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Bram Vervliet

Bram Vervliet

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
57
Citations
18260
World Ranking
3965
National Ranking
54

Bram Vervliet 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 Bram Vervliet sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 275 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bram Vervliet 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 Bram Vervliet sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Bram Vervliet is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, with a focus on neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans several related subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and education.

Their research addresses major topics such as stress responses and cortisol, memory and neural mechanisms, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, mental health research topics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and early childhood education and development.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Bram Vervliet include Lukas Van Oudenhove, Tom Beckers, Dirk Hermans, Laura Luyten, and Michael Treanor.

The venues where Bram Vervliet has published repeatedly include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Gedragstherapie.
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • eLife

Among recent papers, Bram Vervliet is noted as an author of the following works:

  • "Optimizing exposure therapy with an inhibitory retrieval approach and the OptEx Nexus" (2022, Behaviour Research and Therapy)
  • "Understanding clinical fear and anxiety through the lens of human fear conditioning" (2023, Nature Reviews Psychology)
  • "Aversive Stimulus Pairings Are an Unnecessary and Insufficient Cause of Pathological Anxiety" (2020, Biological Psychiatry)
  • "Using electrodermal activity to estimate fear learning differences in anxiety: A multiverse analysis" (2024, Behaviour Research and Therapy)
  • "More engagement in inefficient avoidance through partial reinforcement" (2022, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)

Their research involves investigating the mechanisms underlying fear, anxiety, and avoidance behaviors, often applying methodologies from cognitive and behavioral neuroscience to clinical psychology contexts.

Best Publications

  • The role of short-chain fatty acids in microbiota-gut-brain communication.

    Boushra Dalile;Lukas Van Oudenhove;Bram Vervliet;Kristin Verbeke

  • Maximizing Exposure Therapy: An Inhibitory Learning Approach

    Michelle G. Craske;Michael Treanor;Christopher C. Conway;Tomislav Zbozinek

  • Beyond extinction: erasing human fear responses and preventing the return of fear

    Merel Kindt;Marieke Soeter;Bram Vervliet

  • Don't fear 'fear conditioning': Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear

    Tina B. Lonsdorf;Mareike M. Menz;Marta Andreatta;Miguel A. Fullana

  • Fear Extinction and Relapse: State of the Art

    Bram Vervliet;Michelle G. Craske;Dirk Hermans

  • Neural signatures of human fear conditioning: an updated and extended meta-analysis of fMRI studies.

    M. A Fullana;B. J Harrison;C Soriano-Mas;C Soriano-Mas;Bram Vervliet

  • Fear Generalization in Humans: Systematic Review and Implications for Anxiety Disorder Research

    Simon Dymond;Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Bram Vervliet;Bryan Roche

  • State-of-the-art and future directions for extinction as a translational model for fear and anxiety

    Michelle G. Craske;Dirk Hermans;Bram Vervliet

  • Fear extinction in the human brain: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies in healthy participants.

    Miquel A. Fullana;Anton Albajes-Eizagirre;Carles Soriano-Mas;Bram Vervliet

  • Role of Inhibition in Exposure Therapy

    Michelle G. Craske;Betty Liao;Lily Brown;Bram Vervliet

  • Dissociable Roles for the Hippocampus and the Amygdala in Human Cued versus Context Fear Conditioning

    Andreas Marschner;Raffael Kalisch;Bram Vervliet;Debora Vansteenwegen

  • Return of fear in a human differential conditioning paradigm caused by a return to the original acquistion context.

    Debora Vansteenwegen;Dirk Hermans;Bram Vervliet;Geert Francken

  • The repeated confrontation with videotapes of spiders in multiple contexts attenuates renewal of fear in spider-anxious students.

    Debora Vansteenwegen;Bram Vervliet;Carlos Iberico;Frank Baeyens

  • Conditioned fear extinction and reinstatement in a human fear-potentiated startle paradigm.

    Seth D. Norrholm;Tanja Jovanovic;Bram Vervliet;Karyn M. Myers

  • Extinction, generalization, and return of fear: a critical review of renewal research in humans.

    Bram Vervliet;Frank Baeyens;Omer Van den Bergh;Dirk Hermans

  • Advancing psychotherapy and evidence-based psychological interventions

    Paul M.G. Emmelkamp;Paul M.G. Emmelkamp;Daniel David;Daniel David;Tom Beckers;Peter Muris

  • Generalization versus Contextualization in Automatic Evaluation.

    Bertram Gawronski;Robert J. Rydell;Bram Vervliet;Jan De Houwer

  • Return of fear in a human differential conditioning paradigm caused by a stimulus change after extinction.

    Bram Vervliet;Debora Vansteenwegen;Frank Baeyens;Dirk Hermans

  • Maximizing exposure therapy An inhibitory learning approach

    Andre Pittig;Stephan Stevens;Bram Vervliet;Michael Treanor

  • Resistance to extinction in evaluative conditioning.

    Debora Vansteenwegen;Geert Francken;Bram Vervliet;Armand De Clercq

  • Delinquency and Learning Disabilities

    Annemaree Carroll;Stephen Houghton

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven
Tom Beckers
Tom Beckers KU Leuven
Frank Baeyens
Frank Baeyens KU Leuven
Paul Eelen
Paul Eelen KU Leuven
Koen Schruers
Koen Schruers Maastricht University
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Filip Raes
Filip Raes KU Leuven
Ann Meulders
Ann Meulders Maastricht University
Miquel A. Fullana
Miquel A. Fullana Clínic Barcelona

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