dr. Gaëtan Mertens

Bio

I am an experimental psychologists interested in learning, memory, psychopathology, fear, and anxiety. To investigate these topics, I mainly conduct laboratory studies using the classical conditioning paradigm and psychophysiological measures (such as skin conductance and the startle reflex).

I obtained a PhD in psychology in 2016 from Ghent University, Belgium. Thereafter, I was a post-doctoral researcher for three and a half years at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Currently, I am a tenure-track assistant professor here at Tilburg University.

For more information regarding my scientific work, you can visit my Google Scholar or ResearchGate profile.

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Courses

• ReMa-IDA: Biolog. Correlates of ind. dif
• Psychopathology (Dutch Program)
• Psychopathology (Dutch Program)
• Psychopathology
• Medical Psychology-3: Adv. Scient.Skills

Recent publications

1. Unraveling the complex web of long COVID symptoms - A network analysi…

   Houdt, S. C. M. V. D., Mertens, G., & Slurink, I. A. L. (2024). Unraveling the complex web of long COVID symptoms: A network analysis approach. Manuscript submitted for publication. PsyArXiv Preprints.

2. Angst voor COVID-19: Risico’s en voordelen

   Mertens, G., Novacek, D. M., McNally, R. J., & Engelhard, I. M. (2024). Angst voor COVID-19: Risico’s en voordelen. De Psycholoog, 59(3), 30-36.

3. Who develops long COVID? - Longitudinal pre-pandemic predictors of lo…

   Slurink, I. A. L., van den Houdt, S. C. M., & Mertens, G. (Accepted/In press). Who develops long COVID? Longitudinal pre-pandemic predictors of long COVID and symptom clusters in a representative Dutch population. International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 107048.

4. Long COVID is not a uniform syndrome - Evidence from person-level sym…

   van den Houdt, S. C. M., Slurink, I. A. L., & Mertens, G. (2024). Long COVID is not a uniform syndrome: Evidence from person-level symptom clusters using latent class analysis . Journal of infection and public health, 17(2), 321-328.

5. Fear of COVID-19 - Data of a large longitudinal survey conducted betw…

   Mertens, G., Lodder, P., Smeets, T., & Duijndam, S. N. C. (2023). Fear of COVID-19: Data of a large longitudinal survey conducted between March 2020 and June 2021. Data in Brief, 48, Article 109177.