L. (Lana) Mrkonja
PhD Candidate
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Developmental Psychology
Area of expertise: Substance Use Disorders. Addictive Behaviors. Attentional Biases. Reward Processing. Attentional Bias Modification
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 129
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Postbus 15915
1001 NK Amsterdam
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The main focus of my research concerns maladaptive reward attentional processing and how this relates to substance use disorders and addiction-related behaviors.
My PhD project, supervised by Reinout Wiers, focuses on assessing and changing attentional prioritization in addictive behaviors using novel cognitive tasks.
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Publications
2026
- Mazidi, M., Carver, L., MacLeod, C., Rudaizky, D., Wiers, R., Wiechert, S., Mrkonja, L., & Grafton, B. (2026). Individual differences in resilience to alcohol advertising: Two processing biases during advert viewing predict interindividual variation in postviewing craving and consumption. Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research, 50(2), Article e70225. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.70225
- Mrkonja, L., Feng, Z., Marchant, N. J., De Vries, T. J., Leganes-Fonteneau, M., & Wiers, R. (2026). Replication of individual differences in the Pirates and Planets conditioned punishment task, but no correspondence to behavior in a non-clinical sample. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 91, Article 102086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2026.102086
- Rudaizky, D., Mazidi, M., Wiers, R., Grafton, B., Wiechert, S., Mrkonja, L., & MacLeod, C. (2026). Attention to alcohol advertising causes elevated consumption via increased alcohol-related craving. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 40(4), 406-416. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001120
- Van der Wielen, I., Mrkonja, L., Wiers, R., & Leganes-Fonteneau, M. (2026). Reward learning and attention in risky alcohol use: Absence of Pavlovian influences but altered response bias in high-risk drinkers. Behavioural Brain Research, 509, Article 116228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2026.116228
2024
Freichel, R., Christensen, E., Mrkonja, L., de Jong, P. J., Cousijn, J., Franken, I., Yücel, M., Lee, R., Veer, I. M., Albertella, L., & Wiers, R. W. (2024). Attentional Biases and Their Association with Substance-Use-Related Problems and Addictive Behaviors: The Utility of a Gamified Value-Modulated Attentional Capture Task. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 19, Article 100534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2024.100534 [details]
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Freichel, R., Christensen, E., Mrkonja, L., de Jong, P. J., Cousijn, J., Franken, I., Yücel, M., Lee, R., Veer, I. M., Albertella, L., & Wiers, R. W. (2024). Attentional Biases and Their Association with Substance-Use-Related Problems and Addictive Behaviors: The Utility of a Gamified Value-Modulated Attentional Capture Task. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 19, Article 100534.