation of social exclusion in alcohol-dependence : an fMRI Study

    P. Maurage;F. Joassin;M. Pesenti;P. Philippot

  • Impact of Anodal and Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation over the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex during Attention Bias Modification: An Eye-Tracking Study

    Alexandre Heeren;Chris Baeken;Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt;Pierre Philippot

  • How does attention training work in social phobia: Disengagement from threat or reengagement to non-threat? : In M. Rossignol (Chair), Cognitive processing of affective information in anxiety.

    Alexandre Heeren;Laurent Lievens;Pierre Philippot

  • Mapping network connectivity among symptoms of social anxiety and comorbid depression in people with social anxiety disorder

    Alexandre Heeren;Richard J. McNally

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Philippot
Pierre Philippot Université Catholique de Louvain
Pierre Maurage
Pierre Maurage Université Catholique de Louvain
Joël Billieux
Joël Billieux University of Lausanne
Richard J. McNally
Richard J. McNally Harvard University
Philippe de Timary
Philippe de Timary Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc
Adriano Schimmenti
Adriano Schimmenti Università degli Studi di Enna Kore
Yasser Khazaal
Yasser Khazaal University of Lausanne
Rudi De Raedt
Rudi De Raedt Ghent University
Moïra Mikolajczak
Moïra Mikolajczak Université Catholique de Louvain
Martial Van der Linden
Martial Van der Linden University of Geneva

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