Johan W. S. Vlaeyen

Is pain-related fear a predictor of somatosensory hypervigilance in chronic low back pain patients?

Cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychosocial factors in low back pain: directions for the future.

Pain-related fear in acute low back pain: the first two weeks of a new episode.

The treatment of fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic low back pain: further evidence on the effectiveness of exposure in vivo.

Selective attention for pain-related information in healthy individuals: the role of pain and fear.

The modified Stroop paradigm as a measure of selective attention towards pain-related stimuli among chronic pain patients: a meta-analysis.

Can pain-related fear be reduced? The application of cognitive-behavioural exposure in vivo.

The pain vigilance and awareness questionnaire (PVAQ): further psychometric evaluation in fibromyalgia and other chronic pain syndromes.

Secondary prevention of work-related disability in nonspecific low back pain: does problem-solving therapy help? A randomized clinical trial.

The modified Stroop paradigm as a measure of selective attention towards pain-related information in patients with chronic low back pain.

Fear of pain, physical performance, and attentional processes in patients with fibromyalgia.

Selective attention and avoidance of pain-related stimuli: a dot-probe evaluation in a pain-free population.

Health care providers' attitudes and beliefs towards common low back pain: factor structure and psychometric properties of the HC-PAIRS.

The sense of coherence in early pregnancy and crisis support and posttraumatic stress after pregnancy loss: a prospective study.

Does fear of pain moderate the effects of sensory focusing and distraction on cold pressor pain in pain-free individuals?

Active despite pain: the putative role of stop-rules and current mood.

The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia: further examination of psychometric properties in patients with chronic low back pain and fibromyalgia.

Electronic diary assessment of pain-related fear, attention to pain, and pain intensity in chronic low back pain patients.

Cognitive-behavioral treatments for chronic pain: what works for whom?

Treatment expectancy affects the outcome of cognitive-behavioral interventions in chronic pain.

Treatment of pregnancy-related pelvic girdle and/or low back pain after delivery design of a randomized clinical trial within a comprehensive prognostic cohort study [ISRCTN08477490].

The joint contribution of physical pathology, pain-related fear and catastrophizing to chronic back pain disability.

Health care providers' orientations towards common low back pain predict perceived harmfulness of physical activities and recommendations regarding return to normal activity.

The role of fear of movement and injury in selective attentional processing in patients with chronic low back pain: a dot-probe evaluation.

The Fear of Pain Questionnaire (FPQ): further psychometric examination in a non-clinical sample.

A longitudinal study on the predictive validity of the fear-avoidance model in low back pain.

An examination of word relevance in a modified Stroop task in patients with chronic low back pain.

Pain-related fear at the start of a new low back pain episode.

Norming clinical questionnaires with multiple regression: the Pain Cognition List.

Effectiveness of a tailor-made intervention for pregnancy-related pelvic girdle and/or low back pain after delivery: short-term results of a randomized clinical trial [ISRCTN08477490].

Pain-related fear in low back pain: a prospective study in the general population.

An electronic diary assessment of the effects of distraction and attentional focusing on pain intensity in chronic low back pain patients.

The fear-avoidance model of musculoskeletal pain: current state of scientific evidence.

Fear of movement and (re)injury in chronic musculoskeletal pain: Evidence for an invariant two-factor model of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia across pain diagnoses and Dutch, Swedish, and Canadian samples.

Measuring fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic low back pain using implicit measures.

Somatic and psychologic predictors of long-term unfavorable outcome after surgical intervention.

Measuring perceived harmfulness of physical activities in patients with chronic low back pain: the Photograph Series of Daily Activities--short electronic version.

Exposure in vivo versus operant graded activity in chronic low back pain patients: results of a randomized controlled trial.

Long-term effectiveness and costs of a brief self-management intervention in women with pregnancy-related low back pain after delivery.

General practitioners' treatment orientations towards low back pain: influence on treatment behaviour and patient outcome.

The psychology of fatigue in patients with multiple sclerosis: a review.

The role of current mood and stop rules on physical task performance: an experimental investigation in patients with work-related upper extremity pain.

Active avoidance but not activity pacing is associated with disability in fibromyalgia.

Fatigue and physical disability in patients with multiple sclerosis: a structural equation modeling approach.

Fear reduction in patients with chronic pain: a learning theory perspective.

"Being" in pain: the role of self-discrepancies in the emotional experience and activity patterns of patients with chronic low back pain.

Tinnitus interferes with daily life activities: a psychometric examination of the Tinnitus Disability Index.

Goals matter: Both achievement and pain-avoidance goals are associated with pain severity and disability in patients with low back and upper extremity pain.

Catastrophizing and fear of tinnitus predict quality of life in patients with chronic tinnitus.

Norming of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia across pain diagnoses and various countries.

Activity patterns in chronic pain: underlying dimensions and associations with disability and depressed mood.

