Publications
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In press
Aarts, H., Ruys, K. I., Veling, H., Renes, R.A., J. H. B. de Groot, A. M. van Nunen, & Geertjes S. (in press). The art of anger: Reward context turns avoidance responses to anger-related objects into approach. Psychological Science.
Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (in press). Learning of predictive relations between events depends on attention, not on awareness. Consciousness and Cognition. Download article
De Vries, P, Aarts, H., Midden C. (in press). Changing simple energy-related consumer behavior: How good intentions may be thwarted by acting and non-acting habits. Environment and Behavior.
Hassin, R. R., Aarts, H., Eitam, B., Custers, R., & Kleiman, T. (in press). Non-conscious goal pursuit and the flexible control of behavior. In J. A. Bargh & E. Morsella (Eds.), The Psychology of Action (Vol. 2). New York: Oxford University Press. Download article
Hofmann, W., Van Koningsbruggen, G. M., Stroebe, W., Ramanathan, S., & Aarts, H. (in press). As pleasure unfolds: Hedonic responses to tempting food. Psychological Science. Download article
Lakens, D., & Ruys, K. I. (in press). The dynamic interaction of conceptual and embodied knowledge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Oikawa, M., Aarts, H., & Oikawa, H. (in press). There is a Fire Burning in My Heart: The Role of Causal Attribution in Affect Transfer. Cognition and Emotion.
Ruys, K. I. & Aarts, H. (in press). When competition merges people’s behavior. When competition merges people’s behavior: Interdependency activates shared action representations, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Download article
Ruys, K. I., Stapel, D. A. & Aarts, H. (in press). From (unconscious) perception to emotion: A global-to-specific unfolding view of emotional responding. In I. Nyklicek, A. Vingerhoets, & M. Zeelenberg (Eds.). Emotion regulation and well-being. Springer, NewYork. Download article
Van der Weiden, A., Veling, H., & Aarts, H. (in press). When observing gaze shifts of others enhances object desirability. Emotion.
Van Dijk, W.W., Ouwerkerk, J.W., Wesseling, Y.M., & Van Koningsbruggen, G.M. (in press). Towards understanding pleasure at the misfortunes of others: The impact of self-evaluation threat on schadenfreude. Cognition and Emotion. Download article
Veling, H., & Aarts, H. (in press). Routinized learning of behavior. In N. M. Seel (Ed.) Encyclopedia of the sciences of learning (Vol. x, pp. xx-xx). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
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2010
Aarts, H., Oikawa, M., & Oikawa, H. (2010). Cultural and Universal Routes to Authorship Ascription: Effects of Outcome Priming on Experienced Self-Agency in The Netherlands and Japan. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 41, 87-98. Download article
Bijleveld, E., Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2010). Unconscious reward cues increase invested effort, but do not change speed-accuracy tradeoffs. Cognition, 115, 330. Download article
Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2010). The unconscious will: How the pursuit of goals operates outside of conscious awareness. Science, 329, 47-50. Download article
Dijksterhuis, A., & Aarts, H. (2010). Goals, attention, and (Un)Consciousness. Annual Review of Psychology, 16, 467-490. Download article
Friedman, R., Deci, E.L., Elliot, A., Moller, A., & Aarts, H. (2010). Motivation synchronicity: Priming motivational orientations with observations of others' behavior. Motivation and Emotion, 34, 34-38. Download article
Ouwehand, C., & Papies, E. K. (2010). Eat it or beat it: The differential effect of food temptations on overweight and normal-weight restrained eaters. Appetite 55, 56-60. Download article
Papies, E. K. & Hamstra, P. (2010). Goal priming and eating behavior: Enhancing self-regulation by environmental cues. Health Psychology, 29, 384-388. Download article
Van der Weiden, A., Aarts, H., & Ruys, K. I. (2010). Reflecting on the action or its outcome: Behavior representation level modulates high level outcome priming effects on self-agency experiences. Consciousness and Cognition. Download article
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. Download article
2009
Aarts, H., & Custers, R. (2009), Habit, Action, and Consciousness. In: W. P. Banks, (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Consciousness (volume 1, pp. 315-328). Oxford: Elsevier. Download article
Aarts, H., Custers, R., & Marien, H. (2009). Priming and authorship ascription: When nonconscious goals turn into conscious experiences of self-agency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 967-979. Download article
Aarts, H. & van Honk, J. (2009). Testosterone and unconscious positive priming increase human motivation separately. NeuroReport, 20, 1300-1303. Download article
Aarts, H., & Veling, H. (2009). Do resonance mechanisms in language and action depend on intentional processes?. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 1188-1190. Download article
Bijleveld, E., Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2009). The unconscious eye opener: Pupil dilation reveals strategic recruitment of resources upon presentation of subliminal reward cues. Psychological Science, 20, 1313-1315. Download article
Custers, R., Aarts, H., Oikawa, M., & Elliot, A. (2009). The nonconscious road to perceptions of performance: Achievement priming augments outcome expectancies and experienced self-agency. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1200-1208. Download article
Custers, R., & Veling, H. (2009). Memory: Procedural memory, skill, perceptual-motor learning and awareness. In: W. P. Banks, (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Consciousness (volume 1, pp. 13-18). Oxford: Elsevier. Download article
Hassin, R.R. & Aarts, H., Custers, R., Eitam, B., & Kleiman, T. (2009). Non-conscious goal pursuit, working memory, and the effortful control of behavior. In E. Morsella, J.A. Bargh, & P.M. Gollwitzer (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Human Action (549-566). New York: Oxford University Press.
