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Publications of Sanne de Wit

• Brinkhof, L.P., Ridderinkhof, K.R., Murre, J.M.J., Krugers, H.J., & de Wit, S. (in press).Boosting Behavioral Adaptability to Enhance Older Adults’ Mental Health/Well-being and Quality of Life Using a Habit-Based Metacognitive Self-Help Intervention, BMC Psychology
• Ryan Webb, Jessica Fong, Peter Landry, Julia Levine, Alex Steiny Wellsjo, Olivia Natan, Asaf Mazar, Clarice Zhao, Phillippa Lally, Sanne de Wit, John O’Doherty, Andrew Ching, Raphael Thomadsen, Matthew Osborne, Mark Bouton, Wendy Wood, Colin Camerer (in press). Integrating Neuro-Psychological Habit Research into Consumer Choice Models, International Journal of Research in Marketing, ISSN 0167-8116
• Hennessy, C., Pace, T., Blatch-Williams, R., van Timmeren, T, de Wit, S. , Andrews , S.C. (2025). Switching gears: Age-related differences in goal-directed and habitual behavior. Neuropsychology, 39(4), 305-320
• Brinkhof, L. P., Ridderinkhof, K. R., de Wit, S., Krugers, H. J., & Murre, J. M. J. (2025). A cross-sectional network analysis of successful aging in a resilience-based framework. PLoS ONE, 20(1), Article e0315445.
• Brinkhof, L. P., Chambon, M., Ridderinkhof, K. R., van Harreveld, F., Murre, J. M. J., Krugers, H. J., & de Wit, S. (2024). Resilience Among Older Individuals in the Face of Adversity: How Demographic and Trait Factors Affect Mental-Health Constructs and Their Temporal Dynamics. Clinical Psychological Science, 12(4), 563–585.
• van Timmeren T, van de Vijver I, de Wit S. Cortico-striatal white-matter connectivity underlies the ability to exert goal-directed control. Eur J Neurosci. 2024 Aug;60(4):4518-4535. doi: 10.1111/ejn.16456.
• Gardner, Rebar, de Wit & Lally (2024). What is habit and how can it be used to change real-world behaviour? Narrowing the theory-reality gap. Social and Personality Psychology Compass
• Brinkhof, L.P., Ridderinkhof, K.R., Murre, J.M.J., Krugers, H.J., & de Wit, S. (2023). Improving Goal Striving and Resilience in Older Adults Through a Personalized Metacognitive Self-Help Intervention: A Protocol Paper, BMC Psychology, 11(223)
• Van de Vijver, I., Brinkhof, L.P., de Wit, S. (2023). Age differences in routine formation: the role of automatization, motivation, and executive functions. Frontiers in Psychology, 14
• Brinkhof, L.P., Ridderinkhof, K.R., Bieleke, M., Murre, J.M.J., Krugers, H.J., & de Wit, S. (2023) Are Older Individuals Predisposed to Habitual Control More Resilient? Current Psychology
• Van Timmeren, T., O‘Doherty, J.P., Dzinalija, N., & de Wit, S. (2023). Can the Brain Strategically Go on Automatic Pilot? A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study Investigating the Effect of If–Then Planning on Behavioral Flexibility, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-19
  
• Van de Vijver, I., Verhoeven, A.A.C., & de Wit, S. (2023). Individual Differences in Corticostriatal White-Matter Tracts Predict Successful Daily-Life Routine Formation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(4), 571-575
• Berner, L.A., Fiore, V.G., Chen, J.Y., Krueger, A., Kaye, W.H., de Wit, S. (2023). Impaired belief updating and devaluation in adult women with bulimia nervosa. Translational Psychiatry, 13(2).
• Brinkhof, L.P., Murre, J.M.J, de Wit, S., Krugers, H. J., and Ridderinkhof, K.R. (2022). Changes in Perceived Ageism during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on  Quality of Life and Mental Well-being Among Older Adults. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
• Van Timmeren, T., & de Wit, S. (2022). Instant habits versus flexible tenacity: Do implementation intentions accelerate habit formation? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
• Brinkhof, L. P., Ridderinkhof, K. R., van de Vijver, I., Murre, J. M. J., Krugers, H. J., & de Wit, S. (2022). Psychological coping and behavioral adjustment among older adults in times of covid-19: Exploring the protective role of working memory and habit propensity. Journal of Adult Development.
• Watson, P., Gladwin, T.E., Verhoeven A.A.C., de Wit S. (2022). Investigating habits in humans with a symmetrical outcome-revaluation task. Behav Res Methods.
• Brinkhof, L.P., de Wit, S., Murre, J.M.J, Krugers, H. J., and Ridderinkhof, K.R. (2022). The Subjective Experience of Ageism: The Perceived Ageism Questionnaire. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development.
