Publications

2011

• M. Friese, W. Hofmann & R.W. Wiers (2011). On Taming Horses and Strengthening Riders: Recent Developments in Research on Interventions to Improve Self-Control in Health Behaviors. Self and Identity, 10, 336-351.
• W. Hofmann, M. Friese & R.W. Wiers (2011). Impulsive processes in the self-regulation of health behaviour: theoretical and methodological considerations in response to commentaries. Health Psychology Review, 5(2), 162-171.
• K. Houben, C. Nederkoorn, R.W. Wiers & A. Jansen (2011). Resisting Temptation: Decreasing Alcohol-Related Affect and Drinking Behavior by Training Response Inhibition. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 116, 132-136.
• K. Houben, R.W. Wiers & A. Jansen (2011). Getting a grip on drinking behavior: Training working memory to reduce alcohol abuse. Psychological Science, 22(7), 968-975.
• E.G. Lammers, F. Goossens, S. Lokman, K. Monshouwer, L. Lemmers, P. Conrod, R. Wiers, R. Engels & M. Kleinman (2011). Evaluating a Selective Prevention Programme for Binge Drinking among Young Adolescents: Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial. BMC Public Health, 11, 126.
• S. Pieters, H. van der Vorst, W.J. Burk, T. Schoenmakers, W.P.M. van den Wildenberg, H.J. Smeets, E. Lambrichts, M. Field, R.C.M.E. Engels & R.W. Wiers (2011). The effect of the OPRM1 and DRD4 polymorphisms on the relation between attentional bias and alcohol use in adolescence and young adulthood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 591-599.
• A. Roefs, J. Huijding, F.T.Y. Smulders, C.M. MacLeod, P. de Jong, R.W. Wiers & A.T.M. Jansen (2011). Implicit Measures of Association in Psychopathology Research. Psychological Bulletin, 137, 149-193.
• E. Samelink & R.W. Wiers (2011). Modifying Threat-related Interpretive Bias in Adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 39(7), 967-976.
• L. Schmaal, L. Berk, K.P. Hulstijn, J. Cousijn, R.W. Wiers & W. van den Brink (2011). Efficacy of N-acetylcysteine in the treatment of nicotine dependence: A double-blind placebo controlled pilot study. European Addiction Research, 17(4), 211-216.
• R.W. Wiers, C. Eberl, M. Rinck, E. Becker & J. Lindenmeyer (2011). Re-training automatic action tendencies changes alcoholic patients’ approach bias for alcohol and improves treatment outcome. Psychological Science, 22(4), 490-497.
• R.W. Wiers, T. Gladwin & E. Samelink (2011). Tel eerst tot tien: Executieve functies en probleemgedrag. De. De Psycholoog, 46, 54-62.
• J. Cousijn, A.E. Goudriaan & R.W. Wiers (2011). Reaching out towards cannabis: approach-bias in heavy cannabis users predicts changes in cannabis use. Addiction, 106(9), 1667-1674.
• T.E. Gladwin, B. Figner, E.A. Crone & R.W. Wiers (2011). Addiction, Adolescence, and the Integration of Control and Motivation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 364-376.
• M. Hemel - Ruiter, P.J. Jong & R.W. Wiers (2011). Appetitive and Regulatory Processes in Young Adolescent Drinkers. Addictive Behaviors, 36, 18-26.
• J. Cousijn, A.E. Goudriaan & R.W. Wiers (2011). Reaching out towards cannabis: Approach‐bias in heavy cannabis users predicts changes in cannabis use. Addiction, 106(9), 1667-1674.

