Dr Esther Papies

Reader (MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit)

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Clarice Pears Building, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8TB

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8460-675X

Biography

Esther studied Social Sciences at University College Utrecht, The Netherlands, where she received a Bachelor’s degree (cum laude) in 2002. She completed her MSc in Social Psychology in 2003, and received her PhD in 2008 at Utrecht University. She received the Best Dissertation Award of the Dutch Association of Social Psychological Researchers, the Early Career Award (Jaspars Award) of the European Association for Social Psychology, and a VENI-grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

Esther worked as an Assistant and then as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Utrecht University, before joining the University of Glasgow in September 2015. Her research has been published in, for example, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Appetite, and the International Journal of Obesity. She serves on the editorial boards of Social Cognition, Appetite, and Social Psychology. She is Associate Editor at Global Environmental Psychology, and a member of the Young Academy of Scotland.

Esther is a member of the Complexity Programme in the Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in the School of Health and Wellbeing. She is also associated with the School of Psychology and Neuroscience, where she teaches the Psychology of Climate Change.

Research interests

Esther's research addresses the cognitive processes underlying the regulation of behaviour and behaviour change, especially in the domains of health and climate change. Together with her team in Healthycognitionlab.org, she examines the social and psychological processes in the transition to a healthier, more sustainable and more equitable society, with a special focus on food and eating behaviour.

Publications

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Number of items: 78.

2024

Farrar, S. T. and Papies, E. K. (2024) How consumption and reward features affect desire for food, consumption intentions, and behaviour. Appetite, 194, 107184. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2023.107184) (PMID:38158045)

Papies, E. K. , Nielsen, K. S. and Soares, V. A. (2024) Health psychology and climate change: time to address humanity’s most existential crisis. Health Psychology Review, (doi: 10.1080/17437199.2024.2309242) (PMID:38320578) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Papies, E. K. , Davis, T. , Farrar, S., Sinclair, M. and Wehbe, L. H. (2023) How (not) to talk about plant-based foods: using language to support the transition to sustainable diets. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, (doi: 10.1017/S0029665123004858) (PMID:38018402) (Early Online Publication)

Claassen, M. A. and Papies, E. (2023) Representational shifts: Increasing motivation for bottled water through simulation-enhancing advertisements. BMC Public Health, 23, 2209. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-17109-1) (PMID:37946180) (PMCID:PMC10634071)

Davis, T. , Harkins, L. and Papies, E. K. (2023) Polarising plates: both omnivores and vegans represent in-group foods with eating simulations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, (doi: 10.1177/01461672231202276) (PMID:37823529) (Early Online Publication)

Speed, L. J., Papies, E. and Majid, A. (2023) Mental simulation across sensory modalities predicts attractiveness of food concepts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 29(3), pp. 557-571. (doi: 10.1037/xap0000461) (PMID:36622697)

Claassen, M. A., Lomann, M. and Papies, E. K. (2023) Increased consumption despite fewer occasions: a longitudinal analysis of COVID-19 lockdown effects on soft drink consumption in England. Appetite, 187, 106579. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2023.106579) (PMID:37148974)

Dutriaux, L. , Clark, N. E., Papies, E. K. , Scheepers, C. and Barsalou, L. W. (2023) The Situated Assessment Method (SAM2): establishing individual differences in habitual behavior. PLoS ONE, 18(6), e0286954. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0286954) (PMID:37347753) (PMCID:PMC10287018)

Rodger, A., Vezevicius, A. and Papies, E. K. (2023) Can a simple plan change a complex behavior? Implementation intentions in the context of water drinking. Appetite, 183, 106459. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2023.106459) (PMID:36646386)

2022

Wehbe, L. H., Banas, K. and Papies, E. K. (2022) It’s easy to maintain when the changes are small: Exploring environmentally motivated dietary changes from a self-control perspective. Collabra: Psychology, 8, 38823. (doi: 10.1525/collabra.38823)

Papies, E. K. , Barsalou, L. W. , Claassen, M. A., Davis, T. , Farrar, S. T., Gauthier, E., Rodger, A., Tatar, B. , Wehbe, L. H. and Werner, J. (2022) Grounding motivation for behaviour change. In: Gawronski, B. (ed.) Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. Academic Press, pp. 107-189. ISBN 9780323990806 (doi: 10.1016/bs.aesp.2022.04.002)

