Jessie de Witt Huberts

Selfregulation people

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Research
Jessie de Witt Huberts received her MA degree in Social Psychology and in Clinical Psychology in 2008 from the University of Amsterdam. In October 2008 she started as a PhD student at the Clinical and Health Psychology department at Utrecht University under the supervision of prof. dr. Denise de Ridder and dr. Catharine Evers.

Jessie’s research concerns the influence of emotions on the self-regulation of health behaviour in general, and the phenomenon of emotional eating in particular. Emotions, especially negative emotions, often have a detrimental effect on effective self-regulation.

How negative emotional states influence health-related self-regulation is examined from three different perspectives:
•    The influence of endocrine factors on emotional states and regulation of bodily states.
•    The interaction between emotions and cognition and its effect on self-regulatory dilemmas.
•    The role of ‘rational factors’ such as deliberation and justification in self-regulation failure.

Teaching

Supervision of bachelor's and master's theses.

Publications