Biography
Eric Rassin (1969) is Endowed Professor of Legal Psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the School of Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Prof. mr. dr. Rassin studied law and mental health sciences. He obtained his PhD degree at the University of Maastricht (2000) for a thesis on thought suppression. Previously he worked at Maastricht University. Besides his part time appointment at the EUR, he acts as an expert witness for various Criminal Courts in the Netherlands.
His research interests include legal decision making (confirmation bias, tunnel vision, indecisiveness, negative evidence, and logical thinking), lie detection, interview and interrogation. Rassin has written over one hundred publications, including articles in international peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and books.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Full professor | Clinical Psychology
- rassin@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Eric Rassin (2025) - Binding problems: Biases in legal and forensic psychology - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-75875-1_10 - [link]
- Eric Rassin, Carmen Sergiou, Dimitri van der Linden & Josanne van Dongen (2025) - Psychopathy as a predisposition to lie hedonistically - Psychology, Crime and Law, 31 (1), 83-90 - doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2023.2213802 - [link]
- Nurul Arbiyah, Henry Otgaar, Melanie Sauerland, Eric Rassin, Enide Maegherman & Harald Merckelbach (2025) - The use of alternative scenarios in assessing the reliability of victims’ statements - Psychology, Crime and Law, 31 (3), 291-308 - doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2023.2236274 - [link]
- Maria M. Lassche, Luca Lasogga, Melissa S. de Roos, Amber Leeflang, Vanesa Ajazi, Magda Axioti, Eric Rassin & Josanne D.M. van Dongen (2024) - Dark Tetrad personality traits, paraphilic interests, and the role of impulsivity: an EEG-study using a Go/No-Go paradigm - Scientific Reports, 14 (1) - doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-61214-z - [link]
- Neville Niccolson & Eric Rassin (2024) - The effect of confession evidence on conviction, and considering alternative scenarios as remedy in a sample of police officers - Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 21 (3) - doi: 10.1002/jip.1631 - [link]
- Eric Rassin, Melissa de Roos & Josanne van Dongen (2024) - Dark personality traits and deception, and the short dark tetrad (SD4) as integrity screening instrument - Scientific Reports, 14 (1) - doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-50968-7 - [link]
- Irena Bošković & Eric Rassin (2024) - Introduction: What is legal and forensic psychology? - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-75875-1_1 - [link]
- Eric Rassin (2023) - Individual Differences in the Susceptibility to the Feature-Positive Effect - Psychological Test Adaptation and Development, 4 (1), 292-299 - doi: 10.1027/2698-1866/a000056 - [link]
- Carmen S. Sergiou, Elisa Tatti, Sara M. Romanella, Emiliano Santarnecchi, Alix D. Weidema, Eric G.C. Rassin, Ingmar H.A. Franken & Josanne D.M. van Dongen (2023) - The effect of HD-tDCS on brain oscillations and frontal synchronicity during resting-state EEG in violent offenders with a substance dependence - International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 23 (3) - doi: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2023.100374 - [link]
- Carmen S. Sergiou, Emiliano Santarnecchi, Sara M. Romanella, Matthias J. Wieser, Ingmar H.A. Franken, Eric G.C. Rassin & Josanne D.M. van Dongen (2022) - Transcranial direct current stimulation targeting the ventromedial prefrontal cortex reduces reactive aggression and modulates electrophysiological responses in a forensic population - Biological Psychiatry-Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7 (1), 95-107 - doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.05.007 - [link]
- Eric Rassin (2006) - Behaviour Research and Therapy (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Eric Rassin (2006) - De Psycholoog (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Eric Rassin (2003) - De Psycholoog (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic
Hoge Raad
- Start date approval
- January 2016
- End date approval
- December 9999
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- ACAS
Psychology of Law
- Level
- overig
- Year Level
- overig
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RMIN10
4.5 Moot Court Legal Psychology
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWP4035F
4.1C Intro. to Forensic and Legal Psych
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWP4023F
