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Overview

Katrijn Houben is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily falls under the broad field of psychology, with a focus on areas such as public health, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work spans various topics including obesity, physical activity, and diet; behavioral health and interventions; eating disorders and behaviors; anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes; culinary culture and tourism; the Delphi technique in research; and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Recent publications by Katrijn Houben include:

  • "Cognitive training and remediation interventions for substance use disorders: a Delphi consensus study" (2022), published in Addiction
  • "Combined Working Memory Training and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Demonstrates Low Feasibility and Potentially Worse Outcomes on Delay to Smoking and Cognitive Tasks: A Randomized 2 × 2 Factorial Design Pilot and Feasibility Study" (2022), published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research
  • "Working memory training efficacy in COPD: the randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled Cogtrain trial" (2021), published in ERJ Open Research
  • "Is there a difference between stopping and avoiding? A review of the mechanisms underlying Go/No-Go and Approach-Avoidance training for food choice" (2023), published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "How does Go/No-Go training lead to food devaluation? Separating the effects of motor inhibition and response valence" (2023), published in Cognition & Emotion

Frequent coauthors in Katrijn Houben's research include Pauline Dibbets, Rosalie Mourmans, Britt Fleischeuer, Chantal Nederkoorn, and Anouk E.M. Hendriks-Hartensveld.

The most common publication venues for their work include:

  • Appetite
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Addiction

The main subfields addressed in Houben's research can be summarized as:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Retraining automatic action-tendencies to approach alcohol in hazardous drinkers

    Reinout W. Wiers;Mike Rinck;Robert Kordts;Katrijn Houben

  • Control yourself or just eat what you like? Weight gain over a year is predicted by an interactive effect of response inhibition and implicit preference for snack foods

    Chantal Nederkoorn;Katrijn Houben;Wilhelm Hofmann;Anne Roefs

  • Getting a Grip on Drinking Behavior Training Working Memory to Reduce Alcohol Abuse

    Katrijn Houben;Reinout W. Wiers;Anita Jansen

  • Resisting temptation: Decreasing alcohol-related affect and drinking behavior by training response inhibition

    Katrijn Houben;Chantal Nederkoorn;Reinout W. Wiers;Anita Jansen

  • Training inhibitory control. A recipe for resisting sweet temptations

    Katrijn Houben;Anita Jansen

  • Beer à no-go: learning to stop responding to alcohol cues reduces alcohol intake via reduced affective associations rather than increased response inhibition.

    Katrijn Houben;Remco C. Havermans;Chantal Nederkoorn;Anita Jansen

  • Response Inhibition Moderates the Relationship Between Implicit Associations and Drinking Behavior

    Katrijn Houben;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Overcoming the urge to splurge: influencing eating behavior by manipulating inhibitory control.

    Katrijn Houben

  • Learning to dislike alcohol: conditioning negative implicit attitudes toward alcohol and its effect on drinking behavior

    Katrijn Houben;Remco C. Havermans;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Eating on impulse: the relation between overweight and food-specific inhibitory control.

    Katrijn Houben;Chantal Nederkoorn;Anita Jansen

  • I didn't feel like drinking but I don't know why: The effects of evaluative conditioning on alcohol-related attitudes, craving and behavior

    Katrijn Houben;Tim M. Schoenmakers;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Time orientation and eating behavior: Unhealthy eaters consider immediate consequences, while healthy eaters focus on future health.

    Fania C.M. Dassen;Katrijn Houben;Anita Jansen

  • Focus on the future: Episodic future thinking reduces discount rate and snacking

    Fania C.M. Dassen;Anita Jansen;Chantal Nederkoorn;Katrijn Houben

  • Specificity of the failure to inhibit responses in overweight children

    Chantal Nederkoorn;Jennifer S. Coelho;Ramona Guerrieri;Katrijn Houben

  • Alcohol cognitive bias modification training for problem drinkers over the web.

    Reinout W. Wiers;Katrijn Houben;Javad Salehi Fadardi;Javad Salehi Fadardi;Paul Van Beek

  • Assessing implicit alcohol associations with the Implicit Association Test: fact or artifact?

    Katrijn Houben;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Implicitly positive about alcohol? Implicit positive associations predict drinking behavior

    Katrijn Houben;Reinout W. Wiers;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Chocolate equals stop : chocolate-specific inhibition training reduces chocolate intake and go associations with chocolate

    Katrijn Houben;Anita Jansen

  • A cognitive profile of obesity and its translation into new interventions

    Anita Jansen;Katrijn Houben;Anne Roefs

  • Taking control: Working memory training in overweight individuals increases self-regulation of food intake.

    Katrijn Houben;Fania C.M. Dassen;Anita Jansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Anita Jansen
Anita Jansen Maastricht University
Chantal Nederkoorn
Chantal Nederkoorn Maastricht University
Anne Roefs
Anne Roefs Maastricht University
Matt Field
Matt Field University of Sheffield
Remco C. Havermans
Remco C. Havermans Maastricht University
Wilhelm Hofmann
Wilhelm Hofmann Ruhr University Bochum
Suzanne Higgs
Suzanne Higgs University of Birmingham
Barbara Mullan
Barbara Mullan Curtin University
Eric Robinson
Eric Robinson University of Liverpool

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