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2026

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128
Citations
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World Ranking
190
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Peter Muris is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands and specializes in psychology with a focus on clinical psychology. Their research encompasses various subfields including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, education, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist has contributed to topics such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, memory processes and influences, mindfulness and compassion interventions, COVID-19 and mental health, autism spectrum disorder research, personality traits and psychology, and deception detection and forensic psychology.

Their recent publications include:

  • The Process of Science: A Critical Evaluation of more than 15 Years of Research on Self-Compassion with the Self-Compassion Scale (2020), published in Mindfulness
  • Self-Esteem and Self-Compassion: A Narrative Review and Meta-Analysis on Their Links to Psychological Problems and Well-Being (2023), published in Psychology Research and Behavior Management
  • Selective Mutism and Its Relations to Social Anxiety Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder (2021), published in Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
  • Deconstructing Self-Compassion: How the Continued Use of the Total Score of the Self-Compassion Scale Hinders Studying a Protective Construct Within the Context of Psychopathology and Stress (2022), published in Mindfulness

Peter Muris frequently publishes in journals such as:

  • Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Mindfulness
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychology Research and Behavior Management

Co-authorship appears regularly with several researchers, most notably:

  • Henry Otgaar
  • Cor Meesters
  • Thomas H. Ollendick
  • Chunlin Li
  • David Pineda

Best Publications

  • The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)--further evidence for its reliability and validity in a community sample of Dutch children and adolescents.

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Frank van den Berg

  • A Brief Questionnaire for Measuring Self-Efficacy in Youths

    Peter Muris

  • 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

  • Relationships between self-efficacy and symptoms of anxiety disorders and depression in a normal adolescent sample

    Peter Muris

  • The Role of Temperament in the Etiology of Child Psychopathology

    Peter Muris;Thomas H. Ollendick

  • 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

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

    Peter Muris;Jeffrey Roelofs;Eric Rassin;Ingmar Franken

  • Differences in attention to food and food intake between overweight/obese and normal-weight females under conditions of hunger and satiety.

    Ilse M.T. Nijs;Peter Muris;Anja S. Euser;Ingmar H.A. Franken

  • Protection or Vulnerability? A Meta-Analysis of the Relations Between the Positive and Negative Components of Self-Compassion and Psychopathology.

    Peter Muris;Peter Muris;Nicola Petrocchi

  • Comorbid Anxiety Symptoms in Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders

    Peter Muris;Pim Steerneman;Harald Merckelbach;Irit Holdrinet

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

    Harald Merckelbach;Robert Horselenberg;Peter Muris

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Self-Perception Profile for children: further evidence for its factor structure, reliability, and validity

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Petra Fijen

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

    Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach;Robert Horselenberg

  • Individual differences in reward sensitivity are related to food craving and relative body weight in healthy women

    Ingmar H.A. Franken;Peter Muris

  • Self-reported attachment style, attachment quality, and symptoms of anxiety and depression in young adolescents.

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Marion van Melick;Linda Zwambag

  • Autobiographical memories become less vivid and emotional after eye movements

    Marcel van den Hout;Peter Muris;Elske Salemink;Merel Kindt

  • Internalizing and Externalizing Problems as Correlates of Self-Reported Attachment Style and Perceived Parental Rearing in Normal Adolescents

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Silvia van den Berg

  • On the Links Between Attachment Style, Parental Rearing Behaviors, and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Non-Clinical Children

    Jeffrey Roelofs;Cor Meesters;Mijke ter Huurne;Lotte Bamelis

  • The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety

    Peter Muris;Harald Merckelbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University
Cor Meesters
Cor Meesters Maastricht University
Birgit Mayer
Birgit Mayer Erasmus University Rotterdam
Eric Rassin
Eric Rassin Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ingmar H.A. Franken
Ingmar H.A. Franken Erasmus University Rotterdam
Thomas H. Ollendick
Thomas H. Ollendick Virginia Tech
Peter J. de Jong
Peter J. de Jong University of Groningen
Jeffrey Roelofs
Jeffrey Roelofs Maastricht University
Arjan E. R. Bos
Arjan E. R. Bos The Open University
Henk G. Schmidt
Henk G. Schmidt Erasmus University Rotterdam

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