Merel Kindt

13.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
198 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Merel Kindt is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Merel Kindt has authored 198 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 135 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 80 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 60 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Merel Kindt's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (85 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (64 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (60 papers). Merel Kindt is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (85 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (64 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (60 papers). Merel Kindt collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Merel Kindt's co-authors include Marieke Soeter, Marcel van den Hout, Tom Beckers, Dieuwke Sevenster, Bram Vervliet, J. F. Brosschot, Elske Salemink, Arnoud Arntz, James W. B. Elsey and Marieke Effting and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Merel Kindt

186 papers receiving 9.1k citations

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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.

Beyond extinction: erasing human fear responses and preventing the return of fear

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Merel Kindt Netherlands	57	5.5k	3.4k	3.0k	2.5k	1.8k	198	9.4k
Raffaël Kalisch Germany	42	5.2k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	1.9k 1.0×	130	9.7k
Turhan Canli United States	46	4.7k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	1.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	81	8.8k
Adriana Galván United States	43	4.0k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	3.1k 1.0×	853 0.3×	1.6k 0.9×	115	9.2k
Eric E. Nelson United States	50	4.7k 0.9×	4.3k 1.3×	4.7k 1.6×	1.4k 0.6×	3.1k 1.7×	136	11.1k
Tanja Jovanović United States	59	3.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	5.3k 1.8×	4.6k 1.9×	2.0k 1.1×	287	12.0k
Christopher S. Monk United States	50	5.4k 1.0×	3.4k 1.0×	3.8k 1.3×	1.0k 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	132	9.8k
Rudolf Stark Germany	58	5.5k 1.0×	3.0k 0.9×	3.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	2.5k 1.4×	245	10.4k
Shmuel Lissek United States	37	4.2k 0.8×	3.9k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	2.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	67	7.3k
Michael T. Treadway United States	41	4.0k 0.7×	3.4k 1.0×	2.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	93	9.7k
Bernet M. Elzinga Netherlands	64	2.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	5.8k 2.0×	3.1k 1.2×	1.9k 1.0×	176	11.8k

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Kindt, Merel, et al.. (2025). Real-life intense fear is communicated through context, not facial expressions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(11). e2414677122–e2414677122. 1 indexed citations

Peters, Jacqueline, et al.. (2025). Re-encountering the phobic cue within days after a reconsolidation intervention is crucial to observe a lasting fear reduction in spider phobia. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(6). 2729–2738. 1 indexed citations

Kindt, Merel, et al.. (2024). Can neutral episodic memories become emotional? Evidence from facial expressions and subjective feelings. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 177. 104528–104528.

Gerlicher, Anna, et al.. (2022). Better, worse, or different than expected: on the role of value and identity prediction errors in fear memory reactivation. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 5862–5862. 5 indexed citations

Ast, Vanessa A. van, et al.. (2022). Demarcating the boundary conditions of memory reconsolidation: An unsuccessful replication. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 2285–2285. 9 indexed citations

Dobbelaar, Simone, et al.. (2021). Episodic memory enhancement versus impairment is determined by contextual similarity across events. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(48). 12 indexed citations

Kindt, Merel, et al.. (2021). Episodic and affective memory distortions in dysphoria: Bayesian testing of diverging theories [Registered Report Stage 1 Protocol]. Figshare. 1 indexed citations

Elsey, James W. B. & Merel Kindt. (2021). Placebo and Non-specific Effects in Reconsolidation-Based Treatment for Arachnophobia. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12. 775770–775770. 11 indexed citations

Kunze, Anna E., Jaap Lancee, Nexhmedin Morina, Merel Kindt, & Arnoud Arntz. (2019). Mediators of Change in Imagery Rescripting and Imaginal Exposure for Nightmares: Evidence From a Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial. Behavior Therapy. 50(5). 978–993. 30 indexed citations

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Wit, Sanne de, Merel Kindt, Aukje Verhoeven, et al.. (2018). Shifting the balance between goals and habits: Five failures in experimental habit induction.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 147(7). 1043–1065. 132 indexed citations

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Beckers, Tom & Merel Kindt. (2017). Memory Reconsolidation Interference as an Emerging Treatment for Emotional Disorders: Strengths, Limitations, Challenges, and Opportunities. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. 13(1). 99–121. 113 indexed citations

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Visser, Renée M., et al.. (2016). Quantifying learning‐dependent changes in the brain: Single‐trial multivoxel pattern analysis requires slow event‐related fMRI. Psychophysiology. 53(8). 1117–1127. 31 indexed citations

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Krypotos, Angelos‐Miltiadis, Tom Beckers, Merel Kindt, & Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers. (2014). A Bayesian hierarchical diffusion model decomposition of performance in Approach–Avoidance Tasks. Cognition & Emotion. 29(8). 1424–1444. 44 indexed citations

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Beckers, Tom, Angelos‐Miltiadis Krypotos, Yannick Boddez, Marieke Effting, & Merel Kindt. (2012). What's wrong with fear conditioning?. Biological Psychology. 92(1). 90–96. 205 indexed citations

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Soeter, Marieke & Merel Kindt. (2011). Disrupting reconsolidation: Pharmacological and behavioral manipulations. Learning & Memory. 18(6). 357–366. 208 indexed citations

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Stegeren, Anda H. van, Benno Roozendaal, Merel Kindt, Oliver T. Wolf, & Marian Joëls. (2009). Interacting noradrenergic and corticosteroid systems shift human brain activation patterns during encoding. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 93(1). 56–65. 104 indexed citations

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Buck, Nicole, Merel Kindt, & Marcel van den Hout. (2009). The Effects of Conceptual Processing Versus Suppression on Analogue PTSD Symptoms after a Distressing Film. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. 37(2). 195–206. 3 indexed citations

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Arntz, Arnoud, et al.. (2005). Emotional memory is perceptual. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 36(1). 19–34. 78 indexed citations

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Kindt, Merel & Marcel van den Hout. (2003). Dissociation and memory fragmentation: experimental effects on meta-memory but not on actual memory performance. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 41(2). 167–178. 60 indexed citations

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Hout, Marcel van den, et al.. (2002). Instructed neutralization, spontaneous neutralization and prevented neutralization after an obsession-like thought. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 33(3-4). 177–189. 25 indexed citations

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