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Overview

Bruno Verschuere is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans primarily across the field of psychology, with a focus on social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, artificial intelligence, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's work addresses various topics, particularly in the areas of deception detection and forensic psychology, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, memory processes and influences, adversarial robustness in machine learning, misinformation and its impacts, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and social and intergroup psychology.

Among recent publications attributed to or connected with their research interests are:

  • "Discriminating deceptive from truthful statements using the verifiability approach: A meta-analysis" (2020), Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • "Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries" (2021), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • "Raising the value of research studies in psychological science by increasing the credibility of research reports: the transparent Psi project" (2023), Royal Society Open Science
  • "The use-the-best heuristic facilitates deception detection" (2023), Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Does Honesty Require Time? Two Preregistered Direct Replications of Experiment 2 of Shalvi, Eldar, and Bereby-Meyer (2012)" (2020), Psychological Science

Verschuere frequently collaborates with a number of researchers. Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • Gershon Ben-Shakhar
  • Ewout H. Meijer
  • Yoni Pertzov
  • Sera Wiechert
  • Ine Van der Cruyssen

Their work has appeared across various publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • Applied police briefings
  • Memory

Best Publications

  • Selective attention to threat in the dot probe paradigm: differentiating vigilance and difficulty to disengage

    Ernst H.W. Koster;Geert Crombez;Bruno Verschuere;Jan De Houwer

  • The Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces: A validation study

    Ellen Goeleven;Rudi De Raedt;Lemke Leyman;Bruno Verschuere

  • A review of current evidence for the causal impact of attentional bias on fear and anxiety

    Bram Van Bockstaele;Bruno Verschuere;Helen Tibboel;Jan De Houwer

  • Components of attentional bias to threat in high trait anxiety: Facilitated engagement, impaired disengagement, and attentional avoidance.

    Ernst H.W. Koster;Geert Crombez;Bruno Verschuere;Stefaan Van Damme

  • Does Imminent Threat Capture and Hold Attention

    Ernst H. W. Koster;Geert Crombez;Stefaan Van Damme;Bruno Verschuere

  • Time-course of attention for threatening pictures in high and low trait anxiety.

    Ernst H.W. Koster;Bruno Verschuere;Geert Crombez;Stefaan Van Damme

  • Memory detection: theory and application of the concealed information test

    Bruno Verschuere;Gershon Ben-Shakhar;Ewout H Meijer

  • Lying takes time: A meta-analysis on reaction time measures of deception.

    Kristina Suchotzki;Bruno Verschuere;Bram Van Bockstaele;Gershon Ben-Shakhar

  • Attention to Threat in Anxiety-prone Individuals: Mechanisms Underlying Attentional Bias

    Ernst H. W. Koster;Geert Crombez;Bruno Verschuere;Jan De Houwer

  • Being Honest About Dishonesty: Correlating Self-Reports and Actual Lying

    Rony Halevy;Shaul Shalvi;Bruno Verschuere

  • Autonomic and behavioral responding to concealed information: Differentiating orienting and defensive responses

    Bruno Verschuere;Geert Crombez;Armand De Clercq;Ernst H. W. Koster

  • Detecting Deception : Current Challenges and Cognitive Approaches

    Pär Anders Granhag;Aldert Vrij;Bruno Verschuere

  • From junior to senior Pinocchio: A cross-sectional lifespan investigation of deception

    Evelyne Debey;Maarten De Schryver;Gordon D. Logan;Kristina Suchotzki

  • The ease of lying.

    Bruno Verschuere;Adriaan Spruyt;Ewout H. Meijer;Henry Otgaar

  • The Validity of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory—Revised in a Community Sample

    Katarzyna Uzieblo;Bruno Verschuere;Eva Van den Bussche;Geert Crombez

  • What features of psychopathy might be central? A network analysis of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) in three large samples.

    Bruno Verschuere;Sophia van Ghesel Grothe;Lourens Waldorp;Ashley L. Watts

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

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

  • Deception detection with behavioral, autonomic, and neural measures: Conceptual and methodological considerations that warrant modesty.

    Ewout H. Meijer;Bruno Verschuere;Matthias Gamer;Harald Merckelbach

  • Cheating the Lie Detector Faking in the Autobiographical Implicit Association Test

    Bruno Verschuere;Valentina Prati;Jan De Houwer

  • Lying and executive control: an experimental investigation using ego depletion and goal neglect

    Evelyne Debey;Bruno Verschuere;Bruno Verschuere;Bruno Verschuere;Geert Crombez

  • Signals for threat modulate attentional capture and holding: Fear-conditioning and extinction during the exogenous cueing task

    Emst H. W. Koster;Geert Crombez;Stefaan Van Damme;Bruno Verschuere

Frequent Co-Authors

Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez Ghent University
Gershon Ben-Shakhar
Gershon Ben-Shakhar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ernst H. W. Koster
Ernst H. W. Koster Ghent University
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University
Arnoud Arntz
Arnoud Arntz University of Amsterdam
Merel Kindt
Merel Kindt University of Amsterdam
Matthias Gamer
Matthias Gamer University of Würzburg
Aldert Vrij
Aldert Vrij University of Portsmouth
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi University of Amsterdam

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