Papies, E. K., Aarts, H., de Vries, N. K. (2009). Planning is for doing: Implementation intentions go beyond the mere creation of goal-directed associations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Download article
Papies, E. K., Stroebe, W., & Aarts, H. (2009). Who likes it more? Restrained eaters' implicit attitudes toward food. Appetite. Download article
Ruys, K. I., & Stapel, D. A. (2009). Learning to like or dislike by association: No need for contingency awareness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Download article
Ruys, K. I. & Stapel, D. A. (2009). The unconscious unfolding of emotions. European Review of Social Psychology, 20, 232-271. Download article
Stroebe, W., Papies, E.K., & Aarts, H. (2009). The psychology of dieting and overweight: Testing a goal conflict model of the self-regulation of eating. In p. French (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Congress of Psychology. Brighton: Psychology Press. Download article
Van Koningsbruggen, G. M., & Das, E. (2009). Don’t derogate this message! Self-affirmation promotes online type 2 diabetes risk test taking. Psychology and Health, 24, 635-649. Download article
Van Koningsbruggen, G.M., Das, E., & Roskos-Ewoldsen, D.R. (2009). How self-affirmation reduces defensive processing of threatening health information: Evidence at the implicit level. Health Psychology, 28, 563-568. Download article
Van Leeuwen, M. L., Veling, H., van Baaren, R. B., & Dijksterhuis, A. (2009). The influence of facial attractiveness on imitation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1295-1298. Download article
Veling, H., & Aarts, H. (2009). Putting behavior on hold decreases reward value of need-instrumental objects outside of awareness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1020–1023. Download article
Veltkamp, M., Aarts, H., & Custers, R. (2009). Unravelling the Motivational Yarn: A Framework for Understanding the Instigation of Implicitly Motivated Behaviour Resulting from Deprivation and Positive Affect. European Review of Social Psychology, 20, 345-381. Download article
2008
Aarts, H., Custers, R., & Marien, H. (2008). Preparing and motivating behavior outside of awareness. Science, 319, 1639. Download article
Aarts, H., Custers, R., & Veltkamp, M. (2008). Goal priming and the affective-motivational route to nonconscious goal pursuit. Social Cognition, 26, 555-577. Download article
Aarts, H., Dijksterhuis, A., Dik, G. (2008). Goal contagion: Infering goals from others' actions - and what it leads to. In J. Y. Shah & W. Gardner (Eds.), Handbook of motivation science (pp. 265-280). New York: Guilford. Download article
Custers, R., Maas, M., Wildenbeest, M., & Aarts, H. (2008). Nonconscious goal pursuit and the surmounting of physical and social obstacles. European Journal of Social Psychology, 1013–1022. Download article
Danner, U. N., Aarts, H., & de Vries, N. K. (2008). Habit and intention in the prediction of behaviors: The role of frequency, stability and accessibility of past behavior. British Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 245-265. Download article
Dijksterhuis, A., Preston, J., Wegner, D. M., & Aarts, H. (2008). Effects of subliminal priming of self and god on self-attribution of authorship for events. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 2-9. Download article
Dik, G., & Aarts, H. (2008). I wanna know what you want: How effort perception facilitates the motivation to infer another’s goal. Social Cognition, 6, 737-754. Download article
Henderson, M. D., Y. de Liver, et al. (2008). "The Effects of an Implemental Mind-Set on Attitude Strength." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 94(3): 396-411. Download article
Honk van, J., Aarts, H., Josephs, R.A., & Schutter, D.J.L.G. (2008). Sex Differences in Social and Mathematical Cognition: An endocrine Perspective. The Netherlands Journal of Psychology, 64, 177-183. Download article
Loersch, C., Aarts, H., Payne, B. K. & Jefferis, V.E. (2008) The influence of social groups on goal contagion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1555–1558. Download article
