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Omer Van den Bergh

Omer Van den Bergh

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Psychology

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Overview

Omer Van den Bergh is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, with extensive work in the fields of Medicine and Psychology. Their research primarily addresses Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Philosophy, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics of Van den Bergh's work include Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research, Mental Health and Psychiatry, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, Pain Management and Placebo Effect, and Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control.

Van den Bergh has published several notable papers, including:

  • Better Safe Than Sorry: A Common Signature of General Vulnerability for Psychopathology, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Persistent SOMAtic symptoms ACROSS diseases - from risk factors to modification: scientific framework and overarching protocol of the interdisciplinary SOMACROSS research unit (RU 5211), 2022, BMJ Open
  • The relation between conspiracism, government trust, and COVID-19 vaccination intentions: The key role of motivation, 2022, Social Science & Medicine
  • Can Slow Deep Breathing Reduce Pain? An Experimental Study Exploring Mechanisms, 2020, Journal of Pain
  • Predicting vaccine uptake during COVID-19 crisis: A motivational approach, 2021, Vaccine

Their frequent co-authors include Maarten Vansteenkiste, Sofie Morbée, Joachim Waterschoot, Michael Witthöft, and Pascaline Van Oost.

Van den Bergh's research has appeared repeatedly in key publication venues such as the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Biological Psychology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Research, and Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Symptoms and the body: Taking the inferential leap

    Omer Van den Bergh;Michael Witthöft;Sibylle Petersen;Richard J. Brown

  • 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

  • Food-related personality traits, food choice motives and food intake: Mediator and moderator relationships.

    Audrey Eertmans;An Victoir;Greet Vansant;Omer Van den Bergh

  • Flavor-flavor and color-flavor conditioning in humans

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

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

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

  • Reinstatement of fear responses in human aversive conditioning

    Dirk Hermans;Trinette Dirikx;Debora Vansteenwegenin;Frank Baeyens

  • Persistent Physical Symptoms as Perceptual Dysregulation: A Neuropsychobehavioral Model and Its Clinical Implications

    Peter Henningsen;Harald Gündel;Willem J Kop;Bernd Löwe

  • Respiratory Changes in Response to Cognitive Load: A Systematic Review.

    Mariel Grassmann;Elke Vlemincx;Andreas von Leupoldt;Justin M. Mittelstädt

  • Inaccurate perception of asthma symptoms: a cognitive-affective framework and implications for asthma treatment.

    Thomas Janssens;Geert Verleden;Steven De Peuter;Ilse Van Diest

  • Verdere validering van de Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) en vergelijking van twee Nederlandstalige versies.

    Ute Engelen;Steven De Peuter;An Victoir;Ilse Van Diest

  • The repeated confrontation with videotapes of spiders in multiple contexts attenuates renewal of fear in spider-anxious students.

    Debora Vansteenwegen;Bram Vervliet;Carlos Iberico;Frank Baeyens

  • Extinction, generalization, and return of fear: a critical review of renewal research in humans.

    Bram Vervliet;Frank Baeyens;Omer Van den Bergh;Dirk Hermans

  • Pain and respiration: a systematic review

    Hassan Jafari;Imke Courtois;Omer Van den Bergh;Johan W S Vlaeyen

  • The Content of Learning in Human Evaluative Conditioning: Acquired Valence Is Sensitive to US-Revaluation

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

  • Sigh rate and respiratory variability during mental load and sustained attention.

    Elke Vlemincx;Joachim Taelman;Steven De Peuter;Ilse Van Diest

  • Acquired affective-evaluative value: Conservative but not unchangeable

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

  • Stress Reduction Through Psychoeducation A Meta- Analytic Review

    Tom Van Daele;Dirk Hermans;Chantal Van Audenhove;Omer Van den Bergh

  • The Food Choice Questionnaire: Factorial invariant over western urban populations?

    Audrey Eertmans;An Victoir;Guy Notelaers;Greet Vansant

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