Hannah Van Alebeek
Biographic Data
| ID | 4600655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Van Alebeek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Alebeek |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ALEBEEK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salzburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3044-1486 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Robustness of Mental Accounting Across 21 Countries
First introduced four decades ago, the influential concept of mental accounting—how people mentally organize, evaluate, and track financial activities—posits that consumers often defy traditional economic rationality, treating money as non-fungible across discrete mental accounts. In this research, we present the first large-scale test of the replicability and generalizability of mental accounting effects, using a sample of 5,589 participants fro…
Mechanisms of emotional eating: Food approach bias covaries with affect on days with high food craving
Emotional eating (EE) - eating in response to emotions - has clinical relevance, yet its underlying mechanisms (how?) remain poorly understood. Questions also concern interindividual differences (who?), and the types of foods involved (what?). We hypothesized that negative affect would be linked to increased, and positive affect to decreased food approach bias (how?). These effects were expected to be moderated by trait EE (who?) and by the goal-…
Retracted: The only constant is change: Stable vs. variable aspects of food approach bias relate differently to food craving and intake
The tendency to approach food faster than to avoid it (i.e., approach bias) is thought to facilitate food intake, particularly foods that conflict with one's dietary goals. However, this relationship has been difficult to demonstrate, which ties into an ongoing debate about whether such cognitive-behavioral biases represent stable traits or fluctuating states. We thus investigated the temporal fluctuations of food approach bias (1), its within-pa…
The dual-feature approach-avoidance task: Validity, Training Efficacy, and the Role of Contingency Awareness in Changing Food Preference
rate of approaching fruit versus chocolate correlated with many outcome measures, suggesting contingency awareness plays a major role in AAT training effectiveness, challenging implicit accounts. While the dual-feature paradigm shows potential, its high error rates, RTs, and difficulty mandate improvement
Imagine chocolate: The craving experience questionnaire in the food domain
Measurement of food craving has gained relevance in the current obesity epidemic. The Craving Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) considers not only craving intensity but also cognitive intrusiveness and imagery vividness as separate craving factors and could thus refine food craving assessment. It is available in two versions with ten items each. The CEQ-F assesses craving frequency across specific time periods and the CEQ-S time-point specific cravi…
Touchscreen-based measurement of food approach-avoidance bias: Seeking a reliable and valid paradigm
Working towards a reliable and valid touchscreen-based food approach avoidance task: A mini-review
Touchscreen-based assessment of food approach biases: Investigating reliability and item-specific preferences
Strong cravings for unhealthy foods and implicit tendencies to approach them threaten the physical and mental health of vulnerable populations. Yet, implicit measures of food approach tendencies have methodological limitations, as existing approach-avoidance tasks (AAT) are often unreliable and require specialized hardware. We propose a novel method to measure approach biases: on a touchscreen, participants slide their hand either toward a food i…
Touchscreen-based assessment of food approach biases: Investigating reliability and item-specific preferences
Strong cravings for unhealthy foods and implicit tendencies to approach them threaten the physical and mental health of vulnerable populations. Yet, implicit measures of food approach tendencies have methodological limitations, as existing approach-avoidance tasks (AAT) are often unreliable and require specialized hardware. We propose a novel method to measure approach biases: on a touchscreen, participants slide their hand either toward a food i…
Retracted: The only constant is change: Stable vs. variable aspects of food approach bias relate differently to food craving and intake
The tendency to approach food faster than to avoid it (i.e., approach bias) is thought to facilitate food intake, particularly foods that conflict with one's dietary goals. However, this relationship has been difficult to demonstrate, which ties into an ongoing debate about whether such cognitive-behavioral biases represent stable traits or fluctuating states. We thus investigated the temporal fluctuations of food approach bias (1), its within-pa…
Working towards a reliable and valid touchscreen-based food approach avoidance task: A mini-review
Touchscreen-based assessment of food approach biases: Investigating reliability and item-specific preferences
Strong cravings for unhealthy foods and implicit tendencies to approach them threaten the physical and mental health of vulnerable populations. Yet, implicit measures of food approach tendencies have methodological limitations, as existing approach-avoidance tasks (AAT) are often unreliable and require specialized hardware. We propose a novel method to measure approach biases: on a touchscreen, participants slide their hand either toward a food i…
Touchscreen-based measurement of food approach-avoidance bias: Seeking a reliable and valid paradigm
Imagine chocolate: The craving experience questionnaire in the food domain
Measurement of food craving has gained relevance in the current obesity epidemic. The Craving Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) considers not only craving intensity but also cognitive intrusiveness and imagery vividness as separate craving factors and could thus refine food craving assessment. It is available in two versions with ten items each. The CEQ-F assesses craving frequency across specific time periods and the CEQ-S time-point specific cravi…
Retracted: The only constant is change: Stable vs. variable aspects of food approach bias relate differently to food craving and intake
The tendency to approach food faster than to avoid it (i.e., approach bias) is thought to facilitate food intake, particularly foods that conflict with one's dietary goals. However, this relationship has been difficult to demonstrate, which ties into an ongoing debate about whether such cognitive-behavioral biases represent stable traits or fluctuating states. We thus investigated the temporal fluctuations of food approach bias (1), its within-pa…
The dual-feature approach-avoidance task: Validity, Training Efficacy, and the Role of Contingency Awareness in Changing Food Preference
rate of approaching fruit versus chocolate correlated with many outcome measures, suggesting contingency awareness plays a major role in AAT training effectiveness, challenging implicit accounts. While the dual-feature paradigm shows potential, its high error rates, RTs, and difficulty mandate improvement
The Robustness of Mental Accounting Across 21 Countries
First introduced four decades ago, the influential concept of mental accounting—how people mentally organize, evaluate, and track financial activities—posits that consumers often defy traditional economic rationality, treating money as non-fungible across discrete mental accounts. In this research, we present the first large-scale test of the replicability and generalizability of mental accounting effects, using a sample of 5,589 participants fro…
Mechanisms of emotional eating: Food approach bias covaries with affect on days with high food craving
Emotional eating (EE) - eating in response to emotions - has clinical relevance, yet its underlying mechanisms (how?) remain poorly understood. Questions also concern interindividual differences (who?), and the types of foods involved (what?). We hypothesized that negative affect would be linked to increased, and positive affect to decreased food approach bias (how?). These effects were expected to be moderated by trait EE (who?) and by the goal-…
Eating Disorders and Behaviors (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods (5 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Craving (3 works) · Food craving (3 works) · Human–computer interaction (3 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (3 works)