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Dirk Hermans

Dirk Hermans

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Psychology
Belgium
2023

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Psychology

D-Index
82
Citations
23449
World Ranking
1339
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Dirk Hermans is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has a research focus primarily within the broad field of Psychology. Their work encompasses several subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Hermans's research covers diverse topics such as:

  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Resilience and Mental Health

Their recent scholarly contributions include the following publications:

  • Understanding clinical fear and anxiety through the lens of human fear conditioning (2023), Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Validation of the Impact of Event Scale With Modifications for COVID-19 (IES-COVID19) (2020), Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • A Learning Theory Approach to Attachment Theory: Exploring Clinical Applications (2022), Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
  • Narrative coherence predicts emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: a two-year longitudinal study (2021), Cognition & Emotion
  • Predicting clinical outcomes via human fear conditioning: A narrative review (2021), Behaviour Research and Therapy

Hermans has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Lauranne Vanaken
  • Sara Scheveneels
  • Patricia Bijttebier
  • Elien Vanderveren
  • Bram Vervliet

Common venues for Hermans's research publications include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Gedragstherapie.
  • Clinical Psychological Science

Beyond journal articles, Hermans has contributed to academic books, notably publishing Automatic Affective Processing (2024) with Psychology Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional disorder.

    J. Mark G. Williams;Thorsten Barnhofer;Catherine Crane;Dirk Hermans

  • Fear Extinction and Relapse: State of the Art

    Bram Vervliet;Michelle G. Craske;Dirk Hermans

  • The affective priming effect: Automatic activation of evaluative information in memory.

    Dirk Hermans;Jan De Houwer;Paul Eelen

  • Fear Generalization in Humans: Systematic Review and Implications for Anxiety Disorder Research

    Simon Dymond;Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Bram Vervliet;Bryan Roche

  • Reducing cognitive vulnerability to depression: A preliminary investigation of MEmory Specificity Training (MEST) in inpatients with depressive symptomatology

    Filip Raes;J. Mark G. Williams;Dirk Hermans

  • A time course analysis of the affective priming effect

    Dirk Hermans;Jan De Houwer;Paul Eelen

  • Extinction in human fear conditioning.

    Dirk Hermans;Michelle G. Craske;Susan Mineka;Peter F. Lovibond

  • On the generality of the affective Simon effect.

    Jan De Houwer;Geert Crombez;Frank Baeyens;Dirk Hermans

  • State-of-the-art and future directions for extinction as a translational model for fear and anxiety

    Michelle G. Craske;Dirk Hermans;Bram Vervliet

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

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

  • Brooding and Reflection as Subtypes of Rumination: Evidence from Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Nonclinical Samples using the Dutch Ruminative Response Scale

    Hanne Schoofs;Dirk Hermans;Filip Raes

  • Affect 4.0: A free software package for implementing psychological and psychophysiological experiments

    Adriaan Spruyt;Jeroen Clarysse;Debora Vansteenwegen;Frank Baeyens

  • Autobiographical memory specificity and affect regulation: an experimental approach.

    Filip Raes;Dirk Hermans;An de Decker;Paul Eelen

  • Differences in the affective processing of words and pictures

    Jan De Houwer;Dirk Hermans

  • Fear and learning : from basic processes to clinical implications

    Michelle Genevieve Craske;Dirk Hermans;Debora Vansteenwegen

  • Reality monitoring and metacognitive beliefs related to cognitive confidence in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Dirk Hermans;Karoline Martens;Klara De Cort;Guido Pieters

  • Reinstatement of fear responses in human aversive conditioning

    Dirk Hermans;Trinette Dirikx;Debora Vansteenwegenin;Frank Baeyens

  • Eye Movement Registration as a Continuous Index of Attention Deployment: Data from a Group of Spider Anxious Students

    Dirk Hermans;Debora Vansteenwegen;Paul Eelen

  • Affective priming of semantic categorisation responses

    Jan De Houwer;Dirk Hermans;Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura

  • Reduced autobiographical memory specificity and rumination in predicting the course of depression.

    F Raes;D Hermans;Jmg Williams;Wim Beyers

Frequent Co-Authors

Filip Raes
Filip Raes KU Leuven
Paul Eelen
Paul Eelen KU Leuven
Frank Baeyens
Frank Baeyens KU Leuven
Bram Vervliet
Bram Vervliet KU Leuven
Tom Beckers
Tom Beckers KU Leuven
Adriaan Spruyt
Adriaan Spruyt Ghent University
Guido Pieters
Guido Pieters KU Leuven
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University

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