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

Automaticity: A Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis. 2001 2026 2009 2017 2006 2001 2010 2009 2013 250 500 750
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.

  1. Automaticity: A Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis.
    2006 860 citations Agnes Moors, Jan De Houwer Psychological Bulletin profile →
  2. 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 →
  3. Evaluative conditioning in humans: A meta-analysis.
    2010 622 citations Jan De Houwer, Marco Perugini et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →
  4. Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review.
    2009 614 citations Jan De Houwer, Sarah Teige‐Mocigemba et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →
  5. Recommendations for Increasing Replicability in Psychology
    2013 576 citations Jan De Houwer, Marco Perugini et al. profile →
  6. Selective attention to threat in the dot probe paradigm: differentiating vigilance and difficulty to disengage
    2003 528 citations Jan De Houwer et al. profile →
  7. The propositional nature of human associative learning
    2009 519 citations Jan De Houwer et al. profile →
  8. 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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jan De Houwer Belgium 71 10.8k 7.0k 6.9k 5.5k 3.6k 422 21.6k
C. Neil Macrae United Kingdom 69 11.7k 1.1× 6.2k 0.9× 7.6k 1.1× 5.4k 1.0× 2.0k 0.5× 208 20.2k
Eddie Harmon‐Jones United States 77 9.2k 0.9× 5.9k 0.8× 8.2k 1.2× 5.0k 0.9× 806 0.2× 206 20.7k
Daniel M. Wegner United States 73 11.4k 1.1× 6.9k 1.0× 10.1k 1.5× 5.8k 1.1× 2.0k 0.5× 167 27.0k
Matthew D. Lieberman United States 82 10.3k 1.0× 6.9k 1.0× 8.9k 1.3× 2.8k 0.5× 1.4k 0.4× 197 23.2k
Gerald L. Clore United States 58 6.0k 0.6× 6.0k 0.9× 10.2k 1.5× 5.8k 1.1× 1.4k 0.4× 120 21.7k
Gary G. Berntson United States 78 6.6k 0.6× 5.7k 0.8× 7.8k 1.1× 2.4k 0.4× 1.7k 0.5× 204 25.7k
Elizabeth A. Phelps United States 84 21.1k 2.0× 8.1k 1.2× 6.6k 1.0× 2.2k 0.4× 2.1k 0.6× 202 31.0k
Klaus R. Scherer Switzerland 95 14.2k 1.3× 17.3k 2.5× 14.8k 2.1× 4.1k 0.8× 2.2k 0.6× 340 37.8k
Antoine Bechara United States 91 23.0k 2.1× 10.3k 1.5× 5.7k 0.8× 3.2k 0.6× 2.1k 0.6× 301 44.9k
Kevin N. Ochsner United States 79 17.5k 1.6× 13.1k 1.9× 9.7k 1.4× 2.0k 0.4× 2.1k 0.6× 203 33.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rothermund, Klaus, et al.. (2025). Long-term Contingency Learning Depends on Contingency Awareness. Journal of Cognition. 8(1). 23–23. 3 indexed citations
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Houwer, Jan De, et al.. (2024). Exploring the association between neuroticism and negativity bias in evaluative counterconditioning. Learning and Motivation. 88. 102039–102039. 1 indexed citations
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Dessel, Pieter Van, et al.. (2024). Exploring the role of goal-dependent processes in action slips under time pressure.. Motivation Science. 10(2). 128–137. 6 indexed citations
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Houwer, Jan De, Marco Perugini, Yannick Boddez, & Florin Alin Sava. (2023). A Roadmap for Future Interactions Between Research on Personality and Learning. Collabra Psychology. 9(1). 1 indexed citations
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Buabang, Eike Kofi, et al.. (2022). A goal-directed account of action slips: The reliance on old contingencies.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(2). 496–508. 21 indexed citations
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Moran, Tal, Pieter Van Dessel, Colin Tucker Smith, & Jan De Houwer. (2020). Can (Instructions About) Stimulus Pairings Influence Automatic and Self-Reported Evaluations in the Presence of More Diagnostic Evaluative Information?. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 47(8). 1249–1263. 5 indexed citations
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Dessel, Pieter Van, Jeremy Cone, Anne Gast, & Jan De Houwer. (2019). The impact of valenced verbal information on implicit and explicit evaluation: the role of information diagnosticity, primacy, and memory cueing. Cognition & Emotion. 34(1). 74–85. 10 indexed citations
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Dessel, Pieter Van, Bertram Gawronski, & Jan De Houwer. (2019). Does Explaining Social Behavior Require Multiple Memory Systems?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 23(5). 368–369. 16 indexed citations
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Liefooghe, Baptist, Sean Hughes, James R. Schmidt, & Jan De Houwer. (2019). Stroop-like effects of derived stimulus–stimulus relations.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 46(2). 327–349. 4 indexed citations
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Hussey, Ian & Jan De Houwer. (2018). Implicit Association Test as an Analogical Learning Task. Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie). 65(5). 272–285. 4 indexed citations
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Dessel, Pieter Van, Yang Ye, & Jan De Houwer. (2018). Changing Deep-Rooted Implicit Evaluation in the Blink of an Eye: Negative Verbal Information Shifts Automatic Liking of Gandhi. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 10(2). 266–273. 31 indexed citations
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Spruyt, Adriaan, et al.. (2018). To IMPRES or to EXPRES? Exploiting comparative judgments to measure and visualize implicit and explicit preferences. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0191302–e0191302. 1 indexed citations
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Hughes, Sean, et al.. (2018). On the symbolic generalization of likes and dislikes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 79. 365–377. 10 indexed citations
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Hussey, Ian & Jan De Houwer. (2017). Normed causality statements. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Dessel, Pieter Van, Bertram Gawronski, Colin Tucker Smith, & Jan De Houwer. (2016). Mechanisms underlying approach-avoidance instruction effects on implicit evaluation: Results of a preregistered adversarial collaboration. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 69. 23–32. 25 indexed citations
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Dessel, Pieter Van, Jan De Houwer, Anne Gast, Colin Tucker Smith, & Maarten De Schryver. (2015). Instructing implicit processes: When instructions to approach or avoid influence implicit but not explicit evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 63. 1–9. 37 indexed citations
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Houwer, Jan De, Sarah Teige‐Mocigemba, Adriaan Spruyt, & Agnes Moors. (2009). Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review.. Psychological Bulletin. 135(3). 347–368. 614 indexed citations breakdown →
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Eder, Andreas B., Bernhard Hommel, & Jan De Houwer. (2007). How distinctive is affective processing?. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 3 indexed citations
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Houwer, Jan De. (2005). What are implicit and indirect measures of attitudes?. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 7 indexed citations
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Houwer, Jan De, Frank Baeyens, Deb Vansteenwegen, & Paul Eelen. (2000). Evaluative conditioning in the picture-picture paradigm with random assignment of CSs to USs. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 5 indexed citations

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