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Overview

Rob W. Holland is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple domains primarily within Psychology, Neuroscience, and Social Sciences, with notable contributions in subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, and General Decision Sciences.

The scientist's published work includes a significant focus on Behavioral Health and Interventions, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Cultural Differences and Values, and Behavioral and Psychological Studies.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Rob W. Holland include:

  • How can food choice best be trained? Approach-avoidance versus go/no-go training (2021, Appetite)
  • How go/no-go training changes behavior: A value-based decision-making perspective (2022, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences)
  • How preference change induced by mere action versus inaction persists over time (2021, Judgment and Decision Making)
  • Psychological reactance and vaccine uptake: a longitudinal study (2023, Psychology and Health)
  • The effect of face masks on the stereotype effect in emotion perception (2022, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Harm Veling
  • Julian Quandt
  • Gijsbert Bijlstra
  • Maximilian Primbs
  • Iris Anna Maria Verpaalen

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as:

  • Appetite
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Cognition & Emotion

Best Publications

  • Motivated decision making: Effects of activation and self-centrality of values on choices and behavior

    Bas Verplanken;Rob W. Holland

  • Mimicry and Prosocial Behavior

    Rick B. van Baaren;Rob W. Holland;Kerry Kawakami;Ad van Knippenberg

  • The Implicit Prejudiced Attitudes of Teachers Relations to Teacher Expectations and the Ethnic Achievement Gap

    Linda van den Bergh;Eddie Denessen;Lisette Hornstra;Marinus Voeten

  • Smells Like Clean Spirit Nonconscious Effects of Scent on Cognition and Behavior

    Rob W. Holland;Merel Hendriks;Henk Aarts

  • Mimicry for money: Behavioral consequences of imitation

    Rick B. van Baaren;Rob W. Holland;Bregje Steenaert;Ad van Knippenberg

  • Breaking and creating habits on the working floor: A field-experiment on the power of implementation intentions.

    Rob W. Holland;Henk Aarts;Daan Langendam

  • The Nonconscious Cessation of Goal Pursuit: When Goals and Negative Affect Are Coactivated

    Henk Aarts;Ruud Custers;Rob W. Holland

  • On the nature of attitude-behavior relations: the strong guide, the weak follow

    Rob W. Holland;Bas Verplanken;Ad Van Knippenberg

  • Forgiveness and Its Associations With Prosocial Thinking, Feeling, and Doing Beyond the Relationship With the Offender:

    Johan C. Karremans;Paul A. M. Van Lange;Rob W. Holland

  • Don't Stand So Close to Me The Effects of Self-Construal on Interpersonal Closeness

    Rob W. Holland;Ute-Regina Roeder;Baaren Rick B.van;Aafje C. Brandt

  • When approach motivation and behavioral inhibition collide: Behavior regulation through stimulus devaluation

    Harm Veling;Rob W. Holland;Ad van Knippenberg

  • Finding Comfort in a Joke: Consolatory Effects of Humor Through Cognitive Distraction

    Madelijn Strick;Rob W. Holland;Rick B. van Baaren;Ad van Knippenberg

  • From repetition to conviction: Attitude accessibility as a determinant of attitude certainty

    Rob W Holland;Bas Verplanken;Ad van Knippenberg

  • Humor in advertisements enhances product liking by mere association

    Madelijn Strick;Rick B. van Baaren;Rob W. Holland;Ad van Knippenberg

  • What Is Trained During Food Go/No-Go Training? A Review Focusing on Mechanisms and a Research Agenda

    Harm Veling;Natalia S. Lawrence;Zhang Chen;Guido M. van Koningsbruggen

  • Fitting decisions: Mood and intuitive versus deliberative decision strategies

    Marieke de Vries;Rob W. Holland;Cilia L. M. Witteman

  • Dissonance on the Road: Self-Esteem as a Moderator of Internal and External Self-Justification Strategies

    Rob W. Holland;Ree M. Meertens;Mark van Vugt

  • Regulating cognitive control through approach-avoidance motor actions.

    Severine Koch;Rob W. Holland;Ad van Knippenberg

  • Approach avoidance training in the eating domain: testing the effectiveness across three single session studies.

    Daniela Becker;Nils B. Jostmann;Reinout W. Wiers;Rob W. Holland

  • Body Locomotion as Regulatory Process: Stepping Backward Enhances Cognitive Control

    Severine Koch;Rob W. Holland;Maikel Hengstler;Ad van Knippenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Ad van Knippenberg
Ad van Knippenberg Radboud University
Ap Dijksterhuis
Ap Dijksterhuis Radboud University
Daniël H. J. Wigboldus
Daniël H. J. Wigboldus Radboud University
Rick B. van Baaren
Rick B. van Baaren Radboud University
Rutger C. M. E. Engels
Rutger C. M. E. Engels Erasmus University Rotterdam
Bas Verplanken
Bas Verplanken University of Bath
Catrin Finkenauer
Catrin Finkenauer Utrecht University
Johan C. Karremans
Johan C. Karremans Radboud University
Henk Aarts
Henk Aarts Utrecht University
Piotr Winkielman
Piotr Winkielman University of California, San Diego

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