McCulloch, K.C., Aarts, H., Fujita, J., & Bargh, J.A. (2008). Inhibition in Goal Systems: A Retrieval-Induced Forgetting Account. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 857-865. Download article
Papies, E. K., Stroebe, W., & Aarts, H. (2008). Healthy cognition: Processes of self-regulatory success in restrained eating. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1290-1300. Download article
Papies, E. K., Stroebe, W., & Aarts, H. (2008). The allure of forbidden food: On the role of attention in self-regulation.Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1283-1292. Download article
Papies, E. K., Stroebe, W., & Aarts, H. (2008). Understanding dieting: A social cognitive analysis of hedonic processes in self-regulation. European Review of Social Psychology, 19, 339-383. Download article
Stroebe, W., Mensink, W., Aarts, H., Schut, H., & Kruglanski, A. W. (2008). Why dieters fail: Testing the goal conflict model of eating. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 26-36. Download article
Stroebe, W., Papies, E. K., & Aarts, H. (2008). From homeostatic to hedonic theories of eating: Self-regulatory failure in food-rich environments. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 57, 172-193. Download article
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. Download article
Veling, H., & van Knippenberg, A. (2008). Intention formation induces episodic inhibition of distracting stimuli. Acta Psychologica, 128, 45-55. Download article
Veltkamp, M., Aarts, H., & Custers, R. (2008). On the emergence of deprivation-reducing behaviors: subliminal priming of behavior representations turns deprivation into motivation. Journal of Experimental Social psychology, 44, 866-873. Download article
Veltkamp, M., Aarts, H., & Custers, R. (2008). Perception in the service of goal pursuit: Motivation to attain goals enhances the perceived size of goal-instrumental objects. Social Cognition, 26, 720-736. Download article
2007
Aarts, H. (2007). On the emergence of human goal pursuit: The nonconscious regulation and motivation of goals.Social Psychology and Personality Compass, 183–201. Download article
Aarts, H. (2007). Health behavior and the implicit motivation and regulation of goals. Health Psychology Review, 1, 53-82. Download article
Aarts, H. (2007). Unconscious authorship ascription: The effects of success and effect-specific information priming on experienced authorship. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 119-126. Download article
Aarts, H., Custers, R., & Holland, R. W. (2007). The nonconscious cessation of goal pursuit: When goals and negative affect are coactivated. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 165-178. Download article
Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2007). In search of the nonconscious sources of goal pursuit: Accessibility and positive affective valence of the goal state. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 312-318. Download article
Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2007). Goal-discrepant situations prime goal-directed actions if goals are temporarily or chronically accessible. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 623-633. Download article
Danner, U. N., Aarts, H., & de Vries, N. K. (2007). Habit formation and multiple means to goal attainment: Repeated retrieval of target means causes inhibited access to competitors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1367-1379. Download article
de Liver, Y., van der Pligt, J., & Wigboldus, D. (2007). Positive and negative associations underlying ambivalent attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 319-326. Download article
Dijksterhuis, A., Chartrand, T. L., & Aarts, H. (2007). Effects of priming and perception on social behavior and goal pursuit. In J. A. Bargh (Ed.), Social psychology and the unconscious: The automaticity of higher mental processes (pp. 51-131). New York: Psychology Press.
