Harm Veling
In 2007 I received my PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen. From 2007 to 2013 I was working as a post-doc at Utrecht University. Now I work as an assistant professor at Radboud University.I am interested in the question of how behavior is controlled, and how it can be changed. For instance, my research currently focuses on how perception of food items can lead to impulsive choices for these foods, and how such impulses can be controlled automatically and nonconsciously. I argue that one way of effectively changing such impulses is by linking food items to motor inhibition, so that the value of the food is reduced. Moreover, I examine how this mechanism can be applied to improve people's control over their impulsive behaviors in daily life.
For more information about my work visit my personal website by clicking on the homepage.
Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Health Psychology
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Nonverbal Behavior
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Social Cognition
Research Group or Laboratory:
Journal Articles:
- Aarts, H., Ruys, K. I., Veling, H., Renes, R.A., J. H. B. de Groot, A. M. van Nunen, & Geertjes S. (2010). The art of anger: Reward context turns avoidance responses to anger-related objects into approach. Psychological Science, 21, 1406-1410.
- Bijleveld, E., & Veling H. (2014). Separating chokers from non-chokers: Predicting real-life tennis performance under pressure from behavioral tasks that tap into working memory functioning. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 36, 347-356.
- Chen, Z., Veling, H., Dijksterhuis, A., Holland, R. W. (2016). How does not responding to appetitive stimuli lead to devaluation: Evaluative conditioning or response inhibition? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1687-1701.
- Folkvord, F., Veling, H., Hoeken, H. (2016). Targeting implicit eating related processes in children: Effects on intake. Health Psychology, 35, 919-922.
- Papies, E. K., & Veling, H. (2013). Healthy dining: Subtle diet reminders at the point of purchase increase low-calorie food choices among both chronic and current dieters. Appetite, 61, 1-7.
- Stice, E., Lawrence, N. S., Kemps, E., & Veling, H. (2016). Training motor responses to food: A novel treatment for obesity targeting implicit processes. Clinical Psychology Review, 49, 16-27.
- Van Koningsbruggen, G. M.*, Veling, H.*, Stroebe, W., & Aarts, H. (2014). Comparing two psychological interventions in reducing impulsive processes of eating behavior: Effects on self-selected portion size. British Journal of Health Psychology, 19, 767-782. * Equal contribution
- Veling, H., & Aarts, H. (2011). Changing impulsive determinants of unhealthy behaviours towards rewarding objects. Health Psychology Review, 5, 150-153.
- Veling, H., & Aarts, H. (2011). Unintentional preparation of motor impulses after incidental perception of need-rewarding objects. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 1131-1138.
- Veling, H. & Aarts, H. (2010). Cueing task goals and earning money: Relatively high monetary rewards reduce failures to act on goals in a Stroop task. Motivation and Emotion, 34, 184-190.
- Veling, H., Aarts, H., & Papies, E. K. (2011). Using stop signals to inhibit chronic dieters' responses toward palatable foods. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 49, 771-780.
- Veling, H., Aarts, H., & Stroebe, W. (2013). Using stop signals to reduce impulsive choices for palatable unhealthy foods. British Journal of Health Psychology, 18, 354-368.
- Veling, H., Aarts, H., & Stroebe, W. (2011). Fear signals inhibit impulsive behavior toward rewarding food objects. Appetite, 56, 643-648.
- Veling, H., Chen, Z., Tombrock, M., Verpaalen, I. A., Schmitz, L., Dijksterhuis, A., & Holland, R. W. (2017). Training impulsive choices for healthy and sustainable food. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
- Veling, H., Holland, R. W., & van Knippenberg, A. (2008). When approach motivation and behavioral inhibition collide: Behavior regulation through stimulus devaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1013-1019.
- Veling, H., Holland R. W., & van Knippenberg, A. (2007). Devaluation of distracting stimuli. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 442-448.
- Veling, H., Lawrence, N. S., Chen, Z., van Koningsbruggen, G. M., & Holland, R. W. (2017). What is trained during food go/no-go training? A review focusing on mechanisms and a research agenda. Current Addiction Reports, 4, 35-41.
- Veling, H., Ruys, K. I., & Aarts, H. (2012). Anger as a hidden motivator: Associating attainable products with anger turns them into rewards. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 438-445
- Veling, H.*, Van Koningsbruggen, G. M.*, Aarts, H., & Stroebe, W. (2014). Targeting impulsive processes of eating behavior via the internet. Effects on body weight. Appetite, 78, 102-107.* Equal contribution
- Veling, H., & van Knippenberg, A. (2004). Remembering can cause inhibition: Retrieval-induced inhibition as cue independent process. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 315-318.
- Zedelius, C. M., Veling, H., Custers, R., Bijleveld, E., Chiew K. S. & Aarts, H. (2014). A new perspective on human reward research: How consciously and unconsciously perceived reward information influences performance. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 493-508.
Harm Veling
6525HP Nijmegen
The Netherlands