Godara, Malvika Sanchez-Lopez, Alvaro De Raedt, Rudi
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Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry
Instrumentality plays a key role in guiding attention, such that stimuli associated with achieving current goals of an individual prioritize attention. However, in depression, attention is prioritized to negative stimuli even when they are not relevant to current goals. In the current study, we tested whether attention is prioritized to stimuli tha...
Kissi, Ama Hughes, Sean Van Ryckeghem, Dimitri De Houwer, Jan Crombez, Geert
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Pain
Under some conditions, people persist in their attempts to control their pain even when no such control is possible. Theory suggests that such pain-control attempts arise from actual pain experiences. Across 3 experiments we examined how (1) losing control over pain and (2) instructions concerning pain, moderated pain-control attempts. In each expe...
Caers, Ralf Akgul, Key Lales Baert, Stijn De Feyter, Tim De Couck, Marijke
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International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
In a sample of 3274 full-time Belgian workers, this article found that 62% of workers went to work while being sick (sickness presenteeism) at least once over the past 12 months. Of all workers who did not show sickness presenteeism themselves, another 6 out of 10 saw or heard about sickness presenteeism in their own organization. Women were more l...
Jones, Emma Blaisdale Sharpe, Louise Andrews, Sally Colagiuri, Ben Dudeney, Joanne Fox, Elaine Heathcote, Lauren C Lau, Jennifer Y F Todd, Jemma Van Damme, Stefaan
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Pain
Previous meta-analyses investigating attentional biases towards pain have used reaction time measures. Eye-tracking methods have been adopted to more directly and reliably assess biases, but this literature has not been synthesized in relation to pain. This meta-analysis aimed to investigate the nature and time course of attentional biases to pain-...
Questienne, Laurence van Dijck, Jean-Philippe Gevers, Wim
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Psychologica Belgica
Cognitive control research is concerned with the question how we install adaptive behaviour in the case of (cognitive) conflict. In this review we focus on the role that awareness of this conflict plays in our ability to exert cognitive control. We will argue that visual conflict is not the only building block of metacognitive experiences of confli...
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Geographical indications (GI) certify the geographical origins of a product and delineate the specific area in which the certified product must be produced. Despite a large literature on the economics of GIs, few papers have explored the question of the optimal size of GI regions. This note presents a flexible conceptual framework to explore the ec...
Dieleman, Lisa M Soenens, Bart Prinzie, Peter De Clercq, Lana Ortibus, Els De Pauw, Sarah S W
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Development and psychopathology
The purpose of this study was to advance the current understanding of the daily dynamics that are involved in raising a child with Cerebral Palsy (CP). Specifically, we examined the role of mindful parenting and of day-to-day variation in parents' psychological needs and child behavior in explaining day-to-day variation in parents' autonomy-support...
Vandierendonck, André
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Journal of Cognition
According to the working memory model with distributed executive control (WMDEC), working memory is not only used for temporary maintenance of information, but it also serves goal-directed action by maintaining task-related information. Such information may include the current action goal, the means selected to attain the goal, situational constrai...
De Letter, Miet Cocquyt, Elissa-Marie Cromheecke, Oona Criel, Yana De Cock, Elien De Herdt, Veerle Szmalec, Arnaud Duyck, Wouter
Waeterloos, Cato Walrave, Michel Ponnet, Koen
Social media have expanded citizens’ political repertoires with new modes of action. To measure these changing political practices, a new instrument, called the Social Media Political Participation Scale was developed and psychometrically tested. The instrument aims to capture both active, expressive forms of political action through social media a...
