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Dirk Wentura 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 Dirk Wentura sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 187 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dirk Wentura 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 Dirk Wentura sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Dirk Wentura is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a strong focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional areas of study include Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work addresses several key topics, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Among recent publications attributed to the broader research environment around Wentura are:

  • "It occurs after all: Attentional bias towards happy faces in the dot-probe task," 2020, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "Creating a network of importance: The particular effects of self-relevance on stimulus processing," 2020, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • "Research With Implicit Measures: Suggestions for a New Agenda of Sub-Personal Psychology," 2020, Social Cognition
  • "How Emotion Relates to Language and Cognition, Seen Through the Lens of Evaluative Priming Paradigms," 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Assessing subjective prime awareness on a trial-by-trial basis interferes with masked semantic priming effects," 2023, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Frequent co-authors in Wentura's research network include:

  • Benedikt Emanuel Wirth
  • Markus Pospeschill
  • Michaela Rohr
  • Sarah Schäfer
  • Christian Frings

Wentura's studies are published in various academic venues, with multiple contributions to the following journals:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Emotion
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Frontiers in Psychology

In addition to journal articles, Wentura contributed to published works in psychology through the book "Multivariate Datenanalyse mit R" released by Basiswissen Psychologie in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Automatic vigilance: the attention-grabbing power of approach- and avoidance-related social information.

    Dirk Wentura;Klaus Rothermund;Peter Bak

  • Underlying Processes in the Implicit Association Test: Dissociating Salience From Associations

    Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura

  • Wissenschaftliche Beobachtung: eine Einführung

    Werner Greve;Dirk Wentura

  • About the impact of automaticity in the minimal group paradigm: evidence from affective priming tasks

    Sabine Otten;Dirk Wentura

  • Adaptive Resources of the Aging Self: Outlines of an Emergent Perspective.

    Jochen Brandtstadter;Dirk Wentura;Werner Greve

  • Activation and Inhibition of Affective Information: for Negative Priming in the Evaluation Task

    Dirk Wentura

  • Retrieval of incidental stimulus-response associations as a source of negative priming.

    Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura;Jan De Houwer

  • Counter-regulation in affective attentional biases: a basic mechanism that warrants flexibility in emotion and motivation.

    Klaus Rothermund;Andreas Voss;Dirk Wentura

  • Affective priming of semantic categorisation responses

    Jan De Houwer;Dirk Hermans;Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura

  • Dissociative affective and associative priming effects in the lexical decision task: yes versus no responses to word targets reveal evaluative judgment tendencies.

    Dirk Wentura

  • Automatic prejudice in childhood and early adolescence.

    Juliane Degner;Dirk Wentura

  • Figure-Ground Asymmetries in the Implicit Association Test (IAT)

    Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura

  • Distractor repetitions retrieve previous responses to targets

    Christian Frings;Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura

  • A practical guide to sequential priming and related tasks

    Dirk Wentura;Juliane Degner

  • Intentional self-development through adulthood and later life: Tenacious pursuit and flexible adjustment of goals.

    Jochen Brandtstädter;Dirk Wentura;Klaus Rothermund

  • Self-Anchoring and In-Group Favoritism: An Individual Profiles Analysis

    Sabine Otten;Dirk Wentura

  • Minimizing the influence of recoding in the Implicit Association Test: The Recoding-Free Implicit Association Test (IAT-RF):

    Klaus Rothermund;Sarah Teige-Mocigemba;Anne Gast;Dirk Wentura

  • The adaptive self: Personal continuity and intentional self-development.

    Werner Greve;Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura

  • It matters how much you talk: On the automaticity of affective connotations of first and second language words

    Juliane Degner;Cveta Doycheva;Dirk Wentura

  • Decomposing the emotional Stroop effect

    Christian Frings;Julia Englert;Dirk Wentura;Christina Bermeitinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Frings
Christian Frings University of Trier
Klaus Rothermund
Klaus Rothermund Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Andreas Voss
Andreas Voss Heidelberg University
Matthias Ziegler
Matthias Ziegler Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Peter Noack
Peter Noack Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Axel Buchner
Axel Buchner Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Hanna Christiansen
Hanna Christiansen Philipp University of Marburg
Sabine Otten
Sabine Otten University of Groningen
Markus Kiefer
Markus Kiefer University of Ulm

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