2024/in press
David., L., Vassena, E., & Bijleveld, E. (2024). The unpleasantness of thinking: A meta-analytic review of the association between mental effort and negative affect. Psychological Bulletin. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/bul0000443 pdf
Media coverage: APA, The Times, CNN, The Independent, NRC.
Becker, D., Bijleveld, E., Braem, S., Fröber, K., Götz, F.J., Kleiman, T., Körner, A., Pfister, R., Reiter, A.M.F., Saunders, B., Schneider, I.K., Soutschek., A., van Steenbergen, H., & Dignath, D. (2024). An integrative framework of conflict and control. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(8), 757-768. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.07.002 pdf
2023
Bijleveld, E. (2023). The ebb and flow of cognitive fatigue. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(12) 1109-1110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.09.007 pdf
Bijleveld, E., van Breukelen, F.N., de Segovia Vicente, D., & Schutter, D. (2023). Mapping the dose–response relationship between monetary reward and cognitive performance. Motivation Science, 9(3), 205-215. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000299 pdf
Schepers, A.M., Schorrlepp, L., de Vries, J.D., de Kloe, T., van der Linden, D., & Bijleveld, E. (2023). Revisiting the link between the sustained attention to response task (SART) and daily-life cognitive failures. Consciousness and Cognition, 114, 103558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2023.103558 pdf
2022
ten Broeke, P., Gardner, B., Beckers, D. G., Geurts, S. A., & Bijleveld, E. (2022). Why do people sit? A framework for targeted behavior change. Health Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2022.2143851 pdf
ten Broeke, P., van Bakel, B.M.A., Bakker, E.A., Beckers, D.G.J., Geurts, S.A.E., Thijssen, D.H.J., Eijsvogels, T.M.H., & Bijleveld, E. (2022). Sitting patterns in cardiovascular disease patients compared with healthy controls and impact of cardiac rehabilitation. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 32, 1639–1649. https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.14202 pdf
Dora, J., van Hooff, M. L., Geurts, S. A., Kompier, M. A., & Bijleveld, E. (2022). The effect of opportunity costs on mental fatigue in labor/leisure trade-offs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(3), 695-710. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001095 pdf
Benthem de Grave, R., Hasselman, F., & Bijleveld, E. (2022). From work stress to disease: A computational model. PLoS ONE, 17, e0263966. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263966 pdf
Kahmann, R., Ozuer, Y., Zedelius, C.M., & Bijleveld, E. (2022). Mind wandering increases linearly with text difficulty. Psychological Research, 86, 284–293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01483-9 pdf
van der Wal, R.A.B., Bijleveld, E., van Herwaarden, A.E.; Bucx, M.J.L., Prins, J.B., & Scheffer, G.J. (2022). Chronic stress indicated by hair cortisol concentration in anaesthesiologists and its relationship to work experience and emotional intelligence. European Journal of Anaesthesiology, 39(1), 26–32. https://doi.org/10.1097/EJA.0000000000001393 pdf
van der Wal, R.A.B., Bijleveld, E., van Herwaarden, A.E.; Bucx, M.J.L., Prins, J.B., & Scheffer, G.J. (2022). Stress levels in anaesthesiologists: explaining the extremes. European Journal of Anaesthesiology, 39(3), 294–295. https://doi.org/10.1097/EJA.0000000000001629 pdf
van der Wal, R.A.B., Wallage, J., Scheffer, G.J., Prins, J.B., & Bijleveld, E. (2022). Personality in anaesthesiologists, a systematic review of the literature. European Journal of Anaesthesiology, 39(4), 378–387. https://doi.org/10.1097/EJA.0000000000001650 pdf
2021
Dora, J., van Hooff, M., Geurts, S.A., Kompier, M.A., & Bijleveld, E. (2021). Labor/leisure decisions in their natural context: The case of the smartphone. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 676–685. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01844-2 pdf
Dora, J., van Hooff, M. L., Geurts, S. A., Kompier, M. A., & Bijleveld, E. (2021). Fatigue, boredom and objectively measured smartphone use at work. Royal Society Open Science, 8, 201915. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201915 pdf
Healthy Brain Study consortium, et al. (2021). Protocol of the Healthy Brain Study: An accessible resource for understanding the human brain and how it dynamically and individually operates in its bio-social context. PloS ONE, 16, e0260952. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260952 pdf
