L N van der Laan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6198525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L N van der Laan |
| GIVEN NAMES | L N |
| FAMILY NAME | van der Laan |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER LAAN L N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4307-0888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Smell-e technology
Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technologies such as virtual supermarkets arean emerging medium to model individuals’ eating behaviour. However, existing VR environments elicit weaker responses to food (i.e., craving and salivation) than in real-life, limiting their validity as research tools. We developed an immersive multisensory VR food environment – with both visual and olfactory (smell) cues – and investigated whether it could bridge this gap…
Age and body mass index are associated with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activation in response to unhealthy food cues
Unhealthy food cues are omnipresent and promote overconsumption. Although childhood obesity rates are increasing, there is no strict regulation of the marketing of unhealthy foods towards children. This is problematic since the human brain, especially areas important for cognitive control, continues to develop into the 30s. It is not known in how far the brain response to unhealthy food cues varies with body mass index (BMI) and age. To investiga…
Shaping health behaviors beyond reality
Addressing the rising obesity prevalence, a Virtual Reality full-body illusion as a novel approach to obesity prevention is examined, allowing individuals to experience ownership of a virtual body (VBO). Although never tested, an immersive experience of a virtual self that suffers from the consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle, like an overweight body, may motivate health behaviors to avoid these consequences. Hence, the study aimed to investiga…
The privacy calculus in the context of novel health technology for diagnosing and tracking infectious diseases
In the past decades, accelerated by the recent COVID pandemic, the field of healthcare has faced technological advancements, such as wearables and mobile applications, that collect personal or health data. However, such tools are ineffective if they are not adopted by a large part of the population or if relevant health data, collected by the application, are not (voluntarily) shared. This study assessed the role of disease severity and evidence …
Resistance to contact tracing applications
The success of new technologies such as contact tracing mobile applications depends on large-scale end-user adoption. However, the implementation may encounter resistance, since the uncertainty surrounding novel technology may raise anxiety, and persuasion efforts to promote use can evoke reactance. Thereby, anxiety and reactance are two forms of resistance to new technology. Little is known about the role of resistance over the course of the inn…
Stimulating Sustainable Food Choices Using Virtual Reality
Personal response efficacy beliefs are vital in instigating, maintaining, and catalyzing environmental behavior change. In this experimental study (N = 249), we investigated whether such efficacy beliefs could be stimulated using Virtual Reality. In a VR-supermarket, participants would see interactive pop-ups displaying impact messages when they picked up products, these are messages that display the (environmental or health) impact of a product.…
Examining the neural correlates of goal priming with the NeuroShop, a novel virtual reality fMRI paradigm
OBJECTIVE: Health goal priming has been shown to stimulate healthy food choices by activating an individual's weight-control goal. The present study combined fMRI with a novel virtual reality food choice task to elucidate the underlying neural mechanisms of health goal priming. Previous research has suggested that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) play a role in the incorporation of health consi…
Battle of the primes – The effect and interplay of health and hedonic primes on food choice
Neural activity in self-related brain regions in response to tailored nutritional messages predicts dietary change
Overweight and obesity have become international public health problems, so there is an urgent need to implement effective interventions that prevent these concerning health issues. Designing personalized (tailored) dietary communications has become one of the most effective tools in reducing unhealthy eating behavior, when compared with one-size-fits-all messages (untailored). However, more research is required to gain a complete understanding o…
Predictors of contact tracing app adoption
Contact tracing apps (CTAs) have been introduced as a means to identify and isolate possible cases infected with COVID-19. Since the adoption rate determines the effectiveness of CTAs, it is important to examine what factors contribute to a higher CTA uptake. This study aimed to use an integrative approach to explain early CTA adoption, whereby three perspectives are distinguished: technology-related (derived from the Unified Theory of Acceptance…
