PUBLICATIONS
ATTITUDES / IMPLICIT COGNITION
MEASUREMENT & VALIDATION
BEHAVIOR CHANGE
MISINFORMATION
CHRONIC PAIN
OPEN SCIENCE
SOCIAL ROBOTICS / HRI
BOOKS
De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2020). The Psychology of Learning: A Functional-Cognitive Perspective. The MIT Press. Link
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. Nature Scientific Data.
Hughes, S., Soubry, A., & De Houwer, J. (in prep). Genetic Learning: The Impact of Environmental Regularities on Genetic Behavior.
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.
UNDER REVIEW
Kasran, S., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (under review). Observational evaluative conditioning is sensitive to the perceived relation between stimuli. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Kissi, A., Harte, C., Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., Crombez, G. (under review). The Rule-Based Insensitivity Effect: A Systematic Review. PeerJ.
Hughes, S,. Mattavelli, S., & De Houwer, J. (under review). The Influence of Extinction and Counterconditioning Procedures on Evaluations Established via Intersecting Regularities. Royal Society Open Science.
Cummins, J., Hussey, I., & Hughes, S. (under review). The AMPeror’s new clothes: Revisiting the role of intentional responding in the Affect Misattribution Procedure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Link
Hussey, I., & Hughes, S. (under review). Evaluative Conditioning without awareness: Replicable effects do not equate replicable inferences. Link
IN PRESS OR ACCEPTED
De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (in press). Learning to Like or Dislike: Revealing Similarities and Differences Between Evaluative Learning Effects. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Link
Hughes, S., Mattavelli, S., Hussey, I., & De Houwer, J. (in press). The Shared Features Principle: If Two Objects Share a Feature, People Assume Those Objects Also Share Other Features. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General. Link
Moran, T., Hughes, S.,* Hussey, I.,* Vadillo, M., Olson, M., et al. (accepted). Incidental Attitude Formation via the Surveillance Task: A Pre-Registered Replication of Olson and Fazio (2001). Stage 1 Acceptance at Psychological Science. Link * joint first authors
Ebersole, C., et al. (accepted). Many Labs 5: Testing Pre-Data Collection Peer Review as an Intervention to Increase Reproducibility. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. Link
Chartier, C., et al. (accepted). Many Labs 5: Registered Replication Report of Albarracín et al. (2008), Study 5. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
2020
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
De Schryver, M., Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Rosseel, Y. (2020). On the Reliability of Implicit Measures: Current Practices and Novel Recommendations. 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
Beeckman, M., Hughes, S., Van Ryckeghem, D., Van Hoecke, E., Dehoorne, J., Joos, R., & Goubert, L (2019). Resilience factors in children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and their parents: the role of child and parent psychological flexibility. Pain Medicine, 20, 1120-1131. 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