Short Bio

• Since 2008: Assistant professor of at the Department of Clinical Psychology. In addition: coordinator of education.
• 2004-2008: PhD student at the Department of Clinical and Developmental Psychology at the University of Groningen

Research interest

• Interpersonal consequences of emotional disorders
• Blushing and fear of blushing

Selected publications

• Dijk, C ., & de Jong, P. J. (2012). Blushing-fearful individuals overestimate the costs and probability of their blushing, Behaviour Research and Therapy . doi:10.1016/j.brat.2011.11.006.

• Dijk, C., Buwalda, F. M., & de Jong, P. J. (2011). Dealing with Fear of Blushing: a Psychoeducational Group Intervention for Fear of Blushing. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. doi :10.1002/cpp.764
• Dijk, C. Koenig, B., Ketelaar T., & de Jong, P.J. (2011). Saved by the Blush: The Trust-Saving Effects of Blushing aftera Social Transgression . Emotion, 11 , 313-319 .

• Voncken, M., Dijk, C., de Jong, P. J., & Roelofs, J. (2010) Not self-focused attention but negative beliefs affect poor social performance in social anxiety: an investigation of pathways in the social anxiety - social rejection relationship. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48, 984-991.
• Dijk, C., de Jong, P. J., & Peters, M.L. (2009). The remedial value of blushing in the context of transgressions and mishaps. Emotion, 9, 287-291.
• Dijk, C., Voncken, M., & de Jong, P. J. (2009). I blush, therefore I will be judged negatively: influence of false blush feedback on anticipated others' judgments and facial coloration in high and low blushing-fearfuls. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 541-547.

Book

(IN DUTCH)
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