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| Arne RoetsSummaryAffiliation: Ghent University Country: Belgium Publications
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To have or to be? A comparison of materialism-based theories and self-determination theory as explanatory frameworks of prejudiceAlain Van Hiel
Ghent University, Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology, H Dunantlaan 2, Gent 9000, Belgium
J Pers 78:1037-70. 2010..Broader implications for SDT are critically assessed...
Separating ability from need: clarifying the dimensional structure of the Need for Closure ScaleArne Roets
Ghent University
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:266-80. 2007..In the Discussion, it is argued that the specific position of Decisiveness is due to its particular operationalization, not to its theoretical status...
The role of need for closure in essentialist entitativity beliefs and prejudice: an epistemic needs approach to racial categorizationArne Roets
Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
Br J Soc Psychol 50:52-73. 2011..It is argued that EE beliefs about racial groups are an expression of motivated social cognition, serving people's seizing needs for quick and easy social judgment...
Determinants of task performance and invested effort: a need for closure by relative cognitive capacity interaction analysisArne Roets
Ghent University, Belgium
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:779-92. 2008..The two main findings are discussed and the authors go further into the divergences between dispositional and manipulated NFC...
Age differences in conservatism: evidence on the mediating effects of personality and cognitive styleIlse Cornelis
Ghent University, Belgium
J Pers 77:51-87. 2009..The consistency of these findings in two countries with a very dissimilar sociopolitical history attests to the importance of the developmental perspective for the study of the relationship between age and conservatism...
Longitudinal intergroup contact effects on prejudice using self- and observer-reportsKristof Dhont
Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
Br J Soc Psychol 51:221-38. 2012..Methodological implications of the findings are discussed...
Opening closed minds: the combined effects of intergroup contact and need for closure on prejudiceKristof Dhont
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 37:514-28. 2011..The role of motivated cognition in the relation between intergroup contact and prejudice is discussed...
Rehabilitation of scapular muscle balance: which exercises to prescribe?Ann M Cools
University Hospital Ghent, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, De Pintelaan 185, 6K3, B9000 Ghent, Belgium
Am J Sports Med 35:1744-51. 2007....
'When suppression backfires': the ironic effects of suppressing eating-related thoughtsBarbara Soetens
Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
J Health Psychol 11:655-68. 2006..Hence, thought suppression may be counterproductive at least for a subgroup of restrainers and may fuel eating-related preoccupations. More research is required to evaluate effects on eating behaviour...
Resisting temptation: effects of exposure to a forbidden food on eating behaviourBarbara Soetens
Department of Applied Psychology, Lessius University College of the Catholic University of Leuven, Sanderusstraat 45, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium
Appetite 51:202-5. 2008..Results indicate that prohibition with exposure may backfire and increase the risk of loss of control over eating behaviour, particularly in at-risk groups of disinhibited restrained eaters...
