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Jan De Houwer

Jan De Houwer

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Psychology
Belgium
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
100
Citations
39836
World Ranking
621
National Ranking
6

Jan De Houwer publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jan De Houwer sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 497 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Jan De Houwer D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jan De Houwer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 100 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Jan De Houwer is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their research output includes over one hundred publications in psychology, supported by a solid foundation of work spanning cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and applied psychology.

Their published work covers several principal subject areas, including:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

De Houwer's research has been disseminated through numerous academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Collabra Psychology
  • Journal of Cognition
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by De Houwer include:

  • "Revisiting classical conditioning as a model for anxiety disorders: A conceptual analysis and brief review" (2020), published in Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • "Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: A Review and Research Agenda From a Goal-Directed Perspective" (2020), appearing in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Twenty-Five Years of Research Using Implicit Measures" (2020), featured in Social Cognition
  • "An Episodic Model of Task Switching Effects: Erasing the Homunculus from Memory" (2020), from Journal of Cognition
  • "A goal-directed account of action slips: The reliance on old contingencies." (2022), published in Journal of Experimental Psychology General

De Houwer has collaborated frequently with several scholars, including:

  • Pieter Van Dessel
  • Sean Hughes
  • Yannick Boddez
  • J. David Cummins
  • Baptist Liefooghe

Their academic contributions also extend to book publications. These include titles such as:

  • The Psychology of Learning: An Introduction from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective (2020), published by Ghent University
  • Automatic Affective Processing (2024), published by Psychology Press eBooks

In summary, Jan De Houwer's scholarly activity focuses on cognitive and social psychological processes, with significant work on conditioning, implicit measures, and behavioral health interventions. Their collaborative network and consistent presence in established psychology journals highlight a diverse and interdisciplinary research profile.

Best Publications

  • Automaticity: A Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis.

    Agnes Moors;Jan De Houwer

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

    Jan De Houwer;Sarah Thomas;Frank Baeyens

  • Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review.

    Jan De Houwer;Sarah Teige-Mocigemba;Adriaan Spruyt;Agnes Moors

  • Evaluative conditioning in humans: A meta-analysis.

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

  • Recommendations for increasing replicability in psychology.

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Mark Conner;Filip de Fruyt;Jan De Houwer

  • The propositional nature of human associative learning.

    Chris J. Mitchell;Jan De Houwer;Peter F. Lovibond

  • Selective attention to threat in the dot probe paradigm: differentiating vigilance and difficulty to disengage

    Ernst H.W. Koster;Geert Crombez;Bruno Verschuere;Jan De Houwer

  • The Extrinsic Affective Simon Task.

    Jan De Houwer

  • What Are Implicit Measures and Why Are We Using Them

    Jan De Houwer

  • What Is Learning? on the Nature and Merits of a Functional Definition of Learning

    Jan De Houwer;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Agnes Moors

  • A review of current evidence for the causal impact of attentional bias on fear and anxiety

    Bram Van Bockstaele;Bruno Verschuere;Helen Tibboel;Jan De Houwer

  • Eye movements to smoking-related pictures in smokers: relationship between attentional biases and implicit and explicit measures of stimulus valence

    Karin Mogg;Brendan P. Bradley;Matt Field;Jan De Houwer

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

    Dirk Hermans;Jan De Houwer;Paul Eelen

  • Implicit measures in social and personality psychology

    Bertram Gawronski;Jan De Houwer

  • A Conceptual and Theoretical Analysis of Evaluative Conditioning

    Jan De Houwer

  • The propositional approach to associative learning as an alternative for association formation models.

    Jan D E Houwer

  • A Structural and Process Analysis of the Implicit Association Test

    Jan De Houwer

  • A time course analysis of the affective priming effect

    Dirk Hermans;Jan De Houwer;Paul Eelen

  • Does Imminent Threat Capture and Hold Attention

    Ernst H. W. Koster;Geert Crombez;Stefaan Van Damme;Bruno Verschuere

  • A structural analysis of indirect measures of attitudes

    Jan De Houwer;J. Musch;K. C. Klauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Agnes Moors
Agnes Moors KU Leuven
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez Ghent University
Adriaan Spruyt
Adriaan Spruyt Ghent University
Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven
Tom Beckers
Tom Beckers KU Leuven
Bruno Verschuere
Bruno Verschuere University of Amsterdam
Paul Eelen
Paul Eelen KU Leuven
Frank Baeyens
Frank Baeyens KU Leuven
Bertram Gawronski
Bertram Gawronski The University of Texas at Austin
Ernst H. W. Koster
Ernst H. W. Koster Ghent University

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