Published Research Articles
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Bošković, I., Maatz, L., Konstantinou, N., van der Laan, M., & Rassin, E. (2025). Statement validity assessment of students' sexual assault accounts: Comparison of honest reports, false denials and false allegations using the criteria‐based content analyses and the verifiability approach. Legal and Criminological Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.70014
Maatz, L., Bošković, I., & de Roos, M. (2025). The Impact of Victim and Perpetrator Race on Likelihood of Bystander Advice Post-Sexual Assault: A Vignette Study. Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice. https://doi.org/10.1177/25166069251381880
Bošković, I., Perera, N., & Otgaar, H. (2025). Do we all have (the same) chance? Cross-Cultural Research Practices and Opportunities. Psychological Research on Urban Society. https://doi.org/10.7454/proust.v8i2.1205
Bošković, I., Delmas, H., Andretzky, A., Hocini, M., & Rassin, E. (2025). Prevalence of Verifiable Information in Truthful Statements: Neutral and Witness Interview Context. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2025.2540382
Akca, A. Y. E., Bošković, I., & Giromini, L. (2025). “Who feigns?” perceptions of sociodemographic characteristics in symptom validity assessment: An exploratory survey among mental health professionals. Psychology & Neuroscience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pne0000358
Bošković, I., de Roos, M., & Maatz, L. (2025). Likelihood of Different Reactions to a Hypothetical Sexual Assault: Exploratory Study of 13 Potential Influences. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08862605251319008
Bošković, I., Giromini, L., Akca, Y.E.A., Mazza, C., & Roma, P. (2025). Fake bad, fake good, and the Dark Tetrad: Relationship between spontaneous faking, history of faking, and propensity to fake and Dark Tetrad. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14999013251326582
Akca, A., Bošković, I., Giromini, L., Rassin, E. (under review). Verify vs. Falsify: Are there different approaches to symptoms among clinical and forensic psychologists? Psychology, Psychiatry, and Law.
Bošković, I., Rowlands, M.T. (2024). New Measure of Underreporting on Horizon: Initial Psychometric Evaluation of the General Inventory of Behaviour, Symptoms, and Opinions (GIBSO). Psychological Injury and Law. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12207-024-09527-2
Volarov, M., Velimirović, M., Bošković, I., Akca, A.Y.E., & Giromini, L. (2024). The Cross-Cultural Applicability of the Inventory of Problems – 29 (IOP-29): A Replication of Akca et al. (2023). Using a Serbian Sample. Psychological Injury and Law. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12207-024-09516-5
van der Heide, D., Bošković, I., & van Harten, P. (2024). Performance validity tests with low verbal mediation can be robust in culturally diverse mixed psychiatric populations. Psychology & Neuroscience, 17(3), 209–225. https://doi.org/10.1037/pne0000339.
Bošković, I., Giromini, L., Katsouri, A., Tsvetanova, E., Fonse, J., & Merckelbach, H. (2024). The Spectrum of Response Bias in Trauma Reports: Overreporting, Underreporting, and Mixed Presentation. Psychol. Injury and Law. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12207-024-09503-w
Bošković, I., Puente-López, E., Dandachi-FitzGerald, B., & Merckelbach, H. (2024). The prevalence of feigning and concealment of Covid-19 infections in an international sample. Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053231226033
Boskovic, I., Tejada-Gallardo, C., Ludwig, N., & Blasco-Belled, A. (2023). Fake Happy= Happy? Residual Effect of Feigning and Positive Response Bias. Psychological Injury and Law, 16, 227-235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12207-023-09476-2
Otgaar, H., Riesthuis, P., Neal, T., Chin, J., Boskovic, I., & Rassin, E. (2023). If Generalization is the Grail, Practical Relevance is the Nirvana: Considerations from the Contribution of Psychological Science of Memory to Law. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4422970
Boskovic, I., Orthey, R., Otgaar, H., Mangiulli, I., Rassin, E. (2023). #StudentsToo. prevalence of sexual assault reports among students of three European universities and their actions post-assault. PLoS ONE, 18(4): e0283554. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283554
Puente-López, E., Pina, D., López-López, R., Ordi Gonzales, H., Boskovic, I., Merten, T. (2023). Prevalence Estimates of Symptom Feigning and Malingering in Spain. Psychological Injury and Law, 16, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12207-022-09458-w
Aryal, K., Merten, T., Akehurst, L., & Boskovic, I. (2022). The English-language version of the Self-Report Symptom Inventory: A pilot analogue study with feigned head injury sequelae. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2022.2109158
Puente-López, E., Pina, D., Shura, R., Boskovic, I., Martínez-Jarreta, B., & Merten, T. (2022). The Impact of Different Forms of Coaching on the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symtomatology (SIMS). Psicothema, 34(4), 528-536. https://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2022.129
Rassin, E., Arbiyah, N., Boskovic, I., Otgaar, H., & Merckelbach, H. (2022). Likelihood ratios in psychological expert opinion, and their reception by professional judges. The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, 26(4), 325-341. https://doi.org/10.1177/13657127221119545
Boskovic, I., Akca, A. Y. E., & Giromini, L. (2022). Symptom coaching and symptom validity tests: An analog study using the structured inventory of malingered symptomatology, Self-Report Symptom Inventory, and Inventory of Problems-29. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2022.2057856
Boskovic, I., & Akca, A. Y. E. (2022). Presenting the consequences of feigning: Does it diminish symptom overendorsement? An analog study. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2022.2044329
Boskovic, I., Merten, T., & Merckelbach, H. (2021). How plausible is the implausible: Plausibility and prevalence ratings of SRSI items. Psychological Injury and Law, 14, 127–133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12207-021-09409-x