Dik, G., & Aarts, H. (2007). Behavioral cues to others' motivation and goal pursuits: The perception of effort facilitates goal inference and contagion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 727-737. Download article
Karremans, J. C., & Aarts, H. (2007). The role of automaticity in determining the inclination to forgive close others.Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 902-917. Download article
Papies, E., Stroebe, W., & Aarts, H. (2007). Pleasure in the mind: Restrained eating and spontaneous hedonic thoughts about food. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 810-817. Download article
Veling, H., Holland, R. W., & van Knippenberg, A. (2007). Devaluation of distracting stimuli. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 442-448. Download article
2006
Aarts, H., Wegner, D. M., & Dijksterhuis, A. (2006). On the feeling of doing: Dysphoria and the implicit modulation of authorship ascription. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 1621-1627. Download article
Holland, R. W., Aarts, H., & Langendam, D. (2006). Breaking and creating habits on the working floor: A field-experiment on the power of implementation intentions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 776-783. Download article
Veling, H., & van Knippenberg, A. (2006). Shielding intentions from distraction: Forming an intention induces inhibition of distracting stimuli. Social Cognition, 24, 409-425. Download article
2005
Aarts, H., Chartrand, T. L., Custers, R., Danner, U., Dik, G., Jefferis, V. E., et al. (2005). Social stereotypes and automatic goal pursuit. Social Cognition, 23, 465-490. Download article
Aarts, H., Custers, R., & Wegner, D. M. (2005). On the inference of personal authorship: Enhancing experienced agency by priming effect information. Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal, 14, 439-458. Download article
Aarts, H., & Hassin, R. R. (2005). Automatic goal inference and contagion: On pursuing goals one perceives in other people's behavior. In S. M. Latham, J. P. Forgas & K. D. Williams (Eds.), Social motivation: Conscious and unconscious processes. (pp. 153-167). New York: Cambridge University Press. Download article
Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2005). Positive affect as implicit motivator: On the nonconscious operation of behavioral goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 129-142. Download article
Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2005). Beyond priming effects: The role of positive affect and discrepancies in implicit processes of motivation and goal pursuit. European Review of Social Psychology, 16, 257-300. Download article
de Liver, Y., van der Pligt, J., & Wigboldus, D. (2005). Unpacking atitudes towards genetically modified food.Appetite, 45, 242-249. Download article
Dijksterhuis, A., Aarts, H., & Smith, P. K. (2005). The power of the subliminal: On subliminal persuasion and other potential applications. In J. A. Bargh, R. R. Hassin & J. S. Uleman (Eds.), The new unconscious (pp. 77-106). New York: Oxford University Press. Download article
Hassin, R. R., Aarts, H., & Ferguson, M. J. (2005). Automatic goal inferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 129-140. Download article
Holland, R. W., Hendriks, M., & Aarts, H. (2005). Smells like clean spirit: Nonconscious effects of scent on cognition and behavior. Psychological Science, 16, 689-693. Download article
Sheeran, P., Aarts, H., Custers, R., Rivis, A., Webb, T. L., & Cooke, R. (2005). The goal-dependent automaticity of drinking habits. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 47-63. Download article
2004
Aarts, H., Gollwitzer, P. M., & Hassin, R. R. (2004). Goal contagion: Perceiving is for pursuing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 23-37. Download article
van den Berg, S. M., Aarts, H., Midden, C., & Verplanken, B. (2004). The role of executive processes in prospective memory tasks. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 16, 511-533. Download article
Dijksterhuis, A., Corneille, O., Aarts, H., Vermeulen, N., & Luminet, O. (2004). Yes, there is a preferential detection of negative stimuli: A response to labiouse. Psychological Science, 15, 571-572. Download article
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. Download article
2003
Aarts, H., & Dijksterhuis, A. (2003). The silence of the library: Environment, situational norm, and social behavior.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 18-28. Download article
Aarts, H., Dijksterhuis, A., & Custers, R. (2003). Automatic normative behavior in environments:The moderating role of conformity in activating situational norms. Social Cognition, 21, 447-464. Download article
Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2003). On the role of processing goals in evaluative judgments of environments: Effects on memory-judgment relations. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 23, 289-299. Download article
Dijksterhuis, A., & Aarts, H. (2003). On wildebeests and humans: The preferential detection of negative stimuli.Psychological Science, 14, 14-18. Download article
2002
Aarts, H., & Dijksterhuis, A. (2002). Category activation effects in judgment and behaviour: The moderating role of perceived comparability. British Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 123-138. Download article
Hertel, G., Aarts, H., & Zeelenberg, M. (2002). What do you think is 'fair'? Effects of ingroup norms and outcome control on fairness judgments. European Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 327-341. Download article
2001
Aarts, H., Dijksterhuis, A., & De Vries, P. (2001). On the psychology of drinking: Being thirsty and perceptually ready.British Journal of Psychology, 92. Download article
Slangen de Kort, Y. A. W., Midden, C. J. H., Aarts, H., & Van Wagenberg, F. (2001). Determinants of adaptive behavior among older persons: Self-efficacy, importance, and personal dispositions as directive mechanisms.International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 53, 253-274. Download article
2000
Aarts, H., & Dijksterhuis, A. (2000). The automatic activation of goal-directed behaviour: The case of travel habit.Journal of Environmental Psychology, 20, 75-82. Download article
Aarts, H., & Dijksterhuis, A. (2000). Habits as knowledge structures: Automaticity in goal-directed behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 53-63. Download article
Dijksterhuis, A., Aarts, H., Bargh, J. A., & van Knippenberg, A. (2000). On the relation between associative strength and automatic behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 531-544. Download article
Verplanken, B., Aarts, H., & van den Berg, S. (2000). Habit: On the cognitive processes underlying the effects of past behavior on future behavior. International Journal of Psychology, 35, 125.
