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  1. Krypotos, A.-M., Mertens, G., Matziarli, D., Klugkist, I., & Engelhard, I. M. (in press). Fear generalization in individuals with subclinical symptoms of panic disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy. pdf

  2. Derksen, M., Meirmans, S., Brenninkmeijer, J., Pols, J., de Boer, A., Van Eyghen, H., … Krypotos, A.-M., …, & de Winter, J. (in press). Replication studies in the Netherlands: Lessons learned and recommendations for funders, publishers and editors, and universities. Accountability in Research: Ethics, Integrity and Policy pdf

  3. Endhoven, B., Krypotos, A.-M., Mertens, G., & Engelhard, I. (in press). No Evidence for Decreased Generalization of Fear Extinction in High-Trait Anxious Individuals. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology pdf

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

  5. 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

  6. 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

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

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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.

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

  16. 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

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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

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

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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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

  51. 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

  52. 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

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

  54. 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

  55. 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

  56. 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

  57. 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)

  58. 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.