Marieke Adriaanse

Selfregulation people

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Research

From September 2006 until November 2009, I worked on a PhD project on habits and implementation intentions at the Self-Regulation Lab under supervision of Denise de Ridder and John de Wit. The research conducted during my PhD centered around the question of whether implementation intentions (specific action plans specifying where, when, and how to act) can be used to break existing habits. Although much research has been done to demonstrate the efficacy of implementation intentions in promoting new behaviors, less evidence existed to show that this self-regulation strategy can also be used to break existing habits, such as unhealthy eating habits. In my dissertation, I investigated cognitive as well as behavioral effects of implementation intentions, and I compared different types of implementation intentions to identify the boundary conditions of implementation intentions’ effectiveness when aiming to break habits.

Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at the Self-Regulation Lab. I am still interested in implementation intentions and habits, but besides that the research I am conducting focusses on the role of automatic versus controlled processes in determining health behavior. Furthermore, I am investigating how people can obtain more insight into the determinants of their (unhealthy) behavior and how such insight may be helpful to promote behavior change.

Teaching

Supervision of bachelor’s and master’s theses.

Publications

In press

Evers, C., De Ridder, D. T. D., & Adriaanse, M. A. (in press). Adequately predicting emotional eating with self-reports: Not as easy as pie. Health Psychology.


2010

Stok, F. M., De Ridder, D. T. D., Adriaanse, M. A., & De Wit, J. B. F. (2010). Looking cool or attaining self-rule: Different motives for autonomy and their effects on unhealthy snack purchase. Appetite, DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2010.02.07. pdf

Adriaanse, M.A., De Ridder, D.T.D., & Evers, C. (2010). Emotional Eating: Eating when emotional or emotional about eating? Psychology & Health, DOI: 10.1080/08870440903207627, 1-17. pdf

Adriaanse, M. A., Oettingen, G., Gollwitzer, P. M., Hennes, E. P., De Ridder, D. T. D., & De Wit, J. B. F. (2010). When planning is not enough: Fighting unhealthy snacking habits by mental contrasting with implementation intentions (MCII). European Journal of Social Psychology, DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.730. pdf

Adriaanse, M. A. (2010). Planning to break habits. Efficacy, mechanisms, and boundary conditions of implementation intentions targeting unhealthy snacking habits. Doctoral Dissertation, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.


2009

Adriaanse, M. A., De Ridder, D. T. D., & De Wit, J. B. F. (2009). Finding the critical cue: Implementation intentions to change one’s diet work best when tailored to personally relevant reasons for unhealthy eating. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 60-71. pdf

De Ridder, D. T. D., De Wit, J. B. F., & Adriaanse, M. A. (2009). Making plans for healthy diet: The role of motivation and action orientation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 622-630. pdf

Evers, C., De Ridder, D. T. D., & Adriaanse, M. A. (2009). Assessing yourself as an emotional eater: Mission Impossible? Health Psychology, 28, 717-725. pdf


Dutch publications / Nederlandstalige publicaties

Van Oosten, J. M. F., Adriaanse, M. A., & De Ridder. (in press). Onvermijdelijke gewoontes: De effectiviteit van implementatie intenties gericht op het vermijden van ongezond snackgedrag. (Unavoidable habits: The efficacy of implementation intentions aimed at avoiding unhealthy snacking). Yearbook of Social Psychology 2009.

De Ridder, D. T. D., Evers, C., & Adriaanse, M. A. (2009). Emotioneel over eten (Emotional about eating). In W. Koops & M. Splinter (red.), Kijk op Karakter: Over de samenhang tussen persoonlijkheid en gedrag, 65-76. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: SWP. pdf

Adriaanse, M. A., Danner, U. N., & Aarts, H. (2008). De positieve gevolgen van negatief affect: Impliciete evaluatieve conditionering kan gewoontes beïnvloeden. (The positive consequences of negative affect: Implicit evaluative conditioning can alter habits). In J. Karremans, B. Beersma, R. Custers, F. van Harreveld, & W. van Rijswijk (eds.), Yearbook of Social Psychology 2007, 13-21. Groningen, The Netherlands: ASPO-pers. pdf