1999
Aarts, H., & Dijksterhuis, A. (1999). How often did I do it? Experienced ease of retrieval and frequency estimates of past behavior. Acta Psychologica, 103, 77-89. Download article
Aarts, H., Dijksterhuis, A. P., & Midden, C. (1999). To plan or not to plan? Goal achievement of interrupting the performance of mundane behaviors. European Journal of Social Psychology, 29, 971-979. Download article
1998
Aarts, H., Verplanken, B., & van Knippenberg, A. (1998). Predicting behavior from actions in the past: Repeated decision making or a matter of habit? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 28, 1355-1374. Download article
Verplanken, B., Aarts, H., van Knippenberg, A., & Moonen, A. (1998). Habit versus planned behavior: A field experiment. British Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 111-128.
1997
Aarts, H., Paulussen, T., & Schaalma, H. (1997). Physical exercise habit: On the conceptualization and formation of habitual health behaviours. Health Education Research, 12, 363-374. Download article
Aarts, H., Paulussen, T., Willemse, G., Schaalma, H., Bolman, C., & de Nooijer, J. (1997). Prevention of cardio-vascular diseases: A review of international research on the promotion of physical activity among the youth.Den Haag: Netherlands Heart Foundation.
Aarts, H., Paulussen, T., Willemse, G., Schaalma, H., Bolman, C., & de Nooijer, J. (1997). Prevention of cardio-vascular diseases: A review of international research on stress prevention among the youth. Den Haag: Netherlands Heart Foundation.
Aarts, H., Paulussen, T., Willemse, G., Schaalma, H., Bolman, C., & de Nooijer, J. (1997). Prevention of cardio-vascular diseases: A review of international research on multi-component health promotion programmes among the youth. Den Haag: Netherlands Heart Foundation.
Aarts, H., Paulussen, T., Willemse, G., Schaalma, H., Bolman, C., & de Nooijer, J. (1997). Prevention of cardio-vascular diseases: A review of international research on the prevention of smoking among the youth. Den Haag: Netherlands Heart Foundation.
Aarts, H., Verplanken, B., & van Knippenberg, A. (1997). Habit and information use in travel mode choices. Acta Psychologica, 96, 1-14. Download article
Meykamp, R., & Aarts, H. (1997). Breaking through habits: Is car sharing an instrument to reduce car use? Research paper published in Book of proceedings 25th European Transport Forum, Brunel University, Uxbridge. London: P.T.R.C.
Schaalma, H., Bolman, C., de Nooijer, J., de Vries, H., Paulussen, T., Aarts, H., & Willemse, G. (1997).Prevention of cardio-vascular diseases: An analysis of young people’s lifestyle and related determinants. Den Haag: Netherlands Heart Foundation.
Verplanken, B., Aarts, H., & van Knippenberg, A. (1997). Habit, information acquisition, and the process of making travel mode choices. European Journal of Social Psychology, 27, 539-560. Download article
Willemse, G., Paulussen, T., Aarts, H., Schaalma, H., Bolman, C., & de Nooijer, J. (1997). Prevention of cardio-vascular diseases: A review of international research on nutrition education for the youth. Den Haag: Netherlands Heart Foundation.
1996
Willemse, G., Aarts, H., & Paulussen, T. (1996). A review on the effectiveness of CVD-health promotion interventions among teenagers: Strengths and weaknesses. Research paper published in Book of proceedings European conference on effectiveness: Quality assessment in health promotion and health education. Turin.
1994
van Knippenberg, C., van Knippenberg, A., Aarts, H. & Verplanken, B. (1994). The role of habit in travel mode choice: An experimental psychological approach. In: Book of reprints of International Association of Travel Behavior Research, 2, 543-552.
Verplanken, B., Aarts, H., van Knippenberg, A., & van Knippenberg, C. (1994). Attitude versus general habit: Antecedents of travel mode choice. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 24, 285-300.
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