2010

• R.W. Wiers, S.L. Ames, W. Hofmann, M. Krank & A.W. Stacy (2010). Impulsivity, impulsive and reflective processes and the development of alcohol use and misuse in adolescents and young adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 1(144).
• D.S. van Deursen, E. Salemink, J. Lammers & R.W. Wiers (2010). Selectieve en geïndiceerde preventie van problematisch middelengebruik bij jongeren. Kind en Adolescent, 31(4), 234-246.
• A.W. Stacy, S.L. Ames, R.W. Wiers & M.D. Krank (2010). Associative memory in appetitive behavior: a framework and relevance to epidemiology and prevention. In L.M. Scheier (Ed.), Handbook of drug use etiology: theory, methods, and empirical findings (pp. 165-182). Washington: American Psychological Association.
• J. Huijding, R.W. Wiers & A.P. Field (2010). The assessment of fear-related automatic associations in children and adolescents. In J.A. Hadwin & A.P. Field (Eds.), Information processing biases and anxiety: a developmental perspective (pp. 151-182). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
• R.W. Wiers, K. Houben, A. Roefs, P. de Jong, W. Hofmann & A.W. Stacy (2010). Implicit cognition in health psychology: why common sense goes out of the window. In B. Gawronski & B.K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of implicit social cognition (pp. 463-488). New York: The Guilford Press.
• N. Dekker, A.M. Smeerdijk, R.W. Wiers, J.H. Duits, G. van Gelder, K. Houben, G. Schippers, D.H. Linszen & L. de Haan (2010). Implicit and explicit affective associations towards cannabis use in patients with recent-onset schizophrenia and healthy controls. Psychological Medicine, 40(8), 1325-1336.
• K. Houben, T.M. Schoenmaker & R.W. Wiers (2010). I didn’t feel like drinking but I don’t know why: the effects of evaluative conditioning on alcohol-related attitudes, craving and behavior. Addictive Behaviors, 35(12), 1161-1163.
• R.W. Wiers & W. Hofmann (2010). Implicit cognition and health psychology: changing perspectives and new interventions. The European health psychologist, 12(1), 4-6.
• K. Houben, R.C. Havermans & R.W. Wiers (2010). Learning to dislike alcohol: Conditioning negative implicit attitudes towards alcohol and its effect on drinking behavior. Psychopharmacology, 211(1), 79-86.
• M. Field, R.W. Wiers, P. Christiansen, M.T. Fillmore & J.C. Verster (2010). Acute alcohol effects on inhibitory control and implicit cognition: implications for loss of control over drinking. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, 34(8), 1346-1352.
• S. Pieters, H. van der Vorst, W.J. Burk, R.W. Wiers & R.C.M.E. Engels (2010). Puberty-dependent sleep regulation and alcohol use in early-adolescents. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, 34(9), 1512-1518.
• A.A.J. Goethem, R.H.J. Scholte & R.W. Wiers (2010). Explicit- and implicit bullying attitudes in relation to bullying behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 38(6), 829-842.
• S. Pieters, H. Vorst, R.C.M.E. Engels & R.W. Wiers (2010). Implicit and explicit cognitions related to alcohol use in children. Addictive Behaviors, 35(5), 471-478.
• M. Friese, J. Bargas-Avila, W. Hofmann & R.W. Wiers (2010). Here’s looking at you, Bud: alcohol-related memory structures predict eye movements for social drinkers with low executive control. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(2), 143-151.
• T.M. Schoenmaker, M. de Bruin, I.F.M. Lux, A.G. Goertz, D.H.A.T. Kerkhof & R.W. Wiers (2010). Clinical effectiveness of attentional bias modification training in abstinent alcohol patients. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 109(1-3), 30-36.
• A.W. Stacy & R.W. Wiers (2010). Implicit cognition and addiction: a tool for explaining paradoxical behavior. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 6, 551-575.
• R.W. Wiers & A.W. Stacy (2010). Are alcohol expectancies associations? Comment on Moss & Albery (2009). Psychological Bulletin, 136(1), 12-16.
• J. van de Luitgaarden, R.A. Knibbe & R.W. Wiers (2010). Adolescents binge drinking when on holiday: an evaluation of a community intervention based on self-regulation. Substance Use & Misuse, 45(1-2), 190-203.
• K. Houben, B. Nosek & R.W. Wiers (2010). Seeing the forest through the trees: a comparison of different IAT variants measuring implicit alcohol associations. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 106(2-3), 204-211.
• R.W. Wiers, M. Rinck, R. Kordts, K. Houben & F. Strack (2010). Retraining automatic action-tendencies to approach alcohol in hazardous drinkers. Addiction, 105(2), 279-287.
• T.M. Schoenmakers & R.W. Wiers (2010). Craving and attentional bias respond differently to alcohol priming: a field study in the pub. European Addiction Research, 16(1), 9-16.
• E. Kuntsche, R.W. Wiers, T. Janssen & G. Gmel (2010). Same wording, distinct concepts? Testing differences between expectancies and motives in a mediation model of alcohol outcomes. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 18(5), 436-444.

