Pieter Van Dessel

1.5k total citations
62 papers, 839 citations indexed

About

Pieter Van Dessel is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pieter Van Dessel has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 839 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 25 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 21 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Pieter Van Dessel's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (25 papers), Behavioral Health and Interventions (19 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers). Pieter Van Dessel is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (25 papers), Behavioral Health and Interventions (19 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers). Pieter Van Dessel collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Netherlands. Pieter Van Dessel's co-authors include Jan De Houwer, Sean Hughes, Colin Tucker Smith, Anne Gast, Reínout W. Wiers, Yang Ye, Catalina Köpetz, Andreas B. Eder, Gaëtan Mertens and Bertram Gawronski and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Pieter Van Dessel

58 papers receiving 825 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pieter Van Dessel Belgium 17 311 306 283 266 229 62 839
Cheryl L. Dickter United States 21 490 1.6× 780 2.5× 370 1.3× 143 0.5× 249 1.1× 54 1.3k
Sarah Teige‐Mocigemba Germany 16 730 2.3× 513 1.7× 562 2.0× 349 1.3× 352 1.5× 25 1.4k
Maarten De Schryver Belgium 18 197 0.6× 423 1.4× 329 1.2× 102 0.4× 325 1.4× 53 1.2k
Anne Gast Germany 19 532 1.7× 465 1.5× 475 1.7× 217 0.8× 261 1.1× 40 1.1k
Christopher N. Cascio United States 12 173 0.6× 306 1.0× 259 0.9× 194 0.7× 212 0.9× 23 799
Adam Bulley Australia 16 79 0.3× 264 0.9× 134 0.5× 175 0.7× 356 1.6× 26 764
Philippe Gay Switzerland 15 265 0.9× 307 1.0× 111 0.4× 163 0.6× 432 1.9× 31 1.1k
Erik C Nook United States 17 148 0.5× 354 1.2× 411 1.5× 133 0.5× 497 2.2× 33 1.1k
Kathleen C. McCulloch United States 13 144 0.5× 557 1.8× 243 0.9× 214 0.8× 239 1.0× 26 897
Sally Olderbak Germany 19 184 0.6× 273 0.9× 433 1.5× 66 0.2× 510 2.2× 63 1.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pieter Van Dessel

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dessel, Pieter Van, et al.. (2025). The role of awareness and demand in evaluative learning.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 128(5). 983–1049. 1 indexed citations
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Dessel, Pieter Van, J. David Cummins, & Reínout W. Wiers. (2023). ABC‐training as a new intervention for hazardous alcohol drinking: Two proof‐of‐principle randomized pilot studies. Addiction. 118(11). 2141–2155. 9 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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Dessel, Pieter Van, et al.. (2022). EMDR Therapy and PTSD: A Goal-Directed Predictive Processing Perspective. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research. 16(3). 108–122. 2 indexed citations
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Dessel, Pieter Van, et al.. (2022). Do evaluation and self-identification relate to self-reported and actual social media use?. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 11(2). 557–566. 3 indexed citations
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Dessel, Pieter Van, Baptist Liefooghe, & Jan De Houwer. (2020). The Instructed Task-Switch Evaluation Effect: Is the Instruction to Switch Tasks Sufficient to Dislike Task Switch Cues?. Journal of Cognition. 3(1). 13 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, Jan De Houwer, Anne Gast, Arne Roets, & Colin Tucker Smith. (2020). On the effectiveness of approach-avoidance instructions and training for changing evaluations of social groups.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 119(2). e1–e14. 16 indexed citations
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Assche, Jasper Van, Emanuele Politi, Pieter Van Dessel, & Karen Phalet. (2020). To punish or to assist? Divergent reactions to ingroup and outgroup members disobeying social distancing. British Journal of Social Psychology. 59(3). 594–606. 24 indexed citations
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Dessel, Pieter Van. (2019). The Effectiveness of Approach-Avoidance Instructions and Training for Reducing Prejudice. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 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, Jan De Houwer, Sean Hughes, & Ian Hussey. (2018). An Analysis of the Scientific Status and Limitations of the Attitudinal Entropy Framework and an Initial Test of Some of Its Empirical Predictions. Psychological Inquiry. 29(4). 213–217. 3 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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Dessel, Pieter Van, Sean Hughes, & Jan De Houwer. (2018). Consequence-Based Approach-Avoidance Training: A New and Improved Method for Changing Behavior. Psychological Science. 29(12). 1899–1910. 38 indexed citations
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Dessel, Pieter Van, Colin Tucker Smith, & Jan De Houwer. (2018). Graphic cigarette pack warnings do not produce more negative implicit evaluations of smoking compared to text-only warnings. PLoS ONE. 13(3). e0194627–e0194627. 8 indexed citations
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Mertens, Gaëtan, Pieter Van Dessel, & Jan De Houwer. (2017). The contextual malleability of approach-avoidance training effects: approaching or avoiding fear conditioned stimuli modulates effects of approach-avoidance training. Cognition & Emotion. 32(2). 341–349. 13 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, Arne Roets, & Anne Gast. (2015). Failures to change stimulus evaluations by means of subliminal approach and avoidance training.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 110(1). e1–e15. 18 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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Demanet, Jelle, et al.. (2013). Voluntary inhibition of pain avoidance behavior. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 133–133. 1 indexed citations

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