Publications by Harald Merckelbach
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2023
- The Dutch-German Equivalence Of The SRSI
- SRSI: Detecting Symptom Exaggeration
- Can False Denials Turn Fact Into Fiction?
2022
- Experts’ Failure To Consider The Negative Predictive Power Of Symptom Validity Tests
- Traits And Distorted Symptom Presentation: A Scoping Review
- Cry For Help As A Root Cause Of Poor Symptom Validity: A Critical Note
- The Link Between Suggestibility, Compliance, And False Suggestions
- Feeling Guilty: Little Effect On False Confession Rate
- Empirical Research On Fantasy Proneness And Its Correlates
- A Critical Review Of Case Studies On Dissociative Amnesia
- The Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SRSI)
- Dissociative Tendencies And Hyperassociativity
- No Self-Serving Bias In Therapists
- Dissociation And Its Disorders: Competing Models, Future Directions, And A Way Forward
- Worsening Of Self-Reported Symptoms Through Suggestive Feedback
- Increases of Correct Memories And Spontaneous False Memories Due To Eye Movements
- Psychosis As A Confounder Of Symptom Credibility Testing
- Overlooking Feigning Behavior May Results In Potential Harmful Treatment Interventions
- Do You Know People Who Feign? Proxy Respondents About Feigned Symptoms
- What Drives False Memories In Psychopathology? A Case For Associative Activation
- The Verifiability Approach To Detection Of Malingered Physical Symptoms
- The Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SRSI) Is Sensitive To Instructed Feigning, But Not To Genuine Psychopathology
- Feigning Hand Preference – A Case Report And Preliminary Data
- When Patients Overreport Symptoms – More than Just Malingering
- A Survey On Adverse Incidents In Legal Psychology Studies: Reflections On Ethics Review
- Expert Witnesses, Dissociative Amnesia, And Extraordinary Remembering: Response To Brand Et Al.
- The Return Of The Repressed – The Persistent And Problematic Claims Of Long-Forgotten Trauma
- Verifiability On The Run: An Experimental Study On The Approach To Malingered Symptoms
- Frontal EEG Asymmetry During Symptom Provocation Predicts Subjective Responses in Survivors With and Without PTSD
- Alexithymia As A Potential Source Of Symptom Over-Reporting
- Fantasy Proneness Correlates With The Intensity Of Near-Death Experiences
- Symptom Self-Reports Are Susceptible To Misinformation
- Lateral Eye movements Increase False Memory Rates
- Decreasing Invalid Symptom Reporting – A Comment On Horner Et Al. (2017)
- PTSD And Diminished Responsibility As “New Evidence” In Criminal Revision Procedures
- Seven Myths About Feigning
- Why Trauma-Related Dissociation Is a Misnomer In Courts
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2017
- Neuropsychologists’ Ability To Predict Distorted Symptom Presentation
- Symptom Overreporting And Dissociative Experiences: A Qualitative Review
- Biased Symptom Reporting And Antisocial Behavior In Forensic Samples: A Weak Link
- The Verifiability Approach To The Detection Of Malingered Physical Symptoms
- Frontal EEG Asymmetry During Symptom Provocation Predicts Subjective Responses In Survivors With and Without PTSD
- Dangerously Neglecting Courtroom Realities
- The Malevolent Side Of Human Nature: A Meta-Analysis And Critical Review Of The Literature On The Dark Triad
- What Drives False Memories In Psychopathology? A Case For Association Activation
- Witnesses’ Failure To Detect Covert Manipulations In Their Written Statements
- Differentiating Factitious From Malingered Symptomatology
- These Two Are Different, Yes They’re The Same: Choice Blindness For Facial Identity
- Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN) Cannot Distinguish Between Truthful And Fabricated Accounts Of A Negative Event
- The Effect Of Choice Reversal On Blindness For Identification Decisions
- On The Alleged Memory-Undermining Effects Of Daydreaming
- Deception Detection With Behavioral, Autonomic, And Neural Measures: Conceptual And Methodological Considerations That Warrant Modesty
- Validity Of Symptom Reports Of Asylum Seekers In A Psychiatric Hospital: A Descriptive Study
- Strong, But Wrong. Lay People’s And Police Officers’ Beliefs About Verbal and Nonverbal Cues To Deception
- The Self-Report Symptom Inventory: A New Instrument For The Assessment Of Distorted Symptom Endorsement
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2015
- Sleep Loss Increases Dissociation And Affects Memory For Emotional Stimuli
- Inconsistent Retrospective Self-Reports Of Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Exaggerating Psychopathology Produces Residual Effects That Are Resistant To Corrective Feedback
- The Role Of Frontal EEG Asymmetry In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- How Effective Is Retrieval Support For Witnesses With Different Levels Of Working And Source Memory?
