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Bas Verplanken 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 Bas Verplanken sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 138 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bas Verplanken 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 Bas Verplanken sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Bas Verplanken is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Psychology, with an emphasis on Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and General Health Professions.

Their work spans several main topics, including Behavioral Health and Interventions, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Eating Disorders and Behaviors, Behavioral and Psychological Studies, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Media Influence and Health.

Recent papers by Bas Verplanken include:

  • On the nature of eco-anxiety: How constructive or unconstructive is habitual worry about global warming?, 2020, Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • Attitudes, Habits, and Behavior Change, 2021, Annual Review of Psychology
  • Habit and climate change, 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Changing healthcare professionals' non-reflective processes to improve the quality of care, 2022, Social Science & Medicine
  • Factors contributing to the experience of shame and shame management: Adverse childhood experiences, peer acceptance, and attachment styles, 2020, The Journal of Social Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bas Verplanken include Dominika Kwaśnicka, Benjamin Gardner, Phillippa Lally, Amanda L. Rebar, and Ryan E. Rhodes.

Bas Verplanken has published in a variety of venues, most notably:

  • Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • Annual Review of Psychology
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • The Journal of Social Psychology

Best Publications

  • Reflections on past behavior: A self-report index of habit strength

    Bas Verplanken;Sheina Orbell

  • Motivated decision making: Effects of activation and self-centrality of values on choices and behavior

    Bas Verplanken;Rob W. Holland

  • Interventions to Break and Create Consumer Habits

    Bas Verplanken;Wendy Wood

  • Habit, attitude, and planned behaviour : is habit an empty construct or an interesting case of goal-directed automaticity?

    B Bas Verplanken;Hag Henk Aarts

  • Predicting behavior from actions in the past : repeated decision making or a matter of habit?

    Hag Henk Aarts;B Bas Verplanken;Afm van Knippenberg

  • Habit, information acquisition, and the process of making travel mode choices

    B Bas Verplanken;Hag Henk Aarts;Afm van Knippenberg

  • Individual differences in impulse buying tendency:feeling and no thinking

    Bas Verplanken;Astrid Herabadi

  • Ethical values and motives driving organic food choice

    Pirjo Honkanen;Bas Verplanken;Svein Ottar Olsen

  • Habit versus planned behaviour: A field experiment

    B Bas Verplanken;Hag Henk Aarts;Afm van Knippenberg;AJ Moonen

  • Beyond frequency: habit as mental construct.

    Bas Verplanken

  • Context change and travel mode choice : Combining the habit discontinuity and self-activation hypotheses

    Bas Verplanken;Ian Walker;Adrian Davis;Michaela Jurasek

  • ATTITUDE VERSUS GENERAL HABIT -- ANTECEDENTS OF TRAVEL MODE CHOICE /

    Bas Verplanken;Henk Aarts;Ad van Knippenberg;Carina van Knippenberg

  • Good intentions, bad habits, and effects of forming implementation intentions on healthy eating

    Bas Verplanken;Suzanne Faes

  • The automatic component of habit in health behavior: habit as cue-contingent automaticity.

    Sheina Orbell;Bas Verplanken

  • Habit and information use in travel mode choices

    Hag Henk Aarts;B Bas Verplanken;Afm van Knippenberg

  • The Psychology of Impulse Buying: An Integrative Self-Regulation Approach

    Bas Verplanken;Ayana Sato

  • Empowering interventions to promote sustainable lifestyles: Testing the habit discontinuity hypothesis in a field experiment

    Bas Verplanken;Deborah Roy

  • Consumer style and health: The role of impulsive buying in unhealthy eating

    Bas Verplanken;Astrid G. Herabadi;Judith A. Perry;David H. Silvera

  • Intention to consume seafood—the importance of habit

    Pirjo Honkanen;Svein Ottar Olsen;Bas Verplanken

  • On the nature of attitude-behavior relations: the strong guide, the weak follow

    Rob W. Holland;Bas Verplanken;Ad Van Knippenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne M. Haase
Anne M. Haase University of Bristol
Svein Ottar Olsen
Svein Ottar Olsen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Sheina Orbell
Sheina Orbell University of Essex
Rob W. Holland
Rob W. Holland Radboud University
Ad van Knippenberg
Ad van Knippenberg Radboud University
Katharine A. Rimes
Katharine A. Rimes King's College London
Robert A. C. Ruiter
Robert A. C. Ruiter Maastricht University
Gerjo Kok
Gerjo Kok Maastricht University
Rik Pieters
Rik Pieters Tilburg University
Benjamin Gardner
Benjamin Gardner University of Surrey

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