2009

• C. Nederkoorn, M. Baltus, R. Guerrieri & R.W. Wiers (2009). Heavy drinking is associated with deficient response inhibition in women but not in men. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 93(3), 331-336.
• R.W. Wiers, L. Beckers, K. Houben & W. Hofmann (2009). A short fuse after alcohol: implicit power associations predict aggressiveness after alcohol consumption in young heavy drinkers with limited executive control. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 93(3), 300-305.
• R.W. Wiers, M. Rinck, M. Dictus & E. van den Wildenberg (2009). Relatively strong automatic appetitive action-tendencies in male carriers of the OPRM1 G-allele. Genes Brain and Behavior, 8(1), 101-106.
• K. Houben & R.W. Wiers (2009). Response inhibition moderates the relationship between implicit associations and drinking behavior. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, 33(4), 626-633.
• K. Houben, K. Rothermund & R.W. Wiers (2009). Predicting alcohol use with a recoding-free variant of the Implicit Association Test. Addictive Behaviors, 34(5), 487-489.

2008

• C. Thush & R.W. Wiers (2008). Een dubbele kijk op minder drinken. De invloed van expliciete en impliciete alcoholgerelateerde processen en vroege interventie bij jongeren. Psychologie & Gezondheid, 36(5), 273-283.
• R.W. Wiers, M. Rinck, M. Dictus & E. van den Wildenberg (2008). Relatively strong automatic appetitive action-tendencies in male carriers of the OPRM1 G-allele. Genes Brain and Behavior, 8(1), 101-106.
• J.L. Grenard, S.L. Ames, R.W. Wiers, C. Thush, S. Sussman & A.W. Stacy (2008). Working memory capacity moderates the predictive effects of drug-related associations on substance use. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22(3), 426-432.
• M. Field, T. Schoenmakers & R.W. Wiers (2008). Cognitive processes in alcohol binges: A review and research agenda. Current Drug Abuse Reviews, 1(3), 263-279.
• R.W. Wiers (2008). Een noodlottige zelfoverschatting van het bewustzijn: Het ontstaan van verslavingsgedrag bij jongeren. De Psycholoog, 43(4), 210-217.
• W. Hofmann, M. Friese & R.W. Wiers (2008). Impulsive versus reflective influences on health behavior: A theoretical framework and empirical review. Health Psychology Review, 2(2), 111-137.
• K. Houben, T. Schoenmakers, C. Thush & R.W. Wiers (2008). Impliciete cognitie en verslaving. Gedragstherapie, 41, 169-182.

2011

• E. Samelink & R.W. Wiers (2011). Negative emotional primes and attentional bias towards alcohol in high anxious individuals. Alcohol, 45, 276.
• G. Kraag, E. Samelink & R.W. Wiers (2011). Middelengebruik. In M. Taal & C. Poleij (Eds.), Interventies in het onderwijs: Werken aan goede verhoudingen (pp. 93-120). Den Haag: Boom Onderwijs.

2009

• D.S. van Deursen, E. Salemink, T. Schoenmakers & R.W. Wiers (2009). Het hertrainen van automatische cognitieve processen bij angst- en verslavingsproblematiek. GZ-psychologie, 2, 24-29, 31.

2009

• R.W. Wiers (2009). Automatische en controlerende processen en het ontstaan van verslavingsgedrag. In I. Franken & W. van den Brink (Eds.), Handboek verslaving (pp. 115-134). Utrecht: De Tijdstroom.

2008

• R. Wiers & R. Engels (2008). Middelenmisbruik en verslaving. In P. Prins & C. Braet (Eds.), Handboek klinische ontwikkelingspsychologie: over aanleg, omgeving en verandering (pp. 529-553). Houten: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum.

2010

• R.W. Wiers (Ed.). (2010). Addiction.
• R.W. Wiers (Ed.). (2010). Frontiers in psychopathology.
• R.W. Wiers (2010). EU, FP7, 'Addictions and Lifestyles In Contemporary Europe – Reframing Addictions Project', ‘Alice-Rap’. PI: Peter Anderson. WP-leader WP6.2 “When Culture and Biology meet”. EU, FP7: . Recognition.
• R.W. Wiers (2010). NWO NIHC grant for 'An Integrated Approach. Cognitive and motivational components of adaptive and maladaptive decision-making: an integrative approach.'. NWO NIHC grant: (2011, January 1 - 2015, January 1). Recognition.
• R.W. Wiers (2010). ZonMW binational grant for 'Addiction. Translational Research into Smoking Cessation in Adolescents.'. ZonMW binational grant: (2011, January 1 - 2016, January 1). Recognition.
• R.W. Wiers (Ed.). (2010). Addiction Biology.