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Overview

Mike Rinck is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of Psychology, with a particular focus on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Clinical Psychology. Their work spans a variety of subfields including Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range within behavioral and mental health areas. Key themes include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Other notable areas of study encompass behavioral health and interventions, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research topics, perfectionism, procrastination, anxiety studies, behavioral and psychological studies, and cultural differences and values.

Mike Rinck's frequently published venues demonstrate a concentration in behavior therapy and addictive behaviors, appearing multiple times in:

  • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research

Co-authorship collaborations are notable with several researchers, including:

  • Eni S. Becker
  • Reínout W. Wiers
  • Johannes Lindenmeyer
  • Anke M. Klein
  • Janna N. Vrijsen

Recent publications by Mike Rinck reflect their involvement in studies related to cognitive and emotional processes in psychopathology and behavioral interventions:

  • "Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions," 2022, Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • "Biased approach-avoidance tendencies in psychopathology: A systematic review of their assessment and modification," 2020, Clinical Psychology Review (co-authored by Anke Loijen)
  • "Does comorbid anxiety or depression moderate effects of approach bias modification in the treatment of alcohol use disorders?" 2021, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors (co-authored by Elske Salemink)
  • "How pre-processing decisions affect the reliability and validity of the approach-avoidance task: Evidence from simulations and multiverse analyses with six datasets," 2023, Behavior Research Methods (co-authored by Sercan Kahveci)
  • "Approach-Bias Retraining and Other Training Interventions as Add-On in the Treatment of AUD Patients," 2023, Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences (co-authored by Reínout W. Wiers)

Best Publications

  • Retraining Automatic Action Tendencies Changes Alcoholic Patients’ Approach Bias for Alcohol and Improves Treatment Outcome

    Reinout W. Wiers;Carolin Eberl;Mike Rinck;Eni S. Becker

  • Approach and avoidance in fear of spiders.

    Mike Rinck;Eni S. Becker

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

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

  • Approach bias modification in alcohol dependence: Do clinical effects replicate and for whom does it work best?

    Carolin Eberl;Reinout W. Wiers;Steffen Pawelczack;Mike Rinck

  • Avoidance of emotional facial expressions in social anxiety: The Approach–Avoidance Task

    Kathrin Heuer;Mike Rinck;Eni S. Becker

  • Relatively strong automatic appetitive action-tendencies in male carriers of the OPRM1 G-allele.

    R.W.H.J. Wiers;M. Rinck;M. Dictus;E. van den Wildenberg

  • Emotion simulation during language comprehension

    David A. Havas;Arthur M. Glenberg;Mike Rinck

  • Emotional and Temporal Aspects of Situation Model Processing during Text Comprehension: An Event-Related fMRI Study

    Evelyn C. Ferstl;Mike Rinck;D. Yves Von Cramon

  • The emotional Stroop effect in anxiety disorders: General emotionality or disorder specificity?

    Eni S Becker;Mike Rinck;Jürgen Margraf;Walton T Roth

  • Spider fearful individuals attend to threat, then quickly avoid it: evidence from eye movements.

    Mike Rinck;Eni S. Becker

  • Epidemiology of specific phobia subtypes: Findings from the Dresden Mental Health Study

    Eni S. Becker;Mike Rinck;Veneta Türke;Petra Kause

  • A comparison of attentional biases and memory biases in women with social phobia and major depression.

    Mike Rinck;Eni S. Becker

  • Speeded detection and increased distraction in fear of spiders: evidence from eye movements.

    Mike Rinck;Andrea Reinecke;Thomas Ellwart;Kathrin Heuer

  • Chapter 16 – Eye Movement Measures to Study Global Text Processing

    Jukka Hyönä;Robert F. Lorch;Mike Rinck

  • Gaze direction differentially affects avoidance tendencies to happy and angry faces in socially anxious individuals

    Karin Roelofs;Peter Putman;Sonja Schouten;Wolf-Gero Lange

  • Anaphora Resolution and the Focus of Attention in Situation Models

    M. Rinck;G.H. Bower

  • Effects of Cognitive Bias Modification Training on Neural Alcohol Cue Reactivity in Alcohol Dependence

    Corinde E Wiers;Christine Stelzel;Thomas Edward Gladwin;Soyoung Q Park

  • Relapse prevention in abstinent alcoholics by cognitive bias modification: Clinical effects of combining approach bias modification and attention bias modification

    Mike Rinck;Reinout W Wiers;Eni S Becker;Johannes Lindenmeyer

  • Don’t Worry and Beware of White Bears: Thought Suppression in Anxiety Patients

    Eni S. Becker;Mike Rinck;Walton T. Roth;Jürgen Margraf

  • Mental Models and Narrative Comprehension: Some Qualifications

    Stephanie Gray Wilson;Mike Rinck;Timothy P. McNamara;Gordon H. Bower

Frequent Co-Authors

Eni S. Becker
Eni S. Becker Radboud University
Gordon H. Bower
Gordon H. Bower Stanford University
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Jürgen Margraf
Jürgen Margraf Ruhr University Bochum
Walton T. Roth
Walton T. Roth Stanford University
Arthur M. Glenberg
Arthur M. Glenberg Arizona State University
Ger P. J. Keijsers
Ger P. J. Keijsers Radboud University
Jürgen Hoyer
Jürgen Hoyer TU Dresden
Daniel A. Fitzgerald
Daniel A. Fitzgerald University of Illinois at Chicago
Susan M. Bögels
Susan M. Bögels University of Amsterdam

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