Jan De Houwer

31.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
422 papers, 21.6k citations indexed

About

Jan De Houwer is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan De Houwer has authored 422 papers receiving a total of 21.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 232 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 156 papers in Social Psychology and 123 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jan De Houwer's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (124 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (109 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (84 papers). Jan De Houwer is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (124 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (109 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (84 papers). Jan De Houwer collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. Jan De Houwer's co-authors include Agnes Moors, Dirk Hermans, Geert Crombez, Frank Baeyens, Paul Eelen, Adriaan Spruyt, Ernst H. W. Koster, Bruno Verschuère, Tom Beckers and Sarah Thomas and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Neuroscience and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Jan De Houwer

417 papers receiving 20.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Automaticity: A Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis.

2006 860 citations Agnes Moors, Jan De Houwer Psychological Bulletin profile →
Association learning of likes and dislikes: A review of 25 years of research on human evaluative conditioning.

2001 817 citations Jan De Houwer, Frank Baeyens et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →
Evaluative conditioning in humans: A meta-analysis.

2010 622 citations Jan De Houwer, Marco Perugini et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →
Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review.

2009 614 citations Jan De Houwer, Sarah Teige‐Mocigemba et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →
Recommendations for Increasing Replicability in Psychology

2013 576 citations Jan De Houwer, Marco Perugini et al. profile →
Selective attention to threat in the dot probe paradigm: differentiating vigilance and difficulty to disengage

2003 528 citations Jan De Houwer et al. profile →
The propositional nature of human associative learning

2009 519 citations Jan De Houwer et al. profile →
Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: A Review and Research Agenda From a Goal-Directed Perspective

2020 252 citations Jan De Houwer, Adriaan Spruyt et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Long-term Contingency Learning Depends on Contingency Awareness 2025 ·Journal of Cognition ·Klaus Rothermund, (unknown), Jan De Houwer, James R. Schmidt	3
2	Exploring the association between neuroticism and negativity bias in evaluative counterconditioning 2024 ·Learning and Motivation ·(unknown), Jan De Houwer, Andrei Rusu, Florin Alin Sava	1
3	Exploring the role of goal-dependent processes in action slips under time pressure. 2024 ·Motivation Science ·Pieter Van Dessel, Yannick Boddez, Agnes Moors, Eike Kofi Buabang, (unknown), Jan De Houwer	6
4	A Roadmap for Future Interactions Between Research on Personality and Learning 2023 ·Collabra Psychology ·Jan De Houwer, Marco Perugini, Yannick Boddez, Florin Alin Sava	1
5	A goal-directed account of action slips: The reliance on old contingencies. 2022 ·Journal of Experimental Psychology General ·Eike Kofi Buabang, (unknown), Yannick Boddez, Pieter Van Dessel, Jan De Houwer, Agnes Moors	21
6	Can (Instructions About) Stimulus Pairings Influence Automatic and Self-Reported Evaluations in the Presence of More Diagnostic Evaluative Information? 2020 ·Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ·Tal Moran, Pieter Van Dessel, Colin Tucker Smith, Jan De Houwer	5
7	The impact of valenced verbal information on implicit and explicit evaluation: the role of information diagnosticity, primacy, and memory cueing 2019 ·Cognition & Emotion ·Pieter Van Dessel, Jeremy Cone, Anne Gast, Jan De Houwer	10
8	Does Explaining Social Behavior Require Multiple Memory Systems? 2019 ·Trends in Cognitive Sciences ·Pieter Van Dessel, Bertram Gawronski, Jan De Houwer	16
9	Stroop-like effects of derived stimulus–stimulus relations. 2019 ·Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition ·Baptist Liefooghe, Sean Hughes, James R. Schmidt, Jan De Houwer	4
10	Implicit Association Test as an Analogical Learning Task 2018 ·Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ·Ian Hussey, Jan De Houwer	4
11	Changing Deep-Rooted Implicit Evaluation in the Blink of an Eye: Negative Verbal Information Shifts Automatic Liking of Gandhi 2018 ·Social Psychological and Personality Science ·Pieter Van Dessel, Yang Ye, Jan De Houwer	31
12	To IMPRES or to EXPRES? Exploiting comparative judgments to measure and visualize implicit and explicit preferences 2018 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), Adriaan Spruyt, Jan De Houwer	1
13	On the symbolic generalization of likes and dislikes 2018 ·Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ·Sean Hughes, Yvonne Barnes‐Holmes, Pieter Van Dessel, (unknown), Ian Stewart, Jan De Houwer	10
14	Normed causality statements 2017 ·OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) ·Ian Hussey, Jan De Houwer	1
15	Mechanisms underlying approach-avoidance instruction effects on implicit evaluation: Results of a preregistered adversarial collaboration 2016 ·Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ·Pieter Van Dessel, Bertram Gawronski, Colin Tucker Smith, Jan De Houwer	25
16	Instructing implicit processes: When instructions to approach or avoid influence implicit but not explicit evaluation 2015 ·Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ·Pieter Van Dessel, Jan De Houwer, Anne Gast, Colin Tucker Smith, Maarten De Schryver	37
17	Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review. breakdown → 2009 ·Psychological Bulletin ·Jan De Houwer, Sarah Teige‐Mocigemba, Adriaan Spruyt, Agnes Moors	614
18	How distinctive is affective processing? 2007 ·Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Andreas B. Eder, Bernhard Hommel, Jan De Houwer	3
19	What are implicit and indirect measures of attitudes? 2005 ·Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Jan De Houwer	7
20	Evaluative conditioning in the picture-picture paradigm with random assignment of CSs to USs 2000 ·ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) ·Jan De Houwer, Frank Baeyens, Deb Vansteenwegen, Paul Eelen	5

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