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Arne Roets 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 Arne Roets sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 106 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Arne Roets 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 Arne Roets sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Arne Roets is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with numerous publications in related subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Political Science and International Relations, and Information Systems and Management.

Their work covers a range of topics including Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Ethics in Business and Education, Social Media and Politics, and Emotions and Moral Behavior.

Roets has contributed to various academic journals, frequently publishing in Social Psychological and Personality Science, Scientific Reports, Government Information Quarterly, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Policy Studies.

Notable recent publications include:

  • How do citizens perceive the use of Artificial Intelligence in public sector decisions? (2023), Government Information Quarterly
  • A meta-analytic integration of research on the relationship between right-wing ideological attitudes and aggressive tendencies (2020), European Review of Social Psychology
  • On the effectiveness of approach-avoidance instructions and training for changing evaluations of social groups. (2020), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Disliked but Free to Speak: Cognitive Ability Is Related to Supporting Freedom of Speech for Groups Across the Ideological Spectrum (2020), Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Towards a multifaceted measure of perceived legitimacy of participatory governance (2023), Governance

Roets collaborates regularly with several frequent coauthors, such as Tessa Haesevoets, Dries H. Bostyn, Alain Van Hiel, Ruben Van Severen, and Bram Verschuere, reflecting ongoing partnerships in social and psychological research.

Best Publications

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

    Arne Roets;Alain Van Hiel

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

    Arne Roets;Alain Van Hiel

  • ‘Fake news’: Incorrect, but hard to correct. The role of cognitive ability on the impact of false information on social impressions

    Jonas De keersmaecker;Arne Roets

  • Of Mice, Men, and Trolleys: Hypothetical Judgment Versus Real-Life Behavior in Trolley-Style Moral Dilemmas:

    Dries H. Bostyn;Sybren Sevenhant;Arne Roets

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

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

  • The Motivated Gatekeeper of Our Minds: New Directions in Need for Closure Theory and Research

    Arne Roets;Arie W. Kruglanski;Malgorzata Kossowska;Antonio Pierro

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

    Arne Roets;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

  • The relational responding task: toward a new implicit measure of beliefs

    Jan De Houwer;Niclas Heider;Adriaan Spruyt;Arne Roets

  • Opening Closed Minds: The Combined Effects of Intergroup Contact and Need for Closure on Prejudice

    Kristof Dhont;Arne Roets;Alain Van Hiel

  • The closed mind: ‘Experience’ and ‘cognition’ aspects of openness to experience and need for closure as psychological bases for right‐wing attitudes

    Emma Onraet;Alain Van Hiel;Arne Roets;Ilse Cornelis

  • The role of need for closure in essentialist entitativity beliefs and prejudice: An epistemic needs approach to racial categorization

    Arne Roets;Alain Van Hiel

  • Registered replication report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008)

    Bruno Verschuere;Ewout H. Meijer;Ariane Jim;Katherine Hoogesteyn

  • Is Sexism a Gender Issue? A Motivated Social Cognition Perspective on Men's and Women's Sexist Attitudes toward Own and Other Gender:

    Arne Roets;Alain Van Hiel;Kristof Dhont

  • Investigating the Robustness of the Illusory Truth Effect Across Individual Differences in Cognitive Ability, Need for Cognitive Closure, and Cognitive Style:

    Jonas De keersmaecker;David Dunning;Gordon Pennycook;David G. Rand

  • The Motivated Cognitive Basis of Transphobia: The Roles of Right-Wing Ideologies and Gender Role Beliefs

    Arti P. Makwana;Kristof Dhont;Jonas De keersmaecker;Parisa Akhlaghi-Ghaffarokh

  • The tyranny of choice: a cross-cultural investigation of maximizing-satisficing effects on well-being

    Arne Roets;Barry Schwartz;Yanjun Guan

  • Does materialism predict racism? Materialism as a distinctive social attitude and a predictor of prejudice.

    Arne Roets;Alain Van Hiel;Ilse Cornelis

  • The morality of action : the asymmetry between judgments of praise and blame in the action–omission effect

    Dries H. Bostyn;Arne Roets

  • The Relationship Between Right‐wing Attitudes and Cognitive Style: A Comparison of Self‐report and Behavioural Measures of Rigidity and Intolerance of Ambiguity

    Alain Van Hiel;Emma Onraet;Howard M Crowson;Arne Roets

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Van Hiel
Alain Van Hiel Ghent University
Kristof Dhont
Kristof Dhont University of Kent
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Caroline Braet
Caroline Braet Ghent University
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Christian Unkelbach
Christian Unkelbach University of Cologne
Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski University of Maryland, College Park
David De Cremer
David De Cremer National University of Singapore
Adriaan Spruyt
Adriaan Spruyt Ghent University

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