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Overview

Anne Roefs is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands and focuses their research primarily within the field of psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, applied psychology, and sensory systems.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
  • Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Some of the recent papers associated with Anne Roefs include:

  • "A new science of mental disorders: Using personalised, transdiagnostic, dynamical systems to understand, model, diagnose and treat psychopathology" (2022), published in Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • "Power of mind: Attentional focus rather than palatability dominates neural responding to visual food stimuli in females with overweight" (2020), published in Appetite
  • "Interpersonal Psychotherapy Versus Cognitive Therapy for Depression: How They Work, How Long, and for Whom-Key Findings From an RCT" (2020), published in American Journal of Psychotherapy
  • "Tackling sabotaging cognitive processes to reduce overeating; expectancy violation during food cue exposure" (2020), published in Physiology & Behavior
  • "Food Captures Attention, but Not the Eyes: An Eye-Tracking Study on Mindset and BMI's Impact on Attentional Capture by High-Caloric Visual Food Stimuli" (2022), published in Journal of Cognition

Their collaborations include frequent co-authorship with Anita Jansen, Sieske Franssen, Gerasimos Spanakis, Mandani Ntekouli, and Lourens Waldorp.

Anne Roefs has published multiple times in several venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Appetite
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Physiology & Behavior
  • Journal of Cognition

Their research outputs emphasize experimental and clinical approaches to understanding psychological phenomena, with particular attention to mental disorders, eating behaviors, and sensory and cognitive processes.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Overweight children overeat after exposure to food cues.

    Anita Jansen;Nicole Theunissen;Katrien Slechten;Chantal Nederkoorn

  • Three ways to resist temptation: The independent contributions of executive attention, inhibitory control, and affect regulation to the impulse control of eating behavior

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Malte Friese;Anne Roefs

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

    Jessica Werthmann;Anne Roefs;Chantal Nederkoorn;Karin Mogg

  • Implicit measures of association in psychopathology research.

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

  • The interactive effect of hunger and impulsivity on food intake and purchase in a virtual supermarket

    C. Nederkoorn;R. Guerrieri;R.C. Havermans;A.J. Roefs

  • The role of attentional bias in obesity and addiction

    Matt Field;Jessica Werthmann;Ingmar Franken;Wilhelm Hofmann

  • Implicit and explicit attitudes toward high-fat foods in obesity.

    Anne Roefs;Anita Jansen

  • External eating, impulsivity and attentional bias to food cues

    Ruihua Hou;Karin Mogg;Brendan P. Bradley;Rona Moss-Morris

  • Happy eating. The underestimated role of overeating in a positive mood

    Peggy Bongers;Anita Jansen;Remco Havermans;Anne Roefs

  • Fighting food temptations: The modulating effects of short-term cognitive reappraisal, suppression and up-regulation on mesocorticolimbic activity related to appetitive motivation

    Nicolette Siep;Anne Roefs;Alard Roebroeck;Remco Havermans

  • Worry or craving? : A selective review of evidence for food-related attention biases in obese individuals, eating-disorder patients, restrained eaters and healthy samples

    Jessica Werthmann;Anita Jansen;Anne Roefs

  • Attentional bias for body and food in eating disorders: increased distraction, speeded detection, or both?

    Elke Smeets;Anne Roefs;Eric van Furth;Anita Jansen

  • Bias for the (un)attractive self: on the role of attention in causing body (dis)satisfaction.

    Elke Smeets;Anita Jansen;Anne Roefs

  • Food liking, food wanting, and sensory-specific satiety

    Remco C. Havermans;Tim Janssen;Janneke C.A.H. Giesen;Anne Roefs

  • A new science of mental disorders: Using personalised, transdiagnostic, dynamical systems to understand, model, diagnose and treat psychopathology

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  • Bits and pieces. Food texture influences food acceptance in young children.

    Jessica Werthmann;Anita Jansen;Remco Havermans;Chantal Nederkoorn

  • Negative affect and cue-induced overeating in non-eating disordered obesity.

    Anita Jansen;Annoesjka Vanreyten;Tessa van Balveren;Anne Roefs

  • At first sight: How do restrained eaters evaluate high-fat palatable foods?

    A.J. Roefs;C. Herman;C. Macleod;F.T.Y. Smulders

Frequent Co-Authors

Anita Jansen
Anita Jansen Maastricht University
Chantal Nederkoorn
Chantal Nederkoorn Maastricht University
Remco C. Havermans
Remco C. Havermans Maastricht University
Katrijn Houben
Katrijn Houben Maastricht University
Peter J. de Jong
Peter J. de Jong University of Groningen
Marcus J.H. Huibers
Marcus J.H. Huibers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Wilhelm Hofmann
Wilhelm Hofmann Ruhr University Bochum
Arnoud Arntz
Arnoud Arntz University of Amsterdam
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Frenk Peeters
Frenk Peeters Maastricht University

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