Evaluating an in-home multicomponent cognitive behavioural programme to manage concerns about falls and associated activity avoidance in frail community-dwelling older people: Design of a randomised control trial [NCT01358032].

Feeling more pain, yet showing less: the influence of social threat on pain.

Nonpain goal pursuit inhibits attentional bias to pain.

Pain catastrophizing, threat, and the informational value of mood: task persistence during a painful finger pressing task.

Specialised treatment based on cognitive behaviour therapy versus usual care for tinnitus: a randomised controlled trial.

Optimism lowers pain: evidence of the causal status and underlying mechanisms.

Effects of responsibility and mood on painful task persistence.

More optimism, less pain! The influence of generalized and pain-specific expectations on experienced cold-pressor pain.

Goals, mood and performance duration on cognitive tasks during experimentally induced mechanical pressure pain.

Feasibility of a nurse-led in-home cognitive behavioral program to manage concerns about falls in frail older people: a process evaluation.

Generalization gradients in cued and contextual pain-related fear: an experimental study in healthy participants.

Mood, stop-rules and task persistence: no mood-as-input effects in the context of pain.

A content analysis of activity pacing in chronic pain: what are we measuring and why?

Effect of seated trunk posture on eye blink startle and subjective experience: comparing flexion, neutral upright posture, and extension of spine.

Psychological flexibility: what theory and which predictions?

Positive affect protects against deficient safety learning during extinction of fear of movement-related pain in healthy individuals scoring relatively high on trait anxiety.

Interrupted by pain: an anatomy of pain-contingent activity interruptions.

Contingency learning deficits and generalization in chronic unilateral hand pain patients.

Influence of prior information on pain involves biased perceptual decision-making.

Competing goals attenuate avoidance behavior in the context of pain.

Psychological therapies help reduce headache and non-headache pain in children and adolescents.

When pain meets … pain-related choice behavior and pain perception in different goal conflict situations.

An experimental examination of catastrophizing-related interpretation bias for ambiguous facial expressions of pain using an incidental learning task.

The Reduction of Fear of Movement-related Pain: Does Motivational Context Matter?

Avoidance behavior in chronic pain research: a cold case revisited.

Threatening social context facilitates pain-related fear learning.

Can experimentally induced positive affect attenuate generalization of fear of movement-related pain?

Beyond nociception: the imprecision hypothesis of chronic pain.

Differences in pain-related fear acquisition and generalization: an experimental study comparing patients with fibromyalgia and healthy controls.

Associative fear learning and perceptual discrimination: a perceptual pathway in the development of chronic pain.

Pain-avoidance versus reward-seeking: an experimental investigation.

Learning to predict and control harmful events: chronic pain and conditioning.

Indirect acquisition of pain-related fear: an experimental study of observational learning using coloured cold metal bars.

A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11.

Words putting pain in motion: the generalization of pain-related fear within an artificial stimulus category.

Sub-optimal presentation of painful facial expressions enhances readiness for action and pain perception following electrocutaneous stimulation.

Pain Catastrophizing and Fear of Pain Predict the Experience of Pain in Body Parts Not Targeted by a Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness Procedure.

The effect of threat information on acquisition, extinction, and reinstatement of experimentally conditioned fear of movement-related pain.

Comparing Counterconditioning and Extinction as Methods to Reduce Fear of Movement-Related Pain.

Generalization of Pain-Related Fear Using a Left-Right Hand Judgment Conditioning Task.

Influence of Interoceptive Fear Learning on Visceral Perception.

Is exposure in vivo cost-effective for chronic low back pain? A trial-based economic evaluation.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Avoidance-Avoidance Competition Increases Pain-Related Fear and Slows Decision-Making.

Effectiveness of a home-based cognitive behavioral program to manage concerns about falls in community-dwelling, frail older people: results of a randomized controlled trial.

Turning Pain Into Cues for Goal-Directed Behavior: Implementation Intentions Reduce Escape-Avoidance Behavior on a Painful Task.

Acquisition and extinction of operant pain-related avoidance behavior using a 3 degrees-of-freedom robotic arm.

Generalization on the Basis of Prior Experience Is Predicted by Individual Differences in Working Memory.

Respiratory hypoalgesia? Breath-holding, but not respiratory phase modulates nociceptive flexion reflex and pain intensity.

Can Pain or Hyperalgesia Be a Classically Conditioned Response in Humans? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

The use of safety-seeking behavior in exposure-based treatments for fear and anxiety: Benefit or burden? A meta-analytic review.

Learned Fear of Gastrointestinal Sensations in Healthy Adults.

Erratum to: Effectiveness of a home-based cognitive behavioral program to manage concerns about falls in community-dwelling, frail older people: results of a randomized controlled trial.

Expose or protect? A randomized controlled trial of exposure in vivo vs pain-contingent treatment as usual in patients with complex regional pain syndrome type 1.

Pain by Association? Experimental Modulation of Human Pain Thresholds Using Classical Conditioning.

