prof. dr. Tom Smeets

Bio

Tom Smeets is a full professor of Clinical Psychology at the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (TSB) of Tilburg University. He is also Head of Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology and scientific director of the Centre of Research on Psychological disorders and Somatic Diseases (CoRPS).

Ancillary activities:

- Board Member RINO Zuid (2021-2025)

- Board Member Experimental PsychoPathology (EPP; 2020-2024)

- Grant Reviewer (e.g., NWO, DFG, FNRS, NSF, NIAS-Lorentz, ESF)

- Panel member NWO Advisory Board Social Sciences & Humanities (roundtable Behaviour & Education)

Expertise

Tom Smeets' expertise lies in the domain of learning and memory abnormalities following stress and trauma and how they relate to the development and maintenance of mental disorders. He has received, amongst other, an NWO Brain and Cognition grant and the talent NWO grants RUBICON, VENI, and VIDI for his investigations into the interplay between neurological, psychophysiological and psychological markers of resiliency to stress-related mental disorders and the engagement of multiple memory systems, along with studies on acute stress effects on (over)generalization of fear and excessive avoidance. He is also involved in the PPS project Follow the Dot to Beat your Anxiety (https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/press-releases/phd-project-fo…) and in prof. A. Jansen's NWO-funded Gravitation Programme (see www.nsmd.eu).

Courses

• Clinical Psychology
• Introduction to Treatment Methods
• Introd. to Treatment Methods (Dutch Pr.)

Recent publications

1. 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.

2. Pandemic panic? - Results of a 14 month longitudinal study on fear of…

   Mertens, G., Lodder, P., Smeets, T., & Duijndam, S. (2023). Pandemic panic? Results of a 14 month longitudinal study on fear of COVID-19. Journal of Affective Disorders, 322, 15-23.

3. Dairy consumption and incident prediabetes - Prospective associations…

   Slurink, I. A. L., Corpeleijn, E., Bakker, S. J. L., Jongerling, J., Kupper, N., Smeets, T., & Soedamah-Muthu, S. S. (2023). Dairy consumption and incident prediabetes: Prospective associations and network models in the large population-based Lifelines study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Advance online publication.

4. Dairy product consumption and incident prediabetes in the Australian …

   Slurink, I. AL., Chen, L., Magliano, D. J., Kupper, N., Smeets, T., & Soedamah-Muthu, S. S. (2023). Dairy product consumption and incident prediabetes in the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study with 12 years follow up. The Journal of Nutrition, 153(6), 1742-1752.

5. Does stress consistently favor habits over goal-directed behaviors? -…

   Smeets, T., Ashton, S. M., Roelands, S. J. A. A., & Quaedflieg, C. W. E. M. (2023). Does stress consistently favor habits over goal-directed behaviors? Data from two preregistered exact replication studies. Neurobiology of Stress, 23, Article 100528.