Hans Marien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4233002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Marien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans |
| FAMILY NAME | Marien |
| SIGNATURE | MARIEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6035-0908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The impact of restricting ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ decisions on experienced agency: A functional analysis of human autonomy in institutional context
Personal autonomy is increasingly challenged by institutional rules and societal demands. This research examines how institutional restrictions on what people do, when they do it, and how they do it influence their experience of agency. Across two experimental studies, participants indicated their experienced agency in everyday scenarios where institutions determined one or more of these three components. The results indicate that experienced age…
How the environment evokes actions that lead to different goals: The role of object multi-functionality in pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer
Research shows that stimuli in the environment can trigger behavior via the activation of goal representations. This process can be tested in the Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer (PIT) paradigm, where stimuli can only affect behavior through the activation of the representation of its desired outcome (i.e., the PIT effect). Previous research has demonstrated that the PIT effect is stronger when the goal is more desirable. While this research on…
Choice effects on temporal binding of action and outcomes: Examining the role of outcome focus and measures of time interval estimation
The ability to make one's own choices is vital to the experience of intentional behavior. Such agency experiences are reflected in the perceptual compression of time between actions and resulting outcomes. Whereas some studies show that choice limitations weaken temporal binding, other studies do not find such an effect. Reviewing the literature, we noted two potential factors that may moderate choice limitation effects on temporal binding: (a) t…
Developing habit-based health behaviour change interventions: Twenty-one questions to guide future research
OBJECTIVE: Habitual behaviours are triggered automatically, with little conscious forethought. Theory suggests that making healthy behaviours habitual, and breaking the habits that underpin many ingrained unhealthy behaviours, promotes long-term behaviour change. This has prompted interest in incorporating habit formation and disruption strategies into behaviour change interventions. Yet, notable research gaps limit understanding of how to harnes…
Intentional action and limitation of personal autonomy. Do restrictions of action selection decrease the sense of agency
The experience of being an intentional agent is a key component of personal autonomy. Here, we tested how undermining intentional action affects the sense of agency as indexed by intentional binding. In three experiments using the Libet clock paradigm, participants judged the onset of their action (key presses) and resulting effect (auditory stimuli) under conditions of no, partial, or full autonomy over selecting and timing their actions. In all…
Intentionality and temporal binding: Do causality beliefs increase the perceived temporal attraction between events
Intentional motor actions and their effects are bound together in temporal perception, resulting in the so-called intentional binding effect. In the current study, we address an alternative explanatory mechanism for the emergence of temporal binding by excluding the role of motor action. Employing a sensory-based Libet clock paradigm, we examined temporal perception of two different auditory stimuli, and tested the influence of beliefs about the …
Unconscious goal activation and the hijacking of the executive function
Building on research on unconscious human goal pursuit and the dynamic nature of our mental and physical world, this study examined the idea that an unconsciously activated goal hijacks executive control for its own attainment. This "hijacking" of the executive function by an unconscious goal should be evidenced by impaired performance on an unrelated task relying on executive control. The results of 6 experiments show that subliminal activation …
Being flexible or rigid in goal-directed behavior: When positive affect implicitly motivates the pursuit of goals or means
Priming and authorship ascription: When nonconscious goals turn into conscious experiences of self-agency
The conscious experience of self-agency (i.e., the feeling that one causes one's own actions and their outcomes) is fundamental to human self-perception. Four experiments explored how experienced self-agency arises from a match between nonconsciously activated outcome representations and the subsequent production of the outcome and explored specifically how implicit motivation to produce the outcome may impinge on this process. Participants stopp…
Unconscious goal activation and the hijacking of the executive function
Building on research on unconscious human goal pursuit and the dynamic nature of our mental and physical world, this study examined the idea that an unconsciously activated goal hijacks executive control for its own attainment. This "hijacking" of the executive function by an unconscious goal should be evidenced by impaired performance on an unrelated task relying on executive control. The results of 6 experiments show that subliminal activation …