Using Virtual Reality to Stimulate Healthy and Environmentally Friendly Food Consumption among Children
Since habits formed during childhood are predictive of adult behaviour, children form an important target group when it comes to improving healthy and environmentally friendly food consumption. To explore the potential of immersive virtual reality (VR) in this respect, we conducted a semi-structured interview study ( N = 22) among children aged 6-13 years. This study consisted of two parts: (1) a VR experience and (2) a semi-structured interview …
Under pressure
Previous research has shown that nudging can effectively support people's healthy food choices. Yet, to date knowledge about the psychological premises of nudging is limited, highlighting the need for closer scrutiny to determine how and when nudging is most effective. In the current study, we assessed whether the presumed effect of nudging on healthy food choice is enhanced under time pressure, a condition probing alleged system 1 reasoning. Foo…
I want it now! Behavioural and self-reported impulsivity differentially modulate brain responses to food choices
Goal-directed visual attention drives health goal priming
Standardized food images
Neural correlates of healthy and unhealthy food viewing and food choice in children and adults
The neural correlates of processing visual food cues
Parental child-feeding strategies in relation to Dutch children’s fruit and vegetable intake
Objective To identify parental child-feeding strategies that may increase children’s fruit or vegetable intake, since the relationship between these strategies and children’s intake has never been investigated for fruit and vegetables as two separate food groups. Design A survey study, where parents provided information about their practices in relation to feeding their children and about their own and their children’s fruit and vegetable intake.…
Standardized food images
Under pressure
Previous research has shown that nudging can effectively support people's healthy food choices. Yet, to date knowledge about the psychological premises of nudging is limited, highlighting the need for closer scrutiny to determine how and when nudging is most effective. In the current study, we assessed whether the presumed effect of nudging on healthy food choice is enhanced under time pressure, a condition probing alleged system 1 reasoning. Foo…
Predictors of contact tracing app adoption
Contact tracing apps (CTAs) have been introduced as a means to identify and isolate possible cases infected with COVID-19. Since the adoption rate determines the effectiveness of CTAs, it is important to examine what factors contribute to a higher CTA uptake. This study aimed to use an integrative approach to explain early CTA adoption, whereby three perspectives are distinguished: technology-related (derived from the Unified Theory of Acceptance…
Battle of the primes – The effect and interplay of health and hedonic primes on food choice
Examining the neural correlates of goal priming with the NeuroShop, a novel virtual reality fMRI paradigm
OBJECTIVE: Health goal priming has been shown to stimulate healthy food choices by activating an individual's weight-control goal. The present study combined fMRI with a novel virtual reality food choice task to elucidate the underlying neural mechanisms of health goal priming. Previous research has suggested that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) play a role in the incorporation of health consi…
Parental child-feeding strategies in relation to Dutch children’s fruit and vegetable intake
Objective To identify parental child-feeding strategies that may increase children’s fruit or vegetable intake, since the relationship between these strategies and children’s intake has never been investigated for fruit and vegetables as two separate food groups. Design A survey study, where parents provided information about their practices in relation to feeding their children and about their own and their children’s fruit and vegetable intake.…
The neural correlates of processing visual food cues
I want it now! Behavioural and self-reported impulsivity differentially modulate brain responses to food choices
Goal-directed visual attention drives health goal priming
Standardized food images
Neural correlates of healthy and unhealthy food viewing and food choice in children and adults
Using Virtual Reality to Stimulate Healthy and Environmentally Friendly Food Consumption among Children
Since habits formed during childhood are predictive of adult behaviour, children form an important target group when it comes to improving healthy and environmentally friendly food consumption. To explore the potential of immersive virtual reality (VR) in this respect, we conducted a semi-structured interview study ( N = 22) among children aged 6-13 years. This study consisted of two parts: (1) a VR experience and (2) a semi-structured interview …
Under pressure
