Maarten Peters, PhD

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Dr. Maarten J.V. Peters

The Maastricht Forensic Institute
Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience

Forensic Psychology Section
Maastricht University
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
 The Netherlands

Phone and Fax
Office Phone: +31(0)433884026
Office Fax: + 31(0)433884196

E-mail
m.peters@maastrichtuniversity.nl

 

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Research

Research Interests

My research focuses on two main issues:

(1) Forensic Neuropsychology

 

(2) Forensic psychopathology

 

(3) Pseudo-memories and meta-memory

 

Research Possibilities

Students who are interested in conducting experimental research for their Bachelor or Masters thesis may want to consider the following topics:

- Forensic neuropsychology

- paranoia and decision-making

- Pseudo-memories

Research Grants and Awards

NWO Rubicon grant (april 2008): Project nummer 446-07-022

"When there is more that meets the eye: An exploration of false memories in

schizophrenia" € 17 410

 

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Expert witness (getuige-deskundige) 

Qualifications

Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R):  Certified

 

Structured Clinical Interview DSM-IV: SCID I and II: Certified

 

Risk assessment: HCR-20, SAPROF, Static-99 and SVR-20; Certified

 

Psychodiagnostics: MMPI-2, neuropsychological assessment; Certified

 

Expertise

Forensic psychology at The Maastricht Forensic Institute (TMFI): forensic psychodiagnostics, clinical and forensic neuropsychology, psychological vulnerability, psychotic disorders and personality disorders, brain injury

 

Publications

 

International peer-reviewed journal articles

Peters, M.J.V., Giesbrecht, T., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H. (2007). The Random Number Generation task: Psychometric properties and normative data of an executive function task in a mixed sample. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 13, 626-634.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Horselenberg, R., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H. (2007). The false fame illusion in people with memories about a previous life. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 206-212.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., Gorski, B., Sijstermans, K., Giesbrecht, T., & Merckelbach, H. (2008). The corrective effects of warning on false memories in the DRM paradigm are limited to full attention conditions. Acta Psychologica, 129, 308-314.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., Haas, N., & Merckelbach, H. (2006). Mild executive dysfunctions in undergraduates are related to remembering words never presented. International Journal of Neuroscience, 116, 1065-1077.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H. (2006). When stereotypes backfire: Trying to suppress stereotypes produces false recollections of a crime. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 11, 327-336.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., Verbeek, H., & Merckelbach, H. (2007). Poor working memory predicts false memories. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 19, 213-232.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Smeets, T., Giesbrecht, T., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H. (2007). Confusing action and imagination: Action source monitoring in individuals with schizotypal traits. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195, 752-757.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., Op Heij, C., & Merckelbach, H. (2006). Detection of feigened burnout symptoms using standard clinical questionnaires. German Journal of Psychiatry, 9, 10-16.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Cima, M., Smeets, T., de Vos, M., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H. (2007). Did I say that or did you? Executive dysfunctions in schizophrenic patients affect memory efficiency, but not source attributions. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12,391-411.

 

Arts, B., Peters, M.J.V., Ponds, R. Honig, A., & Os van J. (2006). Impact of ECT on depression and cognition. Journal of ECT, 22, 206-212.

 

Jelicic, M., Peters, M.J.V., Leckie, V., & Merckelbach, H. (2007). Basic knowledge of psychopathology does not undermine the efficacy of the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS) to detect feigned psychosis. Netherlands Journal of Psychology, 63, 107-110.

 

Jelicic, M., Smeets, T., Peters, M.J.V., Candel, I., Horselenberg, R., & Merckelbach, H. (2006). Assassination of a controversial politician: Remembering details from another non-existent film. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 591-596.

 

Jelinek, L., Hottenrott, B., Randjbar, S., Peters, M.J.V., & Moritz, S. (2009). Visual false memories in post-traumatic stress disorder. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 40, 374-383.

 

Merckelbach, H., Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., Brands, I., & Smeets, T. (2006). Detecting malingering of Ganser-like symptoms with tests: A case study. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 60, 636-638.

 

Moritz, S., Peters, M.J.V., Karow, A., Deljkovic, A., Tonn, P., & Naber, D. (2009). Cure or curse? Ambivalent attitudes towards neuroleptic medication in schizophrenia patients. Mental Ilness, 1, 4-9.

 

Moritz, S., Peters, M.J.V., Laroi, F., & Lincoln, T. (2010). Metacognitive beliefs in obsessive-compulsive patients: A comparison with healthy and schizophrenia participants. Cognitve Neurospychiatry.

 

Raymaekers, L., Smeets, T., Peters, M.J.V., & Merckelbach, H. (2010). Autobiographical memory specificity among people with recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 41, 338-344.

