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Alain Van Hiel

Alain Van Hiel

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
64
Citations
12924
World Ranking
3020
National Ranking
39

Alain Van Hiel publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alain Van Hiel sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 187 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Alain Van Hiel D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alain Van Hiel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alain Van Hiel is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has made contributions primarily within the social sciences and psychology disciplines. Their body of work spans 70 publications in social sciences, with 51 focusing on psychology.

Their research encompasses several subfields, including sociology and political science, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and safety research.

Key topics addressed in their work include social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, ethics in business and education, racial and ethnic identity research, death anxiety and social exclusion, and experimental behavioral economics studies.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Human-machine collaboration in managerial decision making (2021), published in Computers in Human Behavior
  • Country-level correlates of the Dark Triad traits in 49 countries (2020), published in Journal of Personality
  • Structure of Dark Triad Dirty Dozen Across Eight World Regions (2020), published in Assessment
  • Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries (2020), published in European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Procedural fairness enacted by societal actors increases social trust and social acceptance among ethnic minority members through the promotion of sense of societal belonging (2020), published in Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Van Hiel frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, including Kim Dierckx, Barbara Valcke, Tessa Haesevoets, Arne Roets, and David De Cremer.

Their work is often published in venues such as Frontiers in Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, PsycTESTS Dataset, and Journal of Personality.

Best Publications

  • Item selection and validation of a brief, 15-item version of the need for closure scale

    Arne Roets;Alain Van Hiel

  • The impact of need for closure on conservative beliefs and racism: differential mediation by authoritarian submission and authoritarian dominance

    Alain van Hiel;Mario Pandelaere;Bart Duriez

  • The march of modern fascism. A comparison of social dominance orientation and authoritarianism

    Bart Duriez;Alain Van Hiel

  • Authoritarianism and Social Dominance in Western and Eastern Europe: The Importance of the Sociopolitical Context and of Political Interest and Involvement

    Bart Duriez;Alain Van Hiel;Malgorzata Kossowska

  • Separating Ability From Need: Clarifying the Dimensional Structure of the Need for Closure Scale

    Arne Roets;Alain Van Hiel

  • The relationship between need for closure and conservative beliefs in western and eastern Europe.

    Malgorzata Kossowska;Alain Van Hiel

  • We must not be enemies: Interracial contact and the reduction of prejudice among authoritarians

    Kristof Dhont;Alain Van Hiel

  • Explaining Conservative Beliefs and Political Preferences: A Comparison of Social Dominance Orientation and Authoritarianism

    Alain Van Hiel;Ivan Mervielde

  • The Relationship Between Social-Cultural Attitudes and Behavioral Measures of Cognitive Style: A Meta-Analytic Integration of Studies

    Alain Van Hiel;Emma Onraet;Sarah De Pauw

  • Age differences in conservatism: evidence on the mediating effects of personality and cognitive style.

    Ilse Cornelis;Alain Van Hiel;Arne Roets;Malgorzata Kossowska

  • Openness to experience and boundaries in the mind: relationships with cultural and economic conservative beliefs.

    Alain Van Hiel;Ivan Mervielde

  • Allport’s Prejudiced Personality Today Need for Closure as the Motivated Cognitive Basis of Prejudice

    Arne Roets;Alain Van Hiel

  • Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation: Relationships With Various Forms of Racism

    Alain Van Hiel;Ivan Mervielde

  • The relationship between Openness to Experience and political ideology

    Alain van Hiel;Malgorzata Kossowska;Ivan Mervielde

  • The Presence of Left-Wing Authoritarianism in Western Europe and Its Relationship with Conservative Ideology

    Alain Van Hiel;Bart Duriez;Malgorzata Kossowska

  • Human-machine collaboration in managerial decision making

    Tessa Haesevoets;David De Cremer;Kim Dierckx;Alain Van Hiel

  • The intervening role of social worldviews in the relationship between the five‐factor model of personality and social attitudes

    A. Van Hiel;I. Cornelis;A. Roets

  • Direct contact and authoritarianism as moderators between extended contact and reduced prejudice Lower threat and greater trust as mediators

    Kristof Dhont;Alain Van Hiel

  • The Association of Cognitive Ability with Right-wing Ideological Attitudes and Prejudice: A Meta-analytic Review

    Emma Onraet;Alain Van Hiel;Kristof Dhont;Gordon Hodson

  • The hierarchical structure and construct validity of the PID-5 trait measure in adolescence

    Barbara De Clercq;Filip De Fruyt;Marleen De Bolle;Alain Van Hiel

  • The influence of mothers’ and fathers’ parenting stress and depressive symptoms on own and partner’s parent–child communication

    Koen Ponnet;Edwin Wouters;Dimitri Mortelmans;Inge Pasteels

Frequent Co-Authors

Arne Roets
Arne Roets Ghent University
Kristof Dhont
Kristof Dhont University of Kent
David De Cremer
David De Cremer National University of Singapore
Ivan Mervielde
Ivan Mervielde Ghent University
Filip De Fruyt
Filip De Fruyt Ghent University
Barbara De Clercq
Barbara De Clercq Ghent University
Kees van den Bos
Kees van den Bos Utrecht University
Bart Duriez
Bart Duriez KU Leuven
Jan Cieciuch
Jan Cieciuch University of Zurich
Valdiney Veloso Gouveia
Valdiney Veloso Gouveia Federal University of Paraíba

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