• Brinkhof, L. P., Ridderinkhof, R. K., Krugers, H. J., Murre, J. M. J., & de Wit, S. (2022). Assessing the Degree of Urbanisation using a Single-Item Self-Report Measure: A Validation Study. International Journal of Environmental Health Research.
• Brinkhof, L.P., Huth, K.B.S., Murre, J.M.J., de Wit, S. Krugers, H.J., & Ridderinkhof, K.R. (2021). The Interplay Between Quality of Life and Resilience Factors in Later Life: A Network Analysis. Frontiers in Psychology
• Ibáñez de Aldecoa, P.,  de Wit, S., & Tebbich, S. (2021). Can Habits Impede Creativity by Inducing Fixation? Frontiers in Psychology.
• Blanken, T. F., Tanis, C. C., Nauta, F. H., Dablander, F., Zijlstra, B. J. H., Bouten, R. R. M., Oostvogel, Q. H., Boersma, M. J., van der Steenhoven, M. V., van Harreveld, F., de Wit, S., & Borsboom, D. (2021). Promoting physical distancing during COVID-19: a systematic approach to compare behavioral interventions. Scientific Reports, 11, [19463].
• Frank-Podlech, S., Watson, P., Verhoeven, A.A.C., Stegmaier, S., Preissl, H., de Wit, S. (2021). Competing influences on healthy food choices: Mindsetting versus contextual food cues. Appetite, 166.
• Tanis, C., Leach, N.M., Geiger, S.J., Nauta, F.H., Dablander, F., van Harreveld, F., de Wit, S., Kanters, G., Knoppers, J., Markus, D.A.W., Bouten, R.R.M., Oostvogel, Q.H., Boersma, M.J., van der Steenhoven, M., Borsboom, D., Blanken, T.F. (2021). Smart Distance Lab’s art fair, experimental data on social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data, 8.
• Luijten, M., Gillan, C.M., de Wit, S., Franken, I.H.A., Robbins, T.W., Ersche, K.D. (2019). Goal-Directed and Habitual Control in Smokers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 22(2), 188-195. 
• Aalbers, G., McNally, R., Heeren, A., de Wit, S., & Fried, E.I. (2018). Social Media and Depression Symptoms: A Network Perspective. Journal of Experimental Psychology – General, 148(8), 1454-1462.
• Watson, P., van Wingen, G., de Wit, S. (2018). Conflicted between Goal-Directed and Habitual Control – an fMRI Investigation. eNeuro, 5(4), 1-11. 
• Verhoeven, A.A.C. & de Wit, S. (2018). The role of habits in maladaptive behaviour and therapeutic interventions. In Verplanken, B. (Ed.), The psychology of habit: Theory, mechanisms, change, and contexts. Cham: Springer 
• de Wit, S., Kindt, M., Knot, S. L., Verhoeven, A. A. C., Robbins, T. W., Gasull-Camos, J., Evans, M., Mirza, H., Gillan, C. M. (2018). Shifting the balance between goals and habits: Five failures in experimental habit induction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(7), 1043-1065.
• Watson, P., Wiers, R.W., Hommel,. B., & de Wit, S. (2018). Motivational Sensitivity of Outcome-Response priming: Experimental Research and theoretical models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Reviews, 1-14.
• de Wit (2018). Goal-Directed Action in Disorders of Compulsivity. In Morris, Bornstein, & Shenhav (Eds), Understanding Goal-Directed Decision Making: Computations and Neural Circuits. Elsevier
• Linnebank, F.E., Kindt, M. & de Wit, S. (2018). Investigating the balance between goal-directed and habitual control in experimental and real-life settings. Learning & Behavior, 1-14.
• Gottwald, J., De Wit, S., Apergis-Schoute, A., Morein-Zamir, S., Kaser, M., Cormack, F., Sule, A., Limmer, W., Morris, A.C., Robbins, T.W., Sahakian, B. (2018). Impaired cognitive plasticity and goal-directed control in adolescent obsessive–compulsive disorder. Psychological Medicine, 1-9.
• Verhoeven A.A.C., Watson, P., & de Wit, S. (2018). Failing to pay heed to health warnings in a food-associated environment. Appetite, 120, 616-626.
• Watson, P., & de Wit, S. (2018). Current limits of experimental research into habits and future directions. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 20, 33-39.
• van Steenbergen, H., Warren, C.M., Kühn, S., de Wit, S., Wiers, R.W., & Hommel, B. (2017). Representational precision in visual cortex reveals outcome encoding and reward modulation during action preparation. NeuroImage, 157, 415-428.
• Verhoeven, A.A.C., Kindt, M., Zomer, C.L., & de Wit, S. (2017). An experimental investigation of breaking learnt habits with verbal implementation intentions. Acta Psychologica.
