Publications

Copyright Notice. The documents distributed here have been provided as a means to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work on a noncommercial basis. Copyright and all rights therein are maintained by the authors or by other copyright holders, notwithstanding that they have offered their works here electronically. It is understood that all persons copying this information will adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author’s copyright. These works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

Please go to the published source for citations and quotes. Do not cite unpublished work without explicit permission.

  1. Krypotos, A.-M., Crombez, G. & Vlaeyen, J. W. (in press). The dynamics of pain avoidance: The exploration-exploitation dilemma. PAIN. pdf

  2. Krypotos, A.-M., Sjouwerman, R., Teppers, M., & Vlaeyen, J. W. (in press). Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer in Individuals with Chronic Pain. Behaviour Research and Therapy. pdf

  3. Cox, W., Woelk, M., de Vries, O., Krypotos, A.-M., Kindt, M., Engelhard, I., Sevenster, V., & van Ast, V. A. (in press). Context reexposure to bolster contextual dependency of emotional episodic memory. Scientific Reports. pdf

  4. Krypotos, A.-M., & Wessel, I. (in press). Experimental psychopathology can benefit from registered reports. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. pdf

  5. Alves, M., Krypotos, A. M., Crombez, G., & Vlaeyen, J. W. (in press). Experimental Pain Picture System (EPPS): development and validation. The Journal of Pain. pdf

  6. Endhoven B., De Cort K., Matthijssen S., de Jongh A., van Minnen A., Duits P., Schruers Koen R.J., van Dis Eva A.M., Krypotos, A.-M., Gerritsen L., & Engelhard I. M. (in press). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy or supportive counseling prior to exposure therapy in patients with panic disorder. Study protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial (IMPROVE). BMC Psychiatry.

  7. Krypotos, A.-M., Alves, M., Crombez, G., & Vlaeyen. E.-J. (2022). The role of intolerance of uncertainty when solving the exploration-exploitation dilemma. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 181, 33-39. pdf

  8. Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., … Krypotos, A.-M., …, & Wagenmakers. E.-J. (2022). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior. pdf

  9. van Dis, E.-A., Krypotos, A.-M., Zondervan-Zwijnenburg, E., Tinga, M. & Engelhard I. M. (2022). Safety Behaviors Toward Innocuous Stimuli can Maintain or Increase Threat Beliefs. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 156. pdf

  10. Cooper, S., van Dis, E., Hagenaars, M., Krypotos, A.-M., Nemeroff, C., Lissek, S., Englehard, M., & Dunsmoor, J. (2022). A Meta-Analysis of Conditioned Fear Generalization in Anxiety-Related Disorders. Neuropsychopharmacology, 17, 1652-1661. pdf

  11. Lonsdorf T., Gerlicher, A, Klingelhöfer-Jensa, M. & Krypotos, A.-M. (2022). Multiverse analyses in fear conditioning research. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 153. R package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/multifear/index.html. pdf.

  12. Krypotos, A.-M., Klein, R. A., & Jong, J. (2022). Resolving religious debates through a multiverse approach. Religion Brain & Behavior. pdf

  13. Krypotos, A.-M., Klugkist, I., Mertens, G., & Engelhard, I. M. (2022). Preregistration: Definition, advantages, disadvantages, and how it can help against questionable research practices. In Masuda, A., O’Donohue, W. & Lilienfeld, S. (eds.) Questionable Research Practice. Springer. pdf

  14. Mertens, G., & Krypotos, A.-M. (2022). Preregistration of Studies with Existing Data. In Faintuch, J. & Faintuch S. (eds.) Integrity of Scientific Research. Springer. pdf

  15. van Ast, V., Klumpers, F., Grasman, R. P.P.P., Krypotos, A.-M., & Roelofs, K. (2022). Postural freezing relates to startle-potentiation in a human fear-conditioning paradigm. Psychophysiology, 59. pdf

  16. Krypotos, A.-M., Crombez, G., Alves, M., Claes, N. & Vlaeyen, J. (2022). The exploration-exploitation dilemma in pain: an experimental investigation. PAIN, 163, e215-e233. pdf

  17. Mertens, G., van Dis, E-A., Krypotos, A.-M., & Engelhard, I. M. (2021). Does an unconditioned stimulus memory devaluation procedure decrease disgust memories and conditioned disgust? Results of two laboratory studies. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 82. pdf

  18. Schweinsberg, M., … Krypotos, A.-M., … & Uhlmann, E. L. (2021). Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 165, 228-249. pdf

  19. Mertens, G., Boddez, Y., Krypotos, A.-M., & Engelhard, I. M. (2021). Human fear conditioning is moderated by stimulus contingency instructions. Biological Psychology, 158. pdf

