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Jan De HouwerGhent UniversityVerified email at ugent.be
Angelos-Miltiadis KrypotosAssistant Professor, Utrecht University & Post-Doc, KU LeuvenVerified email at uva.nl
Tom SmeetsTilburg UniversityVerified email at tilburguniversity.edu
Elske SaleminkUtrecht University, the NetherlandsVerified email at uu.nl
Lotte GerritsenUtrecht UniversityVerified email at uu.nl
Yannick BoddezGhent UniversityVerified email at ugent.be
Tina B. LonsdorfInstitute for Psychology, Biological Psychology and Cogntive Neuroscience, University of BielefeldVerified email at uni-bielefeld.de
Paul LodderAssistant Professor, Department of Methodology & Statistics, Tilburg UniversityVerified email at uvt.nl
Pieter Van DesselDepartment of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent UniversityVerified email at UGent.be
Arne LeerUtrecht UniversityVerified email at uu.nl
Elze LandkroonVerified email at uu.nl
Manuel KuhnPh.D., Center for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research, McLean Hospital | Harvard Medical SchoolVerified email at mclean.harvard.edu
Jayne MorrissLecturer, University of SouthamptonVerified email at soton.ac.uk
Tom BeckersProfessor of Psychology, KU LeuvenVerified email at kuleuven.be
Anna M.V. GerlicherExperimental Psychology, Utrecht UniversityVerified email at uu.nl
Rachel SjouwermanInstitute for Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center HamburgVerified email at uke.de
Julia WendtResearch Associate, Biological Psychology and Affective Science, University of PotsdamVerified email at uni-potsdam.de
Marta AndreattaDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Ersmus University RotterdamVerified email at essb.eur.nl
Anastasia ChalkiaKU LeuvenVerified email at kuleuven.be
Christian J. MerzDepartment of Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University BochumVerified email at rub.de

Gaëtan Mertens

Assistant professor, Tilburg University

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Experimental Psychopathology Human Learning Psychophysiology Fear


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Fear of the coronavirus (COVID-19): Predictors in an online study conducted in March 2020 G Mertens, L Gerritsen, S Duijndam, E Salemink, IM Engelhard Journal of anxiety disorders 74, 102258, 2020	1226	2020
Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research TB Lonsdorf, M Klingelhöfer-Jens, M Andreatta, T Beckers, A Chalkia, ... Elife 8, e52465, 2019	112	2019
A review on the effects of verbal instructions in human fear conditioning: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations, and future directions G Mertens, Y Boddez, D Sevenster, IM Engelhard, J De Houwer Biological Psychology 137, 49-64, 2018	98	2018
Optimism, mindfulness, and resilience as potential protective factors for the mental health consequences of fear of the coronavirus LMW Vos, M Habibović, I Nyklíček, T Smeets, G Mertens Psychiatry Research 300, 113927, 2021	95	2021
A systematic review of pliance, tracking, and augmenting A Kissi, S Hughes, G Mertens, D Barnes-Holmes, J De Houwer, ... Behavior Modification 41 (5), 683-707, 2017	72	2017
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence for unaware fear conditioning G Mertens, IM Engelhard Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 108, 254-268, 2020	57	2020
Potentiation of the startle reflex is in line with contingency reversal instructions rather than the conditioning history G Mertens, J De Houwer Biological psychology 113, 91-99, 2016	55	2016
The role of intolerance of uncertainty in classical threat conditioning: Recent developments and directions for future research J Morriss, DV Zuj, G Mertens International Journal of Psychophysiology 166, 116-126, 2021	45	2021
The latent and item structure of COVID-19 fear: A comparison of four COVID-19 fear questionnaires using SEM and network analyses G Mertens, S Duijndam, T Smeets, P Lodder Journal of Anxiety Disorders 81, 102415, 2021	43	2021
A review on mental imagery in fear conditioning research 100 years since the ‘Little Albert’study G Mertens, AM Krypotos, IM Engelhard Behaviour Research and Therapy 126, 103556, 2020	42	2020
Preregistration of analyses of preexisting data. G Mertens, AM Krypotos Psychologica Belgica, 2019	42	2019
A step-by-step guide on preregistration and effective data sharing for psychopathology research. AM Krypotos, I Klugkist, G Mertens, IM Engelhard Journal of Abnormal Psychology 128 (6), 517, 2019	36	2019
Fear expression and return of fear following threat instruction with or without direct contingency experience G Mertens, M Kuhn, AK Raes, R Kalisch, J De Houwer, TB Lonsdorf Cognition and Emotion 30 (5), 968-984, 2016	35	2016
The mere exposure instruction effect P Van Dessel, G Mertens, CT Smith, J De Houwer Experimental psychology, 2017	34	2017
Human fear conditioning is moderated by stimulus contingency instructions G Mertens, Y Boddez, AM Krypotos, IM Engelhard Biological Psychology 158, 107994, 2021	30*	2021
Tackling fear: Beyond associative memory activation as the only determinant of fear responding Y Boddez, A Moors, G Mertens, J De Houwer Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 112, 410-419, 2020	23	2020
Fear of COVID-19 predicts vaccination willingness 14 months later G Mertens, P Lodder, T Smeets, S Duijndam Journal of Anxiety Disorders 88, 102574, 2022	22	2022
Induction of conditioned avoidance via mental imagery AM Krypotos, G Mertens, A Leer, IM Engelhard Behaviour Research and Therapy 132, 103652, 2020	20*	2020
Changing negative autobiographical memories in the lab: a comparison of three eye-movement tasks G Mertens, AM Krypotos, A van Logtestijn, E Landkroon, SC van Veen, ... Memory 27 (3), 295-305, 2019	20	2019
State anxiety modulates the return of fear M Kuhn, G Mertens, TB Lonsdorf International Journal of Psychophysiology 110, 194-199, 2016	19	2016

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