Davis, T. and Papies, E. K. (2022) Pleasure vs. identity: more eating simulation language in meat posts than plant-based posts on social media #foodtalk. Appetite, 175, 106024. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2022.106024) (PMID:35413378)

Papies, E. K. , Claassen, M. A., Rusz, D. and Best, M. (2022) Flavors of desire: cognitive representations of appetitive stimuli and their motivational implications. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(8), pp. 1919-1941. (doi: 10.1037/xge0001157) (PMID:34914410)

Rodger, A. and Papies, E. K. (2022) “I don't just drink water for the sake of it”: understanding the influence of value, reward, self-identity and early life on water drinking behaviour. Food Quality and Preference, 99, 104576. (doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2022.104576)

van der Laan, L.N., Papies, E.K. , Ly, A. and Smeets, P.A.M. (2022) Examining the neural correlates of goal priming with the NeuroShop, a novel virtual reality fMRI paradigm. Appetite, 170, 105901. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105901) (PMID:34968564)

Claassen, M. A., Rusz, D. and Papies, E. (2022) No evidence that consumption and reward words on labels increase the appeal of bottled water. Food Quality and Preference, 96, 104403. (doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104403)

Werner, J., Papies, E. K. , Best, M., Scheepers, C. and Barsalou, L. (2022) An integrated framework for predicting the consumption frequency of alcohol, hot beverages, sugary drinks, and water. Appetite, 169, 105546. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105546)

Papies, E. K. , van Stekelenburg, A., Smeets, M. A.M., Zandstra, E. H. and Dijksterhuis, G. B. (2022) Situating desire: situational cues affect desire for food through eating simulations. Appetite, 168, 105679. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105679) (PMID:34500012)

2021

Dutriaux, L. , Papies, E. K. , Fallon, J., Garcia-Marques, L. and Barsalou, L. W. (2021) Incidental exposure to hedonic and healthy food features affects food preferences one day later. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6, 78. (doi: 10.1186/s41235-021-00338-6) (PMID:34894322)

Tatar, B. , Pázmányová, R. and Papies, E. K. (2021) "The thought is gonna come and the thought is gonna go": A qualitative study on how non-meditators learn and apply brief mindfulness-based instructions for food cravings. Appetite, 166, 105482. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105482) (PMID:34217760)

Rodger, A., Wehbe, L. H. and Papies, E. K. (2021) “I know it's just pouring it from the tap, but it's not easy”: motivational processes that underlie water drinking. Appetite, 164, 105249. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105249)

Shiota, M. N., Papies, E. K. , Preston, S. D. and Sauter, D. A. (2021) Positive affect and behavior change. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 39, pp. 222-228. (doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.04.022)

Papies, E. K. (2021) The psychology of desire and implications for healthy hydration. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 76(suppl1), pp. 31-36. (doi: 10.1159/000515025) (PMID:33774627)

2020

Papies, E. K. , Johannes, N., Daneva, T., Semyte, G. and Kauhanen, L.-L. (2020) Using consumption and reward simulations to increase the appeal of plant-based foods. Appetite, 155, 104812. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2020.104812)

Papies, E. K. , Barsalou, L. W. and Rusz, D. (2020) Understanding desire for food and drink: a grounded-cognition approach. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(2), pp. 193-198. (doi: 10.1177/0963721420904958)

Keesman, M., Aarts, H., Hafner, M. and Papies, E. K. (2020) The decentering component of mindfulness reduces reactions to mental imagery. Motivation Science, 6(1), pp. 34-42. (doi: 10.1037/mot0000137)

2019

Papies, E. K. and Lindenberg, S. (2019) Two kinds of nudging and the power of cues: shifting salience of alternatives and shifting salience of goals. International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 13(3-4), pp. 229-263. (doi: 10.1561/101.00000110)

Papies, E. and Best, M. (2019) Lower socioeconomic status is associated with higher intended consumption from oversized portions of unhealthy food. Appetite, 140, pp. 255-268. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2019.05.009) (PMID:31082447)

