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Journal Articles

  1. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Philippi, C. L. (in press). Mind wandering about the beloved: self-reported distraction, task performance, and enjoyment. Cognition and Emotion. PDF and PDF
  2. Langeslag, S. J. E. (2024). Refuting six misconceptions about romantic love. Behavioral Sciences, 14, 383. PDF
  3. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Posey, Z. W. (2023). Factors that contribute to an inability to remember an important aspect of a traumatic event. Memory, 31, 1402-1411. PDF and Data
  4. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Surti, K. (2022). Increasing love feelings, marital satisfaction, and motivated attention to the spouse. Journal of Psychophysiology, 36, 199-214. PDF
  5. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Davis, L. L. (2022). A preliminary study on up-regulation of sexual desire for a long-term partner. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 19, 872-878. PDF
  6. Langeslag, S. J. E. (2022). Electrophysiological correlates of romantic love: A review of EEG and ERP studies with beloved-related stimuli. Brain Sciences, 12, 551. PDF
  7. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2020). Preferential processing of task-irrelevant beloved-related information and task performance: Two event-related potential studies. Neuropsychologia, 145, 106497. PDF
  8. Langeslag, S. J. E.*, & Van Steenbergen, H.* (2020). Cognitive control in romantic love: The roles of infatuation and attachment in interference and adaptive cognitive control. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 596-603. *contributed equally PDF and Data
  9. Langeslag, S. J. E., Hopstaken, J. F., & Van Strien, J. W. (2020). The effect of fearful expressions on recognition memory for faces: Behavioral and electrophysiological data. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 152, 53-61. PDF
  10. Horner, S. B., & Langeslag, S. J. E. (2019). Negative and positive reappraisal after a romantic break-up. Journal of Student Research, 8, 9-17. PDF
  11. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2019). Romantic love and attention: Early and late event-related potentials. Biological Psychology, 146, 107737. PDF
  12. Van der Veen, F. M., Burdzina, A., & Langeslag, S. J. E. (2019). Don’t you want me baby? Cardiac and electrocortical concomitants of romantic interest and rejection. Biological Psychology, 146, 107707. PDF
  13. Surti, K., & Langeslag, S. J. E. (2019). Perceived ability to regulate love. PLOS ONE, 14, e0216523. PDF and Data
  14. Langeslag, S. J. E., Gootjes, L., & Van Strien, J. W. (2018). The effect of mouth opening in emotional faces on subjective experience and the early posterior negativity amplitude. Brain and Cognition, 127, 51-59. PDF
  15. Langeslag, S. J. E. (2018). Effects of organization and disorganization on pleasantness, calmness, and the frontal negativity in the event-related potential. PLOS ONE, 13, e0202726. PDF and Data
  16. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2018). Cognitive reappraisal of snake and spider pictures: An event-related potentials study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 130, 1-8. PDF
  17. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Sanchez, M. E. (2018). Down-regulation of love feelings after a romantic break-up: Self-report and electrophysiological data. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 720-733. PDF or PDF
  18. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2018). Early visual processing of snakes and angry faces: An ERP study. Brain Research, 1678, 297-303. PDF
  19. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Surti, K. (2017). The effect of arousal on regulation of negative emotions using cognitive reappraisal: An ERP study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 118, 18-26. PDF
  20. Thijssen, S., Wildeboer, A., Van IJzendoorn, M. H., Muetzel, R. L., Langeslag, S. J. E., Verhulst, F. C., Tiemeier, H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & White, T. (2017). The honest truth about deception: Demographic, cognitive and neural correlates of child repeated deceptive behavior. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 162, 225-241. PDF
