Bram Van Bockstaele
Biographic Data
| ID | 1660905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bram Van Bockstaele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bram |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Bockstaele |
| SIGNATURE | VAN BOCKSTAELE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5860-6449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Personal identity development as a foundation for parenthood in young adulthood
The transition to parenthood is a transformative milestone in young adulthood, profoundly reshaping one's sense of self. Although young adults differ widely in the steps they have taken toward parenthood, research on the developmental foundations of the parental role remains limited. This study examined how personal identity development-both in terms of levels and within-person changes in overall commitment and ruminative exploration-relates to t…
Occurrence of potentially traumatic events, type, and severity in undergraduate students
Background : Trauma exposure can have significant mental health impacts on students that impair academic performance and engagement. It is therefore important to describe the occurrence of trauma experiences and associated symptoms among undergraduate students. Objective : This study aimed to 1) assess the rates of potentially traumatic experiences, 2) examine the frequency of different trauma experience types, and 3) compare post-traumatic stres…
Approach‐avoidance tendencies in proactive and reactive aggression
Aggressive behaviors have been related to approach/avoidance tendencies. In our current study, we investigated whether approach/avoidance tendencies for angry versus fearful emotional expressions were differentially predictive of children's reactive and proactive aggression. A total of 116 children (58 girls, M age = 10.90, standard deviation SD age = 0.98) completed an approach/avoidance task (AAT) and a stimulus‐response compatibility task (SRC…
The relation between early behavioural inhibition and later social anxiety, independent of attentional biases to threat
Early behavioural inhibition, a temperamental characteristic defined by fearful, overly-sensitive, avoidant, or withdrawn reactions to the unknown, is a predictor of later social anxiety. However, not all behaviourally inhibited children develop anxiety problems, and attentional bias to threat has been proposed to moderate the relation between behavioural inhibition and anxiety. The current study aimed to further specify the relation between earl…
Dual processes in fear and anxiety
70) confirmed these findings, as the capacity of explicit and implicit measures to predict self-reported and physiological responses to a social stressor was not moderated by cognitive load. In two experiments, we thus found no empirical support for the central dual process model assumption that cognitive control moderates the predictive value of implicit and explicit measures. While implicit measures and dual process accounts may still be valuab…
Lying takes time
Lie detection techniques are frequently used, but most of them have been criticized for the lack of empirical support for their predictive validity and presumed underlying mechanisms. This situation has led to increased efforts to unravel the cognitive mechanisms underlying deception and to develop a comprehensive theory of deception. A cognitive approach to deception has reinvigorated interest in reaction time (RT) measures to differentiate lies…
A review of current evidence for the causal impact of attentional bias on fear and anxiety
Prominent cognitive theories postulate that an attentional bias toward threatening information contributes to the etiology, maintenance, or exacerbation of fear and anxiety. In this review, we investigate to what extent these causal claims are supported by sound empirical evidence. Although differences in attentional bias are associated with differences in fear and anxiety, this association does not emerge consistently. Moreover, there is only li…
Lying takes time
Lie detection techniques are frequently used, but most of them have been criticized for the lack of empirical support for their predictive validity and presumed underlying mechanisms. This situation has led to increased efforts to unravel the cognitive mechanisms underlying deception and to develop a comprehensive theory of deception. A cognitive approach to deception has reinvigorated interest in reaction time (RT) measures to differentiate lies…
Approach‐avoidance tendencies in proactive and reactive aggression
Aggressive behaviors have been related to approach/avoidance tendencies. In our current study, we investigated whether approach/avoidance tendencies for angry versus fearful emotional expressions were differentially predictive of children's reactive and proactive aggression. A total of 116 children (58 girls, M age = 10.90, standard deviation SD age = 0.98) completed an approach/avoidance task (AAT) and a stimulus‐response compatibility task (SRC…
A review of current evidence for the causal impact of attentional bias on fear and anxiety
Prominent cognitive theories postulate that an attentional bias toward threatening information contributes to the etiology, maintenance, or exacerbation of fear and anxiety. In this review, we investigate to what extent these causal claims are supported by sound empirical evidence. Although differences in attentional bias are associated with differences in fear and anxiety, this association does not emerge consistently. Moreover, there is only li…
Lying takes time
Lie detection techniques are frequently used, but most of them have been criticized for the lack of empirical support for their predictive validity and presumed underlying mechanisms. This situation has led to increased efforts to unravel the cognitive mechanisms underlying deception and to develop a comprehensive theory of deception. A cognitive approach to deception has reinvigorated interest in reaction time (RT) measures to differentiate lies…
The relation between early behavioural inhibition and later social anxiety, independent of attentional biases to threat
Early behavioural inhibition, a temperamental characteristic defined by fearful, overly-sensitive, avoidant, or withdrawn reactions to the unknown, is a predictor of later social anxiety. However, not all behaviourally inhibited children develop anxiety problems, and attentional bias to threat has been proposed to moderate the relation between behavioural inhibition and anxiety. The current study aimed to further specify the relation between earl…
Dual processes in fear and anxiety
70) confirmed these findings, as the capacity of explicit and implicit measures to predict self-reported and physiological responses to a social stressor was not moderated by cognitive load. In two experiments, we thus found no empirical support for the central dual process model assumption that cognitive control moderates the predictive value of implicit and explicit measures. While implicit measures and dual process accounts may still be valuab…
Occurrence of potentially traumatic events, type, and severity in undergraduate students
Background : Trauma exposure can have significant mental health impacts on students that impair academic performance and engagement. It is therefore important to describe the occurrence of trauma experiences and associated symptoms among undergraduate students. Objective : This study aimed to 1) assess the rates of potentially traumatic experiences, 2) examine the frequency of different trauma experience types, and 3) compare post-traumatic stres…
Approach‐avoidance tendencies in proactive and reactive aggression
Aggressive behaviors have been related to approach/avoidance tendencies. In our current study, we investigated whether approach/avoidance tendencies for angry versus fearful emotional expressions were differentially predictive of children's reactive and proactive aggression. A total of 116 children (58 girls, M age = 10.90, standard deviation SD age = 0.98) completed an approach/avoidance task (AAT) and a stimulus‐response compatibility task (SRC…
Personal identity development as a foundation for parenthood in young adulthood
The transition to parenthood is a transformative milestone in young adulthood, profoundly reshaping one's sense of self. Although young adults differ widely in the steps they have taken toward parenthood, research on the developmental foundations of the parental role remains limited. This study examined how personal identity development-both in terms of levels and within-person changes in overall commitment and ruminative exploration-relates to t…
Psychology (6 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Anxiety (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (2 works) · Attentional bias (2 works)