- Questionable Recollections Of A Shooting Incident In A Victim With Frontal Lobe Injury
- Imagining The Impossible Before Breakfast: The Relation Between Creativity, Dissociativity, And Sleep
- MDMA, Cannabis, And Cocaine Produce Acute Dissociative Symptoms
- Alcohol Intoxication Impairs Memory And Increases Suggestibility For A Mock Crime: A Field Study
- Antisocial Features And Faking Bad: A Critical Review
- The Overlap Between Dissociative Symptoms And Symptom Over-reporting
- The Trauma Model Of Dissociation: Inconvenient Truths And Stubborn Fictions
- Contextual Bias In Verbal Credibility Assessment
- Symptom Overreporting Obscures The Dose-Response Relationship Between Trauma Severity And Symptoms
- Night-Time Experiences And Daytime Dissociation: A Path Analysis Modeling Study
- Self-Reported Sleep Disturbances In Patients With Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Memory Impairment Is Not Sufficient For Choice Blindness To Occur
- This Is The Person You Selected: Eyewitnesses’ Blindness
- The Structured Inventory Of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS): A Systematic Review And Meta-Analys
- Forced-Choice Tests As Single-Case Experiments In The Differential Diagnosis of Intentional Symptom Distortion
- Feigning ≠ Feigning A Memory Deficit: The Medical Symptom Validity Test As An Example
- Early Emotional Processing Deficits In Depersonalization
- Let’s Use Those Tests!
- Yes, I Have Sometimes Stolen Bikes: Blindness For Norm-Violating Behavior And Implications For Suspect Interrogations
- Symptom Validity Testing In Somatoform And Dissociative Disorders: A Critical Review
- Dissociative Symptoms And Sleep Parameters: An All Night Polysomnography Study In Patients With Insomnia
- Witnesses' Blindness For Their Own Facial Recognition Decisions: A Field Study
- Dissociation And Dissociative Disorders: Challenging Conventional Wisdom
- Sleep Normalization And Decrease In Dissociative Experiences: Evaluation In An Inpatient Sample
- Fragmented Sleep, Fragmented Mind: The Role Of Sleep In Dissociative Symptoms
- Planting A Misdiagnosis Of Alzheimers Disease In A Persons Mind
- It’s Your Choice: Or Is It Really?
- Susceptibility To Misleading Information Under Social Pressure In Schizophrenia
- A Note On Cognitive Dissonance And Malingering
- The Effects Of Alcohol On Crime Related Memories: A Field Study
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- A Skeptical Look At A Remarkable Case Of Overnight Amnesia
- The Residual Effect Of Feigning: How Intentional Faking May Evolve Into A Less Conscious Of Symptom Reporting.
- Misinformation Increases Symptom Reporting: A Test-Retest Experiment
- Cognitive Underperformance And Symptom Overreporting In A Mixed Psychiatric Sample.
2010
- Extracting Concealed Information From Groups.
- Cognitive Processes, Trauma, And Dissociation. Misconceptions And Misrepresentations: Reply To Bremner (2010).
- Detection Of Feigned Crime-Related Amnesia: A Multi-Method Approach.
- Fantasy Proneness As A Confounder Of Verbal Lie Detection Tools.
- Detecting Malingered Memory Problems In The Civil And Criminal Arena.
- Children's Suggestion-Induced Omission Errors Are Not Caused By Memory Erasure.
- Memory Distrust And Acceptance Of Misinformation.