Priming and authorship ascription: When nonconscious goals turn into conscious experiences of self-agency
The conscious experience of self-agency (i.e., the feeling that one causes one's own actions and their outcomes) is fundamental to human self-perception. Four experiments explored how experienced self-agency arises from a match between nonconsciously activated outcome representations and the subsequent production of the outcome and explored specifically how implicit motivation to produce the outcome may impinge on this process. Participants stopp…
Being flexible or rigid in goal-directed behavior: When positive affect implicitly motivates the pursuit of goals or means
Priming and authorship ascription: When nonconscious goals turn into conscious experiences of self-agency
The conscious experience of self-agency (i.e., the feeling that one causes one's own actions and their outcomes) is fundamental to human self-perception. Four experiments explored how experienced self-agency arises from a match between nonconsciously activated outcome representations and the subsequent production of the outcome and explored specifically how implicit motivation to produce the outcome may impinge on this process. Participants stopp…
Being flexible or rigid in goal-directed behavior: When positive affect implicitly motivates the pursuit of goals or means
Unconscious goal activation and the hijacking of the executive function
Building on research on unconscious human goal pursuit and the dynamic nature of our mental and physical world, this study examined the idea that an unconsciously activated goal hijacks executive control for its own attainment. This "hijacking" of the executive function by an unconscious goal should be evidenced by impaired performance on an unrelated task relying on executive control. The results of 6 experiments show that subliminal activation …
Intentionality and temporal binding: Do causality beliefs increase the perceived temporal attraction between events
Intentional motor actions and their effects are bound together in temporal perception, resulting in the so-called intentional binding effect. In the current study, we address an alternative explanatory mechanism for the emergence of temporal binding by excluding the role of motor action. Employing a sensory-based Libet clock paradigm, we examined temporal perception of two different auditory stimuli, and tested the influence of beliefs about the …
Intentional action and limitation of personal autonomy. Do restrictions of action selection decrease the sense of agency
The experience of being an intentional agent is a key component of personal autonomy. Here, we tested how undermining intentional action affects the sense of agency as indexed by intentional binding. In three experiments using the Libet clock paradigm, participants judged the onset of their action (key presses) and resulting effect (auditory stimuli) under conditions of no, partial, or full autonomy over selecting and timing their actions. In all…
Developing habit-based health behaviour change interventions: Twenty-one questions to guide future research
OBJECTIVE: Habitual behaviours are triggered automatically, with little conscious forethought. Theory suggests that making healthy behaviours habitual, and breaking the habits that underpin many ingrained unhealthy behaviours, promotes long-term behaviour change. This has prompted interest in incorporating habit formation and disruption strategies into behaviour change interventions. Yet, notable research gaps limit understanding of how to harnes…
How the environment evokes actions that lead to different goals: The role of object multi-functionality in pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer
Research shows that stimuli in the environment can trigger behavior via the activation of goal representations. This process can be tested in the Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer (PIT) paradigm, where stimuli can only affect behavior through the activation of the representation of its desired outcome (i.e., the PIT effect). Previous research has demonstrated that the PIT effect is stronger when the goal is more desirable. While this research on…
Choice effects on temporal binding of action and outcomes: Examining the role of outcome focus and measures of time interval estimation
The ability to make one's own choices is vital to the experience of intentional behavior. Such agency experiences are reflected in the perceptual compression of time between actions and resulting outcomes. Whereas some studies show that choice limitations weaken temporal binding, other studies do not find such an effect. Reviewing the literature, we noted two potential factors that may moderate choice limitation effects on temporal binding: (a) t…
The impact of restricting ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ decisions on experienced agency: A functional analysis of human autonomy in institutional context
Personal autonomy is increasingly challenged by institutional rules and societal demands. This research examines how institutional restrictions on what people do, when they do it, and how they do it influence their experience of agency. Across two experimental studies, participants indicated their experienced agency in everyday scenarios where institutions determined one or more of these three components. The results indicate that experienced age…
Psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (5 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (5 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Communication (3 works) · Free Will and Agency (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Sense of agency (3 works)