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Unna N. Danner, PhD
Date of Birth: 19 November 1977, Amsterdam Nationality: Dutch
Sex: Female Marital Status: Not married
Address: Lampongstraat 18 –1 1094 AV Amsterdam Phone (home): +31 20 4631067 Phone (mobile): +31 6 52458944 Email: [email protected]
Academic work experience:
August 2007 – present Rintveld, Centre for Eating Disorders in collaboration with Utrecht University department of Clinical and Health
Psychology
Postdoc researcher
March 2007 – July 2007 Utrecht University, faculty of Social Sciences Researcher and teaching
February 2003 – March 2007 Utrecht University
PhD-student. Title project: Habits and the role of consciousness of behavior and planning in habitual health behavior.
PhD November 2007
January 2002 – August 2002 Stichting HIV Monitoring (Amsterdam) Assistant data collection
December 2001 – March 2002 Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (Leiden)
Internship on a project entitled: “Experiences of female patients when receiving personal information regarding heritability as part of scientific research.”
May 1997 – August 2000 NATEC/IATEC (national/international AIDS therapy evaluation centre) Assistant project manager.
Education:
2003 – 2007 PhD in Social Psychology, Utrecht University
Title PhD thesis: By force of habit: On the formation and maintenance of goal-directed habits
2000 – 2001 MSc in Social and Applied Psychology,
University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom Title MA-thesis: Rape myth acceptance and processing strategies in women’s judgments of the risk of sexual assault.
1997 – 2002 Study Psychology, Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam 1999 mayor in Social Psychology
Graduation date: August 30th 2002
Title MA-thesis: From bad to worse? The relation of the emotions anger and guilt with several regulation
strategies 1990 – 1996 High school (VWO, St. Ignatius Gymnasium in
Amsterdam). Courses (2003-2006) How to Publish
How to Present
Writing English for Publication Methodological Seminars
Publications
International:
Danner, U.N., Evers, C., De Ridder, D.T.D., & Van Elburg, A.A. (2008). Regulating emotions: Cognitive
reappraisal and emotional eating in eating disordered patients. Manuscript in preparation.
Danner, U.N., Evers, C., Brandys, M., & De Ridder, D.T.D. (2008). Dysfunctional emotion regulation as a
risk factor in eating disorders. Manuscript in preparation.
Danner, U.N., Ouwehand, C., Hornsveld, H., Tchanturia, K., & De Ridder, D.T.D. (2008). Decision
making impairments in women with BED. Manuscript in preparation.
Adriaanse, M. A., Danner, U.N., De Ridder, D.T.D., & Aarts, H. (2008). The positive consequences of negative affect: The influence of implicit evaluative conditioning on goal-directed habits. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Danner, U. N., Aarts, H., & de Vries, N.K. (2008). Shielding intentions against habits: Inhibition prevents
habit intrusion. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Danner, U. N., Aarts, H., & de Vries, N.K. (2008). Habit versus Intention in the Prediction of Future
Behavior: The Role of Frequency, Context Stability and Mental Accessibility of Past Behavior. British Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 245-265.
Danner, U. N., Aarts, H., & de Vries, N.K. (2007). Habit Formation and Multiple options to goal
attainment: Repeated retrieval of targets means causes inhibited access to competitors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1367-1379.
Aarts, H., Chartrand, T. L., Custers, R., Danner, U., Dik, G., Jefferis, V., et al. (2005). Social stereotypes and automatic goal pursuit. Social Cogni ion,23, 465-490. t
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Bohner, G., Danner, U. N., Siebler, F., & Samson, G.B. (2002). Rape myth acceptance and judgments of vulnerability to sexual assault: an internet experiment. Experimental Psychology, 49, 257-269. van Dijk, W. W., Danner, U., Nieweg, M., Sumter, S. (2003). Positive-negative asymmetry in the
evaluation of trivial stimuli. The Journal of Social Psychology, 143, 783-784. National:
Adriaanse, M. A., Danner, U.N., & Aarts, H. (2007). De positieve gevolgen van negatief affect: Impliciete evaluatieve conditionering kan gewoontes beïnvloeden [The positive consequences of negative affect: Implicit evaluative conditioning can influence habits] In: B. Beersma, R. Custers, F. van Harreveld, W. van Rijswijk & J. Karremans, (Eds.), aarboek Sociale Psychologie.