  20. Hendrikx, L., Krypotos, A.-M., & Engelhard, I. M. (2021). Enhancing extinction with response prevention via imagery-based counterconditioning: Results on conditioned Avoidance and distress. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 70. pdf

  21. Gazendam, F. J.+, Krypotos, A.-M.+, Kamphuis, J.H., van der Leij, A. R., Huizenga, H. M. H., Eigenhuis, A., & Kindt, M. (2020). From adaptive to maladaptive fear: heterogeneity in threat and safety learning across response systems in a representative sample. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 158, 271-287. +Shared first authors. pdf

  22. Krypotos, A.-M., Crombez, G., Meulders, A., Claes, N., & Vlaeyen, J.W.S. (2020). Decomposing conditioned avoidance performance with computational models. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 133. pdf

  23. Krypotos, A.-M., Mertens, G., Leer, A., & Engelhard, I. M. (2020). Induction of conditioned avoidance via mental imagery. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 132. Data and material: https://osf.io/mbr87/. pdf

  24. Krypotos, A.-M. & Engelhard, I. M. (2020). Investigating Pavlovian-to-Instrumental transfer effects in subclinical obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. pdf

  25. Krypotos, A.-M. (2020). How should we measure fear? Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 5, 377-378. pdf

  26. Krypotos, A.-M., Baas, J. M. P., & Engelhard, I. M. (2020). Reduction of conditioned avoidance via contingency reversal. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 1284-1290. pdf

  27. Mertens, G., Krypotos, A.-M., & Engelhard, I. M. (2020). A review on mental imagery in fear conditioning research 100 years since the `Little Albert' study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 126. pdf

  28. Krypotos, A.-M., Klugkist, I., Mertens, G., & Engelhard, I. M. (2019). A step-by-step guide on preregistration and effective data sharing in psychopathology research. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128, 517-527. R package: https://github.com/AngelosPsy/pssr. pdf

  29. Krypotos, A.-M. & Engelhard, I. M. (2019). Targeting avoidance via compound extinction. Cognition & Emotion, 33, 1523–1530. Data and material: https://osf.io/wm69r/. pdf

  30. Ganho-Avila, A., Gonçalves, O., F., Boggio, P. S., Asthana, M. K., Krypotos, A.-M., Almeida, J. (2019). The effect of cathodal tDCS on fear extinction: a cross-measures study. PLOS One, 14, e0221282. pdf

  31. Mertens, G., Krypotos, A.-M. (2019). Preregistration of analyses of preexisting data. Psychologica Belgica, 59, 338–352. pdf

  32. Boehm, U., Annis, J., Frank, M. J., Hawkins, G. E., Heathcote, A., Kellen, D., Krypotos, A.-M., Lerche, V., Logan, G. D., Palmeri, T. J., van Ravenzwaaij, D., Servant, M., Singmann, H., Starns, J. J., Voss, A., Wiecki, T., V., Matzke, D., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2018). Estimating between-trial variability parameters of the diffusion decision model: Expert advice and recommendations. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 87. 46-75. Team code: https://osf.io/fjy8z/. pdf

  33. Mertens, G., Krypotos, A.-M., van Logtestijn, A., Landkroon, E., van Veen S., Engelhard I. M. (2018). Changing negative autobiographical memories in the lab: A comparison of three eye-movement tasks. Memory. 27, 295–305. Data and material: https://osf.io/yanqz/. pdf

  34. Krypotos, A.-M., Moscarello, J. M., Sears, R. M., LeDoux, J. E., & Galatzer-Levy I. (2018). A principled method to identify individual differences and behavioral shifts in signaled active avoidance. Learning & Memory, 25, 564–568. pdf

  35. Krypotos, A.-M., Vervliet, B. & Engelhard, I. M. (2018). The validity of human avoidance paradigms. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 111. 99-105. pdf

  36. Krypotos, A.-M. & Engelhard, I. M. (2018). Testing a novelty-based extinction procedure for the reduction of conditioned avoidance. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 60, 22–28. Data and code: https://osf.io/cy2v5/. pdf

  37. Maes, E., Krypotos, A.-M., Boddez, Y., D’Hooge, R., De Houwer, J., and Beckers, T. (2018). Failures to replicate blocking are surprising and informative - Reply to Soto (in press). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 603–610. pdf

