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• Roets, A., Bostyn, D. H., De keersmacker, J., Haesevoets, T., Van Assche, J., & Van Hiel, A. (2020). Utilitarianism in minimal‑group decision making is less common than equality‑based morality, mostly harm‑oriented, and rarely impartial. Nature Scientific Reports

• Bostyn, D.H., De keersmaecker, J., Van Assche, J., & Roets, A. (2020). Bright mind, moral mind? Intelligence is unrelated to consequentialist moral judgment in sacrificial moral dilemmas. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 392-397.

• Bostyn, d. H., & Roets, A. (2019) Should trolleys be scared of mice?  Replies to Evans and Brandt (2019); Białek, Turpin, and Fugelsang (2019); Colman, Gold, and Pulford (2019); and Plunkett and Greene (2019). Psychological Science, 30, 1392-1396.

• De keersmaecker, J., Dunning, D., Pennycook, G., Rand, D. G., Sanchez, C., Unkelbach, C., & Roets, A.   (2020). Investigating the robustness of the Illusory Truth effect across individual differences in cognitive ability, need for cognitive closure, and cognitive style. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 204-215

• Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., Gast, A., Roets, A., Smith, C.T. (2020). On the effectiveness of approach-avoidance instructions and training for changing evaluations of social groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, E1-E4

• Valcke, B., Van Hiel, A., Van Assche, J., Van Roey, T., Onraet, E., & Roets, A. (2020). The need for inclusion: the relationships between relational and collective inclusion needs and psychological well- and ill-being. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 579-596.

• Van Assche, J., Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Dhont, K. (2019). Diverse Reactions to Ethnic Diversity: The Role of Individual Differences in Authoritarianism. Current Directions in Psychological Science., 28, 523-527.

• Bostyn, D. H., Sevenhant, S., & Roets, A. (2019). Beyond physical harm: how preference for consequentialism and primary psychopathy relate to decisions on a monetary trolley dilemma.  Thinking & Reasoning, 25, 192-206.

• Van Assche, J., Haesevoets, T., & Roets, A. (2019). Local norms and moving intentions: the mediating role of neighborhood satisfaction . Journal of Environmental Psychology, 63, 19-25.

• De keersmaecker, J., & Roets, A. (2019). Is there an ideological assymetry in the moral approval of spreading misinformation by politicians?  Personality and Individual Differences, 143, 165-169. 

• De keersmaecker, J., & Roets, A. (in press). All victims are equally innocent, but some are more innocent than others: The role of group membership on victim blaming. Current Psychology.

• Van Assche, J., Van Hiel, A., Dhont, K., & Roets, A. (2019). Broadening the Individual Differences Lens on Party Support and Voting Behavior: Cynicism and Prejudice as Relevant Attitudes Referring to Modern-Day Political Alignments . European Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 190-199.
  
  

• Roets, A., Bostyn, D. H., Van Assche, J., De keersmaecker, J., & Van Hiel, A. (2019). Generalized ingroup-stereotyping as a response to perceived individual failure . Personality and Individual Differences, 145, 15-18.

• Van Assche, J., Koc, Y., & Roets, A. (2019). Religiosity or ideology? On the individual differences predictors of sexism . Personality and Individual Differences, 139, 191-197

• Haesevoets, T., Bostyn, D.H., Folmer, C.R., Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2019). Decision making in the prisoner's dilemma game: The effect of exit on cooperation and social welfare . Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 32, 61-78

• Van Hiel, A. De keersmaecker, J., Onraet, E., Heasevoets, T., Roets, A., & Fontaine, J. R.J. (2019). The relationship between emotional abilities and right-wing and prejudiced attitudes. emotion, 19, 917-922

• Bostyn, D. H., Sevenhant, S., & Roets, A. (2018). Of mice, men, and trolleys: Hypothetical judgment versus real-life behavior in trolley-style moral dilemmasHypothetical judgment versus real-life behavior in trolley-style moral dilemmas . Psychological Science, 29, 1084-1093.
  
  

• De keersmaecker, J., Bostyn, D.H., Fontaine, J.R.J., Van Hiel, A., & Roets, A. (2018). Towards an integrated cognition perspective on ethnic prejudice: An investigation into the role of intelligence and need for cognitive closure . Social Psychology and Personality Science, 9, 719-726.
  
