dr. SKA (Steven) Verheyen

Biography

Steven Verheyen is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Prior to working at Erasmus University, he was a member of Institut Jean Nicod and the KU Leuven Laboratory of Experimental Psychology. His work on individual differences in language use is positioned at the intersection of quantitative psychology, philosophy of language, and cognitive linguistics. He has expertise in the fields of concepts and categories, semantics, and psychometrics.

Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Associate professor | Brain & Cognition

Email: verheyen@essb.eur.nl

Work

Willem Jacob Louter, Tanner Tuttle, Elina Guina & Steven Verheyen (2026) - Does the animacy effect extend to images?: A registered replication report - Memory - doi: 10.1080/09658211.2026.2733325 - [link]
Julian Kras, Nicolas Ruytenbeek & Steven Verheyen (2026) - Asymmetrical inference towards the antonym: disentangling the effects of dimensional and evaluative polarity on negated relative gradable adjectives - Journal of Semantics, 43 (2), 167-183 - doi: 10.1093/jos/ffag006 - [link]
Diane Pecher, Joel Bornemann, Steve van Pelt, Steven Verheyen & Heleen van Mierlo (2026) - How stereotypes develop from memory limitations and second-hand knowledge - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 124 - doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104890 - [link]
Leonie Dudda, Elisabeth Van der Hulst, Muhammet Ikbal Sahan & Steven Verheyen (2026) - Replication is Child’s Play - Open Education Studies, 8 (1) - doi: 10.1515/edu-2025-0134 - [link]
Jonas Zaman, Anna Zara Louise Wester, Kenny Yu & Steven Verheyen (2026) - Bitten by the Dog, Afraid of the Hedgehog: A Registered Report of the Asymmetry Effect in Conceptual Fear Generalization - Collabra: Psychology, 12 (1) - doi: 10.1525/collabra.155963 - [link]
Igor Douven & Steven Verheyen (2026) - Concept Learning: Convexity Versus Connectedness - Erkenntnis, 91 (1), 445-462 - doi: 10.1007/s10670-024-00909-1 - [link]
Steven Verheyen, Jonathan van den Berckt & Tom Heyman (2026) - Do We Look Like Our Siblings’ Names?: A Socio-Onomastic Perspective on the Face–Name Matching Effect - International Review of Social Psychology, 39 (1), 1-15 - doi: 10.5334/IRSP.1243 - [link]
Erin M. Buchanan, Kelly Cuccolo, Tom Heyman, Niels van Berkel, Nicholas A. Coles, Aishwarya Iyer, Kim Peters, A. E. van ’t Veer, Maria Montefinese, Nicholas P. Maxwell, Jack E. Taylor, Kathrene D. Valentine, Patrícia Arriaga, Krystian Barzykowski, Leanne Boucher, W. Matthew Collins, David C. Vaidis, Balazs Aczel, Ali H. Al-Hoorie, Ettore Ambrosini, Théo Besson, Debora I. Burin, Muhammad Mussaffa Butt, A. J.Benjamin Clarke, Yalda Daryani, Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs, Mahmoud M. Elsherif, Maria Fernández-López, Paulo Roberto dos Santos Ferreira, Raquel Meister Ko Freitag, Carolina A. Gattei, Hendrik Godbersen, Philip A. Grim, Peter Halama, Patrik Havan, Natalia C. Irrazabal, Chris Isloi, Rebecca Kvisler Iversen, Yoann Julliard, Aslan Karaaslan, Michal Kohút, Veronika Kohútová, Julija Kos, Alexandra I. Kosachenko, Tiago Jessé Souza de Lima, Matthew H.C. Mak, Christina Manouilidou, Leonardo A. Marciaga, Xiaolin Melinna Melinna, Jacob Francisco Miranda, Coby Morvinski, Aishwarya Muppoor, F. Elif Müjdeci, Yngwie A. Nielsen, Juan Carlos Oliveros, Jaš Onič, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Ishani Patel, Zoran Pavlović, Blaž Pažon, Gerit Pfuhl, Ekaterina Pronizius, Timo B. Roettger, Camilo R. Ronderos, Susana Ruiz-Fernandez, Magdalena Senderecka, Çağlar Solak, Anna Stückler, Raluca D. Szekely-Copîndean, Analí R. Taboh, Rémi Thériault, Ulrich S. Tran, Fabio Trecca, José Luis Ulloa, Marton A. Varga, Steven Verheyen, Tijana Vesić Pavlović, Giada Viviani, Nan Wang, Kristyna Zivna, Chen Chu Yun, Oliver James Clark, Oguz A. Acar, Matúš Adamkovič, Giulia Agnoletti, Atakan M. Akil, Zainab Alsuhaibani, Simona Amenta, Olga A. Ananyeva, Michael Andreychik, Bernhard Angele, Danna Catalina Arias Quiñones, Nwadiogo Chisom Arinze, Adrian Dahl Askelund, Bradley J. Baker, Ernest Baskin, Luisa Batalha, Carlota Batres, Maria Soledad Beato, Manuel Becker, Maja Becker, Maciej Behnke, Christophe Blaison, Anna M. Borghi, Eduard Brandstätter, Jacek Buczny, Nesrin Budak, Álvaro Cabana, Zhenguang G. Cai, Enrique C. Canessa, Müge Cavdan, Luca Cecchetti, Sergio E. Chaigneau, Feria