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Paul Verhaeghen is a researcher affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their academic work primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and developmental and educational psychology.

The main research topics that feature prominently in their publications include mindfulness and compassion interventions, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, COVID-19 and mental health, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment and cognitive processes, sleep and related disorders, memory processes and influences, as well as neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Verhaeghen has contributed to literature published in several recurring scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Mindfulness
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Journal of American College Health
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B

Some of their recent research papers are:

  • Mindfulness as Attention Training: Meta-Analyses on the Links Between Attention Performance and Mindfulness Interventions, Long-Term Meditation Practice, and Trait Mindfulness (2020), published in Mindfulness
  • Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions (2021), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual differences in naturalistic sleep quality and episodic memory performance in young and older adults (2021), published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

They frequently collaborate with a set of co-authors, including Grazia Mirabito, Shelley N. Aikman, Audrey Duarte, Vonetta M. Dotson, and Andrew M. Gradone. Their collaboration counts range from two to eight joint publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Meta-analyses of age–cognition relations in adulthood: Estimates of linear and nonlinear age effects and structural models.

    Paul Verhaeghen;Timothy A. Salthouse

  • Aging, executive control, and attention: a review of meta-analyses.

    Paul Verhaeghen;John Cerella

  • Aging and vocabulary scores: a meta-analysis.

    Paul Verhaeghen

  • Improving memory performance in the aged through mnemonic training: a meta-analytic study.

    Paul Verhaeghen;Alfons Marcoen;Luc Goossens

  • Aging and Verbal Memory Span: A Meta-Analysis

    Kara L. Bopp;Paul Verhaeghen

  • Making Working Memory Work A Meta-Analysis of Executive-Control and Working Memory Training in Older Adults

    Julia Karbach;Paul Verhaeghen

  • Aging and dual-task performance: a meta-analysis.

    Paul Verhaeghen;David W. Steitz;Martin J. Sliwinski;John Cerella

  • Facts and fiction about memory aging: a quantitative integration of research findings

    Paul Verhaeghen;Alfons Marcoen;Luc Goossens

  • Aging and the Stroop effect: a meta-analysis.

    Paul Verhaeghen;Lieve De Meersman

  • The fate of cognition in very old age: Six-year longitudinal findings in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE)

    Tania Singer;Paul Verhaeghen;Paolo Ghisletta;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Aging and Executive Control: Reports of a Demise Greatly Exaggerated:

    Paul Verhaeghen

  • Aging and Task Switching: A Meta-Analysis

    Christina Wasylyshyn;Paul Verhaeghen;Martin J. Sliwinski

  • Why we sing the blues: the relation between self-reflective rumination, mood, and creativity.

    Paul Verhaeghen;Jutta Joorman;Rodney Khan

  • Ageing and switching of the focus of attention in working memory: results from a modified N-back task.

    Paul Verhaeghen;Chandramallika Basak

  • On the mechanisms of plasticity in young and older adults after instruction in the method of loci: evidence for an amplification model.

    Paul Verhaeghen;Alfons Marcoen

  • Adult age and digit symbol substitution performance: a meta-analysis.

    William J. Hoyer;Robert S. Stawski;Christina Wasylyshyn;Paul Verhaeghen

  • A working memory workout: how to expand the focus of serial attention from one to four items in 10 hours or less.

    Paul Verhaeghen;John Cerella;Chandramallika Basak

  • Trait Anger, Anger Expression, and Ambulatory Blood Pressure: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Jennifer L. Schum;Randall S. Jorgensen;Paul Verhaeghen;Marie Sauro

  • Aging and the negative priming effect: a meta-analysis.

    Paul Verhaeghen;Lieve De Meersman

  • Depression and Cognitive Control across the Lifespan: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

    Vonetta M. Dotson;Shawn M. McClintock;Shawn M. McClintock;Paul Verhaeghen;Joseph U. Kim

  • "Improving memory performance in the aged through mnemonic training: A meta-analytic study": Correction.

    Paul Verhaeghen;Alfons Marcoen;Luc Goossens

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Hoyer
William J. Hoyer Syracuse University
Luc Goossens
Luc Goossens KU Leuven
Reinhold Kliegl
Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam
Michael T. Ullman
Michael T. Ullman Georgetown University
Martin J. Sliwinski
Martin J. Sliwinski Pennsylvania State University
Johannes Michalak
Johannes Michalak Witten/Herdecke University
Shawn M. McClintock
Shawn M. McClintock The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Mike Martin
Mike Martin University of Zurich
Timothy A. Salthouse
Timothy A. Salthouse University of Virginia
Scott D. Moffat
Scott D. Moffat Georgia Institute of Technology

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