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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Anita Jansen is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands and has a research portfolio focused primarily on psychology and medicine. Their work covers several subfields including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, public health, environmental and occupational health, and applied psychology.

Their research interests center on topics such as eating disorders and behaviors, behavioral health and interventions, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, obesity, physical activity and diet, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment and cognitive processes, olfactory and sensory function studies, and biochemical analysis and sensing techniques.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Anita Jansen include:

  • A new science of mental disorders: Using personalised, transdiagnostic, dynamical systems to understand, model, diagnose and treat psychopathology (2022, Behaviour Research and Therapy)
  • Time to make a change: A call for more experimental research on key mechanisms in anorexia nervosa (2020, European Eating Disorders Review)
  • Avoidance in Anorexia Nervosa: Towards a research agenda (2021, Physiology & Behavior)
  • Transdiagnostic fears and avoidance behaviors in self-reported eating disorders (2023, Journal of Eating Disorders)
  • SARS-CoV-2 prevalence and immunity: a hospital-based study from Malawi (2021, International Journal of Infectious Diseases)

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Anne Roefs
  • Sieske Franssen
  • Hanna Melles
  • Leonardo Pimpini
  • Michelle Spix

Their works have appeared regularly in journals such as:

  • Appetite
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Physiology & Behavior
  • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • European Eating Disorders Review

Anita Jansen's contributions span across 54 publications in psychology and 20 in medicine, with particular emphasis on 34 works in clinical psychology. Other notable subfields include 10 publications in experimental and cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience each, as well as eight works addressing public health and applied psychology topics.

Among the main topics explored throughout their career are eating disorders and behaviors (46 publications), behavioral health interventions (16), obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (14), obesity, physical activity, and diet (14), and an assortment of psychological states and processes such as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, and treatment approaches (10).

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Anita Jansen received an award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Why obese children cannot resist food: the role of impulsivity

    Chantal Nederkoorn;Caroline Braet;Yvonne Van Eijs;Ann Tanghe

  • Impulsivity in obese women

    Chantal Nederkoorn;Fren T.Y. Smulders;Remco C. Havermans;Anne Roefs

  • Control yourself or just eat what you like? Weight gain over a year is predicted by an interactive effect of response inhibition and implicit preference for snack foods

    Chantal Nederkoorn;Katrijn Houben;Wilhelm Hofmann;Anne Roefs

  • A learning model of binge eating: Cue reactivity and cue exposure

    Anita Jansen

  • Getting a Grip on Drinking Behavior Training Working Memory to Reduce Alcohol Abuse

    Katrijn Houben;Reinout W. Wiers;Anita Jansen

  • Hunger is the best spice: an fMRI study of the effects of attention, hunger and calorie content on food reward processing in the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex.

    Nicolette Siep;Anne Roefs;Alard Roebroeck;Remco Havermans

  • Resisting temptation: Decreasing alcohol-related affect and drinking behavior by training response inhibition

    Katrijn Houben;Chantal Nederkoorn;Reinout W. Wiers;Anita Jansen

  • Overweight children overeat after exposure to food cues.

    Anita Jansen;Nicole Theunissen;Katrien Slechten;Chantal Nederkoorn

  • Training inhibitory control. A recipe for resisting sweet temptations

    Katrijn Houben;Anita Jansen

  • Selective visual attention for ugly and beautiful body parts in eating disorders.

    Anita Jansen;Chantal Nederkoorn;Sandra Mulkens

  • Impulsivity predicts treatment outcome in obese children.

    Chantal Nederkoorn;Esther Jansen;Sandra Mulkens;Anita Jansen

  • Can(not) take my eyes off it: attention bias for food in overweight participants

    Jessica Werthmann;Anne Roefs;Chantal Nederkoorn;Karin Mogg

  • Cephalic phase responses, craving and food intake in normal subjects

    C. Nederkoorn;F.T.Y. Smulders;A.T.M. Jansen

  • Expand Your Horizon: A programme that improves body image and reduces self-objectification by training women to focus on body functionality.

    Jessica M. Alleva;Carolien Martijn;Gerard J.P. Van Breukelen;Anita Jansen

  • The interaction between impulsivity and a varied food environment: its influence on food intake and overweight.

    R. Guerrieri;C. Nederkoorn;A.T.M. Jansen

  • Selective cognitive processing of drug cues in heroin dependence

    Ingmar H. A. Franken;Linda Y. Kroon;Reinout W. Wiers;Anita Jansen

  • The influence of trait and induced state impulsivity on food intake in normal-weight healthy women

    Ramona Guerrieri;Chantal Nederkoorn;Kasia Stankiewicz;Hugo Alberts

  • Implicit measures of association in psychopathology research.

    Anne Roefs;Jorg Huijding;Fren T. Y. Smulders;Colin M. MacLeod

  • Do not eat the red food!: prohibition of snacks leads to their relatively higher consumption in children.

    Esther Jansen;Sandra Mulkens;Anita Jansen

  • Beer à no-go: learning to stop responding to alcohol cues reduces alcohol intake via reduced affective associations rather than increased response inhibition.

    Katrijn Houben;Remco C. Havermans;Chantal Nederkoorn;Anita Jansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Chantal Nederkoorn
Chantal Nederkoorn Maastricht University
Anne Roefs
Anne Roefs Maastricht University
Remco C. Havermans
Remco C. Havermans Maastricht University
Katrijn Houben
Katrijn Houben Maastricht University
Marcel A. van den Hout
Marcel A. van den Hout Utrecht University
Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Caroline Braet
Caroline Braet Ghent University
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
Tom Smeets
Tom Smeets Tilburg University

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