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526
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Overview

Reinout W. Wiers is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, particularly in experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research spans several subfields including:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology

The main topics covered in their work focus on:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Frequent publication venues for Wiers include:

  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Addiction
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Internet Interventions
  • Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research

Recent academic papers associated with Wiers or their close research network are:

  • Best research practices for using the Implicit Association Test, 2021, Behavior Research Methods
  • A new science of mental disorders: Using personalised, transdiagnostic, dynamical systems to understand, model, diagnose and treat psychopathology, 2022, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Advancing urban mental health research: from complexity science to actionable targets for intervention, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Methods to split cognitive task data for estimating split-half reliability: A comprehensive review and systematic assessment, 2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Investigating the feasibility of idiographic network models, 2022, Psychological Methods

Wiers has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including:

  • Elske Salemink
  • Janna Cousijn
  • Anke M. Klein
  • Helle Larsen
  • Peter Vonk

Best Publications

  • National differences in gender–science stereotypes predict national sex differences in science and math achievement

    Brian A. Nosek;Frederick L. Smyth;N. Sriram;Nicole M. Lindner

  • 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

  • Automatic and controlled processes and the development of addictive behaviors in adolescents: a review and a model.

    Reinout W. Wiers;Bruce D. Bartholow;Esther van den Wildenberg;Carolien Thush

  • Impulsive versus reflective influences on health behavior: a theoretical framework and empirical review

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Malte Friese;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Working memory capacity and self-regulatory behavior: Toward an individual differences perspective on behavior determination by automatic versus controlled processes

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Tobias Gschwendner;Malte Friese;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Implicit cognition and addiction: a tool for explaining paradoxical behavior.

    Alan W. Stacy;Reinout W. Wiers

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

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

  • Implicit and explicit alcohol-related cognitions in heavy and light drinkers

    Reinout W. Wiers;Nieske van Woerden;Fren T. Y. Smulders;Peter J. de Jong

  • 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

  • Cognitive Bias Modification and Cognitive Control Training in Addiction and Related Psychopathology: Mechanisms, Clinical Perspectives, and Ways Forward

    Reinout W. Wiers;Thomas E. Gladwin;Wilhelm Hofmann;Elske Salemink

  • Online gaming addiction? Motives predict addictive play behavior in massively multiplayer online role-playing games.

    Daria J. Kuss;Jorik Louws;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Clinical effectiveness of attentional bias modification training in abstinent alcoholic patients.

    Tim M. Schoenmakers;Marijn de Bruin;Irja F.M. Lux;Alexa G. Goertz

  • 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

  • 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

  • Handbook of implicit cognition and addiction

    Reinout Willem Henry Jon Wiers;Alan W. Stacy

  • Addiction, adolescence, and the integration of control and motivation.

    Thomas E. Gladwin;Bernd Figner;Bernd Figner;Eveline A. Crone;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Implicit Cognition and Addiction

    Reinout W. Wiers;Alan W. Stacy

  • Interactions between implicit and explicit cognition and working memory capacity in the prediction of alcohol use in at-risk adolescents.

    Carolien Thush;Reinout W. Wiers;Susan L. Ames;Jerry L. Grenard

  • Grey matter alterations associated with cannabis use: results of a VBM study in heavy cannabis users and healthy controls.

    Janna Cousijn;Reinout W. Wiers;K. Richard Ridderinkhof;Wim van den Brink

  • Acute Alcohol Effects on Inhibitory Control and Implicit Cognition: Implications for Loss of Control Over Drinking

    Matt Field;Reinout W. Wiers;Paul Christiansen;Mark T. Fillmore

Frequent Co-Authors

Elske Salemink
Elske Salemink Utrecht University
Janna Cousijn
Janna Cousijn Erasmus University Rotterdam
Alan W. Stacy
Alan W. Stacy Claremont Graduate University
Katrijn Houben
Katrijn Houben Maastricht University
Anna E. Goudriaan
Anna E. Goudriaan University of Amsterdam
Rutger C. M. E. Engels
Rutger C. M. E. Engels Erasmus University Rotterdam
Pier J. M. Prins
Pier J. M. Prins University of Amsterdam
Patricia J. Conrod
Patricia J. Conrod University of Montreal
Eni S. Becker
Eni S. Becker Radboud University
Susan L. Ames
Susan L. Ames Claremont Graduate University

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