People
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Full Professor, head of CLEP |
Memory and psychopathology, associative mechanisms of fear, indirect measures of attitudes (e.g. affective priming). |
Tel: ++ 32(0) 16 32 59 63
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Room PSI 02.16 |
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Professor |
Occasion setting and modulation, cue competition, evaluative conditioning, flavor preference, observational learning, implicit learning, affective stimulus processing, contribution of psychology of learning to behavior therapy and health psychology, grooming, beer brewing.
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Tel: ++32 (0)16 32 61 25
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Room PSI 02.14 |
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Associate Professor |
Fundamental processes of learning and conditioning in infant and adult humans and in rodents, using behavioural, neurobiological, and computational techniques. Cue competition in causal learning and conditioning. The role of learning and conditioning in psychopathology (particularly fear and addiction). Stimulus-response compatibility tasks. Approach-avoidance tendencies in psychopathology. |
Tel: ++32 (0)16 32 61 34 |
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Associate Professor |
Depression, autobiographical memory, rumination, behaviour therapy, psychosis, neuropsychology. |
Tel: ++ 32 (0)16 32 58 92
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Room PSI 02.15 |
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Elise Debeer
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Post-doctoral researcher
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(Overgeneral) autobiographical memory, avoidance, affect regulation, depression, rumination, behaviour therapy.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 88 68
E-mail
Room PSI 02.113 |
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Post-doctoral researcher of the Research Foundation - Flanders, Belgium (FWO)
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Human fear conditioning, (extinction of) contextual fear and generalized anxiety, neuroimaging, physiological indices of learning, i.e., electrodermal activity and startle eye-blink reflex-modulation.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 58 66
E-mail
Room PSI 02.111 |
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Nicole Geschwind | Post-doctoral researcher | Positive psychology, experience sampling method, person-context interactions, vulnerability to and resilience against psychopathology, depression, mindfulness, mechanisms underlying generalization. |
Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 61 48
E-mail
Room PSI 02.03 |
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Post-doctoral researcher
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Fear, anxiety, contextual and cued fear conditioning, conditioning in rats, neuromodulation (electrical brain stimulation and brain lesions), neuroimaging, anxiety disorders, (neuro)biological basis of psychopathology.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 62 23
E-mail
Room PSI 02.03 |
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Bridget McConnell
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Post-doctoral researcher of the Research Foundation - Flanders, Belgium (FWO)
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Associative learning, fear conditioning, extinction and recovery from extinction, animal learning.
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Tel: ++32 (0) 16 32 58 67
E-mail
Room PSI 02.103 |
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Post-doctoral researcher of the Research Foundation – Flanders, Belgium (FWO) |
Health-related behaviors (smoking, chocolate craving,...) & conditioning, renewal of conditioned responses, exposure/counterconditioning, prevention of relapse. |
Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 58 70
E-mail
Room PSI 02.107 |
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Deb Vansteenwegen
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Post-doctoral researcher (KU Leuven), Director ISW Limits
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Fear, anxiety, stress, learning, psychophysiology, human fear conditioning, extinction/exposure, return of fear after extinction/relapse, intereoceptive conditioning, e-mental health interventions.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0)16 32 61 34
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Bram Vervliet
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Post-doctoral researcher
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Fear, anxiety, conditioning, associative learning, psychophysiology, affective neuroscience, psychopharmacology.
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Tel: ++32 (0)16 32 61 17
E-mail
Room PSI 02.103 |
| PhD Students and Teaching Assistants | ||||
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Tom Barry |
Research assistant
(Ph.D. student)
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Behavioural therapy, anxiety disorders, generalization. |
Tel: ++32 (0) 16 32 59 03
Room PSI 02.91
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Marc Patrick Bennett |
Research assistant
(Ph.D. student)
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The non-perceptual generalization of human anxiety. A particular interest in the role of derived relational responding, acquired equivalence and the transformation of stimuli functions in psychopathology (anxiety). Also, the extinction and control of 'derived' and 'direct' anxiety and avoidance responses. A behavioural understanding of human language and cognition, i.e., Relational Frame Theory. Previous research outside of CLEP involved tailored interventions addressing the mental heath needs of adults with Asperger Syndrome. |
Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 61 24
Room PSI 02.18
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Yannick Boddez |
Research assistant (Ph.D. student) |
Stimulus interaction effects, extinction, the relation between stimulus interaction effects & extinction and the contextual modulation of the aforementioned phenomena. We study these topics using a fear conditioning paradigm (using mice subjects and human subjects) and a causal learning paradigm (using human subjects). |
Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 60 35
E-mail
Room PSI 02.105 |
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Kathleen De Cuyper
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Research assistant (Ph.D. student)
Psychologist – behavioural therapist in the eating disorders program, at UPC KU Leuven
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Eating disorders, perfectionism, implicit attitudes.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0) 2 758 08 44
Room PSI 02.109
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Hans De Ruyck
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Teaching assistant
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Behavioural therapy, anxiety disorders.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 60 01
Room PSI 02.109
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Mathilde Descheemaeker |
Research assistant of the Research Foundation – Flanders, Belgium (FWO) |
Alcohol dependence, indirect attitude measures, attitude accessibility and ambivalence. |
Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 62 53
E-mail
Room PSI 02.17 |
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Mathijs Franssen |
Research assistant (Ph.D. student) |
Conditioning, occasion setting, exemplar learning, belongingness.