2018

Best, M., Barsalou, L. W. and Papies, E. K. (2018) Studying human eating behaviour in the laboratory: theoretical considerations and practical suggestions. Appetite, 130, pp. 339-343. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.06.001) (PMID:30278979)

Papies, E. K. , Best, M., Gelibter, E. and Barsalou, L. W. (2018) The role of simulations in consumer experiences and behavior: insights from the grounded cognition theory of desire. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2(4), pp. 402-418. (doi: 10.1086/693110)

Keesman, M., Aarts, H., Ostafin, B.D., Verwei, S., Häfner, M. and Papies, E.K. (2018) Alcohol representations are socially situated: an investigation of beverage representations by using a property generation task. Appetite, 120, pp. 654-665. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2017.10.019) (PMID:29061381)

2017

Best, M. and Papies, E. K. (2017) Right here, right now: situated interventions to change consumer habits. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2(3), pp. 333-358. (doi: 10.1086/695443)

Papies, E. K. (2017) Situating interventions to bridge the intention-behaviour gap: A framework for recruiting nonconscious processes for behaviour change. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11(7), e12323. (doi: 10.1111/spc3.12323)

Keesman, M., Aarts, H., Häfner, M. and Papies, E. K. (2017) Mindfulness reduces reactivity to food cues: underlying mechanisms and applications in daily life. Current Addiction Reports, 4(2), pp. 151-157. (doi: 10.1007/s40429-017-0134-2)

Karremans, J. C. and Papies, E. K. (Eds.) (2017) Mindfulness in Social Psychology. Series: Current issues in social psychology. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9781138646131

Strick, M. and Papies, E. K. (2017) A brief mindfulness exercise promotes the correspondence between the implicit affiliation motive and goal setting. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(5), pp. 623-637. (doi: 10.1177/0146167217693611) (PMID:28903636) (PMCID:PMC5414900)

2016

Chen, J., Papies, E. K. and Barsalou, L. W. (2016) A core eating network and its modulations underlie diverse eating phenomena. Brain and Cognition, 110, pp. 20-42. (doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2016.04.004) (PMID:7156016)

Keesman, M., Aarts, H., Vermeent, S., Häfner, M. and Papies, E. (2016) Consumption simulations induce salivation to food cues. PLoS ONE, 11(11), e0165449. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165449) (PMID:27820842) (PMCID:PMC5098730)

Papies, E. K. , van Winckel, M. and Keesman, M. (2016) Food-specific decentering experiences are associated with reduced food cravings in meditators: a preliminary investigation. Mindfulness, 7(5), pp. 1123-1131. (doi: 10.1007/s12671-016-0554-4) (PMID:27642374) (PMCID:PMC5010617)

van der Laan, L. N., Papies, E. K. , Hooge, I. T.C. and Smeets, P. A.M. (2016) Goal-directed visual attention drives health goal priming: an eye-tracking experiment. Health Psychology, 36(1), pp. 82-90. (doi: 10.1037/hea0000410) (PMID:27631308)

Sheeran, P., Bosch, J. A., Crombez, G., Hall, P. A., Harris, J. L., Papies, E. K. and Wiers, R. W. (2016) Implicit processes in health psychology: diversity and promise. Health Psychology, 35(8), pp. 761-766. (doi: 10.1037/hea0000409) (PMID:27505195)

Papies, E. K. and Aarts, H. (2016) Automatic self-regulation: from habit to goal pursuit. In: Vohs, K. D. and Baumeister, R. F. (eds.) Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications. Guilford Press: New York. ISBN 9781462520459

Versluis, I. and Papies, E. K. (2016) The role of social norms in the portion size effect: reducing normative relevance reduces the effect of portion size on consumption decisions. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 756. (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00756)

Papies, E. K. (2016) Health goal priming as a situated intervention tool: how to benefit from nonconscious motivational routes to health behavior. Health Psychology Review, 10(4), pp. 408-424. (doi: 10.1080/17437199.2016.1183506) (PMID:27144729)

Versluis, I. and Papies, E. K. (2016) Eating less from bigger packs: Preventing the pack size effect with diet primes. Appetite, 100, pp. 70-79. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2016.02.011) (PMID:26876911)

Papies, E. K. (2016) Goal priming as a situated intervention tool. Current Opinion in Psychology, 12, pp. 12-16. (doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2016.04.008)

