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Overview

Sanne de Wit is a researcher affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their work centers primarily on psychology, contributing to the field through a focus on applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, health, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

Their research involves several main topics, including behavioral health and interventions, health disparities and outcomes, mental health research topics, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, neural and behavioral psychology studies, aging and gerontology research, and eating disorders and behaviors.

The researcher has published in multiple academic venues with some frequency, including:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Behavior Research Methods

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sanne de Wit include Lotte P. Brinkhof, Jaap M. J. Murre, K. Richard Ridderinkhof, Harm J. Krugers, and Tim van Timmeren.

Recent papers reflect diverse research interests with emphasis on behavior and psychological constructs:

  • What is habit and how can it be used to change real-world behaviour? Narrowing the theory-reality gap (2024, Social and Personality Psychology Compass)
  • The Interplay Between Quality of Life and Resilience Factors in Later Life: A Network Analysis (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • The Subjective Experience of Ageism: The Perceived Ageism Questionnaire (PAQ) (2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • Investigating habits in humans with a symmetrical outcome-revaluation task (2022, Behavior Research Methods)
  • Promoting physical distancing during COVID-19: a systematic approach to compare behavioral interventions (2021, Scientific Reports)

The scope of their work suggests involvement in interdisciplinary areas touching on psychological health, aging, and behavioral interventions, with a considerable body of publications addressing real-world behavior change and psychological assessments.

Best Publications

  • Neurocognitive endophenotypes of impulsivity and compulsivity: towards dimensional psychiatry

    Trevor W. Robbins;Claire M. Gillan;Dana G. Smith;Sanne de Wit

  • Disruption in the balance between goal-directed behavior and habit learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Claire M. Gillan;Martina Papmeyer;Sharon Morein-Zamir;Barbara J. Sahakian

  • Associative theories of goal-directed behaviour: a case for animal-human translational models.

    Sanne de Wit;Anthony Dickinson

  • Corticostriatal Connectivity Underlies Individual Differences in the Balance between Habitual and Goal-Directed Action Control

    Sanne de Wit;Poppy Watson;Helga A Harsay;Michael X Cohen

  • Social media and depression symptoms: A network perspective.

    George Aalbers;Richard J. McNally;Alexandre Heeren;Sanne de Wit

  • Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence for overreliance on habit learning in alcohol-dependent patients

    Z. Sjoerds;Z. Sjoerds;S. de Wit;W. van den Brink;T.W. Robbins

  • Behavioral and neuroanatomical characterization of the Fmr1 knockout mouse.

    Yann S. Mineur;Yann S. Mineur;Frans Sluyter;Sanne de Wit;Ben A. Oostra

  • Carrots and sticks fail to change behavior in cocaine addiction.

    Karen D. Ersche;Claire M. Gillan;Claire M. Gillan;P. Simon Jones;Guy B. Williams

  • Differential engagement of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex by goal-directed and habitual behavior toward food pictures in humans

    Sanne de Wit;Philip R Corlett;Michael Aitken;Anthony Dickinson

  • Shifting the balance between goals and habits: Five failures in experimental habit induction.

    Sanne de Wit;Merel Kindt;Sarah L. Knot;Aukje A. C. Verhoeven

  • Working for food you don't desire. Cues interfere with goal-directed food-seeking

    P. Watson;R.W. Wiers;B. Hommel;S. de Wit

  • Enhanced habit formation in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome

    Cécile Delorme;Alexandre Salvador;Alexandre Salvador;Romain Valabrègue;Emmanuel Roze

  • Reliance on habits at the expense of goal-directed control following dopamine precursor depletion

    Sanne de Wit;Sanne de Wit;Holly R. Standing;Elise E. DeVito;Elise E. DeVito;Oliver J. Robinson;Oliver J. Robinson

  • Habitual versus goal-directed action control in parkinson disease

    Sanne de Wit;Roger A. Barker;Anthony D. Dickinson;Roshan Cools

  • Stimulus-outcome interactions during instrumental discrimination learning by rats and humans.

    S. de Wit;D. Niry;R. Wariyar;M. R. F. Aitken

  • Current limits of experimental research into habits and future directions

    Unknown

  • Motivational mechanisms and outcome expectancies underlying the approach bias toward addictive substances

    P. Watson;S. de Wit;Bernhard Hommel;R. W. Wiers

  • Neurocognitive and Clinical Predictors of Long-Term Outcome in Adolescents at Ultra-High Risk for Psychosis: A 6-Year Follow-Up

    Tim Ziermans;Sanne de Wit;Patricia Schothorst;Mirjam Sprong

  • Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex Resolves Response Conflict in Rats

    Sanne de Wit;Yutaka Kosaki;Bernard Walter Balleine;Anthony Dickinson

  • Distinct Modulatory Effects of Satiety and Sibutramine on Brain Responses to Food Images in Humans: A Double Dissociation across Hypothalamus, Amygdala, and Ventral Striatum

    P.C. Fletcher;A. Napolitano;A. Skeggs;S.R. Miller

  • Ketamine administration in healthy volunteers reproduces aberrant agency experiences associated with schizophrenia

    James W. Moore;Danielle C. Turner;Philip R. Corlett;Philip R. Corlett;Fernando S. Arana;Fernando S. Arana

Frequent Co-Authors

Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Claire M. Gillan
Claire M. Gillan Trinity College Dublin
Anthony Dickinson
Anthony Dickinson University of Cambridge
Bernhard Hommel
Bernhard Hommel Shandong Normal University
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
K. Richard Ridderinkhof
K. Richard Ridderinkhof University of Amsterdam
Annette Horstmann
Annette Horstmann University of Helsinki
Herman van Engeland
Herman van Engeland Utrecht University
Barbara J. Sahakian
Barbara J. Sahakian University of Cambridge

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