Bas Verplanken

20.7k total citations · 8 hit papers
107 papers, 14.2k citations indexed

About

Bas Verplanken is a scholar working on Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Bas Verplanken has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 14.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Applied Psychology, 41 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 32 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Bas Verplanken's work include Behavioral Health and Interventions (48 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (32 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (21 papers). Bas Verplanken is often cited by papers focused on Behavioral Health and Interventions (48 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (32 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (21 papers). Bas Verplanken collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Norway. Bas Verplanken's co-authors include Henk Aarts, Sheina Orbell, Ad van Knippenberg, Rob W. Holland, Wendy Wood, Pirjo Honkanen, Astrid Gisela Herabadi, Svein Ottar Olsen, Deborah Roy and Ian Walker and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and Annual Review of Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Bas Verplanken

102 papers receiving 13.2k citations

Hit Papers

Reflections on Past Behavior: A Self‐Report Index of Habi... 1997 2026 2006 2016 2003 2006 2002 1999 1998 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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. Reflections on Past Behavior: A Self‐Report Index of Habit Strength1
    2003 1.4k citations Bas Verplanken et al. Journal of Applied Social Psychology profile →
  2. Interventions to Break and Create Consumer Habits
    2006 830 citations Bas Verplanken et al. profile →
  3. Motivated decision making: Effects of activation and self-centrality of values on choices and behavior.
    2002 818 citations Bas Verplanken, Rob W. Holland profile →
  4. Habit, Attitude, and Planned Behaviour: Is Habit an Empty Construct or an Interesting Case of Goal-directed Automaticity?
    1999 768 citations Bas Verplanken, Henk Aarts profile →
  5. Predicting Behavior From Actions in the Past: Repeated Decision Making or a Matter of Habit?
    1998 657 citations Henk Aarts, Bas Verplanken et al. Journal of Applied Social Psychology profile →
  6. Habit, information acquisition, and the process of making travel mode choices
    1997 626 citations Bas Verplanken, Henk Aarts et al. European Journal of Social Psychology profile →
  7. On the nature of eco-anxiety: How constructive or unconstructive is habitual worry about global warming?
    2020 219 citations Bas Verplanken, Elizabeth Marks et al. Journal of Environmental Psychology profile →
  8. Attitudes, Habits, and Behavior Change
    2021 171 citations Bas Verplanken et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bas Verplanken United Kingdom 53 4.6k 4.2k 3.1k 3.1k 2.2k 107 14.2k
Henk Aarts Netherlands 60 5.7k 1.2× 4.2k 1.0× 1.5k 0.5× 1.5k 0.5× 3.9k 1.7× 203 15.0k
Christopher J. Armitage United Kingdom 62 7.8k 1.7× 5.7k 1.3× 2.8k 0.9× 2.3k 0.8× 3.9k 1.7× 315 22.4k
Wendy Wood United States 67 4.9k 1.1× 8.1k 1.9× 2.6k 0.8× 1.7k 0.6× 4.9k 2.2× 161 20.4k
Paschal Sheeran United Kingdom 70 10.7k 2.3× 6.5k 1.5× 2.0k 0.6× 2.1k 0.7× 4.4k 1.9× 201 22.9k
Noah J. Goldstein United States 30 2.3k 0.5× 5.0k 1.2× 2.6k 0.9× 3.6k 1.2× 1.9k 0.9× 73 13.1k
Vladas Griskevicius United States 50 3.2k 0.7× 6.5k 1.5× 5.1k 1.7× 4.1k 1.3× 4.3k 1.9× 93 18.2k
Raymond R. Reno United States 11 2.0k 0.4× 4.0k 1.0× 1.4k 0.4× 1.8k 0.6× 2.9k 1.3× 17 12.0k
P. Wesley Schultz United States 60 2.8k 0.6× 6.1k 1.4× 4.5k 1.5× 10.0k 3.2× 3.5k 1.6× 103 18.4k
Tommy Gärling Sweden 64 1.8k 0.4× 3.8k 0.9× 2.3k 0.7× 3.1k 1.0× 2.6k 1.2× 334 18.4k
Peter Schmidt Germany 43 1.2k 0.3× 3.6k 0.9× 1.3k 0.4× 1.7k 0.6× 1.9k 0.9× 137 8.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bas Verplanken