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Tel: ++ 32(0) 16 32 57 42
E-mail
Room PSI 02.103 |
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Els Joos
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Research assistant of the Research Foundation – Flanders, Belgium (FWO)
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Learning mechanisms, anxiety disorders, consolidation, worry.
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Tel: ++32 (0) 16 32 88 69
E-mail
Room PSI 02.113 |
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Bert Lenaert
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Research assistant of the Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium (FWO)
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Inhibition, fear, generalization.
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Tel:++ 32 (0) 16 32 58 95
E-mail
Room PSI 02.91 |
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Elisa Maes | Research assistant (Ph.D. student) | Analogical reasoning and rule-based generalization in rats. |
Tel:++ 32 (0) 16 32 58 69
Room PSI 02.18
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Sabine Nelis |
Research assistant of the Research Foundation – Flanders, Belgium (FWO)
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Depression, autobiographical memory, mental imagery, vantage point.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 62 53
E-mail
Room PSI 02.17 |
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Bart Schepers
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Research assistant (Ph.D. student)
Clinical NeuroPychologist at UPC Sint-Kamillus
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Equivalence classes, learning mechanisms, amnesia.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 45 28 06
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Hanne Schoofs
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Research assistant (Ph.D. student)
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Depression, autobiographical memory, rumination, behaviour therapy, neuropsychology.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 59 10
E-mail
Room PSI 02.113 |
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Jorien Smets
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Research assistant of the Research Foundation – Flanders, Belgium (FWO)
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Depression, rumination, autobiographical memory, intrusions, cognitive inhibition.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 60 53
E-mail
Room PSI 02.17 |
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Kris Van den Broeck |
Research assistant (Ph.D. student) |
Autobiographical memory specificity in borderline patients. |
Tel: ++ 32 (0) 2 758 07 45 |
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Koen Vanbrabant |
Teaching assistant (Ph.D. student) |
Depression, rumination, autobiographical memory, generalization in depression & cognitive vulnerabilities. |
Tel:++ 32 (0) 16 32 88 71
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Jens Van Lier |
Research assistant
(Ph.D. student)
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Autobiographical memory, generalization, rumination, depression, worry, anxiety, cognitive vulnerabilities in ill health. |
Tel: ++32 (0) 16 32 88 70
Room PSI 02.91
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Ellen Vervoort |
Research assistant (Ph.D. student) |
Fear conditioning, non-perceptual generalization of conditioned fear. |
Tel:++ 32 (0) 16 32 58 69
E-mail
Room PSI 02.18 |
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Administrative and Technical Staff |
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| Name | Title | Contact Details |
| An Van Kets | Management assistant |
Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 60 01 Fax : ++ 32 (0) 16 32 60 99 Room PSI 02.80 |
| Marleen Devijver | Management assistant |
Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 59 65 Fax : ++ 32 (0) 16 32 60 99 Room PSI 00.78 |
| Jeroen Clarysse | Information technology assistant |
Tel: ++ 32 (0) 16 32 60 32 Room PSI 02.109 |
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Affiliated Members |
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Contact Details
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Guido Pieters
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Research fellow (University Clinic Kortenberg)
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Eating, personality, and anxiety disorders, evidence-based medicine and cognitive behavioral therapy.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0) 2 758 05 18
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Barbara Soetens
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Assistant professor at Lessius University College, Department of Applied Psychology
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Obesity and eating pathology. Main research focus: The effects of food-related thought suppression on thought frequency, attention, memory and eating behaviour.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0) 3 241 08 29
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Post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders, Belgium (FWO)
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Affective stimulus processing, selective attention, attentional bias, depression, addiction, implicit self-esteem, implicit attitude measures, evaluative conditioning.
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Tel: ++ 32 (0) 9 264 64 74
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| Former Collaborators | |||
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| Name | Title/Current Position | Name | Title/Current Position |
| Fernando Blanco | Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Deusto | Priya van Vooren | |
| Geert Crombez |
Full Professor at Ghent University |
An de Decker | Clinical Psychologist at the University Centre Sint-Jozef, Kortenberg |
| Jan De Houwer | Full Professor at Ghent University | Barbara Depreeuw | Clinical Psychologist / Trainer at The Human Link |
| Eric Depreeuw | Paul Eelen | Emeritus Full Professor | |
| Geert Francken | Senior Research Executive at Synovate | Hilde Hendrickx | Scientist/Project Leader at Unilever |
| Carlos Iberico | Assistant Professor at the University of Lima | Sabine Lamote | Lector at KATHO |
| Bart Kaes | Valerie Marescau | Coordinator at CVO Leerdorp | |
| Tom Meersmans | Functional Analyst at Dexia | Ann Meulders | Post-doctoral researcher at Research Group on Health Psychology (KUL) |
| Agnes Moors | Assistant Professor at Ghent University | Peter Silverans | Researcher at the Belgian Road Safety Institute, Behaviour and Policy Department |
| Omer van den Bergh | Full Professor and director of the Research Group on Health Psychology (KUL) | Anne-Lies Van den Broeck | Clinical Psychologist at the pain unit of the Leuven University Hospital |
| Wouter Vanhouche | Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida | Bram Van Moorter | Post-doctoral researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Filip Verhulst | Netje Dirikx | Project employee - COACH project at CGG - VBO | |
| Inneke Kerkhof | Working for the department of psychology, KUL | Evelien Coppens |
Senior researcher at LUCAS - Centre for Care Research and Consultancy |
| Heleen Vandromme | Head of education at KAHO Sint-Lieven | ||
