Linsey Raymaekers (L.H.C.)

I am interested in studying memory in relation to traumatic experiences. My project focuses on the cognitive psychology of recovered memories. More specifically, it concerns the examination of cognitive mechanisms underlying recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse.

• Smeets, T., Otgaar, H., Raymaekers, L., Peters, M., & Merckelbach, H. (under review). Adaptive memory in times of stress: Survival processing and acute stress independently and persistently enhance retention.
• Raymaekers, L., Peters, M.J.V., Otgaar, H., & Smeets, T. (2010). Het classificatieprobleem bij onderzoek naar hervonden herinneringen. [The classification problem in recovered memory research] GZ-Psychologie, 8, 20-27.
• Raymaekers, L., Smeets, T., Peters, M.J.V., & Merckelbach, H. (2010). Autobiographical memory specificity among people with recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 41, 338-344.
• Van den Hout, M., Engelhard, I., & Raymaekers, L. (2010). Een eenhoorn onder de berkenboom. In Jansen, A., Merckelbach, H., & Van den Hout, M. (Eds.), Gek. Experimentele psychopathologie. Over angst, verslaving, depressie en andere ellende, (pp. 92-110). Uitgeverij: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum.
• Merckelbach, H., Crombag, H., Raymaekers, L., Smeets, T., & Horselenberg, R. (2010). Hervonden herinneringen [Recovered memories]. In P.J. van Koppen, H. Merckelbach, M. Jelicic, & J.W. de Keijser (Eds.), Reizen met mijn rechter: Psychologie van het recht [Travelling with my judge: Psychology of the law], (pp. 539-560). Deventer: Kluwer.
• Smeets, T., Giesbrecht, T., Raymaekers, L., Shaw, J., & Merckelbach, H. (2010). Autobiographical integration of trauma memories and repressive coping predict post-traumatic stress symptoms in undergraduate students. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 17, 211-218.
• Giesbrecht, T., Abidi, K., Smeets, T., Merckelbach, H., van Oorsouw, K., & Raymaekers, L. (2009). Adversity does not always lead to psychopathology: Cognitive reactivity is related to longitudinal changes in resilience. Netherlands Journal of Psychology, 4, 62-68.
• Raymaekers, L. (2008). Neurowetenschap in de rechtszaal [Neuroscience in the courtroom]. Maandblad Geestelijke Volksgezondheid [Monthly Journal Mental Public Health], 63, 243-245. Psychology, 13, 165-176.

Conference presentations

• Raymaekers, L., Geraerts, E., McNally, R.J., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H. (2007 May). Linking thought suppression and recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Maine, United States.
• Raymaekers, L., Geraerts, E., Merckelbach, H., Lindsay, S., Arnold, M., Schooler, J., & Jelicic, M. (2007 July). Distinguishing between authentic and false recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC, United States.
• Raymaekers, L., Geraerts, E., Lindsay, D. S., Merckelbach, H., Jelicic, M., Arnold, M.M., & Schooler, J. S. (2008 July). Cognitive mechanisms underlying recovered memory experiences of childhood sexual abuse. Paper presented at the 18th Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• Raymaekers, L., Geraerts, E., Anderson, M.C. (2008 November). Relating retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) and directed forgetting (DF) to recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Paper presented at the Psychonomics, Chicago, United States.
• Raymaekers, L. (2010 October). Memory and Trauma: Reduced autobiographical memory specificity among people with recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Paper presented at the Positive Psychology Symposium: From ‘fix-what’s-wrong’ to ‘build-what’s-strong’ organised by the Graduate Research Institute for Experimental Psychology, Soesterberg, The Netherlands.

 Seminars

• Raymaekers, L. (2007 October). Mechanisms underlying recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Talk at the University of St. Andrews, UK.