J. (Jack) Peters
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Profile
I am a PhD Candidate at the Amsterdam Emotional Memory Lab at the Department of Clinical Psychology. I am fascinated by the plasticity of emotional memory and how we can change these memories to advance treatments of anxiety and related disorders. In my research, I investigate the dissociation between the affective, cognitive, and behavioural fear expression with the aim of better understanding the mechanisms of change in different treatment approaches. For my PhD project, I am running a clinical memory reconsolidation intervention study as well as experimental studies with healthy participants under the supervision of Prof. Merel Kindt and Dr. Renee M. Visser.
Biography: I graduated with from the University College Maastricht in Liberal Arts and Sciences with a focus on Psychology (2016, BSc, cum laude, with honors). I proceeded with my Research MSc in Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University with a specialization in Psychopathology (2018, cum laude). I conducted my Master’s Thesis research during a 1-year internship at Harvard University under the supervision of Prof. Richard J. McNally and Prof. Tom Smeets. My time at the McNally lab sparked my interest in memory reconsolidation and the malleability of emotioinal memories that I pursued to investigate during my PhD.
Expertise and research fields
- Emotional learning and memoy
- Memory Reconsolidation
- Experimental psychopathology
- Affective Disorders
- Trauma
- Avoidance behaviour
- Intrusive Memories
- Translational Science
- Open Science
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Teaching & PhD supervision
- Clinical Psychology Bachelor's Thesis supervision
- Biological Psycholgoy Bachelor's Thesis supervision
- Research Master's Research Internship supervision
- Group leader for the Research Master's intervision meetings
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Publications
2023
Freund, I. M., Peters, J., Kindt, M., & Visser, R. M. (2023). Emotional memory in the lab: Using the Trier Social Stress Test to induce a sensory-rich and personally meaningful episodic experience. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 148, Article 105971. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105971 [details]
2022
- Filmer, A. I., Peters, J., Bridge, L. A., Visser, R. M., & Kindt, M. (2022). Over the Edge: Extending the duration of a reconsolidation intervention for spider fear. Translational Psychiatry, 12, Article 261. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-02020-x [details]
- Peters, J., Visser, R. M., & Kindt, M. (2022). More than just fear: Development and psychometric evaluation of the Spider Distress Scale to assess spider fear and spider-related disgust. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 90, Article 102602. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2022.102602 [details]
2021
- Peters, J., Bellet, B. W., Jones, P. J., Wu, G. W. Y., Wang, L., & McNally, R. J. (2021). Posttraumatic stress or posttraumatic growth? Using network analysis to explore the relationships between coping styles and trauma outcomes. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 78, Article 102359. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102359 [details]
2020
- Bellet, B. W., LeBlanc, N. J., Nizzi, M-C., Carter, M. L., van der Does, F. H. S., Peters, J., Robinaugh, D. J., & McNally, R. J. (2020). Identity Confusion in Complicated Grief: A Closer Look. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 129(4), 397-407. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000520 [details]
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Freund, I. M., Peters, J., Kindt, M., & Visser, R. M. (2023). Emotional memory in the lab: Using the Trier Social Stress Test to induce a sensory-rich and personally meaningful episodic experience. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 148, Article 105971.