  

• Dewitte, V., De Pauw, R., De Meulemeester, K., Peersman, W., Danneels, L., Bouche, K., Roets, A., & Cagnie, C. (2018). Clinical classification criteria for nonspecific low back pain: A Delphi-survey of clinical experts . Muscoskeletal Science and Practice [Formerly: Manual Therapy], 34, 66-76.
  
  

• Makwana, A. P., Dhont, K., De keersmaecker, J., Akhlagi-Ghaffarokh, P., Masure, M., & Roets, A. (2018). The motivated cognitive basis of transphobia: The role of right-wing ideologies and gender role beliefs. Sex Roles, 79, 206-217 
  
  

• Szumowska, E., Kossowska, M., Roets, A. (2018). Motivation to comply with task rules and multitasking performance: The role of need for cognitive closure and goal importance . Motivation and Emotion, 42, 360-376
  
  

• Van Assche, J. Asbrock, F., Roets, A. & Kauff, M. (2018). Positive Neighborhood Norms Buffer Ethnic Diversity Effects on Neighborhood Dissatisfaction, Perceived Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Moving Intentions.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 700-716.
  
  

• Van Assche, J., Asbrock, F., Dhont, K., & Roets, A. (2018). The Diversity Challenge for High and Low Authoritarians: Multilevel and Longitudinal Effects through Intergroup Contact and Threat.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 1163-1179.
  
  

• Van Assche, J., Dhont, K., Van Hiel, A., & Roets, A. (2018). Ethnic Diversity and Support for Populist Parties: The "Right" Road through Political Cynicism and Lack of Trust.  Social Psychology, 49, 182-189.

• Van Hiel, A., Van Assche, J., De Cremer, D., ..., & Roets, A. (2018). Can education change the world? Education amplifies differences in liberalization values and innovation between developed and developing countries . Plos One, 13, e0199560

• Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2017). Trust, Trolleys and Social Dilemmas: A Replication Study . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, e1-e7.
  
  
• Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2017). An asymmetric moral conformity effect: subjects conform to deontological but not consequentialist majorities . Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 310-322
  
  
• De keersmaecker, J., & Roets, A. (2017). 'Fake news': Incorrect, but hard to correct. The role of cognitive ability on the impact of false information on social impressions . Intelligence, 65, 107-110.
  
  
• De keersmaecker, J., Onraet, E., Lepouttre, N., & Roets, A. (2017). The opposite effects of actual and self-perceived intelligence on racial prejudice . Personality and Individual Differences, 112, 136-138.
  
  
• De keersmaecker, J., & Roets, A. (2017). Group-centrism in the absence of group norms: The role of need for closure in social projection . Motivation and Emotion,41, 591-599.
  
  
• De keersmaecker, J., Roets, A., Dhont, K., Van Assche, J., Onraet, E., & Van Hiel, A. (2017). Need for closure and perceived threat as bases of right-wing authoritarianism: A longitudinal moderation approach.  Social Cognition, 35, 431 -447.
  
  
• Onraet, E., Van Assche, J., Roets, A., Haesevoets, T., & Van Hiel, A. (2017). The Happiness Gap Between Conservatives and Liberals Depends on Country-Level Threat: A Worldwide Multilevel Study.  Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 11-19.
  
  
• Van Assche, J., Roets, A., De keersmaecker, J., & Van Hiel, A. (2017). The mobilizing effect of right-wing ideological climates: Cross-level interaction effects on different types of outgroup attitudes . Political Psychology, 38, 757-776
  
  
• Van Assche, J., Van Hiel, A., Stadeus, J., Bushman, B. J., De Cremer, D., & Roets, A. (2017). When the Heat is On: The Effect of Temperature on Voter Behavior in Presidential Elections . Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 929

• Van der Linden, N, & Roets, A. (2017). Insights into the Belgian Linguistic Conflict from a (Social) Psychological Perspective: Introduction to the Special Issue . Psychologica Belgica, 57, 1-12

• Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2016). The morality of action: The assymmetry between judgments of praise and blame in the action-omission effect.  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 63, 19-25.

• Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2016). Right-wing attitudes and moral cognition: are Right-Wing Authoritarianism and social dominance Orientation related to utilitarian Judgement?  Personality and Individual differences, 96, 164-171.

• De keersmaecker, J., Van Assche, J., & Roets, A. (2016). Need for Closure effects on affective and cognitive responses to culture fusion.  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47, 1294-1306.

• Van Assche, J., Roets, A., Dhont, K., & Van Hiel, A. (2016). The Association between Actual and Perceived Diversity: The Moderating Role of Authoritarianism and Implications for Outgroup Threat, Anxiety, and Mistrust. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 807-817

• Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., Roets, A., & Gast, A. (2016). Failures to Change Stimulus Evaluations by means of Subliminal Approach and Avoidance Training. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, e1-e15.

• Van Hiel, A., Onraet, E., Crowson, H. M., & Roets, A. (2016). The Relationship Between Right-wing Attitudes and Cognitive Style: A Comparison of Self-report and Behavioural Measures of Rigidity and Intolerance of Ambiguity. European Journal of Personality, 30, 523-531.

• Roets, A., Au E. W. M., & Van Hiel, A. (2015). Can authoritarianism lead to greater liking of out-groups? The intriguing case of Singapore . Psychological Science, 26, 1972-1974.

• Roets, A., Kruglanski, A. W., Kossowska, M., Pierro, A., & Hong, Y-y. (2015). The Motivated Gatekeeper of Our Minds: New Directions in Need for Closure Theory and Research . Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 52, 221-283.

• Van Hiel, A. Roets, A., Van Assche, J., Bostyn, D., De keersmaecker, J., Haesevoets, T. Joosten, A., Stadeaus, J., & Onraet, E. (2015). Defining the happiness gap. Science, 348, 1216-1216.

• 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, art. No 319.
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• Roets, A., Soetens, B., Au, E. W. M., & Guan, Y. (2014). Personal choice: A blessing or a burden, or both? A cross-cultural investigation on need for closure effects in two Western and two East-Asian societies.  International Journal of Psychology, 49, 216-221

• Roets, A., Cornelis, I. & Van Hiel, A. (2014). Openness as Predictor of Political Orientation and Activism across Europe .  Journal of Personality Assessment (SI), 96, 53-63.

• Roets, A., Raman, E., Heytens, S., & Avonts, D. (2014). Effects of dispositional need for closure and training on medical decision making . Medical Decision Making, 34, 144-146.

• Soetens, B. Roets, A., & Raes, F. (2014). Food for memory: food-related memory bias and the role of thought suppression in high and low restrained eaters. Psychological Record, 64, 105-114.

• Van Assche, J., Roets, A., Dhont, K., & Van Hiel, A. (2014). Diversity and Out-Group Attitudes in the Netherlands: The Role of Authoritarianism and Social Threat in the Neighbourhood. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40, 1414-1430.

• Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Kruglanski, A. W. (2013). When motivation backfires: Optimal levels of motivation as a function of cognitive capacity in information relevance perception and social judgment.  Motivation and Emotion, 37, 261-273.

• Dhont, K. , Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2013). The intergenerational transmission of need for closure underlies the transmission of authoritarianism and anti-immigrant prejudice. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 779-784.

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2012

• Roets, A., Schwartz, B., & Guan, Y. (2012). The tyranny of choice: a cross-cultural investigation of maximizing-satisficing effects on well-being.  Judgment and Decision Making, 17, 689-704. [Direct open access] 

• Dhont, K., Van Hiel, A., De Bolle, M., & Roets, A. (2012). Longitudinal intergroup contact effects on prejudice using self- and observer-reports. British Journal of Social Psychology, 51, 221-238.

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• Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Dhont, K. (2012). Is sexism a gender issue? A motivated social cognition perspective on men’s and women’s sexist attitudes toward the own and other gender.  European Journal of Personality, 26, 350-359.

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• Richter, M., Baeriswyl, E., & Roets, A. (2012). Personality Effects on Cardiovascular Reactivity: Need for Closure Moderates the Impact of Task Difficulty on Engagement-related Myocardial Beta-adrenergic Activity. Psychophysiology, 49, 704-707.