2015

Lebois, L.A.M., Papies, E.K. , Gopinath, K., Cabanban, R., Quigley, K.S., Krishnamurthy, V., Barrett, L.F. and Barsalou, L. (2015) A shift in perspective: ecentering through mindful attention to imagined stressful events. Neuropsychologia, 75, pp. 505-524. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.05.030) (PMID:26111487)

Versluis, I., Papies, E. K. and Marchiori, D. (2015) Preventing the pack size effect: exploring the effectiveness of pictorial and non-pictorial serving size recommendations. Appetite, 87, pp. 116-126. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2014.12.097) (PMID:25528692)

Papies, E. K. , Pronk, T. M., Keesman, M. and Barsalou, L. W. (2015) The benefits of simply observing: mindful attention modulates the link between motivation and behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108(1), pp. 148-170. (doi: 10.1037/a0038032) (PMID:25347126)

Papies, E.K. and Barsalou, L.W. (2015) Grounding desire and motivated behavior: a theoretical framework and empirical evidence. In: Hofmann, W. and Nordgren, L.F. (eds.) The Psychology of Desire. The Guilford Press: New York. ISBN 9781462521609

van Dillen, L.F. and Papies, E.K. (2015) From distraction to mindfulness: psychological and neural mechanisms of attention strategies in self-regulation. In: Gendolla, G.H.E., Tops, M. and Koole, S.L. (eds.) Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to Self-Regulation. Springer: New York, pp. 141-154. ISBN 9781493912353 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1236-0_10)

2014

Marchiori, D., Papies, E. K. and Klein, O. (2014) The portion size effect on food intake: an anchoring and adjustment process? Appetite, 81, pp. 108-115. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2014.06.018) (PMID:24949567)

Marchiori, D. and Papies, E. K. (2014) A brief mindfulness intervention reduces unhealthy eating when hungry, but not the portion size effect. Appetite, 75, pp. 40-45. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2013.12.009) (PMID:24361312)

Papies, E.K. , Potjes, I., Keesman, M., Schwinghammer, S. and van Koningsbruggen, G.M. (2014) Using health primes to reduce unhealthy snack purchases among overweight consumers in a grocery store. International Journal of Obesity, 38(4), pp. 597-602. (doi: 10.1038/ijo.2013.136) (PMID:23887063) (PMCID:PMC3982213)

2013

Papies, E. (2013) Tempting food words activate eating simulations. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 838. (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00838) (PMID:24298263) (PMCID:PMC3829564)

Van Dillen, L. F., Papies, E. K. and Hofmann, W. (2013) Turning a blind eye to temptation: how cognitive load can facilitate self-regulation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(3), pp. 427-443. (doi: 10.1037/a0031262) (PMID:23276276)

Papies, E. K. and Veling, H. (2013) Healthy dining: subtle diet reminders at the point of purchase increase low-calorie food choices among both chronic and current dieters. Appetite, 61, pp. 1-7. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.10.025) (PMID:23142564)

Stroebe, W., van Koningsbruggen, G. M., Papies, E. K. and Aarts, H. (2013) Why most dieters fail but some succeed: a goal conflict model of eating behavior. Psychological Review, 120(1), pp. 110-138. (doi: 10.1037/a0030849) (PMID:23230892)

2012

Meule, A., Papies, E. K. and Kübler, A. (2012) Differentiating between successful and unsuccessful dieters: aalidity and reliability of the perceived self-regulatory success in dieting scale. Appetite, 58(3), pp. 822-826. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.01.028) (PMID:22329988)

Papies, E. K. (2012) Goal priming in dieters: recent insights and applications. Current Obesity Reports, 1(2), pp. 99-105. (doi: 10.1007/s13679-012-0009-8) (PMID:22611522) (PMCID:PMC3342494)

Ruys, K. I., Aarts, H., Papies, E. K. , Oikawa, M. and Oikawa, H. (2012) Perceiving an exclusive cause of affect prevents misattribution. Consciousness and Cognition, 21(2), pp. 1009-1015. (doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.03.002) (PMID:22459054)

Papies, E.K. , Barsalou, L.W. and Custers, R. (2012) Mindful attention prevents mindless impulses. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(3), pp. 291-299. (doi: 10.1177/1948550611419031)

