Research Topics and Interests
- Etiology and therapy of PTSD
- Experimental psychopathology
Curriculum Vitae
2018-2020
Postdoctoral Researcher / Marie-Curie Research Fellow
Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London (UK)since 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, WWU Münster
since 03/2024 Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Health Psychology, University of Münster2015 - 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher
Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)2009 - 2015
Doctoral Researcher
Clinical Psychological Science, Maastricht University (NL)2007 - 2009
Master of Science (research), Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University (NL)2004 - 2007
Bachelor of Science, Biological Psychology
Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University (NL)Research Articles (Journals)
- Comparison is the thief of joy? Introducing the Attitudes Towards Social Comparison Inventory. Assessment, 31, 1052–1069. doi: 10.1177/10731911231203968. ().
- Evaluation of the Scales for Social Comparison of Appearance and Social Comparison of Well-being. Journal of Personality Assessment, 106, 625–637. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2023.2298887. ().
- Selection of social comparison standards in cardiac patients with and without experienced defibrillator shock. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 5551. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-51366-3. ().
- Comparison standards shape everyday judgments of low and high wellbeing in individuals with and without psychopathology: A diary-based investigation. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 4063. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-54681-x. ().
- Social comparison selection in individuals with depression and the role of self-assessment and self-enhancement motives: An experimental investigation . Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, xx. doi: 10.1177/20438087241288532 . ().
- . (). Measuring appearance-related comparisons: Validation of the Comparison Standards Scale for Appearance. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 47, 123–139. doi: 10.1007/s10608-022-10337-6.
- How we compare: a new approach to assess aspects of the comparison process for appearance-based standards and their associations with individual differences in wellbeing and personality measures. PloS one, 18(1), Article e0280072. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280072. ().
- The struggle is relative: A comparative processing perspective on academic self-concept and student mental health. Collabra: Psychology , 9(1). doi: 10.1525/collabra.88330. ().
- . (). Social comparison modulates acute responses to traumatic footage and the development of intrusive memories. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 13, 1–13. doi: 10.1177/20438087221075889.
- . (). Taking a walk through time: Aversive memory re-experiencing may be linked to spatio-temporal distance. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13(1), 2003993. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2021.2003993.
- . (). How do Adults with Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder from Childhood Trauma talk about single versus repeated traumas? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(4). doi: 10.1002/acp.3820.
- . (). A potential impact of physical distancing on physical and mental health. A rapid narrative umbrella review of meta-analyses on the link between social connection and health. BMJ Open, 11:e042335. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042335.
- Cardiorespiratory Fitness as Protection Against the Development of Memory Intrusions: a Prospective Trauma Analogue Study. Biological Psychology, in press. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108189. [online first] ().
- . (). Arresting visuospatial stimulation is insufficient to disrupt analogue traumatic intrusions. PloS one, 15(2). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228416.
- . (). Social comparison modulates coping with fear in virtual environments. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 72, 102226. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102226.
- . (). Spatio-temporal associations with memory cues are linked to analogue traumatic intrusions. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 123, 103481. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2019.103481.
- Investigating the effect of proactive interference control training on intrusive memories. . European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1). doi: 10.1080/20008198.2019.1611092. ().
- . (). Acute stress – but not aversive scene content – impairs spatial configuration learning. Cognition and Emotion, 34(2), 201–216. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2019.1604320.
- . (). Frontal EEG asymmetry during symptom provocation predicts subjective responses to intrusions in survivors with and without PTSD. Psychophysiology, 55, e12779. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12779.
- . (). Frightened by the perpetrator’s voice: Startle responsivity and cognitive processing predict earwitness speaker identification. Biological Psychology, 134, 80–88. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.02.013.
- . (). Adult Eyewitness Memory for Single Versus Repeated Traumatic Events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31, 164–174. doi: 10.1002/acp.3314.
- . (). Visuospatial context learning and configuration learning is associated with analogue traumatic intrusions. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 54, 120–127. doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.07.010.
- . (). Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation modulates the impact of a negative mood induction. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 526–533. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsw180.
- . (). Examining habituation and sensitization across repetitive laboratory stress inductions using the MAST. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 77, 175–181.
- . (). The validity of individual frontal alpha asymmetry EEG neurofeedback. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 33–43. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsv090.
- . (). The overlap between dissociative symptoms and symptom over-reporting. The European Journal of Psychiatry, 29, 165–172. doi: 10.4321/S0213-61632015000300001.
- . (). Flashbacks, intrusions, mind-wandering – Instances of an involuntary memory spectrum: A commentary on Takarangi, Strange, and Lindsay (2014). Consciousness and Cognition, 33, 24–29. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2014.11.012.
- . (). The role of frontal EEG asymmetry in post-traumatic stress disorder. Biological Psychology, 108, 62–77. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.03.018.
- . (). The functional role of individual-alpha based frontal asymmetry in stress responding. Biological Psychology, 104, 75–81. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.11.014.
- . (). Temporal dynamics of stress-induced alternations of intrinsic amygdala connectivity and neuroendocrine levels. PloS one, 10, e0124141. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124141.
- . (). Frontal EEG asymmetry as predictor of physiological responses to aversive memories. Psychophysiology, 51, 853–865. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12230.
- . (). Individual differences in spatial configuration learning predict the occurrence of intrusive memories. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 186–196. doi: 10.3758/s13415-012-0123-9.
- . (). Acute stress differentially affects spatial configuration learning in high and low cortisol-responding healthy adults. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 4, 19854. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v4i0.19854.
- . (). The imaging Maastricht Acute Stress Test (iMAST): A neuroimaging compatible psychophysiological stressor. Psychophysiology, 50, 758–766. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12058.
- . (). Time dependent effects of stress prior to encoding on event-related potentials and 24 h delayed retrieval. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(12), 3057–3069. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.09.002.
- . (). Introducing the Maastricht Acute Stress Test (MAST): A quick and non-invasive approach to elicit robust autonomic and glucocorticoid stress responses. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 37, 1998–2008. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.04.012.
- . (). The efficiency of reappraisal and expressive suppression in regulating everyday affective experiences. Psychiatry Research, 200(2), 964–969. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.05.034.