PUBLICATIONS
ATTITUDES / IMPLICIT COGNITION
MEASUREMENT & VALIDATION
BEHAVIOR CHANGE
MISINFORMATION
CHRONIC PAIN
OPEN SCIENCE
BOOKS
De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2020). The Psychology of Learning: A Functional-Cognitive Perspective. The MIT Press. Link
PRE-PRINTS & IN PREP
Hussey, I., Hughes, S., & Nosek, B. (in prep). Attitudes 2.0: A Large Dataset for Investigating Relations Among Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Identity.
Hughes, S., Van Dessel, P., Hussey, I., Smyth, C., & De Houwer, J. (in prep). Not All Attitudes Are Created Equal: A Comparative Investigation of Seven Different Evaluative Learning Pathways and Their Implications for Implicit and Explicit Attitude Change.
Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. Genetic Learning: The Impact of Environmental Regularities on Genetic Behavior. Link.
Hussey, I., & Hughes, S. Evaluative Conditioning without awareness: Replicable effects do not equate replicable inferences. Link
De Schryver, M., Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Rosseel, Y. (2020). On the Reliability of Implicit Measures: Current Practices and Novel Recommendations. Link
UNDER REVIEW
Cummins, J., Hussey, I., & Hughes, S. (under review). Effects on the Affect Misattribution Procedure are Strongly Moderated by Awareness. Behavioral Research Methods. Link
De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (under review). Learning in Individual Organisms, Genes, Machines, and Groups: A New Way of Defining and Relating Learning in Different Systems. Perspectives in Psychological Science.
Van Dessel, P., Boddez, Y., & Hughes, S. (under review). Nudging societally relevant behavior by promoting cognitive inferences. Scientific Reports.
Kurdi, B., Hussey, I., Stahl, C., Hughes, S., Unkelbach, C., Ferguson, M., & Corneille, O. (under review). Unaware attitude formation in the surveillance task? Revisiting the findings of Moran et al. (2020). International Review of Social Psychology.
Hughes, S., Fried, O, Ferguson, M., Hughes, C., Hughes, R., Yao, X., & Hussey, I. (under review). Deepfaked Online Content is Highly Effective in Manipulating People’s Attitudes and Intentions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Link.
IN PRESS OR ACCEPTED
Kasran, S., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Observational Evaluative Conditioning is Sensitive to Relational Information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Link.
2022
Moran, T., Hughes, S., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2022). The role of trait inferences in evaluative conditioning. Collabra: Psychology. Link.
Kasran, S., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2022). Learning via Instructions about Observations: Exploring Similarities and Differences with Learning via Actual Observations. Royal Society Open Science. Link.
2021
Greenwald, A., et al. (2021). Best Research Practices for Using the Implicit Association Test. Behavioral Research Methods. Link.
Beeckman, M., Hughes, S., Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., Plasschaert, F., Michielsen, J., Moens, P., & Goubert, L. (2021). Risk and Resilience Predictors of Recovery After Spinal Fusion Surgery in Adolescents. The Clinical Journal of Pain, 11, 789-802. Link.
Moran, T., Hughes, S.,* Hussey, I.,* Vadillo, M., Olson, M., et al. (2021). Incidental Attitude Formation via the Surveillance Task: A Pre-Registered Replication of Olson and Fazio (2001). Psychological Science. Link * joint first authors
2020
Kissi, A., Harte, C., Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., Crombez, G. (2020). The Rule-Based Insensitivity Effect: A Systematic Review. PeerJ. Link
Hughes, S., Mattavelli, S., Hussey, I., & De Houwer, J. (2020). The Shared Features Principle: If Two Objects Share a Feature, People Assume Those Objects Also Share Other Features. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General. Link
De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2020). Learning to Like or Dislike: Revealing Similarities and Differences Between Evaluative Learning Effects. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Link
Van Dessel, P., Cummins, J., Hughes, H., Kasran, S., Cathelyn, F., & Moran, T. (2020). Reflecting on Twenty-Five Years of Research Using Implicit Measures: Recommendations for their Future Use. Social Cognition. Link
Ebersole, C., et al. (2020). Many Labs 5: Testing Pre-Data Collection Peer Review as an Intervention to Increase Reproducibility. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3, 309-331. Link
Chartier, C. R., et al., (2020). Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Albarracín et al.(2008), Experiment 5. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(3), 332-339. Link.