• van Steenbergen, H., Watson, P., Wiers, R.W., Hommel, B., & de Wit, S. (2017). Dissociable corticostriatal circuits underlie goal-directed versus cue-elicited habitual food seeking after satiation: Evidence from a multimodal MRI study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 46(2), 1815-1827
• Watson, P. Wiers, R.W., Hommel, B., Gerdes, V.E.A., de Wit, S. (2017). Stimulus Control over Action for Food in Obese versus Healthy-weight Individuals, Frontiers in Psychology – Eating Behavior, doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00580
• de Wit, S (2017). Control of Behaviour by Competing Learning Systems. In T. Egner (Ed.), The Wiley Handbook of Cognitive Control (pp. 190-206). Wiley-Blackwell
• Sjoerds, Z., Dietrich, A., Deserno, L., De Wit, S., Villringer, A., Heinze, H.-J., et al. (2016). Slips of action and sequential decisions: A cross-validation study of tasks assessing habitual and goal-directed action control. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 10: 234.
• Dietrich, A., De Wit, S., Horstmann, A. (2016). General habit propensity relates to the sensation seeking subdomain of impulsivity but not obesity. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 10, 213.
• Godier, L. R., de Wit, S., Pinto, A., Steinglass, J. E., Green, A. L., Scaife, J., Gillan, C. M., Walsh, B. T., Simpson, H. B., Park, R. J. (2016). An investigation of habit learning in Anorexia Nervosa. Psychiatry Research, 244,
  214–222.
• Ersche, K.D., Gillan, C.M., Jones, P.M., Williams, G.B., Ward, L.H.E., Luijten, M., de Wit, S., Sahakian, B.J., Bullmore, E.T., Robbins, T.W. (2016). Carrots and sticks fail to change behavior in cocaine addiction. Science, 352(6292), 1468-1471. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf3700
• Delorme, C., Salvador, A.,  Valabrègue, R., Roze, E., Palminteri, S., Vidailhet, M., de Wit, S., Robbins, T.W.,  Hartmann, A., & Worbe, Y. (2016). Enhanced habits formation in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. Brain, 139(pt2), 605-615. doi:10.1093/brain/awv307
• Snorrason, I., Lee, H. J., de Wit, S., & Woods, D. W. (2016). Are Nonclinical Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms Associated with Bias toward Habits? Psychiatry Research, 30(241), 221-223. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.04.067.
• Watson, P. , Wiers, R.W., Hommel, B., Ridderinkhof, K.R. & de Wit, S. (2016). An associative account of how the obesogenic environment biases adolescents’ food choices. Appetite, 96, 560-571, doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2015.10.008
• de Wit, S. & Dickinson, A. (2015). Ideomotor mechanisms of goal-directed behavior. In T.S. Braver (Ed.), Motivation and Cognitive Control – Frontiers of Cognitive Psychology. Routledge
• Worbe Y., Savulich G., de Wit, S., Fernandez-Egea E., Robbins T.W. (2015). Tryptophan depletion promotes habitual over goal-directed control of appetitive responding in humans. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, doi: 10.1093/ijnp/pyv013
• van de Vijver, I., Ridderinkhof, K.R., & de Wit, S. (2015). Age-related changes in deterministic learning from positive versus negative performance feedback. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 22(5), 595-619
• Watson, P., van Steenbergen, H., de Wit, S., Wiers, R.W., & Hommel, B. (2015). Limits of ideomotor action-outcome acquisition. Brain Research, 1626, 45-53. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.02.020
• Watson, P. , Wiers, R.W., Hommel, B., &  de Wit, S. (2014). Working for food you don’t desire. Cues interfere with goal-directed food-seeking. Appetite, 79C, 139-148. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2014.04.005
• de Wit, S., van de Vijver, I.,  & Ridderinkhof, K.R. (2014). Impaired Acquisition of Goal-Directed Action in Healthy Aging. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 14 (2), 647-658. doi: 10.3758/s13415-014-0288-5
• Geurts, H.M. & de Wit, S. (2014). Goal-directed action control in children with autism spectrum disorders. Autism, 18 (4), 409-418. doi: 10.1177/1362361313477919
• Sjoerds, Z., de Wit, S., van den Brink, W., Robbins, T.W., Beekman, A.T.F., Penninx, B.W.J.H.,  & Veltman, D.J. (2013). Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence for overreliance on habit learning in alcohol-dependent patients. Translational Psychiatry, 3, e337. doi: 10.1038/tp.2013.107
• O’Callaghan, C., Moustafa, A.A., de Wit, S., Shine, J.M.,  Robbins, T.W. , Lewis, S.J.G.,  & Hornberger, M. (2013). Fronto-striatal grey matter contributions to discrimination learning in Parkinson’s disease. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 7, 180. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00180
• de Wit, S., Ridderinkhof, K.R., Fletcher, P.C., & Dickinson, A. (2013). Resolution of outcome-induced response conflict by humans after extended training. Psychological Research, 77 (6), 780-793. doi: 10.1007/s00426-012-0467-3
