Henry Otgaar

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
240 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Henry Otgaar is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Henry Otgaar has authored 240 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 188 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 117 papers in Social Psychology and 55 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Henry Otgaar's work include Memory Processes and Influences (178 papers), Deception detection and forensic psychology (111 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (43 papers). Henry Otgaar is often cited by papers focused on Memory Processes and Influences (178 papers), Deception detection and forensic psychology (111 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (43 papers). Henry Otgaar collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Belgium and United Kingdom. Henry Otgaar's co-authors include Peter Muris, Harald Merckelbach, Tom Smeets, Mark L. Howe, Ewout H. Meijer, Ingrid Candel, Ivan Mangiulli, Alan Scoboria, Oliver T. Wolf and Jianqin Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Henry Otgaar

221 papers receiving 4.3k citations

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The Malevolent Side of Human Nature

2017 620 citations Peter Muris, Harald Merckelbach et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The recovery and retraction of memories of abuse: a scoping review 2025 ·Frontiers in Psychology ·Henry Otgaar, Ivan Mangiulli, Chunlin Li, Marko Jelícic, Peter Muris	1
2	Questioning the recovery of dissociated traumatic memories under psilocybin: comment on “Therapeutic emergence of dissociated traumatic memories during psilocybin treatment for anorexia nervosa” 2025 ·Journal of Eating Disorders ·Samuli Kangaslampi, Max Wolff, Manoj K. Doss, (unknown), Henry Otgaar	0
3	Investigating how adopting different deceptive strategies simultaneously affects memory 2025 ·Memory ·(unknown), Henry Otgaar, Ivan Mangiulli, Antonietta Curci	0
4	On the use of receiver operating characteristic area under the curve in eyewitness memory research 2024 ·Legal and Criminological Psychology ·(unknown), Henry Otgaar	2
5	Time and memory distrust shape the dynamics of recollection and belief-in-occurrence 2024 ·Memory ·(unknown), Henry Otgaar, Robert A. Nash, (unknown)	2
6	Testing the efficacy of the cognitive interview to road traffic accident investigations 2024 ·Applied Cognitive Psychology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Henry Otgaar, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	0
7	Child Forensic Interviewing: Recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law 2024 ·Åbo Akademi University Research Portal ·(unknown), Luna Filipović, Henry Otgaar, Julia Korkman	1
8	The rise and fall of autobiographical beliefs: The effect of external feedback on memory in the context of the prisoner’s dilemma. 2024 ·Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice ·(unknown), Henry Otgaar, (unknown), Jianqin Wang, Marko Jelícic	1
9	Fake memories: A meta-analysis on the effect of fake news on the creation of false memories and false beliefs 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Henry Otgaar, Ciara M. Greene, Gillian Murphy, (unknown), Ivan Mangiulli, (unknown)	1
10	Inducing emotionally negative nonbelieved memories using negative pictures 2023 ·Memory & Cognition ·Chunlin Li, Henry Otgaar, Peter Muris, (unknown), Jianqin Wang	1
11	Preference for cheap-and-easy memory verification strategies is strongest among people with high memory distrust 2023 ·Memory ·(unknown), Robert A. Nash, Henry Otgaar	4
12	A scientometric and descriptive review on the debate about repressed memories and traumatic forgetting 2023 ·Journal of Anxiety Disorders ·(unknown), Ivan Mangiulli, Lawrence Patihis, Olivier Dodier, Antonietta Curci, Tiziana Lanciano, Henry Otgaar	15
13	Remembering Molly: Immediate and delayed false memory formation after acute MDMA exposure 2022 ·European Neuropsychopharmacology ·(unknown), Henry Otgaar, Arjan Blokland, Stefan W. Toennes, Johannes G. Ramaekers	9
14	Examining the associations between nonbelieved memories and memory distrust, self-esteem, and rumination. 2022 ·Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Henry Otgaar, Jianqin Wang, Marko Jelícic	5
15	Memory distrust is related to memory errors, self‐esteem, and personality 2022 ·Applied Cognitive Psychology ·(unknown), Henry Otgaar, Jianqin Wang	8
16	False memories in the field: Impact of substance intoxication and sleep restriction on false memory formation. 2022 ·Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition ·(unknown), Henry Otgaar, Arjan Blokland, Kim van Oorsouw, Jan Schepers, Stefan Steinmeyer, Johannes G. Ramaekers	2
17	Public beliefs on the relationship between lying and memory 2021 ·Psychology Crime and Law ·(unknown), Henry Otgaar, (unknown), Ivan Mangiulli	14
18	What can we remember after complex denials? The impact of different false denials on memory 2021 ·Psychology Crime and Law ·(unknown), Antonietta Curci, Ivan Mangiulli, Henry Otgaar	25
19	Do liars really remember what they lied upon? The impact of fabrication on memory 2021 ·Memory ·(unknown), Ivan Mangiulli, (unknown), Antonietta Curci, Henry Otgaar	20
20	Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) practitioners’ beliefs about memory. 2019 ·Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice ·(unknown), Henry Otgaar, Jeffrey Roelofs, Ineke Wessel, Lawrence Patihis, Harald Merckelbach	20

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