Previous research has shown that nudging can effectively support people's healthy food choices. Yet, to date knowledge about the psychological premises of nudging is limited, highlighting the need for closer scrutiny to determine how and when nudging is most effective. In the current study, we assessed whether the presumed effect of nudging on healthy food choice is enhanced under time pressure, a condition probing alleged system 1 reasoning. Foo…
Resistance to contact tracing applications
The success of new technologies such as contact tracing mobile applications depends on large-scale end-user adoption. However, the implementation may encounter resistance, since the uncertainty surrounding novel technology may raise anxiety, and persuasion efforts to promote use can evoke reactance. Thereby, anxiety and reactance are two forms of resistance to new technology. Little is known about the role of resistance over the course of the inn…
Stimulating Sustainable Food Choices Using Virtual Reality
Personal response efficacy beliefs are vital in instigating, maintaining, and catalyzing environmental behavior change. In this experimental study (N = 249), we investigated whether such efficacy beliefs could be stimulated using Virtual Reality. In a VR-supermarket, participants would see interactive pop-ups displaying impact messages when they picked up products, these are messages that display the (environmental or health) impact of a product.…
Examining the neural correlates of goal priming with the NeuroShop, a novel virtual reality fMRI paradigm
OBJECTIVE: Health goal priming has been shown to stimulate healthy food choices by activating an individual's weight-control goal. The present study combined fMRI with a novel virtual reality food choice task to elucidate the underlying neural mechanisms of health goal priming. Previous research has suggested that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) play a role in the incorporation of health consi…
Battle of the primes – The effect and interplay of health and hedonic primes on food choice
Neural activity in self-related brain regions in response to tailored nutritional messages predicts dietary change
Overweight and obesity have become international public health problems, so there is an urgent need to implement effective interventions that prevent these concerning health issues. Designing personalized (tailored) dietary communications has become one of the most effective tools in reducing unhealthy eating behavior, when compared with one-size-fits-all messages (untailored). However, more research is required to gain a complete understanding o…
Predictors of contact tracing app adoption
Contact tracing apps (CTAs) have been introduced as a means to identify and isolate possible cases infected with COVID-19. Since the adoption rate determines the effectiveness of CTAs, it is important to examine what factors contribute to a higher CTA uptake. This study aimed to use an integrative approach to explain early CTA adoption, whereby three perspectives are distinguished: technology-related (derived from the Unified Theory of Acceptance…
Shaping health behaviors beyond reality
Addressing the rising obesity prevalence, a Virtual Reality full-body illusion as a novel approach to obesity prevention is examined, allowing individuals to experience ownership of a virtual body (VBO). Although never tested, an immersive experience of a virtual self that suffers from the consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle, like an overweight body, may motivate health behaviors to avoid these consequences. Hence, the study aimed to investiga…
The privacy calculus in the context of novel health technology for diagnosing and tracking infectious diseases
In the past decades, accelerated by the recent COVID pandemic, the field of healthcare has faced technological advancements, such as wearables and mobile applications, that collect personal or health data. However, such tools are ineffective if they are not adopted by a large part of the population or if relevant health data, collected by the application, are not (voluntarily) shared. This study assessed the role of disease severity and evidence …
Age and body mass index are associated with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activation in response to unhealthy food cues
Unhealthy food cues are omnipresent and promote overconsumption. Although childhood obesity rates are increasing, there is no strict regulation of the marketing of unhealthy foods towards children. This is problematic since the human brain, especially areas important for cognitive control, continues to develop into the 30s. It is not known in how far the brain response to unhealthy food cues varies with body mass index (BMI) and age. To investiga…
Smell-e technology
Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technologies such as virtual supermarkets arean emerging medium to model individuals’ eating behaviour. However, existing VR environments elicit weaker responses to food (i.e., craving and salivation) than in real-life, limiting their validity as research tools. We developed an immersive multisensory VR food environment – with both visual and olfactory (smell) cues – and investigated whether it could bridge this gap…
Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (6 works) · Food choice (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (4 works)