Pain in context: Cues predicting a reward decrease fear of movement related pain and avoidance behavior.

The experimental analysis of the interruptive, interfering, and identity-distorting effects of chronic pain.

Interoceptive cues predicting exteroceptive events.

Classical Conditioning Fails to Elicit Allodynia in an Experimental Study with Healthy Humans.

Extinction of Fear Generalization: A Comparison Between Fibromyalgia Patients and Healthy Control Participants.

Pain and respiration: a systematic review.

Generalization of Pain-Related Fear Based on Conceptual Knowledge.

Biased Intensity Judgements of Visceral Sensations After Learning to Fear Visceral Stimuli: A Drift Diffusion Approach.

The Acquisition and Extinction of Fear of Painful Touch: A Novel Tactile Fear Conditioning Paradigm.

Behavioural inhibition in the context of pain: Measurement and conceptual issues.

Taking a break in response to pain. An experimental investigation of the effects of interruptions by pain on subsequent activity resumption.

The intricate relationship amongst pain intensity, fear and avoidance.

Activity interruptions by pain impair activity resumption, but not more than activity interruptions by other stimuli: an experimental investigation.

Broadening the fear-avoidance model of chronic pain?

Tinnitus-related fear: Mediating the effects of a cognitive behavioural specialised tinnitus treatment.

Activity Limitations in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis: A Role for Fear of Movement and (Re)injury Beliefs.

The Influence of Social Threat on Pain, Aggression, and Empathy in Women.

Learning to feel tired: A learning trajectory towards chronic fatigue.

Reduced selective learning in patients with fibromyalgia vs healthy controls.

The Influence of Pain-Related Expectations on Intensity Perception of Nonpainful Somatosensory Stimuli.

Understanding the Etiology of Chronic Pain From a Psychological Perspective.

Pain as a threat to the social self: a motivational account.

EULAR recommendations for the health professional's approach to pain management in inflammatory arthritis and osteoarthritis.

The Opportunity to Avoid Pain May Paradoxically Increase Fear.

Exposure and CBT for chronic back pain: An RCT on differential efficacy and optimal length of treatment.

Effects of activity interruptions by pain on pattern of activity performance - an experimental investigation.

Treatment processes during exposure and cognitive-behavioral therapy for chronic back pain: A single-case experimental design with multiple baselines.

EXPOSURE IN VIVO VERSUS PAIN-CONTINGENT PHYSICAL THERAPY IN COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I: A COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS.

Winning or not losing? The impact of non-pain goal focus on attentional bias to learned pain signals.

A break from pain! Interruption management in the context of pain.

Low back pain.

Chronic pain as a symptom or a disease: the IASP Classification of Chronic Pain for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).

The IASP classification of chronic pain for ICD-11: chronic primary pain.

The IASP classification of chronic pain for ICD-11: chronic neuropathic pain.

Modulating pain thresholds through classical conditioning.

The Fear of Tinnitus Questionnaire: Toward a Reliable and Valid Means of Assessing Fear in Adults with Tinnitus.

Reply to Henningsen et al.

Perceptual Decision Parameters and Their Relation to Self-Reported Pain: A Drift Diffusion Account.

Hide Your Pain: Social Threat Increases Pain Reports and Aggression, but Reduces Facial Pain Expression and Empathy.

Changes in Pain-Related Fear and Pain When Avoidance Behavior is no Longer Effective.

Placebo and nocebo effects and operant pain-related avoidance learning.

Reply to Häuser et al.

Graded exposure treatment for adolescents with chronic pain (GET Living): Protocol for a randomized controlled trial enhanced with single case experimental design.

Evaluating the efficacy of an attention modification program for patients with fibromyalgia: a randomized controlled trial.

Avoid or engage? Outcomes of graded exposure in youth with chronic pain using a sequential replicated single-case randomized design.

Respiratory Hypoalgesia? The Effect of Slow Deep Breathing on Electrocutaneous, Thermal, and Mechanical Pain.

Behavioral Conceptualization and Treatment of Chronic Pain.

Generalization of exposure in vivo in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type I.

Can Slow Deep Breathing Reduce Pain? An Experimental Study Exploring Mechanisms.

A highly cognitive demanding working memory task may prevent the development of nociceptive hypersensitivity.

Pain psychology in the 21st century: lessons learned and moving forward.

Pain can be conditioned to voluntary movements through associative learning: an experimental study in healthy participants.

Generalizability of harm and pain expectations after exposure in chronic low back pain patients.

Pain-related attentional processes: A systematic review of eye-tracking research.

The Perceived Opportunity to Avoid Pain Paradoxically Increases Pain-Related Fear Through Increased Threat Appraisals.

The acquisition and generalization of fear of touch.

Decomposing conditioned avoidance performance with computational models.

Avoidance behaviour performed in the context of a novel, ambiguous movement increases threat and pain-related fear.