  21. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2016). Regulation of romantic love feelings: Preconceptions, strategies, and feasibility. PLOS ONE, 11, e0161087. PDF
  22. Langeslag, S. J. E., Olivier, J. R., Köhlen, M. E., Nijs, I. M., & Van Strien, J. W. (2015). Increased attention and memory for beloved-related information during infatuation: Behavioral and electrophysiological data. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 136-144. PDF
  23. McMenamin, B., Langeslag, S. J. E., Sirbu, M., Padmala, S., & Pessoa, L. (2014). Network organization unfolds over time during periods of anxious anticipation. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 11261-11273. PDF
  24. White, T., Muetzel, R., Schmidt, M., Langeslag, S. J. E., Jaddoe, V., Hofman, A., Calhoun, V. D., Verhulst, F. C., & Tiemeier, H. (2014). Time of acquisition and network stability in pediatric resting-state functional MRI. Brain Connectivity, 4, 417-427. PDF
  25. Van Steenbergen, H., Langeslag, S. J. E., Band, G. P. H., & Hommel, B. (2014). Reduced cognitive control in passionate lovers. Motivation and Emotion, 38, 444-450. PDF
  26. Langeslag, S. J. E., Van der Veen, F.M., & Röder, C. H. (2014). Attention modulates the dorsal striatum response to love stimuli. Human Brain Mapping, 35, 503-512. PDF
  27. Langeslag, S. J. E., Schmidt, M., Ghassabian, A., Jaddoe, V. W., Hofman, A., Van der Lugt, A., Verhulst, F. C., Tiemeier, H., & White, T. J. H. (2013). Functional connectivity between parietal and frontal brain regions and intelligence in young children: The Generation R study. Human Brain Mapping, 34, 3299-3307. PDF
  28. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2013). Up-regulation of emotional responses to reward-predicting stimuli: An ERP study. Biological Psychology, 94, 228-233. PDF
  29. Langeslag, S. J. E., Muris, P., & Franken, I. H. A. (2013). Measuring romantic love: Psychometric properties of the Infatuation and Attachment Scales. The Journal of Sex Research, 50, 739-747. PDF
  30. Langeslag, S. J. E., Van der Veen, F. M., & Fekkes, D. (2012). Blood levels of serotonin are differentially affected by romantic love in men and women. Journal of Psychophysiology, 26, 92-98. PDF
  31. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2010). Comparable modulation of the Late Positive Potential by emotion regulation in younger and older adults. Journal of Psychophysiology, 24, 186-197. PDF
  32. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2010). Hersengolven geven inzicht in de positieve kanten van veroudering [Brain waves provide insight into the positive aspects of aging]. Neuropraxis, 4, 104-109. PDF
  33. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2009). Aging and emotional memory: The co-occurrence of neurophysiological and behavioral positivity effects. Emotion, 9, 369-377. PDF
  34. Langeslag, S. J. E., Morgan, H. M., Jackson, M. C., Linden, D. E. J., & Van Strien, J. W. (2009). Electrophysiological correlates of improved short-term memory for emotional faces. Neuropsychologia, 47, 887-896. PDF and Erratum
  35. Van Strien, J. W., Langeslag, S. J. E., Strekalova, N. J., Gootjes, L., & Franken, I. H. A. (2009). Valence interacts with the early ERP old/new effect and arousal with the sustained ERP old/new effect for affective pictures. Brain Research, 1251, 223-235. PDF
  36. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2008). Age differences in the emotional modulation of ERP old/new effects. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 70, 105-114. PDF
  37. Langeslag, S. J. E., Franken, I. H. A., & Van Strien, J. W. (2008). Dissociating love-related attention from task-related attention: An event-related potential oddball study. Neuroscience Letters, 431, 236-240. PDF
  38. Langeslag, S. J. E., Jansma, B. M., Franken, I. H. A., & Van Strien, J. W. (2007). Event-related potential responses to love-related facial stimuli. Biological Psychology, 76, 109-115. PDF
  39. Langeslag, S. J. E. (2006). Liefde is een motivatie, niet een emotie: Een neurobiologische benadering [Love is a motivation, not an emotion: A neurobiological approach]. De Psycholoog, 41, 260-265. PDF

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