Publications
Punishment sensitivity predicts the impact of punishment on cognitive control Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
Cognitive control theories predict enhanced conflict adaptation after punishment. However, no such effect was found in previous work. In the present study, we demonstrate in a flanker task how behavioural adjustments following punishment signals are highly dependent on punishment sensitivity (as measured by the Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS) scale): Whereas low punishment-sensitive participants do show increased conflict adaptation after ...
The impact of punishment on cognitive control in a clinical population characterized by heightened punishment sensitivity Ghent University
Counterterrorism and the evolution of punishment of acts to punishment of intentions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A vehicle of punishment? Prison diets in Belgium circa 1900 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
For decades institutional food has been studied to learn about wider developments in foodways in the past and present. Prison diets offer additional value to these studies in that prisoners’ food has specific connotations (e.g., control or extra punishment) and that it should not exceed common diets outside the prison (the so-called less-eligibility principle). This interdisciplinary paper examines the Belgian prison system circa 1900, then ...