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Potthoff, Sebastian, Dominika Kwaśnicka, Leah Avery, et al.. (2022). Changing healthcare professionals' non-reflective processes to improve the quality of care. Social Science & Medicine. 298. 114840–114840. 22 indexed citations
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Gardner, Benjamin, Bas Verplanken, Phillippa Lally, et al.. (2022). Identifying as someone who avoids virus transmission strengthens physical distancing habit‐behaviour relationships: A longitudinal multi‐national study during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being. 14(4). 1464–1482. 5 indexed citations
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Rebar, Amanda L., Phillippa Lally, Bas Verplanken, et al.. (2022). Changes in virus-transmission habits during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-national, repeated measures study. Psychology and Health. 37(12). 1626–1645. 6 indexed citations
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Rebar, Amanda L., Ryan E. Rhodes, & Bas Verplanken. (2022). Habits and behavioral complexity – dynamic and distinct constructs. Health Psychology Review. 17(3). 485–489. 5 indexed citations
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Schooler, Jonathan W., et al.. (2022). A relationship that makes life worth-living: levels of value orientation explain differences in meaning and life satisfaction. Heliyon. 8(1). e08802–e08802. 7 indexed citations
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Verplanken, Bas, et al.. (2020). On the nature of eco-anxiety: How constructive or unconstructive is habitual worry about global warming?. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 72. 101528–101528. 219 indexed citations breakdown →
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Venema, Tina A.G., Floor M. Kroese, Bas Verplanken, & Denise T. D. de Ridder. (2020). The (bitter) sweet taste of nudge effectiveness: The role of habits in a portion size nudge, a proof of concept study. Appetite. 151. 104699–104699. 17 indexed citations
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Rimes, Katharine A., et al.. (2019). Acceptance of shame and embarrassment: Scale development and initial findings in a clinical sample. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science. 12. 13–21. 5 indexed citations
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Verplanken, Bas & Jie Sui. (2019). Habit and Identity: Behavioral, Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Facets of an Integrated Self. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 1504–1504. 67 indexed citations
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Lloyd, E. Caitlin, Anne M. Haase, Charlie Foster, & Bas Verplanken. (2019). A systematic review of studies probing longitudinal associations between anxiety and anorexia nervosa. Psychiatry Research. 276. 175–185. 24 indexed citations
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Gabe‐Thomas, Elizabeth, Ian Walker, Bas Verplanken, & Gavin Shaddick. (2016). Householders’ Mental Models of Domestic Energy Consumption: Using a Sort-And-Cluster Method to Identify Shared Concepts of Appliance Similarity. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0158949–e0158949. 29 indexed citations
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Gillison, Fiona, Martyn Standage, & Bas Verplanken. (2014). A cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to promote healthy lifestyle habits to school leavers: study rationale, design, and methods. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 221–221. 14 indexed citations
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Verplanken, Bas. (2008). Habit and Consumer Behavior: Implications For Interventions and Behavior Change. ACR North American Advances. 1 indexed citations
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Nilsén, Per, et al.. (2008). Accounting for the role of habit in behavioural strategies for injury prevention. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. 15(1). 33–40. 25 indexed citations
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Verplanken, Bas, et al.. (2008). Different selves, different values: Effects of self‐construals on value activation and use. European Journal of Social Psychology. 39(6). 909–919. 44 indexed citations
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Brug, Johannes, Emely de Vet, Jascha de Nooijer, & Bas Verplanken. (2006). Predicting Fruit Consumption: Cognitions, Intention, and Habits. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 38(2). 73–81. 146 indexed citations
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Honkanen, Pirjo, Svein Ottar Olsen, & Bas Verplanken. (2005). Intention to consume seafood—the importance of habit. Appetite. 45(2). 161–168. 227 indexed citations
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Aarts, Henk, Bas Verplanken, & Ad van Knippenberg. (1998). Predicting Behavior From Actions in the Past: Repeated Decision Making or a Matter of Habit?. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 28(15). 1355–1374. 657 indexed citations breakdown →
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Verplanken, Bas, et al.. (1994). Attitude Versus General Habit: Antecedents of Travel Mode Choice1. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 24(4). 285–300. 379 indexed citations
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Verplanken, Bas, et al.. (1994). Emotion and Cognition: Attitudes toward Persons Who Are Visually Impaired. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness. 88(6). 504–511. 8 indexed citations

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