Thomas Vaessen

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas Vaessen is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Vaessen has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 18 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 16 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Vaessen's work include Mental Health Research Topics (29 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (18 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (11 papers). Thomas Vaessen is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Research Topics (29 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (18 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (11 papers). Thomas Vaessen collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Thomas Vaessen's co-authors include Inez Myin‐Germeys, Ulrich Reininghaus, Zuzana Kasanova, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Olivia J Kirtley, Hugo Vachon, Thérèse van Amelsvoort, Dennis Hernaus, Byoung‐Tak Zhang and Cheolsoo Park and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews and Psychological Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Vaessen

50 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Experience sampling methodology in mental health research... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300
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  1. Experience sampling methodology in mental health research: new insights and technical developments
    2018 377 citations Inez Myin‐Germeys, Zuzana Kasanova et al. profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Vaessen Belgium 16 544 344 249 230 215 55 1.1k
Zuzana Kasanova Belgium 18 704 1.3× 396 1.2× 495 2.0× 203 0.9× 476 2.2× 36 1.4k
Matthew P. Hyett Australia 22 591 1.1× 382 1.1× 199 0.8× 103 0.4× 319 1.5× 40 1.2k
Rebecca G. Fortgang United States 13 344 0.6× 445 1.3× 607 2.4× 83 0.4× 226 1.1× 34 1.1k
Alejandro Porras‐Segovia Spain 16 310 0.6× 518 1.5× 256 1.0× 167 0.7× 166 0.8× 65 1.1k
Elizabeth A. Olson United States 19 382 0.7× 269 0.8× 180 0.7× 124 0.5× 614 2.9× 41 1.2k
Katherine Holshausen Canada 14 323 0.6× 288 0.8× 367 1.5× 104 0.5× 280 1.3× 22 948
Adam M. Perkins United Kingdom 19 494 0.9× 402 1.2× 104 0.4× 125 0.5× 523 2.4× 43 1.3k
Kevin Hilbert Germany 18 464 0.9× 211 0.6× 117 0.5× 136 0.6× 345 1.6× 40 843
Miquel Tortella‐Feliu Spain 20 542 1.0× 588 1.7× 116 0.5× 131 0.6× 369 1.7× 60 1.2k
Steffi Weidt Switzerland 17 530 1.0× 438 1.3× 148 0.6× 196 0.9× 549 2.6× 49 1.4k

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All Works

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Li, Xu, Thomas Vaessen, Ginette Lafit, et al.. (2024). Higher emotion regulation flexibility predicts more stable negative emotions and faster affective recovery in early psychosis: an experience sampling study. Psychological Medicine. 54(9). 2063–2072. 4 indexed citations
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Achterhof, Robin, Olivia J Kirtley, Ginette Lafit, et al.. (2024). Social processes as the missing link: cross-sectionally testing a conceptual model on social mediators of early psychopathological development. Psychological Medicine. 54(13). 3591–3601. 1 indexed citations
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Myin‐Germeys, Inez, Thomas Vaessen, Martien Wampers, et al.. (2024). Sex Differences in Subclinical Psychotic Experiences: The Role of Daily-Life Social Interactions. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 52(2).
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Boyette, Lindy‐Lou, Frederike Schirmbeck, Jentien M. Vermeulen, et al.. (2023). Neuroticism and Extraversion are modifiable by treatment in individuals at-risk for psychosis or with first-episode psychotic disorder. Personality and Individual Differences. 216. 112404–112404. 1 indexed citations
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Vaessen, Thomas, et al.. (2023). How negative affect does and does not lead to binge eating—The importance of craving and negative urgency in bulimia nervosa.. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. 132(5). 621–633. 13 indexed citations
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Weermeijer, Jeroen, Ginette Lafit, Glenn Kiekens, et al.. (2022). Applying multiverse analysis to experience sampling data: Investigating whether preprocessing choices affect robustness of conclusions. Behavior Research Methods. 54(6). 2981–2992. 10 indexed citations
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Velozo, Joana De Calheiros, Jeroen Habets, Noëmi Hagemann, et al.. (2022). Designing daily-life research combining experience sampling method with parallel data. Psychological Medicine. 54(1). 98–107. 11 indexed citations
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Myin‐Germeys, Inez, Thomas Vaessen, Henrietta Steinhart, et al.. (2022). Efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Daily Life in Early Psychosis: Results from the Multi-Center INTERACT Randomized Controlled Trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 91(6). 411–423. 21 indexed citations
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Schiweck, Carmen, et al.. (2022). Exhausted Heart Rate Responses to Repeated Psychological Stress in Women With Major Depressive Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13. 869608–869608. 7 indexed citations
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Vaessen, Thomas, Aki Rintala, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, et al.. (2021). The association between self-reported stress and cardiovascular measures in daily life: A systematic review. PLoS ONE. 16(11). e0259557–e0259557. 16 indexed citations
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Velozo, Joana De Calheiros, Thomas Vaessen, Jens C. Pruessner, et al.. (2021). The repeated Montreal Imaging Stress Test (rMIST): Testing habituation, sensitization, and anticipation effects to repeated stress induction. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 128. 105217–105217. 9 indexed citations
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Bakker, Jindra, Tim Batink, Stijn Michielse, et al.. (2020). Blended care in the treatment of subthreshold symptoms of depression and psychosis in emerging adults: A randomised controlled trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Daily-Life (ACT-DL). Behaviour Research and Therapy. 128. 103592–103592. 30 indexed citations
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Schiweck, Carmen, Stephan Claes, Lukas Van Oudenhove, et al.. (2020). Childhood trauma, suicide risk and inflammatory phenotypes of depression: insights from monocyte gene expression. Translational Psychiatry. 10(1). 296–296. 44 indexed citations
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Schneider, Maude, Thomas Vaessen, Zuzana Kasanova, et al.. (2020). Affective and psychotic reactivity to daily-life stress in adults with 22q11DS: a study using the experience sampling method. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 12(1). 30–30. 17 indexed citations
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Vaessen, Thomas, Zuzana Kasanova, Dennis Hernaus, et al.. (2018). Cortisol Reactivity to Daily-life Stressors in Psychosis. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations
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Vaessen, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Deep ECGNet: An Optimal Deep Learning Framework for Monitoring Mental Stress Using Ultra Short-Term ECG Signals. Telemedicine Journal and e-Health. 24(10). 753–772. 96 indexed citations
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Kasanova, Zuzana, Jenny Ceccarini, Michael J. Frank, et al.. (2017). Intact striatal dopaminergic modulation of reward learning and daily-life reward-oriented behavior in first-degree relatives of individuals with psychotic disorder. Psychological Medicine. 48(11). 1909–1914. 14 indexed citations
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Vaessen, Thomas, Martine van Nierop, Jeroen Decoster, et al.. (2017). Is sensitivity to daily stress predictive of onset or persistence of psychopathology?. European Psychiatry. 45. 167–173. 30 indexed citations
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Vaessen, Thomas, Dennis Hernaus, Inez Myin‐Germeys, & Thérèse van Amelsvoort. (2015). The dopaminergic response to acute stress in health and psychopathology: A systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 56. 241–251. 53 indexed citations

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