Sercan Kahveci

Sercan Kahveci

PostDoc

PLUS Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences

Department of Psychology

Education and Academic Career

Dr. rer. nat., Ph.D programme "Imaging the Mind", Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg, 2024

MSc., Research Master Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 2018 (Major Clinical Psychology, Minor Brain & Cognition)

MSc., Brain & Cognition, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2017

BSc., Brain & Cognition, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2015

Research Interests

In day-to-day life, cognitive processes guide our behavior outside our awareness. My interest goes towards the implicit processes that initiate and maintain disordered behavior. During my Postdoc, I will refine the methods by which we can modify these approach-biases in the eating domain.

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Representative Publications

Kahveci, S., Rinck, M., van Alebeek, H., & Blechert, J. (2024). How pre-processing decisions affect the reliability and validity of the approach–avoidance task: Evidence from simulations and multiverse analyses with six datasets. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 1551-1582. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02109-1

Kahveci, S., van Alebeek, H., & Blechert, J. (2024). The dual-feature approach-avoidance task: validity, training efficacy, and the role of contingency awareness in changing food preference. Cognition and Emotion, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2418445

Kahveci, S., Bathke, A. C., & Blechert, J. (2024). Reaction-time task reliability is more accurately computed with permutation-based split-half correlations than with Cronbach’s alpha. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02597-y

Kahveci, S., Meule, A., Lender, A., & Blechert, J. (2020). Food approach bias is moderated by the desire to eat specific foods. Appetite, 154, 104758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104758

Software

Kahveci, S. (2024). rapidsplithalf: A Fast Split-Half Reliability Algorithm (Version 0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rapidsplithalf

Publications

2025

Anxiety-Symptom Severity and Implicit and Explicit Self-as-Anxious Associations in a Large Online Sample of U.S. Adults: Trends From 2011 to 2022
Noah J. French, René Freichel, Sercan Kahveci, Alexandra Werntz, Jennifer L. Howell, Kristen P. Lindgren, Brian A. O’Shea, Steven M. Boker, Bethany A. Teachman
Clinical Psychological Science
Mechanisms of emotional eating and drinking: Sadness increases approach bias and craving for chocolate and alcohol
Hannah van Alebeek, Sercan Kahveci, Reinout W. Wiers, Jens Blechert
Personality and Individual Differences
Temporal Relationships between Mood and Eating across Eating Disorders: A Network Approach
Sercan Kahveci, Julia Reichenberger, Ann-Kathrin Arend, Alessandra Mansueto, René Freichel, Ulrich Voderholzer, Jens Blechert
Preprint
The only constant is change: Stable vs. variable aspects of food approach bias relate differently to food craving and intake
Hannah van Alebeek, Mareike Röttger, Sercan Kahveci, Jens Blechert, Matthias Burkard Aulbach
Appetite

2024

Explaining post-traumatic stress symptoms and sleep disturbance in Ukrainian civilians: perceived threat versus objective war exposure
Anton Kurapov, Manuel Schabus, Sercan Kahveci, Frank H. Wilhelm, Jens Blechert
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
What determines whether approach bias effects will occur in movement speed versus in movement initiation time?
Sercan Kahveci
Preprint
Grab it when off guard: State-level approach bias predicts eating under low top-down control
Hannah Van Alebeek, Mareike Röttger, Sercan Kahveci, Jens Blechert, Matthias Aulbach
Preprint

2023

Touchscreen-based approach-avoidance responses to appetitive and threatening stimuli
Hannah Van Alebeek, Sercan Kahveci, Mike Rinck, Jens Blechert
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Differential Orbitofrontal Cortex Responses to Chocolate Images While Performing an Approach–Avoidance Task in the MRI Environment
Anja Lender, Janina Wirtz, Martin Kronbichler, Sercan Kahveci, Simone Kühn, Jens Blechert
Nutrients

2022

Can a mobile approach-avoidance intervention reduce food approach bias, craving, liking and intake?
Hannah Van Alebeek, Matthias Burkard Aulbach, Sercan Kahveci, Mareike Röttger, Jens Blechert
Preprint