 

Smeets, T., Jelicic, M., Merckelbach, H., Peters, M.J.V., Fett, A., Taverniers, J., Henquet, C., & Dautzenberg, J. (2006). Enhanced memory performance on an internal-internal source monitoring task following acute psychosocial stress. Behavioral Neuroscience, 120, 1204-1210.

 

Smeets, T., Jelicic, M., Peters, M.J.V., Candel, I., Horselenberg, R., & Merckelbach, H. (2006). “Of course I remember seeing that film!”: How ambiguous questions generate crashing memories. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 779-789.

 

Smeets, T., Sijstermans, K., Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H. (2008). Consolidation stress boosts internal-external action source monitoring. Stress, 11, 235-245.

 

Pelsers, M.M., Hanhoff, T., Van der Voort, D., Arts, B., Peters, M.J.V., Ponds, R., Honig, A., Rudzinski, W., Spener, F., De Kruijk, J.R., Twijnstra, A., Hermens, W.T., Menheere, P.P.C.A., & Glatz, J.F.C. (2004). Brain and heart type fatty acid-binding proteins in the brain: Tissue distribution and clinical utility. Clinical Chemistry, 50,1568-157.

 

Raymaekers, L., Smeets, T., Peters, M.J.V., & Merckelbach, H. (in press). Autobiographical memory specificity among people with recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.

 

National (Dutch) Journals

Peters, M.J.V. (2009). Meta-geheugen defecten bij schizofrenie: fenomenologie en klinische implicaties. Tijdschrift voor Neuropsychiatrie en Gedragsneurologie, 8, 349-354.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., Horselenberg, R., & Merckelbach, H. (2004). De neuropsychologie van pseudo-herinneringen. Neuropraxis, 8, 97-103.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Ponds, R.W.H.M., Ham, van den P., Scheltens, P., & Verhey, F.R.J. (2004). De 7 minuten test ter detectie van dementia van het Alzheimertype. Tijdschrift voor Gerontologie en Geriatrie, 35, 114-120.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Smeets, E., & Ponds, R. (2008). Het belang van autobiografische geheugentraining bij patiënten met hersenletsel. Tijdschrift voor Neuropsychologie, 1, 11-20.

 

Candel, I., & Peters, M.J.V. (2009). Geheugenfouten. Tijdschrift voor Neuropsychiatrie en Gedragsneurologie, 8, 91-95.

 

Jelicic, M., Merckelbach, H., & Peters, M.J.V. (2004). That’s what we call a psychogenic amnesia. Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie, 46, 627-631.

 

Jelicic, M., Peters, M.J.V., & Smeets, T. (2008). Detectie van onjuiste herinneringen met hersenscans: Voorlopig toekomst-muziek. Justitiële Verkenningen, 1, 31-41.

 

Merckelbach, H., Jelicic, M,. Peters, M.J.V., Brands, I., & Smeets, T. (2006). Hoe Ganser man zijn basketbalteam naar de overwinning voerde. Maandblad Geestelijke Volksgezondheid, 61,614-627.

 

Merckelbach, H., Peters, M.J.V., & Jelicic, M. (2007). “Gaat het weer een beetje Al Capone?”: Politie meets CVA-patiënt. Maandblad Geestelijke Volksgezondheid, 62,584-596.

 

Merckelbach, H., Smeets, T., Peters, M.J.V., & Jelicic, M. (2005). Op weg naar een valse bekentenis: Een schizofrene patiënt wordt verhoord. Maandblad Geestelijke Volksgezondheid, 60,827-843.

 

de Ruiter, C., Peters, M.J.V., & Smeets, T. (2010). Psychisch kwetsbare verdachten tijdens het politieverhoor: nut en noodzaak van forensisch psychologische expertise. GZ-Psychologie, 1, 18-23.

 

Book chapters

Peters, M.J.V., Giesbrecht, T., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H. (2008). Psychose-gevoeligheid. In T. Giesbrecht, C. de Ruiter, & M. Jelicic (Eds.), Psychodiagnostisch gereedschap: psychopathie, malingering en andere persoonlijkheidstrekken (pp. 45-60). Amsterdam: Harcourt.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H. (2006). Neuropsychology and pseudo-memories. In J.R. Dupri (Ed.), Focus on neuropsychology research (pp. 163-184). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

 

Giesbrecht, T., Merckelbach, H., & Peters, M.J.V. (2008). Dissociative Experiences Scale. In T. Giesbrecht, C. de Ruiter, & M. Jelicic (Eds.), Psychodiagnostisch gereedschap: psychopathie, malingering en andere persoonlijkheidstrekken (pp. 29-36). Amsterdam: Harcourt.