2020
ten Broeke, P., Olthof, M., Beckers, D.G.J., Hopkins, N.D., Graves, L.E.F., Carter, S.E., Cochrane, M., Gavin, D., Morris, A.S., Lichtwarck-Aschoff, A.S., Geurts, S.A.E., Thijssen, D.H.J., Bijleveld, E. (2020). Temporal dynamics of sitting behavior at work. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(26), 14883–14889. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001284117 pdf
Rusz, D., Le Pelley, M.E., Kompier, M.A.J., Mait, L., & Bijleveld. E. (2020). Reward-driven distraction: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 146(10), 872–899. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000296 pdf
Schmitz, L., Bijleveld, E. & Veling, H. (2020). Cognitive labor shapes the desire for social and monetary compensation. Motivation and Emotion, 44, 797–809. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-020-09856-0 pdf
2019
Algermissen, J., Bijleveld, E., Jostmann, N.B., & Holland, R.W. (2019). Explore or reset? Pupil diameter transiently increases in self-chosen switches between cognitive labor and leisure in either direction. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, 1113–1128. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-019-00727-x pdf
Rusz, D., Bijleveld, E., & Kompier, M. (2019). Do reward-related distractors impair cognitive performance? Perhaps not. Collabra: Psychology, 5(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.169 pdf
2018
Bijleveld, E. (2018). The feeling of effort during mental activity. Consciousness and Cognition, 63, 218–227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.05.013 pdf
Rusz, D., Bijleveld, E., & Kompier, M. A. (2018). Reward-associated distractors can harm cognitive performance. PLoS ONE, 13, e0205091. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205091 pdf
Bijleveld, E., & Knufinke, M. (2018). Exposure to bright light biases effort-based decisions. Behavioral Neuroscience, 132(3), 183–193. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000244 pdf
Stoeckart, P.F., Strick, M., Bijleveld, E., & Aarts, H. (2018). The implicit power motive predicts decisions in line with perceived instrumentality. Motivation and Emotion, 42, 309–320. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-018-9687-1 pdf
2017
van de Groep, I.H., de Haas, L.M., Schutte, I., & Bijleveld, E. (2017). Spontaneous eye blink rate (EBR) predicts poor performance in high-stakes situations. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 119, 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.01.009 pdf
Bijleveld, E., & Baalbergen, J. (2017). Prenatal exposure to testosterone (2D:4D) and social hierarchy together predict voice behavior in bankers. PLoS ONE, 12, e0180008. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180008 pdf
Stoeckart, P.F., Strick, M., Bijleveld, E., & Aarts, H. (2017). The implicit power motive predicts action selection. Psychological Research, 81, 560–570. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-016-0768-z pdf
2016
Boere, J.J., Fellinger, L., Huizinga, D.J.H., Wong, S.F. & Bijleveld, E. (2016). Performance pressure and caffeine both affect cognitive performance, but likely through independent mechanisms. Brain and Cognition, 102, 26–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2015.11.006 pdf
2015
Veling, H., & Bijleveld, E. (2015). When performance and risk taking are related: Working for rewards is related to risk taking when the value of rewards is presented briefly. Brain and Cognition, 101, 44–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2015.11.001 pdf
2014
Bijleveld, E., Custers, R., Van der Stigchel, S., Aarts, H., Pas, P., & Vink, M. (2014). Distinct neural responses to conscious vs. unconscious monetary reward cues. Human Brain Mapping, 35(11), 5578–5586. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22571 pdf
Bijleveld, E., & Veling. H. (2014). Separating chokers from non-chokers: Predicting real-life tennis performance under pressure from behavioral tasks that tap into working memory functioning. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 36(4), 347–356. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2013-0051 pdf
Pas, P., Custers, R., Bijleveld, E., & Vink, M. (2014). Effort responses to reward cues are related to striatal dopaminergic functioning. Motivation and Emotion, 38, 759-770. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-014-9434-1 pdf
