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Overview

Michiel van Elk is affiliated with Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and is actively engaged in research primarily within the fields of psychology and social sciences.

Their research spans several subfields including social psychology, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, and health. This multidisciplinary approach reflects a broad interest in human behavior and mental processes.

Key topics in Michiel van Elk's work include:

  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Chemical Synthesis and Alkaloids
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Religion and Society Interactions

Michiel van Elk has published extensively, with recent significant papers including:

  • Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • History repeating: guidelines to address common problems in psychedelic science, 2023, Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology

These publications contribute to the scientific understanding of psychedelics, their effects, and related methodological challenges. Other relevant works often co-authored or related to their research field include topics on psilocybin microdosing and scientific source credibility effects.

Michiel van Elk frequently collaborates with other researchers. Prominent co-authors in their body of work are:

  • Suzanne Hoogeveen
  • David B. Yaden
  • Bastiaan T. Rutjens
  • Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
  • Josephine Marschall

Their research is commonly disseminated through journals such as Religion Brain & Behavior, International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, Psychopharmacology, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, and Cortex.

Best Publications

  • You'll never crawl alone: Neurophysiological evidence for experience-dependent motor resonance in infancy

    M. van Elk;H.T. van Schie;S. Hunnius;C. Vesper

  • Action semantics: A unifying conceptual framework for the selective use of multimodal and modality-specific object knowledge

    Michiel van Elk;Hein van Schie;Harold Bekkering

  • Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists

    Will M. Gervais;Dimitris Xygalatas;Dimitris Xygalatas;Ryan T. Mckay;Michiel Van Elk

  • The functional role of motor activation in language processing: Motor cortical oscillations support lexical-semantic retrieval

    M. van Elk;H.T. van Schie;R.A. Zwaan;H. Bekkering

  • Brain mechanisms in religion and spirituality: An integrative predictive processing framework

    Michiel van Elk;André Aleman

  • Absorption and spiritual experience: A review of evidence and potential mechanisms

    Michael Lifshitz;Michael Lifshitz;Michiel van Elk;T.M. Luhrmann

  • Meta-analyses are no substitute for registered replications: a skeptical perspective on religious priming.

    Michiel van Elk;Dora Matzke;Quentin F. Gronau;Maime Guan

  • Pharmacological, neural, and psychological mechanisms underlying psychedelics: A critical review

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  • Motor activation during observation of unusual versus ordinary actions in infancy.

    Janny C. Stapel;Sabine Hunnius;Michiel van Elk;Harold Bekkering

  • 'Standing in Awe': The effects of awe on body perception and the relation with absorption

    Michiel van Elk;Annika Karinen;Eva Specker;Eftychia Stamkou

  • Paranormal believers are more prone to illusory agency detection than skeptics

    Michiel van Elk

  • How learning to shake a rattle affects 8-month-old infants' perception of the rattle's sound: Electrophysiological evidence for action-effect binding in infancy

    Markus Paulus;Sabine Hunnius;Michiel van Elk;Harold Bekkering

  • Registered Replication Report: Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998):

    Michael O'Donnell;Leif D Nelson;Evi Ackermann;Balazs Aczel

  • Priming of supernatural agent concepts and agency detection

    Michiel van Elk;Bastiaan T. Rutjens;Joop van der Pligt;Frenk van Harreveld

  • History repeating: guidelines to address common problems in psychedelic science

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  • Seeking the Supernatural: The Interactive Religious Experience Model

    Neil Van Leeuwen;Michiel van Elk

  • Do You See What I See?: An Investigation of the Aesthetic Experience in the Laboratory and Museum

    Eva Specker;Pablo P. L. Tinio;Michiel van Elk

  • The neural correlates of the awe experience: Reduced default mode network activity during feelings of awe

    Michiel van Elk;M. Andrea Arciniegas Gomez;Wietske van der Zwaag;Wietske van der Zwaag;Hein T. van Schie

  • Compromised motor planning and Motor Imagery in right Hemiparetic Cerebral Palsy

    Céline Crajé;Michiel van Elk;Manuela Beeren;Hein T. van Schie

  • Embodied cognition: The interplay between automatic resonance and selection-for-action mechanisms

    Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer;Oliver Lindemann;Michiel van Elk;Harold Bekkering

  • Perceptual Biases in Relation to Paranormal and Conspiracy Beliefs

    Michiel van Elk

  • Mentalizing skills do not differentiate believers from non-believers, but credibility enhancing displays do.

    David L. R. Maij;Frenk van Harreveld;Will M. Gervais;Yann Schrag

  • Dorsal stream areas process action semantics

    Michiel van Elk;Hein T van Schie;Harold Bekkering

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold Bekkering
Harold Bekkering Radboud University
Ryan McKay
Ryan McKay Royal Holloway University of London
Joop van der Pligt
Joop van der Pligt University of Amsterdam
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam
Marjaana Lindeman
Marjaana Lindeman University of Helsinki
Sabine Hunnius
Sabine Hunnius Radboud University
Hannes Bleuler
Hannes Bleuler École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Markus Paulus
Markus Paulus Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Bert Steenbergen
Bert Steenbergen Radboud University
Aaron C. Kay
Aaron C. Kay Duke University

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