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Overview

John F. Stins is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with particular emphasis on physical therapy, sports therapy, rehabilitation, and cognitive neuroscience. Additional subfields include social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and applied psychology.

Their main topics of focus cover balance, gait, and falls prevention, behavioral health and interventions, neural and behavioral psychology studies, action observation and synchronization, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, heart rate variability, autonomic control, as well as musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation.

Stins's work has been published in several academic venues, including:

  • Psychology & Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • PLoS ONE

Their recent papers demonstrate a range of research topics and publication years, such as:

  • "Gait-modifying effects of augmented-reality cueing in people with Parkinson's disease," 2024, Frontiers in Neurology
  • "On the physiology of interruption after unexpectedness," 2021, Biological Psychology
  • "Both distance change and movement goal affect whole-body approach-avoidance behavior," 2021, Psychology & Neuroscience
  • "Task-relevant social cues affect whole-body approach-avoidance behavior," 2023, Scientific Reports
  • "Stepping into emotions: investigating the effect of angry and fearful faces on forward stepping and quiet stance," 2024, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Stins include:

  • Peter J. Beek
  • Eva M. Hoogendoorn
  • Daphne J. Geerse
  • Melvyn Roerdink
  • Kerstin Weissinger

The research contributions by John F. Stins primarily address understanding mechanisms behind gait and balance, as well as the psychophysiological aspects of human movement and behavior. Their interdisciplinary approach bridges clinical rehabilitation with cognitive and social psychological processes to investigate health-related behaviors and neural underpinnings.

Best Publications

  • Facing freeze: social threat induces bodily freeze in humans.

    Karin Roelofs;Muriel A. Hagenaars;John Stins

  • Accounting for sequential trial effects in the flanker task: Conflict adaptation or associative priming?

    Sander Nieuwenhuis;John F. Stins;Danielle Posthuma;Tinca J. C. Polderman

  • Effects of sleep deprivation on neural functioning: an integrative review.

    T. W. Boonstra;J. F. Stins;A. Daffertshofer;P. J. Beek

  • Sway regularity reflects attentional involvement in postural control: Effects of expertise, vision and cognition

    John Stins;Marian Michielsen;Marian Michielsen;Melvyn Roerdink;Peter Jan Beek

  • Salience and choice: Neural correlates of shopping decisions

    Tim Ambler;Sven Braeutigam;John Stins;Steven Rose

  • Walk to me when I smile, step back when I’m angry: emotional faces modulate whole-body approach–avoidance behaviors

    John F. Stins;Karin Roelofs;Jody Villan;Karen Kooijman

  • Effects of affective picture viewing on postural control.

    John F Stins;Peter J Beek

  • Aversive life events enhance human freezing responses.

    Muriel A. Hagenaars;John F. Stins;Karin Roelofs

  • Effects of attention on the control of locomotion in individuals with chronic low back pain

    Claudine J.C. Lamoth;John F. Stins;Menno Pont;Frederick Kerckhoff

  • Cortical changes in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)

    C.M.A. (Karin) Swart;John F. Stins;Peter J. Beek

  • Familial influences on sustained attention and inhibition in preschoolers

    Alexia S. Groot;Leo M.J. De Sonneville;John F. Stins;Dorret I. Boomsma

  • To freeze or not to freeze? Affective and cognitive perturbations have markedly different effects on postural control

    John F. Stins;Melvyn Roerdink;Peter J. Beek

  • Human freezing in response to affective films

    Muriel A. Hagenaars;Karin Roelofs;John F. Stins

  • CONDITIONAL ACCURACY IN RESPONSE INTERFERENCE TASKS: EVIDENCE FROM THE ERIKSEN FLANKER TASK AND THE SPATIAL CONFLICT TASK

    John F. Stins;J. C. Tinca Polderman;Dorret I. Boomsma;Eco J. C. de Geus

  • Genetic analyses of the stability of executive functioning during childhood

    Tinca J.C. Polderman;Danielle Posthuma;Leo M.J. De Sonneville;John F. Stins

  • Magnetoencephalographic Signals Identify Stages in Real-Life Decision Processes

    Sven Braeutigam;John F. Stins;Steven P. R. Rose;Stephen J. Swithenby

  • A kinematic analysis of hand selection in a reaching task

    John F. Stins;Endre E. Kadar;Alan Costall

  • Sustained Attention and Executive Functioning Performance in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    John F. Stins;Marieke S. Tollenaar;Dorine I.E. Slaats-Willemse;Jan K. Buitelaar M.D.

  • Heritability of Stroop and flanker performance in 12-year old children.

    John F. Stins;G. Caroline M. van Baal;Tinca J.C. Polderman;Tinca J.C. Polderman;Frank C. Verhulst

  • Patterns of postural sway in high anxious children

    John F Stins;Annick Ledebt;Claudia Emck;Elisabeth H van Dokkum

  • Response interference and working memory in 12-year-old children

    J.F. Stins;J.C. Polderman;D.I. Boomsma;J.C.N. de Geus

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorret I. Boomsma
Dorret I. Boomsma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Karin Roelofs
Karin Roelofs Radboud University
Tinca J. C. Polderman
Tinca J. C. Polderman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Frank C. Verhulst
Frank C. Verhulst Erasmus University Rotterdam
Danielle Posthuma
Danielle Posthuma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
E.J.C. de Geus
E.J.C. de Geus Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Daan Scheepers
Daan Scheepers Leiden University
Alan Costall
Alan Costall University of Portsmouth
Roshan Cools
Roshan Cools Radboud University
Sander L. Koole
Sander L. Koole Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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