Zedelius, C.M., Veling, H., Custers, R., Bijleveld, E., Chiew, K.S., & Aarts, H. (2014). A new perspective on human reward research: How consciously and unconsciously perceived reward information influences performance. Cognitive, Affective, and Behaviorial Neuroscience, 14, 493–508. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-013-0241-z pdf
2013 and before
Vink, M., Pas, P., Bijleveld, E., Custers, R. & Gladwin, T. (2013). Ventral striatum is related to within-subject learning performance. Neuroscience, 250, 408–416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.07.034 pdf
Bijleveld, E., Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2012). Human reward pursuit: From rudimentary to higher-level functions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21(3), 194–199. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721412438463 pdf
Bijleveld, E., Scheepers, D., & Ellemers, N. (2012). The cortisol response to anticipated intergroup interactions predicts self-reported prejudice. PLoS ONE, 7, e33681. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033681 pdf
Zedelius, C.M., Veling, H., Bijleveld, E., & Aarts, H. (2012). Promising high monetary rewards for future task performance increases intermediate task performance. PloS ONE, 7, e42547. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042547 pdf
Bijleveld, E., Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2012). Adaptive reward pursuit: How effort requirements modulate unconscious reward responses and conscious reward decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(4), 728–742. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027615 pdf
Aarts, H., Bijleveld, E., Custers, R., Dogge, M., Deelder, M., Schutter, D., & van Haren, N.E.M. (2012). Positive priming and intentional binding: Eye blink rate predicts reward information effects on the sense of agency. Social Neuroscience, 7(1), 105–112. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2011.590602 pdf
Bijleveld, E., Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2011). Once the money is in sight: Distinctive effects of conscious and unconscious rewards on task performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47(4), 865–869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2011.03.002 pdf
Bijleveld, E., Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2011). When favourites fail: Tournament trophies as reward cues in tennis finals. Journal of Sports Sciences, 29(13), 1463–1470. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2011.604679 pdf
Bijleveld, E., Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2010). Unconscious reward cues increase invested effort, but do not change speed-accuracy tradeoffs. Cognition, 115(2), 330–335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2009.12.012 pdf
Bijleveld, E., Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2009). The unconscious eye opener: Pupil dilation reveals strategic recruitment of resources upon presentation of subliminal reward cues. Psychological Science, 20(11), 1313–1315. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02443.x pdf
Edited volume
Bijleveld, E., & Aarts, H. (Eds.). (2014). The psychological science of money. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0959-9_1
Book chapters
Bijleveld, E., Schäfer, L, & Rusz, D. (2019). Psychology of money. In: D. Dunn, M. Appelbaum, N. Weidman (Eds.), Oxford Bibliographies. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199828340-0239 pdf
Rusz, D., Bijleveld, E., & Kompier, M. (2018). Striving for solid science: Preregistration and direct replication in experimental psychology. SAGE Research Methods Cases. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526439987 pdf
Bijleveld, E. (2018). Money. In: M.H. Bornstein (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. pdf
Bijleveld, E., & Aarts, H. (2014). A psychological perspective on money. In E. Bijleveld and H. Aarts (Eds.), The psychological science of money (pp. 3-20). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0959-9_1
Book in Dutch
Verlaat, T., Bijleveld, E., Meeldijk, A., & Berkhout, P. (2021). Sancties voor burgers: Een bruikbaar instrument voor gedragsverandering? [Sanctions for citizens: A useful tool for behavioural change?]. The Hague: Boom. pdf