Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Langeslag, S. J. E. (in press). Distinguishing between romantic love and romantic relationships. Invited commentary on "A Formula for Love: Partner Merit and Appreciation Beget Actor Significance". Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
  2. Gul, T., White, H., Griffin, M., & Langeslag, S. J. E. (2025). Effect of facial coverings on face perception: A systematic review of behavioral and neuroscience research. Visual Cognition, 33, 264-284. PDF
  3. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Philippi, C. L. (2025). Mind wandering about the beloved: self-reported distraction, task performance, and enjoyment. Cognition and Emotion, 39, 920-927. PDF and PDF
  4. Langeslag, S. J. E. (2024). Refuting six misconceptions about romantic love. Behavioral Sciences, 14, 383. PDF
  5. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Posey, Z. W. (2023). Factors that contribute to an inability to remember an important aspect of a traumatic event. Memory, 31, 1402-1411. PDF and Data
  6. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Surti, K. (2022). Increasing love feelings, marital satisfaction, and motivated attention to the spouse. Journal of Psychophysiology, 36, 199-214. PDF
  7. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Davis, L. L. (2022). A preliminary study on up-regulation of sexual desire for a long-term partner. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 19, 872-878. PDF
  8. Langeslag, S. J. E. (2022). Electrophysiological correlates of romantic love: A review of EEG and ERP studies with beloved-related stimuli. Brain Sciences, 12, 551. PDF
  9. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2020). Preferential processing of task-irrelevant beloved-related information and task performance: Two event-related potential studies. Neuropsychologia, 145, 106497. PDF
  10. Langeslag, S. J. E.*, & Van Steenbergen, H.* (2020). Cognitive control in romantic love: The roles of infatuation and attachment in interference and adaptive cognitive control. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 596-603. *contributed equally PDF and Data
  11. Langeslag, S. J. E., Hopstaken, J. F., & Van Strien, J. W. (2020). The effect of fearful expressions on recognition memory for faces: Behavioral and electrophysiological data. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 152, 53-61. PDF
  12. Horner, S. B., & Langeslag, S. J. E. (2019). Negative and positive reappraisal after a romantic break-up. Journal of Student Research, 8, 9-17. PDF
  13. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2019). Romantic love and attention: Early and late event-related potentials. Biological Psychology, 146, 107737. PDF
  14. Van der Veen, F. M., Burdzina, A., & Langeslag, S. J. E. (2019). Don’t you want me baby? Cardiac and electrocortical concomitants of romantic interest and rejection. Biological Psychology, 146, 107707. PDF
  15. Surti, K., & Langeslag, S. J. E. (2019). Perceived ability to regulate love. PLOS ONE, 14, e0216523. PDF and Data
  16. Langeslag, S. J. E., Gootjes, L., & Van Strien, J. W. (2018). The effect of mouth opening in emotional faces on subjective experience and the early posterior negativity amplitude. Brain and Cognition, 127, 51-59. PDF
  17. Langeslag, S. J. E. (2018). Effects of organization and disorganization on pleasantness, calmness, and the frontal negativity in the event-related potential. PLOS ONE, 13, e0202726. PDF and Data
  18. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2018). Cognitive reappraisal of snake and spider pictures: An event-related potentials study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 130, 1-8. PDF
  19. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Sanchez, M. E. (2018). Down-regulation of love feelings after a romantic break-up: Self-report and electrophysiological data. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 720-733. PDF or PDF
  20. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2018). Early visual processing of snakes and angry faces: An ERP study. Brain Research, 1678, 297-303. PDF
  21. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Surti, K. (2017). The effect of arousal on regulation of negative emotions using cognitive reappraisal: An ERP study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 118, 18-26. PDF
  22. Thijssen, S., Wildeboer, A., Van IJzendoorn, M. H., Muetzel, R. L., Langeslag, S. J. E., Verhulst, F. C., Tiemeier, H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & White, T. (2017). The honest truth about deception: Demographic, cognitive and neural correlates of child repeated deceptive behavior. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 162, 225-241. PDF
  23. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2016). Regulation of romantic love feelings: Preconceptions, strategies, and feasibility. PLOS ONE, 11, e0161087. PDF
  24. Langeslag, S. J. E., Olivier, J. R., Köhlen, M. E., Nijs, I. M., & Van Strien, J. W. (2015). Increased attention and memory for beloved-related information during infatuation: Behavioral and electrophysiological data. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 136-144. PDF
  25. McMenamin, B., Langeslag, S. J. E., Sirbu, M., Padmala, S., & Pessoa, L. (2014). Network organization unfolds over time during periods of anxious anticipation. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 11261-11273. PDF
  26. White, T., Muetzel, R., Schmidt, M., Langeslag, S. J. E., Jaddoe, V., Hofman, A., Calhoun, V. D., Verhulst, F. C., & Tiemeier, H. (2014). Time of acquisition and network stability in pediatric resting-state functional MRI. Brain Connectivity, 4, 417-427. PDF
  27. Van Steenbergen, H., Langeslag, S. J. E., Band, G. P. H., & Hommel, B. (2014). Reduced cognitive control in passionate lovers. Motivation and Emotion, 38, 444-450. PDF
  28. Langeslag, S. J. E., Van der Veen, F.M., & Röder, C. H. (2014). Attention modulates the dorsal striatum response to love stimuli. Human Brain Mapping, 35, 503-512. PDF
  29. Langeslag, S. J. E., Schmidt, M., Ghassabian, A., Jaddoe, V. W., Hofman, A., Van der Lugt, A., Verhulst, F. C., Tiemeier, H., & White, T. J. H. (2013). Functional connectivity between parietal and frontal brain regions and intelligence in young children: The Generation R study. Human Brain Mapping, 34, 3299-3307. PDF
  30. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2013). Up-regulation of emotional responses to reward-predicting stimuli: An ERP study. Biological Psychology, 94, 228-233. PDF
  31. Langeslag, S. J. E., Muris, P., & Franken, I. H. A. (2013). Measuring romantic love: Psychometric properties of the Infatuation and Attachment Scales. The Journal of Sex Research, 50, 739-747. PDF
  32. Langeslag, S. J. E., Van der Veen, F. M., & Fekkes, D. (2012). Blood levels of serotonin are differentially affected by romantic love in men and women. Journal of Psychophysiology, 26, 92-98. PDF
  33. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2010). Comparable modulation of the Late Positive Potential by emotion regulation in younger and older adults. Journal of Psychophysiology, 24, 186-197. PDF
  34. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2010). Hersengolven geven inzicht in de positieve kanten van veroudering [Brain waves provide insight into the positive aspects of aging]. Neuropraxis, 4, 104-109. PDF
  35. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2009). Aging and emotional memory: The co-occurrence of neurophysiological and behavioral positivity effects. Emotion, 9, 369-377. PDF
  36. Langeslag, S. J. E., Morgan, H. M., Jackson, M. C., Linden, D. E. J., & Van Strien, J. W. (2009). Electrophysiological correlates of improved short-term memory for emotional faces. Neuropsychologia, 47, 887-896. PDF and Erratum
  37. Van Strien, J. W., Langeslag, S. J. E., Strekalova, N. J., Gootjes, L., & Franken, I. H. A. (2009). Valence interacts with the early ERP old/new effect and arousal with the sustained ERP old/new effect for affective pictures. Brain Research, 1251, 223-235. PDF
  38. Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2008). Age differences in the emotional modulation of ERP old/new effects. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 70, 105-114. PDF
  39. Langeslag, S. J. E., Franken, I. H. A., & Van Strien, J. W. (2008). Dissociating love-related attention from task-related attention: An event-related potential oddball study. Neuroscience Letters, 431, 236-240. PDF
  40. Langeslag, S. J. E., Jansma, B. M., Franken, I. H. A., & Van Strien, J. W. (2007). Event-related potential responses to love-related facial stimuli. Biological Psychology, 76, 109-115. PDF
  41. Langeslag, S. J. E. (2006). Liefde is een motivatie, niet een emotie: Een neurobiologische benadering [Love is a motivation, not an emotion: A neurobiological approach]. De Psycholoog, 41, 260-265. PDF

