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Ellen R.A. de Bruijn

Ellen R.A. de Bruijn

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Psychology

D-Index
37
Citations
4416
World Ranking
9286
National Ranking
403

Overview

Ellen R.A. de Bruijn is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and conducts research primarily in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their work covers a wide range of topics within these disciplines, focusing on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their research addresses several main topics, including:

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

They have published in a variety of academic journals, with frequent contributions to these venues:

  • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • NeuroImage
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Social Cognition and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Review of Subdomains of Social Functioning" (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "Expecting the unexpected: a review of learning under uncertainty across development" (2023), published in Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • "Mistakes that matter: An event-related potential study on obsessive-compulsive symptoms and social performance monitoring in different responsibility contexts" (2020), published in Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • "Self-centered or other-directed: Neural correlates of performance monitoring are dependent on psychopathic traits and social context" (2020), published in Cortex
  • "l-DOPA and oxytocin influence the neurocomputational mechanisms of self-benefitting and prosocial reinforcement learning" (2023), published in NeuroImage

Throughout their career, Ellen R.A. de Bruijn has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Myrthe Jansen
  • Sandy Overgaauw
  • Selin Topel
  • Ili Ma
  • Henk van Steenbergen

Best Publications

  • Drug-induced stimulation and suppression of action monitoring in healthy volunteers

    Ellen R. A. de Bruijn;Wouter Hulstijn;Wouter Hulstijn;Robbert J. Verkes;Gé S. F. Ruigt

  • Effects of antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs on action monitoring in healthy volunteers.

    Ellen R.A. de Bruijn;Bernard G.C. Sabbe;Wouter Hulstijn;Wouter Hulstijn;Gé S.F. Ruigt

  • Testing a model for bilingual semantic priming with interlingual homographs: RT and N400 effects.

    Roel Kerkhofs;Ton Dijkstra;Dorothee J. Chwilla;Dorothee J. Chwilla;Ellen R.A. de Bruijn

  • More on interlingual homograph recognition: language intermixing versus explicitness of instruction

    Ton Dijkstra;Ellen De Bruijn;Herbert Schriefers;Sjoerd Ten Brinke

  • Joint Action: Neurocognitive Mechanisms Supporting Human Interaction

    Harold Bekkering;Ellen R. A. de Bruijn;Raymond H. Cuijpers;Roger D. Newman-Norlund

  • Action monitoring in major depressive disorder with psychomotor retardation

    Didier Schrijvers;Ellen R.A. de Bruijn;Yvonne Maas;Carmen De Grave

  • When errors are rewarding.

    Ellen R. A. de Bruijn;Ellen R. A. de Bruijn;Floris P. de Lange;Floris P. de Lange;D. Yves von Cramon;Markus Ullsperger;Markus Ullsperger

  • Psychopaths lack the automatic avoidance of social threat: Relation to instrumental aggression.

    Anna Katinka Louise von Borries;Inge Volman;Ellen Rosalia Aloïs de Bruijn;Berend Hendrik Bulten

  • Early and late components of error monitoring in violent offenders with psychopathy.

    Inti A. Brazil;Ellen R.A. de Bruijn;Berend H. Bulten;A. Katinka L. von Borries

  • Testosterone biases the amygdala toward social threat approach

    Sina Radke;Sina Radke;Inge Volman;Inge Volman;Pranjal Mehta;Veerle van Son

  • Does oxytocin affect mind-reading? A replication study

    Sina Radke;Ellen R.A. de Bruijn

  • Language context effects on interlingual homograph recognition: Evidence from event-related potentials and response times in semantic priming

    Ellen R. A. de Bruijn;Ton Dijkstra;Dorothee J. Chwilla;Herbert J. Schriefers

  • Action monitoring and depressive symptom reduction in major depressive disorder.

    Didier Schrijvers;Ellen R.A. De Bruijn;Ellen R.A. De Bruijn;Yvonne J. Maas;Patrick Vancoillie

  • Acting on Anger Social Anxiety Modulates Approach-Avoidance Tendencies After Oxytocin Administration

    Sina Radke;Karin Roelofs;Ellen R. A. de Bruijn

  • Neural correlates of impulsive responding in borderline personality disorder: ERP evidence for reduced action monitoring.

    Ellen R.A. de Bruijn;Koen P. Grootens;Robbert J. Verkes;Verena Buchholz

  • Up to "me" or up to "us"? The impact of self-construal priming on cognitive self-other integration.

    Lorenza S. Colzato;Ellen R. A. de Bruijn;Bernhard Hommel

  • Better to give than to take?: Interactive social decision-making in severe major depressive disorder

    Marianne Destoop;Didier Schrijvers;Carmen De Grave;Bernard Sabbe

  • In action or inaction? Social approach-avoidance tendencies in major depression.

    Sina Radke;Sina Radke;Franziska Güths;Julia A. André;Bernhard W. Müller

  • The other side of the coin: oxytocin decreases the adherence to fairness norms.

    Sina Radke;Ellen R. A. de Bruijn;Ellen R. A. de Bruijn

  • Self-identification and empathy modulate error-related brain activity during the observation of penalty shots between friend and foe

    Roger D. Newman-Norlund;Shanti Ganesh;Hein T. van Schie;Ellen R. A. De Bruijn

Frequent Co-Authors

Wouter Hulstijn
Wouter Hulstijn University of Antwerp
Bernard Sabbe
Bernard Sabbe University of Antwerp
Harold Bekkering
Harold Bekkering Radboud University
Roy P.C. Kessels
Roy P.C. Kessels Radboud University
Karin Roelofs
Karin Roelofs Radboud University
Markus Ullsperger
Markus Ullsperger Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Robbert-Jan Verkes
Robbert-Jan Verkes Radboud University
Johannes G. Ramaekers
Johannes G. Ramaekers Maastricht University
Dorothee J. Chwilla
Dorothee J. Chwilla Radboud University
Ton Dijkstra
Ton Dijkstra Radboud University

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