X.W. Chang, Christopher R. Chartier, Sau Chin Chen, Elena Cherniaeva, Morten H. Christiansen, Hu Chuan-Peng, Patrycja Chwiłkowska, Montserrat Comesaña, Chin Wen Cong, Casey Cowan, Stéphane Daniel Dandeneau, Oana A. David, William E. Davis, Elif Gizem Demirag Burak, Barnaby James Wyld Dixson, Hongfei Du, Rod Duclos, Wouter Duyck, Liudmila A. Efimova, Ciara Egan, Vanessa Era, Thomas R. Evans, Anna Exner, Gilad Feldman, Katharina Fellnhofer, Chiara Fini, Sarah E. Fisher, Heather D. Flowe, Patricia Garrido-Vásquez, Daniele Gatti, Jason Geller, Vaitsa Giannouli, Anna Sergeevna Gorokhova, Lindsay M. Griener, Dmitry Grigoryev, Igor Grossmann, Hesam Ghasemi, Giacomo Handjaras, Cathy Hauspie, Zhiran He, Renata M. Heilman, Amirmahdi Heydari, Alanna M. Hine, Karlijn Hoyer, Weronika Hryniszak, Janet Hui wen Hsiao, Guanxiong Huang, Keiko Ihaya, Ewa Ilczuk, Tatsunori Ishii, Andrei Dumbravă, Katarzyna Jankowiak, Xiaoming Jiang, David C. Johnson, Rafał Jończyk, Juhani Järvikivi, Laura Kaczer, Kevin Leander Kamermans, Johannes A. Karl, Alexander Karner, Pavol Kačmár, Jacob J. Keech, M. Justin Kim, Max Korbmacher, Kathrin Kostorz, Marta Kowal, Tomas Kratochvil, Yoshihiko Kunisato, Anna O. Kuzminska, Lívia Körtvélyessy, Fatma Ebru Köse, Massimo Köster, Magdalena Kękuś, Melanie Labusch, Claus Lamm, Chaak Ming Lau, Julieta Laurino, Wilbert Law, Giada Lettieri, Carmel A. Levitan, Jackson G. Lu, Sarah E. MacPherson, Klara Malinakova, Diego Manriquez-Robles, Nicolás Marchant, Marco Marelli, Martín Martínez, Molly F. Matthews, Alan D.A. Mattiassi, Josefina Mattoli-Sánchez, Claudia Mazzuca, David P. McGovern, Zdenek Meier, Filip Melinscak, Michal Misiak, Luis Carlos Pereira Monteiro, David Moreau, Sebastian Moreno, Kate E. Mulgrew, Dominique Muller, Tamás Nagy, Marcin Naranowicz, Izuchukwu L.G. Ndukaihe, Maital Neta, Lukas Novak, Chisom Esther Ogbonnaya, Jessica Jee Won Paek, Aspasia Eleni Paltoglou, Francisco J. Parada, Adam J. Parker, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Yuri G. Pavlov, Saeed Paydarfard, Dominik Pegler, Mehmet Peker, Manuel Perea, Stefan Pfattheicher, John Protzko, Irina Sergeevna Prusova, Katarzyna Pypno-Blajda, Zhuang Qiu, Ulf Dietrich Reips, Gianni Ribeiro, Luca Rinaldi, S. Craig Roberts, Tanja C. Roembke, Marina O. Romanova, Robert M. Ross, Jan Philipp Röer, Filiz Rızaoğlu, Toni T. Saari, Erika Sampaolo, Anabela Caetano Santos, F. Çağlar Sarıçiçek, Kyoshiro Sasaki, Frank Scharnowski, Kathleen Schmidt, Amir Sepehri, Halid O. Serçe, A. Timur Sevincer, Cynthia S.Q. Siew, Matilde Ellen Simonetti, Miroslav Sirota, Agnieszka Sorokowska, Piotr Sorokowski, Ian D. Stephen, Laura M. Stevens, Suzanne L.K. Stewart, David Steyrl, Stefan Stieger, Anna Studzinska, Mar Suarez, Anna Szala, Arnaud Szmalec, Daniel Sznycer, Ewa Szumowska, Sinem Söylemez, Bahadır Söylemez, Kaito Takashima, Christian K. Tamnes, Joel C.R. Tan, Chengxiang Tang, Peter Tavel, Julian Tejada, Benjamin C. Thompson, Jake G. Tiernan, Vicente Torres-Muñoz, Anna K. Touloumakos, Bastien Trémolière, Monika Tschense, Belgüzar Nilay Türkan, Miguel A. Vadillo, Caterina Vannucci, Michael E.W. Varnum, Martin R. Vasilev, Leigh Ann Vaughn, Fanny Verkampt, Liliana M. Villar, Sebastian Wallot, Lijun Wang, Ke Wang, Glenn Patrick Williams, David Willinger, Kelly Wolfe, Alexandra S. Wormley, Yuki Yamada, Yunkai Yang, Yuwei Zhou, Mengfan Zhang, Wang Zheng, Yueyuan Zheng, Chenghao Zhou, Radka Zidkova, Nina Meret Zumbrunn, Ogeday Çoker, Sami Çoksan, Sezin Öner, Asil Ali Özdoğru, Seda Merve Şahin, Dauren Kasanov, Alexios Arvanitis, Cameron Brick, Melissa F. Colloff, Albina Gallyamova, Christopher Koch, Ivan Ropovik, Yucheng Zhang, Xingxing Zhou, Sneh Patel, Jordan W. Suchow & Savannah C. Lewis (2026) - Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages - Nature Human Behaviour, 10 (1), 182-201 - doi: 10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x - [link]
Stefan Schneider, Rohit Tidke, Steven Verheyen, Armin Schulz & Andreas Nürnberger (2026) - Detecting intra-categorical structure through contextual bundling on relevant attributes - CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 4247, 47-58 - [link]
Alex H.K. Wong, Jonas Zaman & Steven Verheyen (2025) - Taxonomic and thematic generalization of safety behaviors - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 195 - doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2025.104881 - [link]