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Aldert Vrij 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 Aldert Vrij sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 465 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Aldert Vrij 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 Aldert Vrij sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Aldert Vrij is a researcher affiliated with the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans multiple fields including psychology, neuroscience, and social sciences, with a particular focus on deception detection and forensic psychology.

Their research covers several specialized subfields such as social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and artificial intelligence. Over the course of their career, Aldert Vrij has published extensively in topics including:

  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Memory processes and influences
  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending
  • Misinformation and its impacts
  • Adversarial robustness in machine learning
  • Social and intergroup psychology
  • Hate speech and cyberbullying detection

Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • Applied Cognitive Psychology (14 publications)
  • The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context (10 publications)
  • Psychiatry Psychology and Law (7 publications)
  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (7 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychology (5 publications)

Some recent papers authored by Aldert Vrij are:

  • The Relationship between Complications, Common Knowledge Details and Self-handicapping Strategies and Veracity: A Meta-analysis (2021, The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context)
  • How researchers can make verbal lie detection more attractive for practitioners (2022, Psychiatry Psychology and Law)
  • Combining Verbal Veracity Assessment Techniques to Distinguish Truth Tellers from Lie Tellers (2020, The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context)
  • Verbal Lie Detection: Its Past, Present and Future (2022, Brain Sciences)
  • Plausibility: A Verbal Cue to Veracity worth Examining? (2020, The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context)

Aldert Vrij has collaborated frequently with other researchers, with notable co-authors including:

  • Sharon Leal (44 co-authored publications)
  • Haneen Deeb (33 co-authored publications)
  • Samantha Mann (21 co-authored publications)
  • Ronald P. Fisher (20 co-authored publications)
  • Nicola Palena (9 co-authored publications)

Their contributions also extend to book publications. One such recent title is Contextualizing Interviews to Detect Verbal Cues to Truths and Deceit, published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Detecting Lies and Deceit: Pitfalls and Opportunities

    Aldert Vrij

  • Detecting Lies and Deceit: The Psychology of Lying and the Implications for Professional Practice

    Aldert Vrij

  • Increasing Cognitive Load to Facilitate Lie Detection: The Benefit of Recalling an Event in Reverse Order

    Aldert Vrij;Samantha A. Mann;Ronald P. Fisher;Sharon Leal

  • Detecting Deceit via Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior

    Aldert Vrij;Katherine Edward;Kim P. Roberts;Ray Bull

  • Pitfalls and Opportunities in Nonverbal and Verbal Lie Detection

    Aldert Vrij;Pär Anders Granhag;Stephen Porter

  • Criteria-Based Content Analysis: A Qualitative Review of the First 37 Studies.

    Aldert Vrij

  • Eliciting cues to deception and truth: What matters are the questions asked

    Aldert Vrij;Pär Anders Granhag

  • Lay persons’ and police officers’ beliefs regarding deceptive behaviour

    Lucy Akehurst;Günter Köhnken;Aldert Vrij;Ray Bull

  • Detecting true lies: police officers' ability to detect suspects' lies.

    Samantha Mann;Aldert Vrij;Ray Bull

  • Detecting lies and deceit: Pitfalls and opportunities, 2nd ed.

    Aldert Vrij

  • Outsmarting the Liars: Toward a Cognitive Lie Detection Approach

    Aldert Vrij;Pär Anders Granhag;Samantha Mann;Sharon Leal

  • Lie experts' beliefs about nonverbal indicators of deception

    Aldert Vrij;Gün R. Semin

  • Outsmarting the Liars: The Benefit of Asking Unanticipated Questions

    Aldert Vrij;Sharon Leal;Pär Anders Granhag;Samantha Mann

  • Detecting deception by manipulating cognitive load

    Aldert Vrij;Ronald Fisher;Samantha Mann;Sharon Leal

  • A cognitive approach to lie detection: A meta‐analysis

    Aldert Vrij;Ronald P. Fisher;Hartmut Blank

  • Detecting deception via strategic disclosure of evidence.

    Maria Hartwig;Pär Anders Granhag;Leif A. Strömwall;Aldert Vrij

  • Cues to Deception and Ability to Detect Lies as a Function of Police Interview Styles

    Aldert Vrij;Samantha Mann;Susanne Kristen;Ronald P. Fisher

  • Telling and detecting lies in a high-stake situation: the case of a convicted murderer

    Aldert Vrij;Samantha Mann

  • Attitudes towards animal use and belief in animal mind

    Sarah Knight;Aldert Vrij;Julie Cherryman;Karl Nunkoosing

  • Why professionals fail to catch liars and how they can improve

    Aldert Vrij

Frequent Co-Authors

Samantha Mann
Samantha Mann University of Portsmouth
Sharon Leal
Sharon Leal University of Portsmouth
Pär Anders Granhag
Pär Anders Granhag University of Gothenburg
Ronald P. Fisher
Ronald P. Fisher Florida International University
Lorraine Hope
Lorraine Hope University of Portsmouth
Ray Bull
Ray Bull University of Derby
Leif A. Strömwall
Leif A. Strömwall University of Gothenburg
Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University
Bruno Verschuere
Bruno Verschuere University of Amsterdam
Maria Hartwig
Maria Hartwig John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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