2026 Bas Verplanken: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	65	2770	2536	306	288	138	27546

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

2454
Citations
Motivated decision making: Effects of activation and self-centrality of values on choices and behavior

Bas Verplanken;Rob W. Holland

1718
Citations
Interventions to Break and Create Consumer Habits

Bas Verplanken;Wendy Wood

1620
Citations
Habit, attitude, and planned behaviour : is habit an empty construct or an interesting case of goal-directed automaticity?

B Bas Verplanken;Hag Henk Aarts

1537
Citations
Predicting behavior from actions in the past : repeated decision making or a matter of habit?

Hag Henk Aarts;B Bas Verplanken;Afm van Knippenberg

1480
Citations
Habit, information acquisition, and the process of making travel mode choices

B Bas Verplanken;Hag Henk Aarts;Afm van Knippenberg

1230
Citations
Individual differences in impulse buying tendency:feeling and no thinking

Bas Verplanken;Astrid Herabadi

1150
Citations
Ethical values and motives driving organic food choice

Pirjo Honkanen;Bas Verplanken;Svein Ottar Olsen

976
Citations
Habit versus planned behaviour: A field experiment

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

874
Citations
Beyond frequency: habit as mental construct.

Bas Verplanken

831
Citations
Context change and travel mode choice : Combining the habit discontinuity and self-activation hypotheses

Bas Verplanken;Ian Walker;Adrian Davis;Michaela Jurasek

801
Citations
ATTITUDE VERSUS GENERAL HABIT -- ANTECEDENTS OF TRAVEL MODE CHOICE /

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

745
Citations
Good intentions, bad habits, and effects of forming implementation intentions on healthy eating

Bas Verplanken;Suzanne Faes

645
Citations
The automatic component of habit in health behavior: habit as cue-contingent automaticity.

Sheina Orbell;Bas Verplanken

628
Citations
Habit and information use in travel mode choices

Hag Henk Aarts;B Bas Verplanken;Afm van Knippenberg

539
Citations
The Psychology of Impulse Buying: An Integrative Self-Regulation Approach

Bas Verplanken;Ayana Sato

472
Citations
Empowering interventions to promote sustainable lifestyles: Testing the habit discontinuity hypothesis in a field experiment

Bas Verplanken;Deborah Roy

457
Citations
Consumer style and health: The role of impulsive buying in unhealthy eating

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

390
Citations
Intention to consume seafood—the importance of habit

Pirjo Honkanen;Svein Ottar Olsen;Bas Verplanken

382
Citations
On the nature of attitude-behavior relations: the strong guide, the weak follow

Rob W. Holland;Bas Verplanken;Ad Van Knippenberg

352
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne M. Haase University of Bristol

Svein Ottar Olsen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Sheina Orbell University of Essex

Rob W. Holland Radboud University

Ad van Knippenberg Radboud University

Gerjo Kok Maastricht University

Katharine A. Rimes King's College London

Robert A. C. Ruiter Maastricht University

Benjamin Gardner University of Surrey

Marcus R. Munafò University of Bath

External Links

Personal website of Bas Verplanken

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