Researcher Profile

Harald Merckelbach

🏛 Maastricht University, The Netherlands

0000-0002-5116-7826

Publications

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Publications

Open Access Journal Article Current Opinion in Psychology Oct 01, 2025

Symptom overreporting and its consequences for treatment

Harald Merckelbach · Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald

10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102091 5 citations

Open Access Journal Article BJPsych Advances Nov 13, 2025

The place of validity tests in psychiatric diagnosis: beyond common misconceptions

Harald Merckelbach · Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald · Jan Wise

10.1192/bja.2025.10177 1 citations

Journal Article Psychological Injury and Law Sep 22, 2025

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

Louis De Page · Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald · Harald Merckelbach

10.1007/s12207-025-09543-w 1 citations

Open Access Journal Article Psychological Test Adaptation and Development Jun 01, 2023

Detecting Symptom Overreporting – Equivalence of the Dutch and German Self-Report Symptom Inventory

Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald · Sinja Pienkohs · Thomas Merten · Harald Merckelbach

10.1027/2698-1866/a000043 10 citations

Journal Article Psychological Injury and Law Nov 12, 2021

The Self-Report Symptom Inventory

Thomas Merten · Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald · Irena Boskovic · Esteban Puente-López +1 more

10.1007/s12207-021-09434-w 16 citations

Journal Article Current Directions in Psychological Science Apr 10, 2019

When Patients Overreport Symptoms: More Than Just Malingering

Harald Merckelbach · Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald · Daniel van Helvoort · Marko Jelicic +1 more

10.1177/0963721419837681 70 citations

Open Access Journal Article The Clinical Neuropsychologist Jan 30, 2019

The Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SRSI) is sensitive to instructed feigning, but not to genuine psychopathology in male forensic inpatients: An initial study

Daniel van Helvoort · Harald Merckelbach · Thomas Merten

10.1080/13854046.2018.1559359 21 citations

Journal Article Clinical Psychological Science Nov 02, 2018

Associative Activation as a Mechanism Underlying False Memory Formation

Henry Otgaar · Mark L. Howe · Peter Muris · Harald Merckelbach

10.1177/2167702618807189 31 citations

Open Access Journal Article Perspectives on Psychological Science Mar 01, 2017

The Malevolent Side of Human Nature

Peter Muris · Harald Merckelbach · Henry Otgaar · Ewout Meijer

10.1177/1745691616666070 739 citations

Journal Article Psychological Injury and Law May 12, 2016

The Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SRSI): a New Instrument for the Assessment of Distorted Symptom Endorsement

Thomas Merten · Harald Merckelbach · Peter Giger · Andreas Stevens

10.1007/s12207-016-9257-3 77 citations

Journal Article Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Jun 01, 2015

Sleep loss increases dissociation and affects memory for emotional stimuli

Dalena van Heugten – van der Kloet · Timo Giesbrecht · Harald Merckelbach

10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.11.002 75 citations

Journal Article Perspectives on Psychological Science Mar 01, 2012

Fragmented Sleep, Fragmented Mind

Dalena van der Kloet · Harald Merckelbach · Timo Giesbrecht · Steven Jay Lynn

10.1177/1745691612437597 101 citations

Journal Article Journal of Abnormal Psychology Aug 01, 2007

Acute dissociation after 1 night of sleep loss.

Timo Giesbrecht · Tom Smeets · Jimmie Leppink · Marko Jelicic +1 more

10.1037/0021-843x.116.3.599 71 citations

Journal Article Journal of Clinical Child Psychology Feb 01, 2000

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

10.1207/s15374424jccp2901_5 219 citations

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