Dirk Hermans
Biographic Data
| ID | 348540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk Hermans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermans |
| SIGNATURE | HERMANS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4497-3982 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From incident to organisational response - a mixed-methods study of police officers’ needs and expectations following exposure to potentially traumatic events
Police officers are at considerable risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as they are consistently exposed to a wide array of potentially traumatic events (PTE). Effective organisational strategies for the management of this mental health risk have been the subject of research and some have been implemented in police organisations. This study aims to identify the experiences, needs and expectations of police officers in terms o…
Linking obsessions to morality: A cross-cultural study among Turkish and Belgian university students
The present study examines the links between different types of morality and obsessions in university students from Leuven, Belgium ( N = 252) and İstanbul, Turkey ( N = 301) using validated scales for morality and obsessions. Belgium and Turkey were chosen as two exemplar cultural contexts expected, and in the current study found, to differ in the relative levels of individualizing and binding morality. We hypothesized that obsessions involving …
Reconciling a phenomenological with a functional approach to memory: Narrative coherence and its social function
To date, the phenomenological and functional aspects of autobiographical memory have by and large been studied separately. This is quite remarkable, given that both can inform each other, and that investigating their interaction can add to the understanding of the (in)adaptivity of certain memory characteristics for our well-being. In other words, examining how particular features of autobiographical memory are adept or inept at serving specific …
Narrative coherence predicts emotional well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic: A two-year longitudinal study
198), higher baseline coherence of narratives about positive autobiographical experiences predicted relative increases in emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the relation between the coherence of positive narratives and emotional well-being was partially mediated by perceived social support. These findings suggest that narrative coherence could be an enhancement factor for adaptive emotional coping with stressful situa…
How am I going to tell you this? The relations between social anxiety and narrative coherence
Recently, evidence has been increasing that individuals who are able to narrate coherently about their autobiographical memories, receive more positive social feedback, have higher-quality social relationships and are overall less likely to suffer from internalising psychopathology, like depression and anxiety. However, the relation between narrative coherence and social anxiety, in particular, has not been topic of research until now. This is re…
Validation of the Impact of Event Scale With Modifications for Covid-19 (IES-Covid19)
Viral outbreaks can be experienced as disruptive and can be associated with trauma-related stress symptoms. In the current study, we adjusted the Dutch version of the Impact of Event Scale (IES) to assess traumatic stress symptoms related to the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. The psychometric properties of this Impact of Event Scale with modifications for COVID-19 (IES-COVID19) were investigated by administering the IES-COVID19 to 380 universit…
On the generalization of attitude accessibility after repeated attitude expression
The more accessible an attitude is, the stronger is its influence on information processing and behavior. Accessibility can be increased through attitude rehearsal, but it remains unknown whether attitude rehearsal also affects the accessibility of related attitudes. To investigate this hypothesis, participants in an experimental condition repeatedly expressed their attitudes towards exemplars of several semantic categories during an evaluative c…
The inertia of conditioned craving. Does context modulate the effect of counterconditioning
Context-dependent activation of reduced autobiographical memory specificity as an avoidant coping style
According to the affect-regulation hypothesis (Williams et al., 2007), reduced autobiographical memory specificity (rAMS) or overgeneral memory (OGM) might be considered a cognitive avoidance strategy; that is, people learn to avoid the emotionally painful consequences associated with the retrieval of specific negative memories. Based on this hypothesis, one would predict significant negative associations between AMS and avoidant coping. However,…
Indirectly Measured Self-esteem Predicts Gaze Avoidance
Can gaze behavior be predicted by direct and indirect measures of self-esteem, and, if so, does an indirect measure of self-esteem predict gaze behavior over and above a direct measure of self-esteem? Two different affective priming tasks were developed as indirect measures of self-esteem. Facial pictures or participants' first name were used as primes. Scores on a self-esteem questionnaire, as a measure of direct self-esteem, failed to predict g…
Counterconditioning reduces cue-induced craving and actual cue-elicited consumption
Cue-induced craving is not easily reduced by an extinction or exposure procedure and may constitute an important route toward relapse in addictive behavior after treatment. In the present study, we investigated the effectiveness of counterconditioning as an alternative procedure to reduce cue-induced craving, in a nonclinical population. We found that a cue, initially paired with chocolate consumption, did not cease to elicit craving for chocolat…