Papies, E. K. and Nicolaije, K. A.H. (2012) Inspiration or deflation? Feeling similar or dissimilar to slim and plus-size models affects self-evaluation of restrained eaters. Body Image, 9(1), pp. 76-85. (doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2011.08.004) (PMID:21962524)

Papies, E.K. and Stroebe, W. (2012) Dieting in a food-rich environment: nonconscious mechanisms of failure and success. In: Witte, E.H. (ed.) Sozialpsychologie, Psychotherapie und Gesundheit = [Social Psychology, Psychotherapy and Health]. Pabst Science Publishers: Lengerich. ISBN 9783899678147

2011

Veling, H., Aarts, H. and Papies, E. K. (2011) Using stop signals to inhibit chronic dieters’ responses toward palatable foods. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 49(11), pp. 771-780. (doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2011.08.005) (PMID:21906724)

van Koningsbruggen, G. M., Stroebe, W., Papies, E. K. and Aarts, H. (2011) Implementation intentions as goal primes: boosting self-control in tempting environments. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41(5), pp. 551-557. (doi: 10.1002/ejsp.799)

Danner, U. N., Aarts, H., Papies, E. K. and de Vries, N. K. (2011) Paving the path for habit change: cognitive shielding of intentions against habit intrusion. British Journal of Health Psychology, 16(1), pp. 189-200. (doi: 10.1348/2044-8287.002005) (PMID:21199542)

2010

Ouwehand, C. and Papies, E. K. (2010) Eat it or beat it: the differential effects of food temptations on overweight and normal-weight restrained eaters. Appetite, 55(1), pp. 56-60. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2010.04.009) (PMID:20433882)

Papies, E. K. and Hamstra, P. (2010) Goal priming and eating behavior: enhancing self-regulation by environmental cues. Health Psychology, 29(4), pp. 384-388. (doi: 10.1037/a0019877) (PMID:20658825)

Papies, E.K. and Aarts, H. (2010) Nonconscious self-regulation or the automatic pilot of human behavior. In: Vohs, K.D. and Baumeister, R.F. (eds.) Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications. Guilford Press: New York, pp. 125-142. ISBN 9781606239483

Stroebe, W., Papies, E.K. and Aarts, H. (2010) The psychology of dieting and overweight: testing a goal-conflict model of the self-regulation of eating. In: Schwarzer, R. and Frensch, P.A. (eds.) Personality, Human Development, and Culture: International Perspectives On Psychological Science. Psychology Press: Hove, pp. 17-27. ISBN 9781848720237

2009

Papies, E. K. , Stroebe, W. and Aarts, H. (2009) Who likes it more? Restrained eaters’ implicit attitudes towards food. Appetite, 53(3), pp. 279-287. (doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2009.07.001) (PMID:19591886)

Papies, E. K. , Aarts, H. and de Vries, N. K. (2009) Planning is for doing: implementation intentions go beyond the mere creation of goal-directed associations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(5), pp. 1148-1151. (doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.06.011)

Papies, E. K. , Stroebe, W. and Aarts, H. (2009) Understanding dieting: a social cognitive analysis of hedonic processes in self-regulation. European Review of Social Psychology, 19(1), pp. 339-383. (doi: 10.1080/10463280802563723)

2008

Papies, E.K. , Stroebe, W. and Aarts, H. (2008) Healthy cognition: processes of self-regulatory success in restrained eating. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(9), pp. 1290-1300. (doi: 10.1177/0146167208320063) (PMID:18596220)

Papies, E. K. , Stroebe, W. and Aarts, H. (2008) The allure of forbidden food: on the role of attention in self-regulation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(5), pp. 1283-1292. (doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.04.008)

Stroebe, W., Papies, E. K. and Aarts, H. (2008) From homeostatic to hedonic theories of eating: self-regulatory failure in food-rich rnvironments. Applied Psychology, 57(s1), pp. 172-193. (doi: 10.1111/j.1464-0597.2008.00360.x)

2007

Papies, E. , Stroebe, W. and Aarts, H. (2007) Pleasure in the mind: restrained eating and spontaneous hedonic thoughts about food. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43(5), pp. 810-817. (doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2006.08.001)

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