• Watson, P., de Wit, S., Hommel, B., & Wiers, R.W. (2013). Motivational mechanisms underlying the approach bias to cigarettes. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 4 (3), 250-262. doi: 10.5127/jep.030512
• de Wit, S., Watson, P., Harsay, H.A., Cohen, M.X., van de Vijver, I., & Ridderinkhof, K.R. (2012). Corticostriatal connectivity underlies individual differences in the balance between habitual and goal-directed action control. Journal of Neuroscience, 32 (35), 12066-12075. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1088-12.2012
• Watson, P., de Wit, S., Hommel, B.,  & Wiers, R.W. (2012). Motivational mechanisms and outcome expectancies underlying the approach bias toward addictive substances. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 440. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00440
• de Wit, S., Standing, H.R., DeVito, E.E., Robinson, O.J., Ridderinkhof, K.R., Robbins, T.W.,  & Sahakian, B.J. (2012). Reliance on habits at the expense of goal-directed control following dopamine precursor depletion. Psychopharmacology, 219 (2), 621-631. doi: 10.1007/s00213-011-2563-2 [go to publisher’s site]
• Robbins, T.W., Gillan, C.M., Smith, D.G. , de Wit, S. & Ersche, K.D. (2012). Neurocognitive endophenotypes of impulsivity and compulsivity: towards dimensional psychiatry. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16 (1), 81-91. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.11.009
• Gillan, C.M., Papmeyer, M., Morein-Zamir, S., Sahakian, B.J., Fineberg, N.A., Robbins, T.W.,  & de Wit, S. (2011). Disruption in the balance between goal-directed behavior and habit learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 168 (7), 718-726. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.10071062
• de Wit, S., Barker, R.A., Dickinson, A. & Cools, R. (2011). Habitual versus goal-directed action control in Parkinson disease. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 (5), 1218-1229. doi: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21514 [go to publisher’s site]
• Moore, J.W., Turner, D.C., Corlett, P.R., Arana, F.S., Morgan, H.L., Absalom, A.R., Adapa, R., de Wit, S., Everitt, J.C., Gardner, J.M., Pigott, J.S., Haggard, P.,  & Fletcher, P.C. (2011). Ketamine administration in healthy volunteers reproduces aberrant agency experiences associated with schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 16 (4), 364-381. doi: 10.1080/13546805.2010.546074 [go to publisher’s site]
• Fletcher, P.C., Napolitano, A., Skeggs, A., Miller, S.R., Delafont, B., Cambridge, V.C., de Wit, S., Nathan, P.J., Brooke, A., O’Rahilly, S., Farooqi, I.S., & Bullmore, E.T. (2010). Distinct modulatory effects of satiety and sibutramine on brain responses to food images in humans: a double dissociation across hypothalamus, amygdala, and ventral striatum. Journal of Neuroscience, 30 (43), 14346-14355. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3323-10.2010
• de Wit, S. & Dickinson, A. (2009). Associative theories of goal-directed behaviour: a case for animal–human translational models. Psychological Research, 73 (4), 463-476.
• de Wit, S., Ostlund, S.B., Balleine, B.W., & Dickinson, A. (2009). Resolution of conflict between goal-directed actions: outcome encoding and neural control processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes, 35 (3), 382-393. doi: 10.1037/a0014793
• de Wit, S., Corlett, P.R., Aitken, M.R., Dickinson, A., & Fletcher, P.C. (2009). Differential engagement of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex by goal-directed and habitual behavior toward food pictures in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 29 (36), 11330-11338.
• de Wit , S., Niry, D., Wariyar, R., Aitken, M., & Dickinson, A. (2007). Stimulus-Outcome interactions during instrumental discrimination learning by humans and rats. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 33(1), 1-11.
• de Wit , S., Kosaki,Y., Balleine, B.W., & Dickinson, A. (2006). Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex resolves response conflict in rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(19), 5224-5229.
• Dickinson, A., & de Wit , S. (2003). The interaction between discriminative stimuli and outcomes during instrumental learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B – Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 56(1), 127-139
• Dibbets, P., Maes, J.H.R., Van den Berg, P., de Wit , S., & Vossen, J.M.H.(2002). Feature positive discriminations in adults and children. Cognitive Development, 17 (2), 1235-1248
• Mineur, Y.S., F. Sluyter, F., de Wit , S., Oostra, B.A., & Crusio, W.E. (2002). Behavioral and neuroanatomical characterization of the Fmr1 knockout mouse. Hippocampus, 12(1), 39-46.