- Skin Conductance And Memory Fragmentation After Exposure To An Emotional Film Clip In Depersonalization Disorder
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2009
- Experimental Simulation: Type Of Malingering Scenario Makes A Difference
- Abducted By A UFO: Prevalence Information Affects Young Children's False Memories For An Implausible Event
- Shortened Versions Of The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale Meet The Standards
- Interrogation Techniques And Memory Distrust
- Cognitive Processes In Dissociation: An Analysis Of Assumptions
- Acute Dissociation Predicts Rapid Habituation Of Skin Conductance Responses To Aversive Auditory Probes
- Dissociative Experiences On Ice: Peritraumatic And Trait Dissociation During The Cold Pressor Test
- Sex Offender Management Using The Polygraph: A Critical Review
- Children's False Memories: Easier To Elicit For A Negative Than For A Neutral Event
- Acute Consolidation Stress Enhances Reality Monitoring In Healthy Young Adults
- Acute Dissociation After 1 Night Of Sleep Loss
- Combining Skin Conductance And Forced Choice In The Detection Of Concealed Information
- Effects Of Collaborative Recall: Denying True Information Is As Powerful As Suggesting Misinformation
- Trait Dissociation And Commission Errors In Memory Reports Of Emotional Events
- Amnesia For Homicide As A Form Of Malingering
- The False Fame Illusion In People With Memories About A Previous Life
- Poor Working Memory Predicts False Memories
- Confusing Action And Imagination: Action Source Monitoring In Individuals With Schizotypal Traits
- Context-Dependent Enhancement Of Declarative Memory Performance Following Acute Psychosocial Stress
- Depersonalization Experiences In Undergraduates Are Related To Heightened Stress Cortisol Responses
- Dissociation, Resting EEG, And Subjective Sleep Experiences In Undergraduates
- False Confessions In The Lab: Do Plausibility And Consequences Matter?
- Subclinical Dissociation, Schizotypy, And Traumatic Distress
- Detecting Malingering Of Ganser-Like Symptoms With Tests: A Case Study
- Stress-Induced Cortisol Responses, Sex Differences, And False Recollections In A DRM Paradigm
- The Effect Of Acute Stress On Memory Depends On Word Valence
- Assassination Of A Controversial Politician: Remembering Details From A Non-Existent Film
- I Hit The Shift-Key And Then The Computer Crashed : Children And False Admissions
- Dissociation And Fantasy Proneness In Psychiatric Patients: A Preliminary Study
- Trying To Recollect Past Events: Confidence, Beliefs, And Memories
- Peritraumatic Dissociation As A Predictor Of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Critical Review
- Claims Of Crime-Related Amnesia In Forensic Patients
- Subjective Sleep Experiences Are Related To Dissociation
- Traumatic Stress, Brain Changes, And Memory Deficits
- Symptom Validity Testing Of Feigned Amnesia For A Mock Crime
- Telling A Good Story: Fantasy Proneness And The Quality Of Fabricated Memories
- Dissociative Symptoms Are Related To Endorsement Of Vague Trauma Items
- Accuracy, Completeness, And Consistency Of Emotional Memories
- Alcohol Blackout For Criminally Relevant Behavior
- Feigning Amnesia Undermines Memory For A Mock-Crime
- Psychiatric Comorbidity Of Gender Indensity Disorders: A Survey Among Dutch Psychiatrists
- Dissociative Experiences Are Related To Commissions In Emotional Memory
- The Other Side Of Malingering: Supernormality
- Individual Differences And False Confessions: A Conceptual Replication Of Kassin And Kiechel (1996)
- Dissociative Symptoms And Amnesia In Dutch Concentration Camp Survivors
- Amnesia, Flashbacks, Nightmares, And Dissociation In Aging Concentration Camp Survivors
- Diagnostic Accuracy Of The Structured Inventory Of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS) In Detecting Instructed Malingering
- Thought-Action Fusion And Schizotypy In Undergraduate Students
- The Links Between The Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (A-DES), Fantasy Proneness, And Anxiety Symptoms
- Nature And Antecedents Of Psychotic Patients Crimes
- The Role Of Schizotypy, Mental Imagery, And Fantasy Proneness In Hallucinatory Reports Of Undergraduate Students
