Dr. David Terburg

Martinus J. Langeveldgebouw
Heidelberglaan 1
Kamer H0.48
3584 CS Utrecht

Dr. David Terburg

Assistant Professor
Social and Behavioural Sciences
+31 30 253 3043
d.terburg@uu.nl

Highlighted publications

Terburg, D., Aarts, H., & van Honk, J. (2012). Testosterone affects gaze-aversion from angry faces outside of conscious awareness. Psychological Science, 14, 158-163.
Heany, S. J., Bethlehem, R. A. I., van Honk, J., Bos, P. A., Stein, D. J., & Terburg, D. (2018). Effects of testosterone administration on threat and escape anticipation in the orbitofrontal cortex. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 96, 42-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.05.038
van Honk, J., Terburg, D., Thornton, H., Stein, D. J., & Morgan, B. (2016). Consequences of selective bilateral lesions to the basolateral amygdala in humans. In Living without an amygdala. (pp. 334-363). (Living without an amygdala.). http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=reference&D=psyc13&NEWS=N&AN=2016-38564-012
Van Honk, J., Montoya, E. R., Bos, P. A., Van Vugt, M., & Terburg, D. (2012). New evidence on testosterone and cooperation. Nature, 785(7399), E4-5-5-6. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11136.
Klumpers, F., Morgan, B., Terburg, D., Stein, D. J., & van Honk, J. (2014). Impaired acquisition of classically conditioned fear-potentiated startle reflexes in humans with focal bilateral basolateral amygdala damage. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu164
Bos, P. A., Terburg, D., & van Honk, J. (2010). Testosterone decreases trust in socially naive humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, 9991-9995.
van Honk, E. J., Eisenegger, C., Terburg, D., Stein, D. J., & Morgan, B. (2013). Generous economic investments after basolateral amygdala damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(7), 2506-2510. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1217316110
Terburg, D., Morgan, B. E., Montoya, E. R., Hooge, I. T., Thornton, H. B., Hariri, A. R., Panksepp, J., Stein, D. J., & van Honk, J. (2012). Hypervigilance for fear after basolateral amygdala damage in humans. Translational Psychiatry [E], 15(2), 115. https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2012.46
Terburg, D., Syal, S., Rosenberger, L. A., Heany, S., Phillips, N., Gericke, N., Stein, D. J., & van Honk, E. J. (2013). Acute effects of Sceletium tortuosum (Zembrin), a dual 5-HT reuptake and PDE4 inhibitor, in the human amygdala and its connection to the hypothalamus. Neuropsychopharmacology, 38(13), 2708-2716. https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2013.183
Terburg, D., Morgan, B., & van Honk, J. (2009). The testosterone-cortisol ratio: a hormonal marker for proneness to social aggression. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 32(4), 216-223.
Terburg, D., Scheggia, D., Triana Del Rio, R., Klumpers, F., Ciobanu, A. C., Morgan, B., Montoya, E. R., Bos, P. A., Giobellina, G., van den Burg, E. H., de Gelder, B., Stein, D. J., Stoop, R., & van Honk, J. (2018). The Basolateral Amygdala Is Essential for Rapid Escape: A Human and Rodent Study. Cell, 175(3), 723-735.e16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.09.028
Montoya, E. R., van Honk, J., Bos, P. A., & Terburg, D. (2015). Dissociated neural effects of cortisol depending on threat escapability. Human Brain Mapping, 36(11), 4304-4316. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22918