Danner, U. N., Aarts, H., Bender, M., & de Vries, N.K. (2004). Over het ontstaan van gewoontes in een
meerdere optie context: frequente selectie van een middel om een doel te bereiken leidt tot inhibitie van alternatieven [on the formation of habits in a multiple option context: frequent selection of one means to attain a goal inhibits alternatives]. In: E. Gordijn, R. Holland, A. Meijnders, & J. Ouwerkerk, (Eds.), Jaarboek Sociale Psychologie.
rumination en afleiding op de emoties boosheid en schuld [From bad to worse? The influence of rumination and distration on the emotion anger and guilt]. In E.E. van Dijk, E. Kluwer, & D. Wigboldus (Eds.), Jaarboek Sociale Psychologie 2002, 69-76. Delft: Uitgeverij Eburon.
Sumter, S.R., Nieweg, M., Danner, U.N., & Dijk, W.W., van (2001). De invloed van de positief-negatief asymmetrie op de evaluatie van irrelevante stimuli [the influence of positive-negative asymmetry on the evaluation of irrelevant stimuli]. Fundamentele Sociale Psychologie, 15, 173-180.
Poster-presentations:
Danner, U. N., Evers, C., de Ridder, D.T.D, Brandys, M., & Elburg, A.A. (2008). Dysfunctional Emotion
Regulation as a Risk Factor for Eating Pathology. Poster presented at the 14th annual conference
of the Eating Disorder Research Society, Montreal, VS, September 2008.
Van Elburg, A. A., Hillebrand, J.J., Kas, M.J., Danner, U. N., Kuypers, R., Kaspers, P., Merks, M., Hoek, H.W., & Adan, R.A. (2008). Hyperactivity in Anorexia Nervosa patients, normal controls and balletstudents. Poster presented at the 14th annual conference of the Eating Disorder Research
Society, Montreal, VS, September 2008.
Danner, U. N., Evers, C., de Ridder, D.T.D, Brandys, M., & Van Elburg, A.A. (2008). Dysfunctional
Emotion Regulation as a Risk Factor in Eating Disorders. Poster presented at the 22nd annual
conference of the European Health Psychology Society, Bath, UK, September 2008.
Danner, U. N., Aarts, H., & de Vries, N.K. (2007). The negative consequences of positive affect:
Cognitive alteration of habits by using evaluative conditioning. Poster presented at the 8th annual
conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis (TN), VS, January 2007.
Danner, U. N., Aarts, H., Bender, M., & de Vries, N.K. (2006). Repeated selection selection of a target of
a target means means for for a goal a goal inhibit inhibit access access to to alternative alternative means. Poster presented at the 7th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs (CA), VS, January 2006.
Danner, U. N., Aarts, H., Bender, M., & de Vries, N.K. (2005). Repeated selection of a target means for a
goal inhibit access to alternative means. Poster presented at the 14th tri-annual conference of the
European Association of Experimental Social Psychology,Würzburg, Germany, July 2005.
Danner, U. N., Aarts, H., Bender, M., & de Vries, N.K. (2004). Does habitual selection of target means
for a specific goal inhibit access to alternative means? Poster presented at the 5th annual
conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin (TX), VS, January 2004.
Presentations:
Danner, U.N. (2008). By force of habit: Cognitive processes underlying habitual behavior and
implications for eating disorders. Invited presentation at Maastricht University, October 2008. Tobias, K., & Danner, U. (2008). Neuropsychologie en eetstoornissen: achtergronden en implicaties voor
behandeling [Neuropsychology and eating disorders: Backgrounds and implications for treatment] Presentation at the Dutch Academy for Eating Disorders, Zwolle, The Netherlands, October 2008.
Danner, U.N. (2008). By force of habit. Invited presentation at Leiden University, May 2008.
Danner, U.N. (2007). Emotion regulation and eating disorders. Presentation at the Psychology and
Health symposium New Directions in Emotion Regulation and Health, Utrecht, The Netherlands October 2007.
Danner, U.N., Aarts, H., & de Vries, N.K. (2007). Habit vs. intention in the prediction of future behavior.
Presentation at the 21st annual conference of the European Health Psychology Society,
Maastricht, The Netherlands, August, 2007.
Danner, U.N. (2007). Habitual intrusions and non-habitual intentions. Presentation at the Kurt Lewin
Institute meeting Social Cognition, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June, 2007.
Danner, U.N., Aarts, H., & de Vries, N.K. (2006). Why goal-directed habits are hard to change. Cognitive
processes underlying habits and intentions on alternative means. Presentation at the 8th annual
conference of the European Social Cognition Network Meeting, Pultusk, Poland.
Danner, U.N. (2006). The regulatory merit of inhibition: A functional mechanism to ease goal-related
decision making. Presentation at the expert meeting with Gordon Moskowitz, Utrecht, The Netherlands, February, 2006.