 

Giesbrecht, T., & Peters, M.J.V. (2008). Tests en taken: de achtergrond. In T. Giesbrecht, C. de Ruiter, & M. Jelicic (Eds.), Psychodiagnostisch gereedschap: psychopathie, malingering en andere persoonlijkheidstrekken (pp. 13-20). Amsterdam: Harcourt.

 

Giesbrecht, T., & Peters, M.J.V. (2010) Tests en schalen in de forensische context. IN P.J. van Koppen, H.L.G.J. Merckelbach, M. Jelicic, & J.W. de Keijser (red.), Reizen met mijn rechter: psychologie van het recht. Deventer: Kluwer.

 

Jelicic, M., Peters, M.J.V., & Smeets, T. (2008). Detecting false memories with brain scans: A long way off, for now. In I. Van Keulen (Ed.), Brain visions: How the brain sciences could change the way we eat, communicate, learn and judge (pp. 388-393). The Hague: STT Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends.

 

Jelicic, M., Merckelbach, H. Peters M.J.V., & Smeets, T. (in druk). Het fabriceren van PTSS. In E. Vermetten, R. Kleber, & O van der Hart (red.), Handboek post traumatische stress stoornis.

 

Jelicic, M., & Peters, M.J.V. (in druk) geheugen en bewustzijn. In J.A.M.Vandermeulen, J.A. den Boer & M.M.A. Derix (red.), Neuropsychologie en bewustzijn. Amsterdam: Boom.

 

de Ruiter, C., Peters, M.J.V., & Smeets, T. (2009). Psychisch kwetsbare verdachten: het belang van de forensische gedragswetenschap voorafgaand aan de (formele) Pro Justitia rapportage. In T.I. Oei & M.S. Groenhuijs (red.), Actuele forensische psychiatrie en haar grensgebieden. Deventer: Kluwer.

 

 

Submitted/pendig revision/in preparation

 

Peters, M.J.V., Moritz, S., Tekin, S., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H. (pending revision). Confusion is next: Susceptibility to misleading information under social pressure in subclinical schizotypy and schizophrenia.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Hauschildt, M., Moritz, S., & Jelinek, L. (submitted). Impact of emotional valence on memory and meta-memory in schizophrenia using videos sequences: From laboratory to daily life

 

Peters, M.J.V., Engel, M., Moritz, S., Hauschildt, M., Jelinek, L., & Otgaar, H. (submitted). Investigating the corrective effect of forewarning on meta-memory deficits in schizophrenia patients.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Moritz, S., Hauschildt, M., Jelinek, L., Jelicic, M., Dandachi-FitzGerald, B., & Merckelbach, H. (in preparation). Symptom overendorsement and its relation to symptomatology and neurocognitive dysfunctions in a non-litigant schizophrenia sample.

 

Dandachi-FitzGerald, B., Ponds, R.W.H.M., Peters, M.J.V., & Merckelbach, H. (submitted). Cognitive Underperformance and Symptom Overreporting in a Mixed Psychiatric Sample.

 

Hauschildt, M., Peters, M.J.V., Jelinek, L., & Moritz, S. (submitted). True and false memory and its underlying mechanisms in posttraumatic stress disorder

 

Jelicic, M., Ceunen, E., Peters, M.J.V., & Merckelbach, H. (pending revision). Detecting coached malingering using the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) and the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS).

 

Otgaar, H., Peters, M.J.V., & Howe, M. (pendig revision). Dividing Attention Lowers Children’s, but Increases Adults’ False Memory.

 

Otgaar, H., Smeets, T., & Peters, M.J.V. (submitted). Children’s Implanted False Memories and Additional Script Knowledge

 

Raymaekers, L., Peters, M.J.V., Smeets, T., Abidi, L., & Merckelbach, H. (submitted). Underestimation of Prior Remembering and Susceptibility to False Memories: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

 

Raymaekers, L., Peters, M.J.V., Otgaar, H., & Smeets, T. (submitted). Hervonden herinneringen en het classificatieprobleem.


Smeets, T., Otgaar, H., Raymaekers, L., Peters, M.J.V., & Merckelbach, H. (submitted). Adaptive memory in times of stress: Survival processing and acute stress independently and persistently enhance retention.

 

Invited Colloquia & Conference Presentations

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H.;

- Schizofrenie, bronverwarring en suggestibiliteit

- Research meeting Medisch Centrum Sint Jozef, April 12th, 2005, Munsterbilzen, Belgium.

 

Peters, M.J.V.

- Onder (re)constructie: neurocognitieve correlaten van pseudo-herinneringen in gezonde en klinische groepen;

- Research meeting Delta Psychiatrisch Centrum, January 7th, 2008, Poortugaal, The Netherlands.

 

Peters, M.J.V.