  38. Dutilh, G., Annis, J., Brown, S.D., Cassey, P., Evans, N.J., Grasman, R.P.P.P, Hawkins, G.E., Heathcote, A., Holmes, W. R., Krypotos, A.-M., Kupitz, C. N., Leite, F.P., Lerche, V., Lin, Y.-S., Logan, G.D., Palmeri, T.J., Starns, J.J., Trueblood, J.S., van Maanen, L., van Ravenzwaaij, D., Vandekerckhove, J., Visser, J., Voss, A., White, C.N., Wiecki, T.V., Rieskamp, J., Donkin, D. (2018). The quality of response time data inference: A blinded, collaborative assessment of the validity of cognitive models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Code for team: https://osf.io/p8wvd/. pdf

  39. Arnaudova, I., Krypotos, A.-M., Effting, M., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (2018). Manipulating affective state influences conditioned appetitive responses. Cognition & Emotion, 32, 1062–1081. pdf

  40. Krypotos, A.-M., Klugkist, I., & Engelhard I. M. (2017). Bayesian Hypothesis Testing for Human Threat Conditioning Research: An introduction and the condir R package. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 8. R package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/condir/index.html. pdf

  41. Krypotos, A.-M., Blanken, T. S., Arnaudova, I., Matzke, D., & Beckers, T. (2017). A primer on Bayesian analysis for experimental psychopathologists. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. 8, 140–157. Data and code: https://osf.io/7x5sd/. pdf

  42. Arnaudova, I., Krypotos, A.-M., Effting, M., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (2017). Moving Threat: Attention and distance change interact in threat responding. Emotion. 17, 251-258. pdf

  43. Arnaudova, I., Krypotos, A.-M., Effting, M., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (2017). Fearing shades of grey: Individual differences in fear responding towards generalization stimuli. Cognition & Emotion, 31, 1181–1196. pdf

  44. Maes, E., Boddez, Y., Alfei, J. M., Krypotos, A.-M., D’Hooge, R., De Houwer, J., & Beckers, T. (2016). The elusive nature of the blocking effect: 15 failures to replicate. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145. 49–71. Data and code: https://osf.io/fcwnr/. pdf

  45. Krypotos, A.-M., Beckers, T., Kindt, M., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2015). A Bayesian hierarchical diffusion model decomposition of performance in approach-avoidance tasks. Cognition & Emotion, 29, 1424–1444. pdf

  46. Krypotos, A.-M., Arnaudova, I., Effting, M., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (2015). Effects of approach-avoidance training on the extinction and return of fear responses. PLoS ONE. 10: e0131581. Data: https://osf.io/3apxv/. pdf

  47. Krypotos, A.-M., Effting, M., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (2015). Avoidance learning: A review of theoretical models and recent developments. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience. 9:189. pdf

  48. Krypotos, A.-M., Effting, M., Arnaudova, I., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (2014). Avoided by association: Acquisition, extinction, and renewal of avoidance tendencies towards conditioned fear stimuli. Clinical Psychological Science, 2, 336–343. pdf

  49. Arnaudova, I., Krypotos, A.-M., Effting, M., Kindt, M., & Beckers, T. (2013). Individual differences in discriminatory fear learning under conditions of ambiguity: A vulnerability factor for anxiety disorders? Frontiers in Psychology. 4:298. pdf

  50. Beckers, T., Krypotos, A.-M., Boddez, Y., Effting, M., & Kindt, M. (2013). What’s wrong with fear conditioning? Biological Psychology, 92, 90–96. pdf

  51. Wagenmakers, E.-J., Krypotos, A.-M., Criss, A., & Iverson G. (2012). On the interpretation of removable interactions: A survey of the field 33 years after Loftus. Memory & Cognition, 20, 145–160. pdf

  52. Dutilh, G., Krypotos, A.-M., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2011). Task-related vs. stimulus-specific practice: A diffusion model account. Experimental Psychology, 6, 434-442. pdf

  53. Krypotos, A.-M., Jahfari, S., van Ast, V., Kindt, M., & Forstmann, B. U. (2011). Individual differences in heart rate variability predict the degree of slowing during response inhibition and initiation in the presence of emotional stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology. 2:278. pdf

  54. Krypotos A.-M. (2009). Prostate Cancer and Sexual Dysfunction: The role of Counseling Psychology In Malikiosi Loizou & Antwnia Papastylianou (eds.) Counselling psychology in Men, 111-132. Athens: Ellinika Grammata. (in Greek)

  55. Kyriklaki A., & Krypotos A.-M. (2008). Prevention and Treatment Programs for Child Sexual Abuse: Literature review for the years 2000-2006. In Giotakos O. & Tsiliakou M. (eds.) The circle of Abuse: family conflicts and sexual violence. pp. 211-234. Athens: Archipelagos.