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Bertus F. Jeronimus

Bertus F. Jeronimus

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Rising Stars
2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
33
Citations
5224
World Ranking
919
National Ranking
13

Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
6099
World Ranking
9787
National Ranking
431

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Bertus F. Jeronimus is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and has a substantial body of work in the field of psychology. Their research primarily focuses on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, and applied psychology. The work spans diverse topics including mental health research, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, COVID-19 and mental health, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, health disparities and outcomes, social and intergroup psychology, and behavioral health and interventions.

Frequent co-authors in Jeronimus's research include Anne Margit Reitsema, Solomiia Myroniuk, Georgios Abakoumkin, Edward P. Lemay, and Maximilian Agostini. Collaboration with these scholars reflects continuous engagement in multidisciplinary and multi-authored studies.

The scientist has contributed to several publication venues, with notable recurring appearances in:

  • Emotion
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • PLoS ONE
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • Scientific Reports

Among recent papers authored by Jeronimus, important works include:

  • Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Emotion dynamics in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic and descriptive review (2021, Emotion)
  • Folk Classification and Factor Rotations: Whales, Sharks, and the Problems With the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) (2021, Clinical Psychological Science)
  • Intergenerational conflicts of interest and prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, Personality and Individual Differences)
  • Predictors of persistence of anxiety disorders across the lifespan: a systematic review (2021, The Lancet Psychiatry)

Jeronimus has also authored a book titled Personality and Coronavirus 2019 Pandemic, published by the University of Groningen Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Lack of group-to-individual generalizability is a threat to human subjects research

    Aaron J. Fisher;John D. Medaglia;Bertus F. Jeronimus

  • Neuroticism and common mental disorders : Meaning and utility of a complex relationship

    Johan Ormel;Bertus F Jeronimus;Roman Kotov;Harriëtte Riese

  • Neuroticism's prospective association with mental disorders halves after adjustment for baseline symptoms and psychiatric history, but the adjusted association hardly decays with time: a meta-analysis on 59 longitudinal/prospective studies with 443 313 participants

    Bertus Jeronimus;R Kotov;Harriette Riese;Johan Ormel

  • Mutual reinforcement between neuroticism and life experiences: a five-wave, 16-year study to test reciprocal causation.

    Bertus F. Jeronimus;Harriette Riese;Robbert Sanderman;Johan Ormel

  • Negative and positive life events are associated with small but lasting change in neuroticism

    B. F. Jeronimus;J. Ormel;A. Aleman;B. W. J. H. Penninx

  • Empirical evidence for definitions of episode, remission, recovery, relapse and recurrence in depression : a systematic review

    P. L. de Zwart;B. F. Jeronimus;P. de Jonge

  • The reciprocity of prosocial behavior and positive affect in daily life.

    Evelien Snippe;Evelien Snippe;Bertus F Jeronimus;Marije Aan Het Rot;Elisabeth H Bos

  • HowNutsAreTheDutch (HoeGekIsNL): A crowdsourcing study of mental symptoms and strengths.

    Lian Van Der Krieke;Bertus F. Jeronimus;Frank J. Blaauw;Frank J. Blaauw;Rob B.K. Wanders

  • Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence.

    Wolfgang Stroebe;Michelle R vanDellen;Georgios Abakoumkin;Edward P Lemay

  • Emotion dynamics in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic and descriptive review.

    Anne Margit Reitsema;Bertus F. Jeronimus;Marijn van Dijk;Peter de Jonge

  • Differential associations of locus of control with anxiety, depression and life-events : A five-wave, nine-year study to test stability and change

    Johanna H M Hovenkamp-Hermelink;Bertus F Jeronimus;Date C van der Veen;Philip Spinhoven

  • Insight in schizophrenia : Associations with empathy

    G. H. M. Pijnenborg;G. H. M. Pijnenborg;J. M. Spikman;J. M. Spikman;B. F. Jeronimus;A. Aleman;A. Aleman

  • Preserving Subjective Wellbeing in the Face of Psychopathology: Buffering Effects of Personal Strengths and Resources

    Elisabeth H Bos;Evelien Snippe;Peter de Jonge;Bertus F Jeronimus

  • Predictors of adherence to public health behaviors for fighting COVID-19 derived from longitudinal data

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  • Timing of Stressful Life Events Affects Stability and Change of Neuroticism

    Harriette Riese;Harriette Riese;Harold Snieder;Bertus F. Jeronimus;Tellervo Korhonen

  • Folk Classification and Factor Rotations: Whales, Sharks, and the Problems With the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP):

    Gerald J. Haeffel;Bertus F. Jeronimus;Bonnie N. Kaiser;Lesley Jo Weaver

  • A Primrose Path? Moderating Effects of Age and Gender in the Association between Green Space and Mental Health.

    Elisabeth H. Bos;Leon van der Meulen;Marieke Wichers;Bertus F. Jeronimus

  • Temporal Dynamics of Health and Well-Being: A Crowdsourcing Approach to Momentary Assessments and Automated Generation of Personalized Feedback.

    Lian van der Krieke;Frank J Blaauw;Ando C Emerencia;Hendrika M Schenk

  • Anxiety sensitivity, its stability and longitudinal association with severity of anxiety symptoms

    Johanna H. M. Hovenkamp-Hermelink;Date C. van der Veen;Richard C. Oude Voshaar;Neeltje M. Batelaan

  • Trust in government and its associations with health behaviour and prosocial behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Qin Han;Bang Zheng;Mioara Cristae;Maximilian Agostini

  • Intergenerational conflicts of interest and prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Shuxian Jin;Daniel Balliet;Angelo Romano;Giuliana Spadaro

  • The relation between empathy and depressive symptoms in a Dutch population sample.

    Elise C Bennik;Bertus F Jeronimus;Marije Aan Het Rot

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter de Jonge
Peter de Jonge University of Groningen
Harriette Riese
Harriette Riese University Medical Center Groningen
Johan Ormel
Johan Ormel University Medical Center Groningen
Elisabeth H. Bos
Elisabeth H. Bos University of Groningen
Michelle K. Ryan
Michelle K. Ryan University of Exeter
Jocelyn J. Bélanger
Jocelyn J. Bélanger New York University
Edward P. Lemay
Edward P. Lemay University of Maryland, College Park
Ángel Gómez
Ángel Gómez National University of Distance Education
Karen M. Douglas
Karen M. Douglas University of Kent
Marieke Wichers
Marieke Wichers Maastricht University

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