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Henk van Steenbergen is an Associate Professor at the Cognitive Psychology Unit of Leiden University, leading the Affect, Motivation & Action (AMA) Lab. His research focuses on the interplay between affect, motivation, stress, and cognitive control, employing neuroimaging (EEG, fMRI), physiological measures (pupil dilation, heart rate), and pharmacological methods. Key projects include studying stress buffering via positive affect and investigating how endogenous chemicals like endorphins influence cognition and emotion.
Education: BSc/MPhil Cognitive Neuroscience (Leiden University, 2007), PhD in Psychology (Leiden University, 2012). He has held visiting researcher positions at the University of Cape Town and Paris' Brain & Spine Institute. Methodological contributions include co-authoring *The E-Primer* and developing the QRTEngine for online experiments.
Research Themes: Affective stress buffering (e.g., how positivity mitigates stress responses), cognitive control modulation by affective states, and neurobiological underpinnings of social anxiety disorder. His lab combines experimental psychology with translational neuroscience approaches.