Publications

2021

Scholarly publications

Mulder, M., Prummer, F., Terburg, D., & Kenemans, L. (2021). The effect of face masks on the interpretation of ambiguous facial expressions. Paper presented at Dutch Brain and Cognition 2021, Avegoor, Netherlands.
Meier, I. M., van Honk, J., Bos, P. A., & Terburg, D. (2021). A mu-opioid feedback model of human social behavior. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 121, 250-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.12.013
Rijnders, R. J. P., Dykstra, A. H., Terburg, D., Kempes, M. M., & van Honk, J. (2021). Sniffing submissiveness? Oxytocin administration in severe psychopathy. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 131, 1-11. [105330]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105330
Hulsman, A. M., Terburg, D., Roelofs, K., & Klumpers, F. (2021). Roles of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala in fear reactions. In Handbook of Clinical Neurology (Vol. 179, pp. 419-432). (Handbook of Clinical Neurology; Vol. 179). Elsevier bedrijfsinformatie b.v.. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819975-6.00027-3
Rijnders, R. J. P., Terburg, D., Bos, P. A., Kempes, M. M., & van Honk, J. (2021). Unzipping empathy in psychopathy: Empathy and facial affect processing in psychopaths. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 1116-1126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.10.020
Stuit, S., Kootstra, T., Terburg, D., van den Boomen, C., van der Smagt, M., Kenemans, L., & van der Stigchel, S. (2021). The image features of emotional faces that predict the initial eye movement to a face. Scientific Reports, 11(1), [8287]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87881-w

2020

Scholarly publications

Heany, S. J., Terburg, D., Stein, D. J., van Honk, J., & Bos, P. A. (2020). Neural responses in the pain matrix when observing pain of others are unaffected by testosterone administration in women. Experimental Brain Research, 238(3), 751-759. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-020-05749-3

2019

Scholarly publications

Blake, Y., Terburg, D., Balchin, R., van Honk, J., & Solms, M. (2019). The role of the basolateral amygdala in dreaming. Cortex, 113, 169-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.12.016
Rosenberger, L. A., Eisenegger, C., Naef, M., Terburg, D., Fourie, J., Stein, D. J., & van Honk, J. (2019). The Human Basolateral Amygdala Is Indispensable for Social Experiential Learning. Current Biology, 29(20), 3532-3537.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.078
Brummelman, E., Terburg, D., Smit, M., Bögels, S. M., & Bos, P. A. (2019). Parental touch reduces social vigilance in children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, 87-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.05.002

2018

Scholarly publications

Heany, S. J., Bethlehem, R. A. I., van Honk, J., Bos, P. A., Stein, D. J., & Terburg, D. (2018). Effects of testosterone administration on threat and escape anticipation in the orbitofrontal cortex. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 96, 42-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.05.038
Terburg, D., Scheggia, D., Triana Del Rio, R., Klumpers, F., Ciobanu, A. C., Morgan, B., Montoya, E. R., Bos, P. A., Giobellina, G., van den Burg, E. H., de Gelder, B., Stein, D. J., Stoop, R., & van Honk, J. (2018). The Basolateral Amygdala Is Essential for Rapid Escape: A Human and Rodent Study. Cell, 175(3), 723-735.e16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.09.028

2017

Scholarly publications

Hortensius, R., Terburg, D., Morgan, B., Stein, D. J., van Honk, J., & de Gelder, B. (2017). The Basolateral Amygdalae and Frontotemporal Network Functions for Threat Perception. eNeuro, 4(1), ENEURO.0314-16.2016. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0314-16.2016
Heesink, L., Edward Gladwin, T., Terburg, D., van Honk, J., Kleber, R., & Geuze, E. (2017). Proximity alert! Distance related cuneus activation in military veterans with anger and aggression problems. Psychiatry Research, 266, 114-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2017.06.012
Hortensius, R., Terburg, D., Morgan, B., Stein, D. J., van Honk, J., & de Gelder, B. (2017). The dynamic consequences of amygdala damage on threat processing in Urbach–Wiethe Disease. A commentary on Pishnamazi et al. (2016). Cortex, 88, 192-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.07.013

