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Frank Baeyens

Frank Baeyens

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14357
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3686
National Ranking
48

Overview

Frank Baeyens is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and neuroscience, with a notable concentration in experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, behavioral and psychological studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, memory and neural mechanisms, as well as stress responses and cortisol.

Recent publications by Frank Baeyens include:

  • Thought Conditioning: Inducing and Reducing Thoughts About the Aversive Outcome in a Fear-Conditioning Procedure (2021), published in Clinical Psychological Science
  • Transitions from avoidance: Reinforcing competing behaviours reduces generalised avoidance in new contexts (2020), published in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Clinical Psychological Science

Their frequent co-authors include Dirk Hermans, Marc Bennett, Bryan Roche, Simon Dymond, and Bram Vervliet.

Best Publications

  • Associative learning of likes and dislikes: a review of 25 years of research on human evaluative conditioning.

    Jan De Houwer;Sarah Thomas;Frank Baeyens

  • Evaluative conditioning in humans: A meta-analysis.

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Jan De Houwer;Marco Perugini;Frank Baeyens

  • When somatic information threatens, catastrophic thinking enhances attentional interference

    Geert Crombez;Chris Eccleston;Frank Baeyens;Paul Eelen

  • Food likes and their relative importance in human eating behavior: review and preliminary suggestions for health promotion

    A. Eertmans;F. Baeyens;O. Van den Bergh

  • Contingency awareness in evaluative conditioning: A case for unaware affective-evaluative learning

    Frank Baeyens;Paul Eelen;Omer van den Bergh

  • Human evaluative conditioning: acquisition trials, presentation schedule, evaluative style and contingency awareness.

    Frank Baeyens;Paul Eelen;Geert Crombez;Omer van den Bergh

  • On the generality of the affective Simon effect.

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

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

    Adriaan Spruyt;Jeroen Clarysse;Debora Vansteenwegen;Frank Baeyens

  • Flavor-flavor and color-flavor conditioning in humans

    Frank Baeyens;Paul Eelen;Omer Van den Bergh;Geert Crombez

  • Effectiveness of the Electronic Cigarette: An Eight-Week Flemish Study with Six-Month Follow-up on Smoking Reduction, Craving and Experienced Benefits and Complaints

    Karolien Adriaens;Dinska Van Gucht;Paul Declerck;Frank Baeyens

  • Once in contact always in contact: Evaluative conditioning is resistant to extinction

    Frank Baeyens;G Crombez;Omer Van den Bergh;Paul Eelen

  • Avoidance and Confrontation of Painful, Back-Straining Movements in Chronic Back Pain Patients

    Geert Crombez;Leen Vervaet;Roeland Lysens;Frank Baeyens

  • Reinstatement of fear responses in human aversive conditioning

    Dirk Hermans;Trinette Dirikx;Debora Vansteenwegenin;Frank Baeyens

  • Rating data are underrated: validity of US expectancy in human fear conditioning.

    Yannick Boddez;Frank Baeyens;Laura Luyten;Debora Vansteenwegen

  • Associative learning of likes and dislikes: Some current controversies and possible ways forward

    Jan De Houwer;Frank Baeyens;Andy P. Field

  • Return of fear in a human differential conditioning paradigm caused by a return to the original acquistion context.

    Debora Vansteenwegen;Dirk Hermans;Bram Vervliet;Geert Francken

  • Attentional disruption is enhanced by the threat of pain

    Geert Crombez;Chris Eccleston;Frank Baeyens;Paul Eelen

  • On the generality of the affective Simon effect

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  • Attention to chronic pain is dependent upon pain-related fear.

    Geert Crombez;Chris Eccleston;Frank Baeyens;Boudewijn Van Houdenhove

  • Expectancy-learning and evaluative learning in human classical conditioning: affective priming as an indirect and unobtrusive measure of conditioned stimulus valence.

    Dirk Hermans;Debora Vansteenwegen;Geert Crombez;Frank Baeyens

  • The disruptive nature of pain: An experimental investigation

    Geert Crombez;Geert Crombez;Chris Eccleston;Frank Baeyens;Frank Baeyens;Paul Eelen

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven
Paul Eelen
Paul Eelen KU Leuven
Tom Beckers
Tom Beckers KU Leuven
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez Ghent University
Bram Vervliet
Bram Vervliet KU Leuven
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Ann Meulders
Ann Meulders Maastricht University
Adriaan Spruyt
Adriaan Spruyt Ghent University

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