Alain Van Hiel

10.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
192 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Alain Van Hiel is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Van Hiel has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 137 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 108 papers in Social Psychology and 37 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alain Van Hiel's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (120 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (73 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (33 papers). Alain Van Hiel is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (120 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (73 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (33 papers). Alain Van Hiel collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Alain Van Hiel's co-authors include Arne Roets, Kristof Dhont, Ivan Mervielde, Bart Duriez, Ilse Cornelis, Małgorzata Kossowska, Emma Onraet, David De Cremer, Tessa Haesevoets and Jasper Van Assche and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and Journal of Applied Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Alain Van Hiel

184 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Human-machine collaboration in managerial decision making
    2021 132 citations Tessa Haesevoets, David De Cremer et al. Computers in Human Behavior profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alain Van Hiel Belgium 47 4.6k 3.3k 1.1k 993 658 192 6.9k
Colin Wayne Leach United States 36 5.6k 1.2× 4.1k 1.3× 1.5k 1.4× 747 0.8× 592 0.9× 73 7.7k
Michael W. Kraus United States 36 4.2k 0.9× 3.8k 1.2× 963 0.9× 835 0.8× 725 1.1× 74 7.5k
Michele Vecchione Italy 40 3.0k 0.6× 3.2k 1.0× 709 0.7× 1.5k 1.5× 629 1.0× 127 6.9k
Craig McGarty Australia 43 5.1k 1.1× 3.0k 0.9× 665 0.6× 436 0.4× 545 0.8× 120 7.1k
Bertjan Doosje Netherlands 41 7.1k 1.5× 5.1k 1.6× 1.6k 1.5× 902 0.9× 633 1.0× 117 9.8k
Mark Rubin Australia 32 3.7k 0.8× 2.4k 0.7× 771 0.7× 759 0.8× 378 0.6× 139 6.1k
Aaron C. Kay United States 37 3.9k 0.8× 2.5k 0.8× 909 0.9× 379 0.4× 642 1.0× 101 6.0k
Paul K. Piff United States 27 3.2k 0.7× 3.0k 0.9× 921 0.9× 798 0.8× 691 1.1× 46 6.7k
Victoria M. Esses Canada 42 5.3k 1.1× 2.7k 0.8× 639 0.6× 1.2k 1.2× 461 0.7× 118 7.1k
Markus Kemmelmeier United States 33 3.4k 0.7× 4.2k 1.3× 635 0.6× 1.4k 1.5× 420 0.6× 105 7.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alain Van Hiel

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All Works

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Hiel, Alain Van, et al.. (2025). Do Athletes Tolerate Fraud for the Benefit of the Club? Applying the Lens of Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior. Deviant Behavior. 1–20. 1 indexed citations
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Hiel, Alain Van, et al.. (2025). The multidimensionality of moral identity – toward a broad characterization of the moral self. Ethics & Behavior. 35(8). 638–660. 2 indexed citations
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Hiel, Alain Van, et al.. (2024). The Relationship Between Cognitive and Emotional Abilities and Ideological Attitudes Among Adolescents. Journal of Personality. 93(6). 1271–1281.
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Hiel, Alain Van, et al.. (2024). The development of the Broaching Assessment Scale: A client-rated measure of therapists’ broaching behaviour in clinical counselling. Psychotherapy Research. 35(3). 424–440. 2 indexed citations
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Hiel, Alain Van. (2022). Towards an integrative model of threat-based ideological attitudes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 26(9). 732–732. 1 indexed citations
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Haesevoets, Tessa, Kim Dierckx, & Alain Van Hiel. (2022). Do people believe that you can have too much money? The relationship between hypothetical lottery wins and expected happiness. Judgment and Decision Making. 17(6). 1229–1254. 1 indexed citations
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Hiel, Alain Van, et al.. (2022). The Moral Identity Questionnaire predicts prosocial behavior better than the Moral Identity Scale. Current Psychology. 42(26). 22738–22744. 7 indexed citations
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Haesevoets, Tessa, Alain Van Hiel, Kim Dierckx, & Chris Reinders Folmer. (2020). Do multiple-trial games better reflect prosocial behavior than single-trial games?. Judgment and Decision Making. 15(3). 330–345. 5 indexed citations
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Dijke, Marius van, et al.. (2020). Cognitive foundations of impartial punitive decision making in organizations: Attribution and abstraction. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 42(6). 726–740. 8 indexed citations
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Hiel, Alain Van, et al.. (2019). Does the use of digital media affect psychological well-being? An empirical test among children aged 9 to 12. Computers in Human Behavior. 101. 104–113. 52 indexed citations
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Roets, Arne, Dries H. Bostyn, Jonas De keersmaecker, Jasper Van Assche, & Alain Van Hiel. (2019). Generalized ingroup-stereotyping as a response to perceived individual failure. Personality and Individual Differences. 145. 15–18. 1 indexed citations
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Hiel, Alain Van, Jonas De keersmaecker, Emma Onraet, et al.. (2018). The relationship between emotional abilities and right-wing and prejudiced attitudes.. Emotion. 19(5). 917–922. 15 indexed citations
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Hiel, Alain Van, Jasper Van Assche, David De Cremer, et al.. (2018). Can education change the world? Education amplifies differences in liberalization values and innovation between developed and developing countries. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0199560–e0199560. 20 indexed citations
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Żemojtel‐Piotrowska, Magdalena, Tomasz Baran, Amanda Clinton, et al.. (2013). Materialism, subjective well-being, and entitlement. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 12 indexed citations
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Hiel, Alain Van. (2011). A psycho‐political profile of party activists and left‐wing and right‐wing extremists. European Journal of Political Research. 51(2). 166–203. 26 indexed citations
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Kossowska, Małgorzata & Alain Van Hiel. (1999). Personality and current political beliefs: a comparative study of Polish and Belgian samples. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 6 indexed citations
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Fruyt, Filip De, et al.. (1998). Personality descriptors of boys and girls. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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