A picture-flavour paradigm for studying complex conditioning processes in food preference learning
Repeated cue exposure effects on subjective and physiological indices of chocolate craving
Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional disorder
The authors review research showing that when recalling autobiographical events, many emotionally disturbed patients summarize categories of events rather than retrieving a single episode. The mechanisms underlying such overgeneral memory are examined, with a focus on M. A. Conway and C. W. Pleydell-Pearce's (2000) hierarchical search model of personal event retrieval. An elaboration of this model is proposed to account for overgeneral memory, fo…
Determinants and predictive validity of direct and indirect measures of recently acquired food attitudes
On the predictive validity of indirect attitude measures: Prediction of consumer choice behavior on the basis of affective priming in the picture–picture naming task
An exploration of affective priming as an indirect measure of food attitudes
Socioeconomic status and student achievement in a multilevel model of flemish timss-1999 data: The importance of a parent questionnaire
Autobiographical memory specificity and affect regulation: An experimental approach
This study investigated J. M. G. Williams's (1996) affect-regulation hypothesis that level of specificity of autobiographical memory (AM) is used to minimize negative affect. It was found that a negative event leads to more reports of subjective stress in high- as compared with low-specific participants. Also, afterward, high-specific participants rated their unprompted memories for the event as more unpleasant. The results indicate that, relativ…
Affective Priming of Pronunciation Responses: Effects of Target Degradation
The affective priming effect: Automatic activation of evaluative information in memory
Fazio, Sanbonmatsu, Powell, and Kardes (1986) argued that affect may be activated automatically from memory on the mere observation of an affect-loaded stimulus. Using a variant of the standard sequential priming paradigm, it was demonstrated that the time needed to evaluate target words as positive or negative decreased if they were preceded by a similarly valenced prime word, but increased when preceded by a prime of opposite valence. Several a…
Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional disorder
The authors review research showing that when recalling autobiographical events, many emotionally disturbed patients summarize categories of events rather than retrieving a single episode. The mechanisms underlying such overgeneral memory are examined, with a focus on M. A. Conway and C. W. Pleydell-Pearce's (2000) hierarchical search model of personal event retrieval. An elaboration of this model is proposed to account for overgeneral memory, fo…
An exploration of affective priming as an indirect measure of food attitudes
Repeated cue exposure effects on subjective and physiological indices of chocolate craving
On the predictive validity of indirect attitude measures: Prediction of consumer choice behavior on the basis of affective priming in the picture–picture naming task
Affective Priming of Pronunciation Responses: Effects of Target Degradation
The inertia of conditioned craving. Does context modulate the effect of counterconditioning
Determinants and predictive validity of direct and indirect measures of recently acquired food attitudes
A picture-flavour paradigm for studying complex conditioning processes in food preference learning
The affective priming effect: Automatic activation of evaluative information in memory
Fazio, Sanbonmatsu, Powell, and Kardes (1986) argued that affect may be activated automatically from memory on the mere observation of an affect-loaded stimulus. Using a variant of the standard sequential priming paradigm, it was demonstrated that the time needed to evaluate target words as positive or negative decreased if they were preceded by a similarly valenced prime word, but increased when preceded by a prime of opposite valence. Several a…
Affective Priming of Pronunciation Responses: Effects of Target Degradation
Socioeconomic status and student achievement in a multilevel model of flemish timss-1999 data: The importance of a parent questionnaire
Autobiographical memory specificity and affect regulation: An experimental approach
This study investigated J. M. G. Williams's (1996) affect-regulation hypothesis that level of specificity of autobiographical memory (AM) is used to minimize negative affect. It was found that a negative event leads to more reports of subjective stress in high- as compared with low-specific participants. Also, afterward, high-specific participants rated their unprompted memories for the event as more unpleasant. The results indicate that, relativ…
An exploration of affective priming as an indirect measure of food attitudes
Determinants and predictive validity of direct and indirect measures of recently acquired food attitudes
On the predictive validity of indirect attitude measures: Prediction of consumer choice behavior on the basis of affective priming in the picture–picture naming task
Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional disorder
The authors review research showing that when recalling autobiographical events, many emotionally disturbed patients summarize categories of events rather than retrieving a single episode. The mechanisms underlying such overgeneral memory are examined, with a focus on M. A. Conway and C. W. Pleydell-Pearce's (2000) hierarchical search model of personal event retrieval. An elaboration of this model is proposed to account for overgeneral memory, fo…
Repeated cue exposure effects on subjective and physiological indices of chocolate craving