Boskovic, I., Zwaan, L., Beilie, V., & Merckelbach, H. (2021). Consistency does not aid detection of feigned symptoms, overreporting does: Two explorative studies on symptom stability among truth tellers and feigners. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 29, 1458-1466. https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2021.1888728
Merten, T., Dandachi-FitzGerald, B., Boskovic, I., Puente-López, E., & Merckelbach, H. (2021). The Self-Report Symptom Inventory. Psychological Injury and Law, 1-10. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12207-021-09434-w
Boskovic, I., Ramakers, A., & Emre Akca, A. Y. (2020). Dull versus creative liars—Who deceives better? Fantasy proneness and verifiability of genuine and fabricated accounts. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 18, 56-67. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jip.1565
Akca, Y. A., Slootmaekers, L., & Boskovic, I. (2020). Verifiability and Symptom Endorsement in Genuine, Exaggerated, and Malingered Pain. Psychological Injury and Law, 13, 235-245. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12207-020-09375-w
Dandachi-FitzGerald, B., Merckelbach, H., Bošković, I., & Jelicic, M. (2020). Do You Know People Who Feign? Proxy Respondents About Feigned Symptoms. Psychological Injury and Law, 13, 225-234. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12207-020-09387-6
van der Heide, D., Boskovic, I., van Harten, P., & Merckelbach, H. (2020). Overlooking feigning behavior may result in potential harmful treatment interventions: two case reports of undetected malingering. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 65, 1371-1375. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.14320
Veldhuizen-Ochodničanová, E., Jeglic, E. L., & Boskovic, I. (2020). Separate routes, similar crimes? Conceptualising differences between domestic and international sex traffickers in the United States. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 62, 100395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2020.100395
Boskovic, I., (2020). Do motives matter? A comparison of positive and negative incentives in students’ willingness to malinger. International Journal of Educational Psychology, 40, 1022-1032. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01443410.2019.1704400
Boskovic, I., Merckelbach, H., Merten, T., Hope, L., & Jelicic, M. (2019). The Self-Report Symptom Inventory as a screen for over-reporting: An explorative study with instructed simulants. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000547
Boskovic, I., Dibbets, P., Hope, L., & Jelicic, M. (2019). Verify the scene, report the symptoms: Applying Verifiability Approach and the SRSI to PTSD claims. Legal and Criminological Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12149
Boskovic, I., Hope, L., Ost, J., Orthey, R., & Merckelbach, H. (2019). Detecting feigned high impact experiences: A symptom over-report questionnaire outperforms the emotional Stroop task. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2019.101483
van der Heide, D., Boskovic, I., van Harten, P., & Merckelbach, H. (2019). Psychosis as a confounder of Symptom Credibility testing in a Transcultural Sample. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2019.1663899
Boskovic, I., Tejada Gallardo, C., Vrij, A., Hope, L., & Merckelbach, H. (2018). Verifiability on the run: An Experimental Study on the Verifiability Approach to Malingered Symptoms. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law, 1-12. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13218719.2018.1483272
Boskovic, I., Biermans, A., Merten, T., Jelicic, M., Hope, L., & Merckelbach, H. (2018). The modified Stroop task is susceptible to feigning: Stroop performance and symptom over-endorsement in feigned test anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01195
Merckelbach, H., Dalsklev, M., van Helvoort, D., Boskovic, I., & Otgaar, H. (2018). Symptom self-reports are susceptible to misinformation. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 5, 384-393. http://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000159
Merckelbach, H., Prins, C., Boskovic, I., Niesten, I. & à Campo, J. (2018). Alexithymia as a potential source of symptom over-reporting: An exploratory study in forensic patients and non-forensic participants. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 59, 192-197. http://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12427
Rassin, E., Boskovic, I., & Merckelbach, H. (2018). PTSD and diminished criminal responsibility as “new evidence” in criminal revision procedures: Two case reports. Journal of Forensic Science, 63, 1911-1913. http://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13789
Boskovic, I., Bogaard, G., Merckelbach, H., Vrij, A., & Hope, L. (2017). The Verifiability Approach to detection of malingered physical symptoms. Psychology, Crime & Law, 23, 717-729. http://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2017.130258
Boskovic, I., van der Heide, D., Hope, L., Merckelbach, H., & Jelicic, M. (2017). Plausibility judgments of atypical symptoms across cultures: An explorative study among Western and non-Western experts. Psychological Injury and Law, 10, 274-281. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12207-017-9294-6
Jelicic, M., Merckelbach, H, & Boskovic, I. (2017). Seven myths about feigning. In H. Otgaar & M.L. Howe (Eds.). Finding the truth in the courtroom: Handling deception, lies, and memories. Oxford University Press.
Merckelbach, H., Boskovic, I., Pesy, D., Dalsklev, M, & Lynn, S. (2017). Symptoms overreporting and dissociative experiences: A qualitative review. Consciousness and Cognition, 49, 132-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.01.007
van der Heide, D., Boskovic, I., & Merckelbach, H. (2017). Standard symptom inventories for asylum seekers in a psychiatric hospital: Limited utility due to poor symptom validity. Psychological Injury and Law, 10, 358-367. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12207-017-9302-x