2016

Scholarly publications

van Honk, J., Terburg, D., Thornton, H., Stein, D. J., & Morgan, B. (2016). Consequences of selective bilateral lesions to the basolateral amygdala in humans. In Living without an amygdala. (pp. 334-363). (Living without an amygdala.). http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=reference&D=psyc13&NEWS=N&AN=2016-38564-012
Angus, D. J., Schutter, D. J. L. G., Terburg, D., van Honk, J., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2016). A review of social neuroscience research on anger and aggression. In Social Neuroscience: Biological Approaches to Social Psychology (pp. 223-246). Taylor and Francis Inc.. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315628714
Hortensius, R., Terburg, D., Morgan, B., Stein, D. J., van Honk, J., & de Gelder, B. (2016). The role of the basolateral amygdala in the perception of faces in natural contexts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1693). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0376
Koen, N., Fourie, J., Terburg, D., Stoop, R., Morgan, B., Stein, D. J., & van Honk, J. (2016). Translational neuroscience of basolateral amygdala lesions: Studies of Urbach-Wiethe disease. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 94(6), 504-512. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.23731
Terburg, D., Syal, S., Rosenberger, L. A., Heany, S. J., Stein, D. J., & Honk, J. V. (2016). Testosterone abolishes implicit subordination in social anxiety. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 72, 205-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.07.203
van Honk, J., Will, G-J., Terburg, D., Raub, W., Eisenegger, C., & Buskens, V. (2016). Erratum: Effects of Testosterone Administration on Strategic Gambling in Poker Play. Scientific Reports, 6, 21745. [18096]. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep21745
van Honk, J., Will, G-J., Terburg, D., Raub, W., Eisenegger, C., & Buskens, V. (2016). Effects of Testosterone Administration on Strategic Gambling in Poker Play. Scientific Reports, 6, 18096. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep18096

2015

Scholarly publications

Enter, D., Terburg, D., Harrewijn, A., Spinhoven, P., & Roelofs, K. (2015). Single dose testosterone administration alleviates gaze avoidance in women with Social Anxiety Disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 63, 26-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.09.008
van Honk, J., Bos, P. A., Terburg, D., Heany, S., & Stein, D. J. (2015). Neuroendocrine models of social anxiety disorder. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 17(3), 287-293. https://doi.org/10.31887/DCNS.2015.17.3/jhonk
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/329584/Neuroendocrine.pdf?sequence=1
Bos, P. A., Brummelman, E., & Terburg, D. (2015). Cognition as the tip of the emotional iceberg: A neuro-evolutionary perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38(1), [e72]. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X14000879
Montoya, E. R., van Honk, J., Bos, P. A., & Terburg, D. (2015). Dissociated neural effects of cortisol depending on threat escapability. Human Brain Mapping, 36(11), 4304-4316. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22918
Syal, S., Ipser, J., Terburg, D., Solms, M., Panksepp, J., Malcolm-Smith, S., Bos, P. A., Montoya, E. R., Stein, D. J., & van Honk, J. (2015). Improved memory for reward cues following acute buprenorphine administration in humans. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 53, 10-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.11.009

2014

Scholarly publications

Klumpers, F., Morgan, B., Terburg, D., Stein, D. J., & van Honk, J. (2014). Impaired acquisition of classically conditioned fear-potentiated startle reflexes in humans with focal bilateral basolateral amygdala damage. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu164
Hortensius, R., van Honk, J., De Gelder, B., & Terburg, D. (2014). Trait dominance promotes reflexive staring at masked angry body postures. PLoS One, 9(12), [e116232]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116232
Montoya, E. R., Bos, P. A., Terburg, D., Rosenberger, L. A., & van Honk, J. (2014). Cortisol administration induces global down-regulation of the brain's reward circuitry. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 47, 31-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.04.022
De Gelder, B., Terburg, D., Morgan, B., Hortensius, R., Stein, D. J., & van Honk, J. (2014). The role of human basolateral amygdala in ambiguous social threat perception. Cortex, 52(1), 28-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2013.12.010
van Honk, J., Bos, P. A., & Terburg, D. (2014). Testosterone and Dominance in Humans: Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms. Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences, 21(1), 201-214. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02904-7_12
Bos, P. A., Montoya, E. R., Terburg, D., & van Honk, J. (2014). Cortisol administration increases hippocampal activation to infant crying in males depending on childhood neglect. Human Brain Mapping, 35(10), 5116-5126. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22537