A picture-flavour paradigm for studying complex conditioning processes in food preference learning
Indirectly Measured Self-esteem Predicts Gaze Avoidance
Can gaze behavior be predicted by direct and indirect measures of self-esteem, and, if so, does an indirect measure of self-esteem predict gaze behavior over and above a direct measure of self-esteem? Two different affective priming tasks were developed as indirect measures of self-esteem. Facial pictures or participants' first name were used as primes. Scores on a self-esteem questionnaire, as a measure of direct self-esteem, failed to predict g…
Counterconditioning reduces cue-induced craving and actual cue-elicited consumption
Cue-induced craving is not easily reduced by an extinction or exposure procedure and may constitute an important route toward relapse in addictive behavior after treatment. In the present study, we investigated the effectiveness of counterconditioning as an alternative procedure to reduce cue-induced craving, in a nonclinical population. We found that a cue, initially paired with chocolate consumption, did not cease to elicit craving for chocolat…
Context-dependent activation of reduced autobiographical memory specificity as an avoidant coping style
According to the affect-regulation hypothesis (Williams et al., 2007), reduced autobiographical memory specificity (rAMS) or overgeneral memory (OGM) might be considered a cognitive avoidance strategy; that is, people learn to avoid the emotionally painful consequences associated with the retrieval of specific negative memories. Based on this hypothesis, one would predict significant negative associations between AMS and avoidant coping. However,…
The inertia of conditioned craving. Does context modulate the effect of counterconditioning
On the generalization of attitude accessibility after repeated attitude expression
The more accessible an attitude is, the stronger is its influence on information processing and behavior. Accessibility can be increased through attitude rehearsal, but it remains unknown whether attitude rehearsal also affects the accessibility of related attitudes. To investigate this hypothesis, participants in an experimental condition repeatedly expressed their attitudes towards exemplars of several semantic categories during an evaluative c…
How am I going to tell you this? The relations between social anxiety and narrative coherence
Recently, evidence has been increasing that individuals who are able to narrate coherently about their autobiographical memories, receive more positive social feedback, have higher-quality social relationships and are overall less likely to suffer from internalising psychopathology, like depression and anxiety. However, the relation between narrative coherence and social anxiety, in particular, has not been topic of research until now. This is re…
Validation of the Impact of Event Scale With Modifications for Covid-19 (IES-Covid19)
Viral outbreaks can be experienced as disruptive and can be associated with trauma-related stress symptoms. In the current study, we adjusted the Dutch version of the Impact of Event Scale (IES) to assess traumatic stress symptoms related to the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. The psychometric properties of this Impact of Event Scale with modifications for COVID-19 (IES-COVID19) were investigated by administering the IES-COVID19 to 380 universit…
Reconciling a phenomenological with a functional approach to memory: Narrative coherence and its social function
To date, the phenomenological and functional aspects of autobiographical memory have by and large been studied separately. This is quite remarkable, given that both can inform each other, and that investigating their interaction can add to the understanding of the (in)adaptivity of certain memory characteristics for our well-being. In other words, examining how particular features of autobiographical memory are adept or inept at serving specific …
Narrative coherence predicts emotional well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic: A two-year longitudinal study
198), higher baseline coherence of narratives about positive autobiographical experiences predicted relative increases in emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the relation between the coherence of positive narratives and emotional well-being was partially mediated by perceived social support. These findings suggest that narrative coherence could be an enhancement factor for adaptive emotional coping with stressful situa…
Linking obsessions to morality: A cross-cultural study among Turkish and Belgian university students
The present study examines the links between different types of morality and obsessions in university students from Leuven, Belgium ( N = 252) and İstanbul, Turkey ( N = 301) using validated scales for morality and obsessions. Belgium and Turkey were chosen as two exemplar cultural contexts expected, and in the current study found, to differ in the relative levels of individualizing and binding morality. We hypothesized that obsessions involving …
From incident to organisational response - a mixed-methods study of police officers’ needs and expectations following exposure to potentially traumatic events
Police officers are at considerable risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as they are consistently exposed to a wide array of potentially traumatic events (PTE). Effective organisational strategies for the management of this mental health risk have been the subject of research and some have been implemented in police organisations. This study aims to identify the experiences, needs and expectations of police officers in terms o…
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Cognitive psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)