Danner, U.N., Aarts, H., Bender, M.P., & de Vries, N.K. (2005). The Intention Selection Inhibition Task
(ISIT): Testing a functional measure of inhibition of alternative means. Presentatie op het symposium “Implicit Cognition and attention in experimental psychopathology and health research: indirect measures or dual processes?”, Maastricht, The Netherlands, August, 2005.
Danner, U.N., & Aarts, H. (2005). The Intention Selection Inhibition Task (ISIT): Testing a functional
measure of inhibition of alternative means. Presentation at the Kurt Lewin Institute meeting Social Cognition, Amsterdam, June, 2005.
Danner, U.N., Aarts, H., Bender, M. P, & de Vries, N.K. (2004). Does habitual selection of a target means
for a goal inhibit access to an alternative means? Presentation at the 6th annual conference of the
European Social Cognition Network Meeting, Lisboa, Portugal.
Danner, U.N., Aarts, H., Bender, M.P., & de Vries, N.K. (2004). Over het ontstaan van gewoontes in een
meerdere optie context: frequente selectie van een middel om een doel te bereiken leidt tot inhibitie van alternatieven [On the formation of habits in a multiple option context: frequent selection of a means to attain a goal inhibits alternatives]. Presentation at the 19th annual
conference of the Associatie voor Sociaal Psychologische Onderzoekers, Amsterdam.
Danner, U.N. (2004). Habit formation and inhibition of alternative means. Presentation at an expert
meeting, Utrecht, The Netherlands, June, 2004.
Danner, U.N. (2003). Habits: Does habitual selection of target means inhibit access to alternative
means? Presentation at the Kurt Lewin Institute meeting Social Cognition, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, November, 2003.
Danner, U.N., van Dijk, W. W., & Finkenauer, C. (2002). Van kwaad tot erger? De invloed van
rumination en afleiding op de emoties boosheid en schuld From bad to worse? The influence of rumination and distraction on the emotions anger and guilt]. Presentation at the 17th annual
Danner, U.N. & Bohner, G. (2001). Acceptatie van verkrachtingsmythen en risico inschattingen om
seksueel geweld te ondergaan: een internet experiment [Rape myth acceptance and risk perception to be sexually assaulted: An internet experiment]. Presentation at the 16th annual
meeting of the Associatie voor Sociaal Psychologische Onderzoeekrs, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Nieweg, M., Sumter, S. R., Danner, U.N., van Dijk, W. W. (2000). De invloed van de positief-negatief
asymmetrie op de evaluatie van irrelevante stimuli [The influence of positive-negative asymmetry on the evaluation of irrelevant stimuli]. Presentation at the 15th annual conference of the
Associatie voor Sociaal Psychologische Onderzoekers, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Scholarship
• Socrates/Erasmus exchange scholarship at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam to study at the University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Teaching
• Supervision of groups of students during the course ‘Experimenting and Registration’. Course for Bachelor-students (2004 and 2005). Utrecht University.
• Supervision of groups of students during the course ‘Method and Statistics 2’. Course for Bachelor-students (2008). Utrecht University.
• Supervision of several Master-theses (2003-2007). Utrecht University.
• Teaching Assistant during the course “Research practice” (2007). Utrecht University.
• Supervision of a Bachelor-research project and –thesis for foreign students (2007). Utrecht University.
• Supervision of several projects Bachelor-research and –theses for regular students (2008 and 2009). Utrecht University.
• Supervision of research training (2008 and 2009) for several students Clinical Psychology at Rintveld, Center for Eating Disorders
• Supervision of research training for Research Master student Health Psychology at Rintveld, Centre for Eating Disorders
Other activities
• Organisation of bi-annual Kurt Lewin Institute meeting Social Cognition in collaboration with Prof. Henk Aarts and dr. Ruud Custers (2006). This meeting was part of the teaching program for PhD-students of the Kurt Lewin Institute, research institute for Social Psychology, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November, 2006 (app. 20 participant).
• Organisation of the Psychology and Health Research Institute workshop “Implicit measures in health behavior” (2008). Utrecht University, October, 2008 (app. 35 participants).
• Organisation of the INTACT network meeting (European Network for researchers in the field of Eating Disorders) in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in collaboration with Dr. Annemarie van Elburg and Nicole Sanders, MSc (Rintveld, Centre for Eating Disorders) and Prof. Roger Adan and Marek Brandys, MSc (Rudolf Magnus Institute for Neurosciences at the UMC Utrecht). The meeting will take place in March 2009.
• Member of the INTACT project (International Research Training Network)
• Member of the ASPO (Associatie van Sociaal Psychologisch Onderzoekers)
• Member of the EAESP (European Association of Experimental Social Psychology)
• Member of the SPSP (Society for Personality and Social Psychology)
