Harald Merckelbach

Maastricht University — Netherlands

Psychology · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes(143), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments(140), Memory Processes and Influences(107), Deception detection and forensic psychology(100), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development(70)

Publications696 total

Symptom over- and underreporting are relatively stable behavioral opposites in forensic patients and undergraduates
Personality and Individual Differences·2025Open Access
The place of validity tests in psychiatric diagnosis: beyond common misconceptions
BJPsych Advances·2025Open Access
Sensitivity of the Genuine Symptoms Scale of the Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SRSI) to Psychopathology: Enhancing the Informational Value of a Symptom Validity Test for Symptom Overreporting
Psychological Injury and Law·2025Open Access
Symptom overreporting and its consequences for treatment
Current Opinion in Psychology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Evaluating the UE‐ATR Checklist: Nuanced Attribution in Unsuccessful Therapeutic Outcomes
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy·2025Open Access
The Link between False Confessions, Suggestibility, and Compliance: A Review Using Experimental and Field Studies
Applied police briefings :·2025Open Access
The Link between False Confessions, Suggestibility, and Compliance: A Review Using Experimental and Field Studies
Applied police briefings :·2025Open Access
The (Small) World of Validity Test Research According to Leonhard and Leonhard (2024): A Critique
Psychological Injury and Law·2024· 6 cited
Dissociative Disorders
Psychopathology·2024
The Spectrum of Response Bias in Trauma Reports: Overreporting, Underreporting, and Mixed Presentation
Psychological Injury and Law·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
[Social security disability assessments: validity tests are useful].
PubMed·2024
Repressed Memories (of Sexual Abuse Against Minors) and Statutes of Limitations in Europe: Status Quo and Possible Alternatives
Topics in Cognitive Science·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
The prevalence of feigning and concealment of Covid-19 infections in an international sample
Journal of Health Psychology·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Symptoms? Which Symptoms? Distorted Symptom Presentation and Its Detection
2024· 1 cited
The use of alternative scenarios in assessing the reliability of victims’ statements
Psychology Crime and Law·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Detecting symptom exaggeration in compensation-seeking individuals, psychotherapy clients, and individuals referred for job assessments: Psychometric features of the French and Dutch versions of the Self-Report Symptom Inventory.
Psychology & Neuroscience·2023· 4 cited
Trauma
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2023· 1 cited
Likelihood ratios in psychological expert opinion, and their reception by professional judges
The International Journal of Evidence & Proof·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
Can false denials turn fact into fiction? The effect of false denials on memory for self-performed actions
Psychological Research·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Experts’ Failure to Consider the Negative Predictive Power of Symptom Validity Tests
Frontiers in Psychology·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Peter Muris(26), Steven Jay Lynn(5), Cor Meesters(4), Robert Horselenberg(4), Timo Giesbrecht(4), Scott O. Lilienfeld(4), Peter J. de Jong(4), Ewout H. Meijer(3), Nicole Bogie(3), Pim Steerneman(3), Marko Jelícic(3), Björn Gadet(3), Henk G. Schmidt(3), Henk Nijman(3), Arnoud Arntz(3), Eric Rassin(3), Dalena van Heugten–van der Kloet(3), Carolien Martijn(2), Henry Otgaar(2), Thomas H. Ollendick(2)