2026 Aldert Vrij: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	84	1227	1081	148	136	465	26802

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

1055
Citations
Detecting Lies and Deceit: The Psychology of Lying and the Implications for Professional Practice

Aldert Vrij

980
Citations
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

691
Citations
Detecting Deceit via Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior

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

658
Citations
Pitfalls and Opportunities in Nonverbal and Verbal Lie Detection

Aldert Vrij;Pär Anders Granhag;Stephen Porter

637
Citations
Criteria-Based Content Analysis: A Qualitative Review of the First 37 Studies.

Aldert Vrij

501
Citations
Eliciting cues to deception and truth: What matters are the questions asked

Aldert Vrij;Pär Anders Granhag

467
Citations
Lay persons’ and police officers’ beliefs regarding deceptive behaviour

Lucy Akehurst;Günter Köhnken;Aldert Vrij;Ray Bull

427
Citations
Detecting true lies: police officers' ability to detect suspects' lies.

Samantha Mann;Aldert Vrij;Ray Bull

421
Citations
Detecting lies and deceit: Pitfalls and opportunities, 2nd ed.

Aldert Vrij

420
Citations
Outsmarting the Liars: Toward a Cognitive Lie Detection Approach

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

411
Citations
Lie experts' beliefs about nonverbal indicators of deception

Aldert Vrij;Gün R. Semin

407
Citations
Outsmarting the Liars: The Benefit of Asking Unanticipated Questions

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

378
Citations
Detecting deception by manipulating cognitive load

Aldert Vrij;Ronald Fisher;Samantha Mann;Sharon Leal

362
Citations
A cognitive approach to lie detection: A meta‐analysis

Aldert Vrij;Ronald P. Fisher;Hartmut Blank

335
Citations
Detecting deception via strategic disclosure of evidence.

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

332
Citations
Cues to Deception and Ability to Detect Lies as a Function of Police Interview Styles

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

290
Citations
Telling and detecting lies in a high-stake situation: the case of a convicted murderer

Aldert Vrij;Samantha Mann

290
Citations
Attitudes towards animal use and belief in animal mind

Sarah Knight;Aldert Vrij;Julie Cherryman;Karl Nunkoosing

289
Citations
Why professionals fail to catch liars and how they can improve

Aldert Vrij

284
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Samantha Mann University of Portsmouth

Sharon Leal University of Portsmouth

Pär Anders Granhag University of Gothenburg

Ronald P. Fisher Florida International University

Ray Bull University of Derby

Leif A. Strömwall University of Gothenburg

Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University

Bruno Verschuere University of Amsterdam

Maria Hartwig John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Kim A. Bard University of Portsmouth

External Links

Wikipedia of Aldert Vrij Personal website of Aldert Vrij

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