Publications
Observer bias in animal behaviour research: can we believe what we score, if we score what we believe? Ghent University
Attentional bias to food during free and instructed viewing in anorexia nervosa Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
Previous research has shown that patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) show an attentional bias to food. However, due to different conceptualizations of attentional bias and the use of various paradigms, results are inconclusive and more precise insights into the exact nature of this attentional bias are needed. Therefore, an eye-tracking paradigm with food (low and high caloric) and non-food (objects) pictures was used to investigate biases in ...
Emotion regulation ability compensates for the depression-related negativity bias Ghent University Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Gender-Based Judicial Ingroup Bias in Sex Crime Sentencing: Evidence from Belgium Hasselt University
Impact of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Attentional Bias for Threat Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
Cognitive models posit that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with and maintained by attentional bias (AB) for social threat. However, over the last years, it has been suggested that AB in SAD may result from a decreased activation of the left prefrontal cortex, and particularly of its dorsolateral part (dlPFC). Accordingly, a transient increase of neural activity within the left dlPFC via non-invasive brain stimulation decreases AB ...