Landy, J. F., Jia, M., Ding I. L., Viganola, D. Tierney, W., ... Uhlmann, E. L. (2020). Crowdsourcing Hypothesis Tests: Making Transparent How Design Choices Shape Research Results. Psychological Bulletin, 146(5), 451–479. Link
Hussey, I., & Hughes, S. (2020). Hidden Invalidity in 15 Commonly Used Measures in Social and Personality Psychology. Advances in Methods and Procedures in Psychological Science. Link
Beeckman, M., Simons, L., Hughes, S., Loeys, T., & Goubert, L. (2020). A Network Analytic Study of the Potential Antecedents and Consequences of Pain-Related Avoidance and Engagement in Adolescents. Pain Medicine, 21(2), e89-e101. Link
Smith, C.T., Calanchini, J., Van Dessel, P., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2020). The Impact of Instruction and Experience-Based Evaluative Learning on IAT Performances: A Quad Model Perspective. Cognition & Emotion, 34(1), 21-41. Link
Hughes, S., Mattavelli, S., Hussey, I., & De Houwer, J. (2020). The influence of extinction and counterconditioning procedures on operant evaluative conditioning and intersecting regularity effects. Royal Society Open Science, 7, 192085. Link.
Kissi, A., Hughes, S., Van Ryckeghem, D., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G. (2020). When pain becomes uncontrollable: an experimental analysis of the impact of instructions on pain-control attempts. Pain. Link..
2019
Beeckman, M., Simons, L., Hughes, S., Loeys, T., & Gobert, L. (2019). Investigating how parental instructions and protective responses mediate the relationship between parental psychological flexibility and pain-related behavior in adolescents with chronic pain: a daily diary study. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2350. Link
Hughes, S., Ye, Y., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2019). When People Co-occur With Good or Bad Events: Graded Effects of Relational Qualifiers on Evaluative Conditioning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(2), 196–208. Link
Van Dessel, P., Eder, A., & Hughes, S. (in press). Mechanisms Underlying Effects of Approach-Avoidance Training on Stimulus Evaluation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 44(8), 1224-1241. Link
Van Dessel, P., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2019). How Do Actions Influence Attitudes? An Inferential Account of the Impact of Action Performance on Stimulus Evaluation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 23, 267-284. Link
De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2019). Toward a Cumulative Science of Emotion: A Functional-Cognitive Framework for Emotion Research. Cognition & Emotion, 33, 61-66. Link
Liefooghe, B., Hughes, S., Schmidt, J., & De Houwer, J. (2019). Stroop-like effects of derived stimulus–stimulus relations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(2), 327–349. Link
Beeckman, M., Hughes, S., Kissi, A., Simons, L., & Goubert, L. (in press). How an Understanding of our Ability to Adhere to Verbal Rules can Increase Insight into (Mal)adaptive Functioning in Chronic Pain. The Journal of Pain, 20(10), 1141-1154. Link
De Houwer, J., Richetin, J., Hughes, S., & Perugini, M. (2019). On the Assumptions that We Make About the World Around Us: A Conceptual Framework for Feature Transformation Effects. Collabra: Psychology. Link
2018
Hughes, S., Ye., Y., & De Houwer, J. (2018). Evaluative Conditioning Effects Are Modulated By The Nature of Contextual Pairings. Cognition & Emotion, 33, 871-884.. Link
Hughes, S., Mattavelli, S., & De Houwer, J. (2018). Examining the Impact of Distance as a Contextual Cue in Evaluative Conditioning. PlosOne, 13(10): e0204855. Link
Hughes, S., Barnes-Holmes, D., Van Dessel, P., de Almeida, J. H., Stewart, I., & De Houwer, J. (2018). On the Symbolic Generalization of Likes and Dislikes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 365-377. Link
Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., De Houwer, J., Soenens, B., Hughes, S., Vansteenkiste, M. (2018). The Development and Validation of an Implicit Measure of Competence Need Satisfaction. Motivation and Emotion, 42(5), 615–637. Link
Van Dessel, P., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2018). Consequence-Based Approach-Avoidance Training: A New and Improved Method for Changing Behavior. Psychological Science, 29(12), 1899–1910. Link
