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Psychology
Netherlands
2023

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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Psychology D-index 96 Citations 28,454 698 World Ranking 500 National Ranking 26

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Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award

2007 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Cognition
  • Social psychology
  • Anxiety

His main research concerns Developmental psychology, Anxiety disorder, Anxiety, Psychiatry and Cognition. The study incorporates disciplines such as Dissociation, Recall, Arousal, Personality and Dissociative in addition to Developmental psychology. His Anxiety disorder research incorporates themes from Worry, Personality Assessment Inventory, El Niño, Generalized anxiety disorder and Phobias.

His studies in Anxiety integrate themes in fields like Test validity, Institutional repository, Psychometrics and Depression. Harald Merckelbach has included themes like Occupational safety and health and Clinical psychology in his Psychiatry study. The study incorporates disciplines such as Cognitive psychology, Social psychology, Feeling and Suggestibility in addition to Cognition.

His most cited work include:

  • Three traditional and three new childhood anxiety questionnaires: their reliability and validity in a normal adolescent sample (403 citations)
  • Comorbid Anxiety Symptoms in Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders (309 citations)
  • The Malevolent Side of Human Nature: A Meta-Analysis and Critical Review of the Literature on the Dark Triad (Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy) (260 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Harald Merckelbach mainly investigates Developmental psychology, Clinical psychology, Psychiatry, Social psychology and Cognition. As a member of one scientific family, he mostly works in the field of Developmental psychology, focusing on Dissociative and, on occasion, Dissociative Experiences Scale and Dissociation. His work on Anxiety disorder and Anxiety as part of general Psychiatry study is frequently linked to Injury prevention, Suicide prevention and Human factors and ergonomics, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of science.

His Anxiety disorder research is multidisciplinary, relying on both El Niño, Panic disorder and Phobias. His Anxiety study incorporates themes from Institutional repository, Psychometrics, Depression and Test validity. His Cognition study frequently draws connections to other fields, such as Cognitive psychology.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Developmental psychology (25.81%)
  • Clinical psychology (19.35%)
  • Psychiatry (18.18%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2013-2021)?

  • Clinical psychology (19.35%)
  • Social psychology (16.42%)
  • Psychiatry (18.18%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His scientific interests lie mostly in Clinical psychology, Social psychology, Psychiatry, Malingering and Recall. The concepts of his Clinical psychology study are interwoven with issues in Test, Symptom exaggeration, Depression and Anxiety. Harald Merckelbach works mostly in the field of Social psychology, limiting it down to topics relating to Cognitive psychology and, in certain cases, Cognition.

Many of his research projects under Psychiatry are closely connected to Injury prevention, Human factors and ergonomics and Sexual abuse with Injury prevention, Human factors and ergonomics and Sexual abuse, tying the diverse disciplines of science together. His studies deal with areas such as Developmental psychology, Suggestibility and Working memory as well as Recall. His Developmental psychology research integrates issues from Recall test, Metamemory, Metacognition and Eyewitness memory.

Between 2013 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • The Malevolent Side of Human Nature: A Meta-Analysis and Critical Review of the Literature on the Dark Triad (Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy) (260 citations)
  • The Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (73 citations)
  • The trauma model of dissociation: inconvenient truths and stubborn fictions. Comment on Dalenberg et al. (2012). (71 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Cognition
  • Social psychology
  • Law

Harald Merckelbach spends much of his time researching Social psychology, Clinical psychology, Dissociative, Psychiatry and Psychopathology. The Social psychology study combines topics in areas such as Malingering, Cognitive psychology and Dissociative Amnesia. He interconnects Test, Presentation and Recall in the investigation of issues within Clinical psychology.

His Dissociative research includes elements of Dissociation, Cognition, Distress and Dissociation. His study in the field of Attentional control, Eeg asymmetry and Symptom provocation also crosses realms of Sexual abuse and Injury prevention. His study in Developmental psychology focuses on Suggestibility in particular.

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Best Publications

The Malevolent Side of Human Nature: A Meta-Analysis and Critical Review of the Literature on the Dark Triad (Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy)

Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach;Henry Otgaar;Ewout Meijer.
Perspectives on Psychological Science (2017)

611 Citations

Three traditional and three new childhood anxiety questionnaires: their reliability and validity in a normal adolescent sample

Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach;Thomas Ollendick;Neville King.
Behaviour Research and Therapy (2002)

604 Citations

Comorbid Anxiety Symptoms in Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Peter Muris;Pim Steerneman;Harald Merckelbach;Irit Holdrinet.
Journal of Anxiety Disorders (1998)

505 Citations

Fears, worries, and scary dreams in 4- to 12-year-old children: their content, developmental pattern, and origins.

Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach;Björn Gadet;Vénique Moulaert.
Journal of Clinical Child Psychology (2000)

428 Citations

The Creative Experiences Questionnaire (CEQ): A brief self-report measure of fantasy proneness

Harald Merckelbach;Robert Horselenberg;Peter Muris.
Personality and Individual Differences (2001)

418 Citations

Individual differences in thought suppression. The white bear suppression inventory: Factor structure, reliability, validity and correlates

Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach;Robert Horselenberg.
Behaviour Research and Therapy (1996)

389 Citations

The role of parental fearfulness and modeling in children's fear.

Peter Muris;Pim Steerneman;Harald Merckelbach;Cor Meesters.
Behaviour Research and Therapy (1996)

357 Citations

A world of lies

H.L.G.J. Merckelbach.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2006)

341 Citations

Correlations among two self-report questionnaires for measuring DSM-defined anxiety disorder symptoms in children: the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders and the Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale

P.E.H.M. Muris;H.G. Schmidt;H.L.G.J. Merckelbach.
Personality and Individual Differences (2000)

319 Citations

The staff observation aggression scale-revised (SOAS-R).

Henk L.I. Nijman;Peter Muris;Harald L.G.J. Merckelbach;Tom Palmstierna.
Aggressive Behavior (1999)

317 Citations

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