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Overview

Ap Dijksterhuis is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands and specializes primarily in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their research encompasses subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, General Decision Sciences, and Applied Psychology.

Their scholarly work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
  • Art Education and Development
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts

Recent publications by Ap Dijksterhuis feature collaboration with multiple coauthors and are published in various research venues:

  • "Stimulating Creativity: Examining the Effectiveness of Four Cognitive-based Creativity Training Techniques," 2022, The Journal of Creative Behavior
  • "The influence of school type and perceived teaching style on students' creativity," 2021, Studies In Educational Evaluation
  • "How preference change induced by mere action versus inaction persists over time," 2021, Judgment and Decision Making
  • "Online Creativity Training: Examining the Effectiveness of a Comprehensive Training Approach," 2023, International Journal of Technology and Design Education
  • "The self-generated full body illusion is accompanied by impaired detection of somatosensory stimuli," 2020, Acta Psychologica

Frequent coauthors in these works include Simone M. Ritter, Xiaojing Gu, Harm Veling, Lieke M. J. Swinkels, and Hein T. van Schie.

Ap Dijksterhuis has published across several notable venues with multiple contributions, including:

  • The Journal of Creative Behavior
  • Studies In Educational Evaluation
  • International Journal of Technology and Design Education
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Acta Psychologica

Best Publications

  • On Making the Right Choice: The Deliberation-Without-Attention Effect

    Ap Dijksterhuis;Maarten W. Bos;Loran F. Nordgren;Rick B. van Baaren

  • Beyond prejudice as simple antipathy: Hostile and benevolent sexism across cultures

    Peter Glick;Susan T. Fiske;Antonio Mladinic;José L. Saiz

  • The perception–behavior expressway: Automatic effects of social perception on social behavior.

    Ap Dijksterhuis;John A. Bargh

  • A theory of unconscious thought

    Ap Dijksterhuis;Loran F. Nordgren

  • Habits as knowledge structures: Automaticity in goal-directed behavior

    Hag Henk Aarts;A Dijksterhuis

  • Think different: the merits of unconscious thought in preference development and decision making.

    A.J. Dijksterhuis

  • The Replication Recipe: What makes for a convincing replication?

    Mark J. Brandt;Hans IJzerman;Ap Dijksterhuis;Frank J. Farach

  • The relation between perception and behavior, or how to win a game of Trivial Pursuit.

    A Dijksterhuis;A van Knippenberg

  • The Unconscious Consumer: Effects of Environment on Consumer Behavior

    Ap. Dijksterhuis;Pamela K. Smith;Rick B. van Baaren;Daniël H.J. Wigboldus

  • The silence of the library: Environment, situational norm, and social behavior

    Henk Aarts;Ap Dijksterhuis

  • What's in a name: implicit self-esteem and the automatic self.

    S.L. Koole;A.J. Dijksterhuis;A.F.M. van Knippenberg

  • The Cessation of Rumination Through Self-Affirmation

    Sander L. Koole;Karianne Smeets;Ad van Knippenberg;Ap Dijksterhuis

  • Goals, Attention, and (Un)Consciousness

    A.J. Dijksterhuis;H.A.G. Aarts

  • Seeing one thing and doing another: Contrast effects in automatic behavior.

    A Dijksterhuis;Russell Spears;Tom Postmes;DA Stapel

  • On Wildebeests and Humans The Preferential Detection of Negative Stimuli

    Ap Dijksterhuis;Henk Aarts

  • Where creativity resides: The generative power of unconscious thought

    Ap Dijksterhuis;Teun Meurs

  • I like myself but I don't know why: enhancing implicit self-esteem by subliminal evaluative conditioning.

    A.J. Dijksterhuis

  • THE AUTOMATIC ACTIVATION OF GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOUR: THE CASE OF TRAVEL HABIT

    Hag Henk Aarts;A Dijksterhuis

  • Diversifying experiences enhance cognitive flexibility

    Simone M. Ritter;Rodica Ioana Damian;Dean Keith Simonton;Rick B. van Baaren

  • To plan or not to plan? Goal achievement or interrupting the performance of mundane behaviors

    Hag Henk Aarts;A Dijksterhuis;Cjh Cees Midden

  • On the psychology of drinking: being thirsty and perceptually ready.

    Henk Aarts;Ap Dijksterhuis;Peter de Vries

Frequent Co-Authors

Rick B. van Baaren
Rick B. van Baaren Radboud University
Henk Aarts
Henk Aarts Utrecht University
Rob W. Holland
Rob W. Holland Radboud University
Ad van Knippenberg
Ad van Knippenberg Radboud University
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University
Simone Kühn
Simone Kühn Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Russell Spears
Russell Spears University of Groningen
Daniël H. J. Wigboldus
Daniël H. J. Wigboldus Radboud University
Rutger C. M. E. Engels
Rutger C. M. E. Engels Erasmus University Rotterdam
Sabine A. E. Geurts
Sabine A. E. Geurts Radboud University

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