Book Chapters

  • Surti, K. & Langeslag, S. J. E. (in press). Psychological strategies for up-regulation of self-love. In V. Karandashev (Ed.), Love and Relationship Studies Around the World Volume 1. Cham, Switzerland: Spring Nature.
  • Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2011). Aging and short-term memory for face identity of emotional faces. In E. S. Levin (Ed.), Working memory: Capacity, developments and improvement techniques (pp. 287-300). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers. PDF
  • Langeslag, S. J. E., Jackson, M. C., Van Strien, J. W., & Linden, D. E. J. (2011). Varying background colours reveals that enhanced short-term memory for angry faces is a valence and not an arousal effect. In E. S. Levin (Ed.), Working memory: capacity, developments and improvement techniques (pp. 301-312). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers. PDF
  • Langeslag, S. J. E. (2009). Is the serotonergic system altered in romantic love? A literature review and research suggestions. In E. Cuyler & M. Ackhart (Eds.), Psychology of relationships (pp. 213-218). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Publishers. PDF

Popular Science Articles

  • Langeslag, S. J. E. (2026). A Similar Role for Dopamine in Drug Addiction and Romantic Love? We Still Don’t Know! The Diversity of Love Journal. Full text
  • Langeslag, S. J. E. (2017). How to Become More (or Less) in Love With Someone, According to a Psychology Professor. Fortune. Full text

PhD Thesis

  • Langeslag, S. J. E. (2010). Emotional memory in younger and older adults. PDF

Data Sets

  • Surti, K., & Langeslag, S. J. E. (2024). Up-regulation of self-love. Data
  • Langeslag, S. J. E., & Posey, Z. W. (2023). Factors that contribute to an inability to remember an important aspect of a traumatic event. Memory, 31, 1402-1411. PDF and Data
  • Langeslag, S. J. E.*, & Van Steenbergen, H.* (2020). Cognitive control in romantic love: The roles of infatuation and attachment in interference and adaptive cognitive control. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 596-603. *contributed equally PDF and Data
  • Langeslag, S. J. E., & Van Strien, J. W. (2019). Electroencephalography (EGG) responses to love-related facial stimuli, 2005. UNC Dataverse, V1. Data
  • Surti, K., & Langeslag, S. J. E. (2019). Perceived ability to regulate love. PLOS ONE, 14, e0216523. PDF and Data
  • Langeslag, S. J. E. (2018). Effects of organization and disorganization on pleasantness, calmness, and the frontal negativity in the event-related potential. PLOS ONE, 13, e0202726. PDF and Data