
Publications by Harald Merckelbach
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2024
- How Psychologists Communicate About Symptom and Performance Validity Testing: Room for Improvement
- The (Small) World of Validity Test Research According to Leonhard and Leonhard (2024): A Critique
- A Scale for Measuring Positive and Negative Experiences of Psychotherapy (PNEP)
2023
- The Dutch-German Equivalence Of The SRSI
- SRSI: Detecting Symptom Exaggeration
- Can False Denials Turn Fact Into Fiction?
- Detecting Symptom Exaggeration in Compensation-Seeking Individuals, Psychotherapy Clients, and Individuals Referred for Job Assessments
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
- Dissociative and Dissociative Disorders Reconsidered: Beyond Sociocognitive and Trauma Models
- Likelihood Ratios in Psychological Expert Opinion
- 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