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Catharine Evers

  • SPN Mentor

My main research interests center on the psychology and psychophysiology of emotions. Specifically I am interested in how emotions affect health behavior and self-regulation.

Primary Interests:

  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Gender Psychology
  • Health Psychology
  • Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
  • Self and Identity
  • Social Cognition
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Gender Psychology
  • Health Psychology
  • Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
  • Self and Identity
  • Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Journal Articles:

  • 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
  • Adriaanse, M. A., Van Oosten, J. M. F., De Ridder, D. T. D., De Wit, J. B. F., & Evers, C. (in press). Planning what not to eat: Ironic effects of implementation intentions negating unhealthy habits. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Evers, C., De Ridder, D.T.D., & Adriaanse, M.A. (2010). Adequately predicting emotional eating with self-reports: Not as easy as pie. Health Psychology, 29, 344-345
  • Evers, C., De Ridder, D. T. D., & Adriaanse, M. A. (2009). Assessing yourself as an emotional eater: Mission Impossible? Health Psychology, 28, 717-725.
  • Evers, C., Fischer, A. H., Rodriguez Mosquera, P., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2005). Anger and social appraisal: A “spicy” sex difference? Emotion, 5, 258-266.
  • Evers, C., Stok, F.M., & De Ridder, D.T.D. (2010). Feeding your feelings: Emotion regulation strategies and emotional eating. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 792-804
  • Kroese, F.M., Evers, C., & De Ridder, D.T.D. (in press). Tricky treats: Paradoxical effects of temptation strength on self-regulation processes. European Journal of Social Psychology.
  • Kroese, F. M., Evers, C., De Ridder, D. T. D. (2009). How chocolate keeps you slim: The effect of food temptations on weight watching goal importance, intentions, and eating behavior. Appetite, 53, 430-433.
  • Mauss, I. B., Evers, C., Wilhelm, F. W., & Gross, J. J. (2006). How to bite your tongue without blowing your top: Implicit evaluation of emotion regulation predicts affective responding to anger provocation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 589-602.
  • Nijman, H. L. I., Evers, C., Merckelbach, H. L. G. J., & Palmstierna, T. (2002). Assessing aggression severity with the Revised Staff Observation Scale (SOAS-R). Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 190, 198-200.
  • à Campo, J., Nijman, H. L. I., Merckelbach, H., & Evers, C. (2003). Psychiatric comorbidity of gender identity disorders: A survey among Dutch psychiatrists. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 1332-1336.

Other Publications:

  • Evers, C., Fischer, A.H., & Manstead, A.S.R. (in press). Gender and emotion regulation: A social appraisal perspective on anger. In I. Nyklicek, A. J. J. M. Vingerhoets, & M. Zeelenberg (Eds.), Emotion regulation: Conceptual and clinical issues. New York: Springer.
  • Fischer, A.H., & Evers, C. (2010). Anger in the context of gender. In M. Potegal, G. Stemmler, & C. Spielberger (Eds.), International handbook of anger (pp. 349-360). Springer: New York.
  • Fischer, A. H. Manstead, A. S. R., Evers, C., Timmers, M., & Valk, G. (2004). Motives and norms underlying emotion regulation. In P. Phillipot & R. S. Feldman (Eds.), The Regulation of Emotion. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Catharine Evers
Clinical and Health Psychology Department
Utrecht University
Heidelberglaan 1
3584 CS Utrecht
The Netherlands

Phone: 0031 30 253 2686
Fax: 0031 30 253 4718

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