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Implicit gender bias in the diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes: A randomized online study

Aims Implicit gender biases (IGBs) are unconscious evaluations about a person based on gender. IGBs of healthcare providers may affect …

Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Stefanie Meeuwis, Hedwig Vos, Rimke Vos, Henriët van Middendorp, Dieuwke Veldhuijzen, Andrea Evers
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Increasing the Effectiveness of a Physical Activity Smartphone Intervention With Positive Suggestions: Randomized Controlled Trial

Background eHealth interventions have the potential to increase the physical activity of users. However, their effectiveness varies, …

Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Talia Cohen Rodrigues, David de Buisonjé, Tomas Kowatsch, Prabhakaran Santhanam, Dieuwke Veldhuijzen, Henriët van Middendorp, Andrea Evers
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Increasing the Effectiveness of a Physical Activity Smartphone Intervention With Positive Suggestions: Randomized Controlled Trial
Can contagious itch be affected by positive and negative suggestions?
Contagious itch can be evoked by observing people scratching. Verbal suggestions about to-be-received itch can influence itch …
Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Stefanie Meeuwis, Antoinette van Laarhoven, Henning Holle, Andrea Evers
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Olfactory exposure to late-pregnant and lactating mice causes stress-induced analgesia in male mice
In an attempt to improve reproducibility, more attention is being paid to potential sources of stress in the laboratory environment. …
Sarah Rosen, Lucas Lima, Civia Chen, Rachel Nejade, Mengyi Zhao, Wataru Nemoto, Ece Toprak, Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Shannon Tansley, Alicia Zumbusch, Susana Sotocinal, Jeffrey Mogil
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Food anticipatory hormonal responses: A systematic review of animal and human studies
Food anticipatory hormonal responses (cephalic responses) are proactive physiological processes, that allow animals to prepare for food …
Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Dieuwke Veldhuijzen, Iris Kloosterman, Gustavo Pacheco-Lopez, Andrea Evers
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Food anticipatory hormonal responses: A systematic review of animal and human studies
Effects of oxytocin administration and conditioned oxytocin on the perception of emotional faces, crying baby sounds and heat pain: an fMRI study
It has been demonstrated that secretion of several hormones can be classically conditioned, however, the underlying brain responses of …
Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Dieuwke S. Veldhuijzen, Mischa de Rover, Gustavo Pacheco-Lopez, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marinus van IJzendoorn, Niels Chavannes, Henriët van Middendorp, Andrea Evers
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Placebo effects in the neuroendocrine system: learned oxytocin responses

Objective: There is evidence that placebo effects may influence hormone secretion. However, few studies have examined placebo effects …

Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Dieuwke Veldhuijzen, Gustavo Pacheco-Lopez, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marinus van IJzendoorn, Monique Smeets, Tom Wilderjans, Albert Dahan, Omer van den Bergh, Niels Chavannes, Nic van der Wee, Karen Grewen, Henriët van Middendorp, Andrea Evers
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Effects of oxytocin on placebo and nocebo effects in a pain conditioning paradigm: a randomized controlled trial
Oxytocin has been shown to increase trust, decrease anxiety, and affect learning as has been observed in conditioning paradigms. Trust, …
Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Dieuwke Veldhuijzen, Henriët van Middendorp, Luana Colloca, Andrea Evers
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Conditioned hormonal responses: a systematic review in animals and humans
In contrast to classical conditioning of physiological responses such as immune responses and drug effects, only a limited number of …
Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Dieuwke Veldhuijzen, Iris Kloosterman, Onno Meijer, Henriët van Middendorp, Gustavo Pacheco-Lopez, Andrea Evers
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Deliberative versus intuitive diagnostic decision.
Several studies have demonstrated that in the mental health domain, experience does not always lead to better diagnostic decisions, …
Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Sophie Jellema, Alan Sanfey, Cilia Witteman
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