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Ruud Custers publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ruud Custers sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 88 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Ruud Custers D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ruud Custers sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ruud Custers is a researcher affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands, specializing primarily in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as psychiatry and mental health.

Their research addresses a variety of topics, notably action observation and synchronization, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, neural and behavioral psychology studies, free will and agency, behavioral and psychological studies, child and animal learning development, and the intersection of language, metaphor, and cognition.

Ruud Custers has contributed to numerous publications across respected journals. Some recent papers include:

  • Intentional action and limitation of personal autonomy. Do restrictions of action selection decrease the sense of agency? (2021, Consciousness and Cognition)
  • The Differential Impact of a Response's Effectiveness and its Monetary Value on Response-Selection (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Biased preferences through exploitation: How initial biases are consolidated in reward-rich environments. (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General)
  • Studying the sense of agency in the absence of motor movement: an investigation into temporal binding of tactile sensations and auditory effects (2021, Experimental Brain Research)
  • Ideomotor Action: Evidence for Automaticity in Learning, but Not Execution (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)

Frequent collaborators in their work include Hans Marien, Henk Aarts, Kaiyang Qin, Chris Harris, and Samantha Antusch.

Ruud Custers has been published repeatedly in several journals, with multiple papers featured in Motivation Science, as well as contributions to Consciousness and Cognition, Scientific Reports, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology General and Human Perception & Performance.

Best Publications

  • The Unconscious Will: How the Pursuit of Goals Operates Outside of Conscious Awareness

    Ruud Custers;Henk Aarts

  • Positive affect as implicit motivator: on the nonconscious operation of behavioral goals.

    Ruud Custers;Henk Aarts

  • Mechanisms of motivation-cognition interaction: Challenges and opportunities

    Todd S. Braver;Marie K. Krug;Kimberly S. Chiew;Wouter Kool

  • The Nonconscious Cessation of Goal Pursuit: When Goals and Negative Affect Are Coactivated

    Henk Aarts;Ruud Custers;Rob W. Holland

  • On the inference of personal authorship: enhancing experienced agency by priming effect information.

    Henk Aarts;Ruud Custers;Daniel M. Wegner

  • Preparing and Motivating Behavior Outside of Awareness

    Henk Aarts;Ruud Custers;Hans Marien

  • Mindful Attention Prevents Mindless Impulses

    Esther K. Papies;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Ruud Custers

  • The Unconscious Eye Opener: Pupil Dilation Reveals Strategic Recruitment of Resources Upon Presentation of Subliminal Reward Cues

    Erik Bijleveld;Ruud Custers;Henk Aarts

  • Unconscious Goal Activation and the Hijacking of the Executive Function

    Hans Marien;Ruud Custers;Ran R. Hassin;Henk Aarts

  • In search of the nonconscious sources of goal pursuit: Accessibility and positive affective valence of the goal state

    Ruud Custers;Henk Aarts

  • PerCePtion in the serviCe of goAl Pursuit: motivAtion to AttAin goAls enhAnCes the PerCeived size of goAl-instrumentAl oBjeCts

    Martijn Veltkamp;Henk Aarts;Ruud Custers

  • The goal‐dependent automaticity of drinking habits

    Paschal Sheeran;Henk Aarts;Ruud Custers;Amanda Rivis

  • Goal Priming and the Affective-Motivational Route to Nonconscious Goal Pursuit

    Henk Aarts;Ruud Custers;Martijn Veltkamp

  • Unconscious reward cues increase invested effort, but do not change speed-accuracy tradeoffs

    Erik Bijleveld;Ruud Custers;Henk Aarts

  • SOCIAL STEREOTYPES AND AUTOMATIC GOAL PURSUIT

    Henk Aarts;Tanya L. Chartrand;Ruud Custers;Unna Danner

  • Beyond priming effects: The role of positive affect and discrepancies in implicit processes of motivation and goal pursuit

    Ruud Custers;Henk Aarts

  • Priming and authorship ascription: when nonconscious goals turn into conscious experiences of self-agency.

    Henk Aarts;Ruud Custers;Hans Marien

  • Positive priming and intentional binding: Eye-blink rate predicts reward information effects on the sense of agency

    Henk Aarts;Erik Bijleveld;Ruud Custers;Myrthel Dogge

  • Goal-Discrepant Situations Prime Goal-Directed Actions if Goals Are Temporarily or Chronically Accessible

    Ruud Custers;Henk Aarts

  • When moving without volition: implied self-causation enhances binding strength between involuntary actions and effects.

    Myrthel Dogge;Marloes Schaap;Ruud Custers;Daniel M. Wegner

Frequent Co-Authors

Henk Aarts
Henk Aarts Utrecht University
Daniel M. Wegner
Daniel M. Wegner Harvard University
Matthijs Vink
Matthijs Vink Utrecht University
Harm Veling
Harm Veling Radboud University
Herbert Hoijtink
Herbert Hoijtink Utrecht University
Iroise Dumontheil
Iroise Dumontheil Birkbeck, University of London
Ran R. Hassin
Ran R. Hassin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John A. Bargh
John A. Bargh Yale University
Anne Giersch
Anne Giersch University of Strasbourg
Carol S. Dweck
Carol S. Dweck Stanford University

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