- Forensic psychology: From practice to experiment and back

- Research meeting Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; working group Clinical Neuropsychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, September 24th, 2008, Hamburg, Germany

 

Peters, M.J.V.

- Forensisch psychologisch onderzoek in de praktijk: van praktijk naar experiment en terug. Lezing Netwerk Kleine Advocatenkantoren Nederland, 6 maart 2009,

Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  

Peters, M.J.V., Haas, N., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H.;

- Random number generation and false recollections: Individual differences in false recognition are related to executive functioning;

- Tagung der Experimentell arbeitenden Psychologen, April 4-7, 2004, Giessen, Germany.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H.;

- Cognitive inhibition and memory fallibility in the legal context;

- European Conference on Psychology and Law, July 7-10, 2004, Krakow, Poland.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H.;

- Stereotypes on the rebound: Trying to suppress stereotypes produces false memories for a crime;

- Conference of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), January 4-8, 2005, Wellington, New Zealand.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H.;

- Remembering words never presented: False memories are related to a lack of cognitive inhibition;

- Conference of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), January 4-8, 2005, Wellington, New Zealand.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H.;

- Rebounding stereotypes;

- Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen, April 4-6, 2005, Regensburg, Germany.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H.;

- Did I say that or did you? Executive dysfunctions affect memory efficiency and errors, but not source misattributions in schizophrenic patients:

- Experimental Psychopathology symposium, May 18-19, 2006, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H.;

- Poor working memory performance is related to recollecting words never presented;

- Third European Working Memory Symposium (EWOMS-3), June 7-9, 2006, Genova, Italy.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H.;

- Eyewitness memory under reconstruction: The role of divided attention and post-event stereotypical misinformation;

- Conference “Off the Witness stand: Using psychology in the practice of justice”, March 1-3, 2007, New York, USA.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Moritz, S., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H.;

-Psychological vulnerability in forensic practice: Exploring the consequences of (meta)memory deficits in schizophrenia patients

- European Conference on Psychology and Law, July 2-5, 2008, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Moritz, S., & Jelicic, M.;

- Symptom overreporting and its influence on executive dysfunctions in schizophrenia.

- The first European symposium on symptom validity assessment, May 8-9, 2009, Würzburg, Germany.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Moritz, S., Jelicic, M., & Merckelbach, H.;

- When there is more that meets the eye: Exploring autobiographical memory deficits in schizophrenia

- Sixth autobiographical memory meeting, October 1-3, 2009, Berlin, Germany.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Moritz, S., & Merckelbach, H.;

-When there is more that meets the eye: susceptibility to misleading and suggestive information in schizophrenia patients

-American Psychology and Law Conference, March 18-20, Vancouver, Canada.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Moritz, S., & Merckelbach, H.;

-Psychological vulnerability in interrogation settings: susceptibility to false, misleading and suggestive information in schizophrenia patients

-International Investigative Research Group (Iirg) conference, June 2010 Stavern Norway.

 

Peters, M.J.V., Moritz, S., & Merckelbach, H.;

-Symptom overendorsement and its relation to symptomatology and neurocognitive dysfunctions in a non-litigant schizophrenia sample,

-Second European Societies on Neuropsychology conference, 22-24 September 2010, Amsterdam, Nederland.

 

Chair symposium: Symptom validity in the clinical neuropsychological setting; Second European Societies on Neuropsychology conference, 22-24 september 2010, Amsterdam Nederland

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Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae (short)

November 1, 2008 – present: Forensic Psychologist; The Maastricht Forensic Institute, Maastricht University

November 1, 2008 – present: Post-doctoral Fellow; Maastricht University

May 1, 2008 – October 31, 2008: Post-doctoral Fellow; University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

February 1, 2007 April 30, 2008: Post-doctoral Fellow; Maastricht University

March 1, 2003 – January 31, 2007: PhD position; Maastricht University

2001 – 2002: Specialisation Clinical Neuropsychology; Maastricht University

1997 – 2002: M.Sc. in Mental Health Sciences; Maastricht University

1979: born (Tongeren; Belgium)

 

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Affiliations

 

Senior Member of the Institute Experimental Psycho-Pathology (EPP)

Senior Member of the Research School Experimental Psycho-Pathology (EPP)

Member of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Neuropsychologie (NVN)

Member of the American Psychology and Law Society (AP-LS)

 

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Links

Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (UM)
http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/web/Faculties/FPN.htm

Experimental PsychoPathology (EPP)
http://www.dmkep.unimaas.nl/epp/

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/index

The Maastricht Forensic Institute

http://www.tmfi.nl

Nederlanse vereniging voor Neuropsychologie
http://www.nvneuropsy.nl

Association for Psychological Science
http://www.psychologicalscience.org

American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org

American Psychological and Law Society

http://www.ap-ls.org

 

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