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Overview

Eric Rassin is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple disciplines including psychology, neuroscience, and social sciences, with notable contributions to subfields such as social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's work focuses primarily on topics related to deception detection and forensic psychology, memory processes and their influences, psychopathy and forensic psychiatry including sexual offending, personality traits, sensation seeking in adventure sports, jury decision-making processes, and social and intergroup psychology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eric Rassin include Josanne D. M. van Dongen, Henry Otgaar, Ingmar H. A. Franken, Irena Bošković, and Carmen S. Sergiou.

Eric Rassin has published articles in various academic journals, with multiple papers appearing in these frequent venues:

  • Memory
  • Psychology Crime and Law
  • Psychiatry Psychology and Law
  • The International Journal of Evidence & Proof
  • Scientific Reports

Significant recent publications include:

  • "Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Targeting the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Reduces Reactive Aggression and Modulates Electrophysiological Responses in a Forensic Population" (2021) in Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • "Sensation seeking and its relationship with psychopathic traits, impulsivity and aggression: a validation of the Dutch Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS)" (2021) in Psychiatry Psychology and Law
  • "Context effect and confirmation bias in criminal fact finding" (2020) in Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • "Memory and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy: a potentially risky combination in the courtroom" (2021) in Memory
  • "If generalization is the grail, practical relevance is the nirvana: Considerations from the contribution of psychological science of memory to law." (2023) in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Their research is documented across 26 publications in psychology, 13 in neuroscience, and 12 in social sciences. Within these fields, focused investigations in social psychology (14 publications), cognitive neuroscience (12), clinical psychology (9), sociology and political science (5), and gender studies (3) have been undertaken.

Best Publications

  • Mediating effects of rumination and worry on the links between neuroticism, anxiety and depression

    Peter Muris;Jeffrey Roelofs;Eric Rassin;Ingmar Franken

  • The assessment of anhedonia in clinical and non-clinical populations: Further validation of the Snaith–Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS)

    Ingmar H.A. Franken;Eric Rassin;Peter Muris

  • Psychometric Properties of the Dutch BIS/BAS Scales

    Ingmar H. A. Franken;Peter Muris;Eric Rassin

  • Thought–action fusion as a causal factor in the development of intrusions

    Eric Rassin;Harald Merckelbach;Peter Muris;Victor Spaan

  • Paradoxical and less paradoxical effects of thought suppression: a critical review

    E.G.C. Rassin;H.L.G.J. Merckelbach;P.E.H.M. Muris

  • Fantasy proneness and cognitive failures as correlates of dissociative experiences

    Harald Merckelbach;Peter Muris;Eric Rassin

  • Relationships between thought–action fusion, thought suppression and obsessive–compulsive symptoms: a structural equation modeling approach

    E.G.C. Rassin;P.E.H.M. Muris;H.G. Schmidt;H.L.G.J. Merckelbach

  • The Thought-Action Fusion scale: Further evidence for its reliability and validity

    E.G.C. Rassin;H.L.G.J. Merckelbach;P.E.H.M. Muris;H.G. Schmidt

  • Thought-action fusion and thought suppression in obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Eric Rassin;Philip Diepstraten;Harald Merckelbach;Peter Muris

  • Let's find the evidence: an analogue study of confirmation bias in criminal investigations

    Eric Rassin;Anita Eerland;Ilse Kuijpers

  • Dissociation, schizotypy, and fantasy proneness in undergraduate students.

    H.L.G.J. Merckelbach;E.G.C. Rassin;P.E.H.M. Muris

  • The White Bear Suppression Inventory (WBSI) focuses on failing suppression attempts

    Eric Rassin

  • Indecisiveness and the interpretation of ambiguous situations

    Eric Rassin;Peter Muris

  • The correlation between thought-action fusion and religiosity in a normal sample.

    Eric Rassin;Ernst H.W. Koster

  • The paradoxical effects of suppressing anxious thoughts during imminent threat

    Ernst H.W. Koster;Eric Rassin;Geert Crombez;Gérard W.B. Näring

  • Disgust and psychopathological symptoms in a nonclinical sample

    Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach;Sjaan Nederkoorn;Eric Rassin

  • Thought-action fusion and anxiety disorders symptoms in normal adolescents.

    P.E.H.M. Muris;C.M.G. Meesters;E.G.C. Rassin;H.L.G.J. Merckelbach

  • To be or not to be...indecisive: Gender differences, correlations with obsessive-compulsive complaints, and behavioural manifestation

    Eric Rassin;Peter Muris

  • Alters in dissociative identity disorder: Metaphors or genuine entities?

    Harald Merckelbach;Grant J. Devilly;Eric Rassin

  • Why do women swear? An exploration of reasons for and perceived efficacy of swearing in Dutch female students

    Eric Rassin;Peter Muris

  • Short Communication Fantasy proneness and cognitive failures as correlates of dissociative experiences

    Harald Merckelbach;Peter Muris;Eric Rassin

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Muris
Peter Muris Maastricht University
Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University
Ingmar H.A. Franken
Ingmar H.A. Franken Erasmus University Rotterdam
Henk G. Schmidt
Henk G. Schmidt Erasmus University Rotterdam
Cor Meesters
Cor Meesters Maastricht University
Rick H. Hoyle
Rick H. Hoyle Duke University
Birgit Mayer
Birgit Mayer Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ernst H. W. Koster
Ernst H. W. Koster Ghent University
Andy P. Field
Andy P. Field University of Sussex
Henk Nijman
Henk Nijman Radboud University

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