Kissi, A., Hughes, S., De Schryver, M., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G. (2018). Examining the Moderating Impact Plys and Tracks on the Insensitivity Effect: A Preliminary Investigation. The Psychological Record, 68(4), 431–440. Link
Hughes, S. (2018). A brief introduction to philosophy of science as it applies to clinical psychology. In S. C., Hayes & S. G., Hofmann (Eds.), Process-based CBT: the science and core clinical competencies of cognitive behavioral therapy (pp. 23-45). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications. Link
Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Hussey, I. (2018). An analysis of the scientific status and limitations of the attitudinal entropy framework and an initial test of some of its empirical predictions Psychological Inquiry, 29(4), 213-217. Link
2017
De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Brass, M. (2017). Toward a unified framework for research on instructions and other messages: An introduction to the special issue on the power of instructions. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 81, 1-3. Link
De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2017). Bridging the Divide Between Functional and Cognitive Psychology. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6(1), 47-50. Link
Hughes, S., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Smyth, S. (2017). Implicit Cross-Community Attitudes Revisited: Evidence for In-Group Favoritism but not for Out-Group Derogation in Northern Ireland. The Psychological Record, 67(1), 97–107. Link
Kissi, A., Hughes, S., Barnes-Holmes, D., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G. (2017). Conceptual Advances in Studying Rule-Governed Behavior: A Systematic Review of Pliance, Tracking and Augmenting. Behavior Modification, 41(5), 683-707. Link
De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2017). Psychological Engineering: A Functional-Cognitive Perspective on Applied Psychology. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6(1), 1-13. Link
De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2017). Environmental Regularities as a Concept for Carving up the Realm of Learning Research. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 6(3), 343-346. Link
2016
Stewart, C., Hughes, S., & Stewart, I. (2016). A Contextual Behavioral Approach to the Study of (Persecutory) Delusions. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 5(4), 235-246. Link
De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2016). Associative Learning as Higher-Order Cognition: Learning in Human and Nonhuman Animals from the Perspective of Propositional Theories and Relational Frame Theory. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130, 215-225. Link
Hughes. S., De Houwer, J. & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2016). The Moderating Impact of Distal Regularities on the Effect of Stimulus Pairings: A Novel Perspective on Evaluative Conditioning. Experimental Psychology, 63, 20-44. Link
Hussey, I., Ní Mhaoileoin, D., Barnes-Holmes, D., Ohtsuki, T., Kishita, N., Hughes, S., & Murphy, C. (2016). The IRAP is Non-Relative but Not A-Contextual: Changes to the Contrast Category Influence Men’s De-humanization of Women. The Psychological Record, 66, 291–299. Link
De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2016). Evaluative conditioning as a symbolic phenomenon: On the relation between evaluative conditioning, evaluative conditioning via instructions, and persuasion. Social Cognition, 34, 480–494. Link
Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Perugini, M. (2016). Expanding the Boundaries of Evaluative Learning Research: How Intersecting Regularities Shape Our Likes and Dislikes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 731-754. Link
Hughes, S., Hussey, I., Corrigan, B., Jolie, K., Murphy, C., & Barnes-Holmes, D., (2016). Faking Revisited: Exerting Strategic Control over Performance on the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 632–648. Link
McKenna, I., Hughes, S., Barnes-Holmes, D., Yodar, R., & O’Shea, D. (2016). Obesity, Food Deprivation and Implicit Attitudes to Healthy and Unhealthy Foods: Lessons Learned from the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure. Appetite, 100, 41-54. Link
Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2016). Relational Frame Theory: An Overview. In S. Hayes, D. Barnes-Holmes, R. Zettle, and T. Biglan (Eds.), Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science. New York: Wiley. Link
Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2016). Relational Frame Theory: Implications for the Study of Human Language and Cognition. In S. Hayes, D. Barnes-Holmes, R. Zettle, and T. Biglan (Eds.), Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science. New York: Wiley. Link
Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Perugini, P. (2016). The Functional-Cognitive Framework for Psychological Research: Controversies and Resolutions. International Journal of Psychology, 51, 4–14. Link
Perugini, M., Costantini, G., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2016). A Functional Perspective on Personality. International Journal of Psychology, 51, 33–39. Link
2015
De Schryver, M., Hughes, S., Rosseel, Y., & De Houwer, J. (2015). Unreliable Yet Still Replicable: A Comment on LeBel and Paunonen (2011). Frontiers in Psychology. Link
De Houwer, J., Heider, N., Spruyt, A., Roets, A., & Hughes, S. (2015). The Relational Responding Task: Toward a New Implicit Measure of Beliefs. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 319. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00319 Link
Hughes, S., Lyddy, F., Dukes, K, Saad, C., Miller, H., Kaplan, R., Lynch, A., Lee Nichols, A., (2015). Highly Prevalent but Not Always Persistent: Undergraduate and Graduate Student’s Misconceptions about Psychology. Teaching of Psychology, 42(1), 34-42. Link
2014
Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2014). Associative Concept Learning, Stimulus Equivalence, and Relational Frame Theory: Working out the Similarities and Differences Between Human and Non-Human Behavior. Journal of Experimental Behavior Analysis, 101(1), 156-160. Link
McAuliffe, D., Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2014). The Dark-Side of Rule Governed Behavior: An Experimental Analysis of Problematic Rule-Following in an Adolescent Population with Depressive Symptomology. Behavior Modification, 38(4), 587-613. Link
Remue, J., Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & De Raedt, R. (2014). To Be or Want to Be: Disentangling the Role of Actual versus Ideal Self in Implicit Self-Esteem. PLoS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108837. Link
2013
Barnes-Holmes, D., & Hughes, S. (2013). A Functional Approach to the Study of Human Emotion: The Centrality of Relational/Propositional Processes. In D. Hermans, B. Rimé, & B. Mesquita, (Eds). Changing Emotions. Psychology Press. Link
Hughes, S, & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2013). A Functional Approach to the Study of Implicit Cognition: The IRAP and the REC model. In B. Roche & S. Dymond. (Eds.). Advances in Relational Frame Theory & Contextual Behavioural Science: Research & Applications. Link
Hughes, S., Lyddy, F., & Kaplan, R. (2013). The Impact of Language and Format on Student Endorsement of Psychological Misconceptions. Teaching of Psychology, 40, 31-37. Link
Hughes, S., Lyddy, F., & Lambe, S. (2013). Misconceptions about Psychological Science: A Review. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 12, 20-31. Link
2012
Hughes, S., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Vahey, N. (2012). Holding on to Our Functional Roots When Exploring New Intellectual Islands: A Voyage through Implicit Cognition. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 1, 17-38. Link
Lyddy, F., & Hughes, S. (2012). Attitudes Towards Psychology as a Science and the Persistence of Psychological Misconceptions in Psychology Undergraduates. In V. Karandashev, & S. McCarthy, (Eds). Teaching Psychology around the World (Vol. 3).Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Link
2011
Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D., (2011). On the Formation and Persistence of Implicit Attitudes: New Evidence from the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP).The Psychological Record, 61, 391–410. Link