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2011

• Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Allport’s Prejudiced personality today: Need for closure as the motivated cognitive basis of prejudice.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 349-354.

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• Roets, A. & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Impaired performance as a source of reduced energy investment in judgment under stressors.  Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23, 625-632.

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• Onraet, E., Van Hiel, A., Roets, A., & Cornelis, I. (2011). The closed mind: ‘Experience’ and ‘cognition’ aspects of openness to experience and need for closure as psychological bases for right-wing attitudes. European Journal of Personality, 25, 184-197.

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• Roets, A. & Van Hiel, A. (2011). An integrative process approach on judgment and decision making: the impact of arousal, affect, motivation, and cognitive ability.  Psychological Record, 61, 497-520.

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• Dhont, K., Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Opening Closed Minds: The Combined Effects of Intergroup Contact and Need for Closure on Prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 514-528.

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• Roets, A. & Van Hiel, A. (2011). The role of need for closure in essentialist entitativity beliefs and prejudice: An epistemic needs approach to racial categorization.  British Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 52-73.

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• Roets, A. & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Item selection and validation of a brief, 15-item version of the need for closure scale.  Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 90-94.

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• Geyskens, K., Soetens, B., & Roets, A. (2010). Exposure makes the hearth grow less fond: The effects of exposure to palatable foods on the subsequent attention processing of food cues. Journal of Health Psychology, 15, 230-238.

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• Roets, A., & Soetens, B. (2010). Need and ability to achieve closure: Relationships with symptoms of psychopathology.  Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 155-160.

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• Van Hiel, A., Cornelis, I. & Roets, A. (2010). To have or to be? A comparison of materialism-based theories and self-determination theory as explanatory frameworks of prejudice. Journal of Personality, 78, 1037-1070.

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• Cornelis, I., Van Hiel, A., & Roets, A. (2009). Age effects on conservatism: Evidence on the mediating effects of Personality and Cognitive Style. Journal of Personality, 77, 51-88.

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• Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2009). The ideal politician: Impact of voters' ideology.  Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 60-65.

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• Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., Cornelis, I., & Soetens, B. (2008). Determinants of task performance and invested effort: A need for closure by ability interaction analysis.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 779-792.

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• Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2008). Why some hate to dillydally and others do not: The arousal-invoking capacity of decision-making for low and high-scoring need for closure individuals.  Social Cognition, 26, 333-346.

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• Soetens, B., Braet, C., Vanvlierberghe L., & Roets, A. (2008). Resisting temptation: Effects of exposure to a forbidden food on eating behaviour. Appetite, 51, 202-205.

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• Cools, A. M., De Witte, V., Lansweert, F., Notebaert, D., Roets, A., Soetens, B., et al. (2007). Rehabilitation of scapular muscle balance: Which exercises to prescribe? American Journal of Sports Medicine, 35, 1744-1751.

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• Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2007). Separating ability from need: Clarifying the dimensional structure of the need for closure scale.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 266-280.

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• Van Hiel, A., Cornelis, I., & Roets, A. (2007). The intervening role of social worldviews in the relationship between the Five-Factor Model of personality and political ideology. European Journal of Personality, 21, 131-148.

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• Van Hiel, A., Cornelis I., & Roets, A. (2007). A comparison of various authoritarianism scales in Belgian Flanders. European Journal of Personality, 21, 149-168

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2006

• Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Cornelis, I. (2006). The dimensional structure of the Need for Cognitive Closure Scale: Relationships with “seizing” and “freezing” processes.  Social Cognition, 24, 22-45.

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• Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Cornelis, I. (2006). Does materialism predict racism? Materialism as a distinctive social attitude and a predictor of prejudice.  European Journal of Personality, 20, 155-168.

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• Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2006). Need for closure relations with authoritarianism, conservative beliefs and racism: The impact of urgency and permanence tendencies.  Psychologica Belgica, 46, 235-252.

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• Soetens, B., Braet, C., Dejonckheere, P.J.N., & Roets, A. (2006). ‘When suppression backfires’: The ironic effects of suppressing eating-related thoughts. Journal of Health Psychology, 11, 655-668

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