Research projects
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Defense and Depression: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Change.
This project aims to examine the stability of defenses, different categorizations, and explore how changes in defenses relate to shifts in depressive symptoms during therapy.
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SpeakAPP!-Kids
We developed a free virtual reality smartphone app, allowing elementary school children to practice presentations in front of virtual audiences. The app helps to increase presentation skills and can potentially prevent fear of public speaking.
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Decision Under Stress Training (DUST)
In this project, we train police officers to control their stress physiology in engagingly provoking situations with a Virtual Reality biofeedback game
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Whether biased attention, interpretation and memory process are interacted
This project aims to better understand the underlying mechanisms of emotional and independence disorders and help develop multiple treatments targeting combined cognitive biases to intervene in the related symptoms.
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The role of interpersonal synchrony in building the client-therapist working alliance
The aim of this project is to disentangle and explain the relation between IS and the WA using a multimodal approach.
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Service dogs as stress buffer in police officers with PTSD
With this program we aim to test theories on social buffering in PTSD as well as to guide policy for the national police on use of service dogs.
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VR Biofeedback training for decision making in Police officers
This project aims to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of training HRV through biofeedback in an active and arousing VR context.
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Transdiagnostic Avoidance in the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression
Our project aims to investigate how different types of avoidance relate to comorbid anxiety and depression in a clinical sample, and examine the contribution of these avoidance types to the maintenance of the disorders.
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Psychobioiogical Mechanisms of Individual Differences in Costly Avoidance Behaviour
This project studies the psychobiological mechanisms underlying avoidance behaviour and how it predict the outcome of anxiety and depressive disorders.
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The (dis)similarities of social anxiety and psychopathic tendencies
This project studies the (dis)similarities between social anxiety and psychopathy in terms of cognitive biases, behavioral tendencies and emotional experiences through self-reports, biological assessments, experimental tasks and longitudinal data.
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Intertemporal choice
This project studies intertemporal choice tendencies and how Pavlovian biases (elicited by cues signalling immediate rewards) interfer with goal-directed behaviour towards long-term rewards.