2013

Scholarly publications

Terburg, D., & Van Honk, J. (2013). Approach-avoidance versus dominance-submissiveness: A multilevel neural framework on how testosterone promotes social status. Emotion Review, 5(3), 296-302. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073913477510
Hofman, D., Terburg, D., van Wielink, L. N., & Schutter, D. J. L. G. (2013). Coalescence of dominance motivation and responding to facial anger in resting-state and event-related electrophysiology. NeuroImage, 79, 138-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.088
Terburg, D., Syal, S., Rosenberger, L. A., Heany, S., Phillips, N., Gericke, N., Stein, D. J., & van Honk, E. J. (2013). Acute effects of Sceletium tortuosum (Zembrin), a dual 5-HT reuptake and PDE4 inhibitor, in the human amygdala and its connection to the hypothalamus. Neuropsychopharmacology, 38(13), 2708-2716. https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2013.183
van Honk, E. J., Eisenegger, C., Terburg, D., Stein, D. J., & Morgan, B. (2013). Generous economic investments after basolateral amygdala damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(7), 2506-2510. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1217316110
Ipser, J. C., Terburg, D., Syal, S., Phillips, N., Solms, M., Panksepp, J., Malcolm-Smith, S., Thomas, K., Stein, D. J., & van Honk, J. (2013). Reduced fear-recognition sensitivity following acute buprenorphine administration in healthy volunteers. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(1), 166-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.05.002
Montoya, E. R., Terburg, D., Bos, P. A., Will, G. J., Buskens, V. W., Raub, W., & van Honk, J. (2013). Testosterone administration modulates moral judgments depending on second-to-fourth digit ratio. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38, 1362-1369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.12.001

2012

Scholarly publications

Terburg, D., Aarts, H., & van Honk, J. (2012). Testosterone affects gaze-aversion from angry faces outside of conscious awareness. Psychological Science, 14, 158-163.
Montoya, E. R., Terburg, D., Bos, P. A., & van Honk, J. (2012). Testosterone, cortisol, and serotonin as key regulators of social aggression: A review and theoretical perspective. Motivation and Emotion, 36(1), 65-73.
Terburg, D., Morgan, B. E., Montoya, E. R., Hooge, I. T., Thornton, H. B., Hariri, A. R., Panksepp, J., Stein, D. J., & van Honk, J. (2012). Hypervigilance for fear after basolateral amygdala damage in humans. Translational Psychiatry [E], 15(2), 115. https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2012.46
Terburg, D., Aarts, H., & van Honk, J. (2012). Memory and Attention for Social Threat: Anxious Hypercoding-Avoidance and Submissive Gaze-Aversion. Emotion, 12, 666-672.
Terburg, D., Aarts, H., Putman, P., & van Honk, J. (2012). In the eye of the beholder: Reduced threat-bias and increased gaze-imitation towards reward in relation to trait anger. PLoS One, 7(2), e31373.
Terburg, D. (2012). Look at Me! The socio-neuro-endocrinology of eye-contact, dominance and status. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Utrecht University]. Utrecht University.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/241657/terburg.pdf?sequence=2
Morgan, B., Terburg, D., Thornton, H. B., Stein, D. J., & van Honk, J. (2012). Paradoxical facilitation of working memory after basolateral amygdala damage. PLoS One.
Van Honk, J., Montoya, E. R., Bos, P. A., Van Vugt, M., & Terburg, D. (2012). New evidence on testosterone and cooperation. Nature, 785(7399), E4-5-5-6. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11136.

Other output

Montoya, E. R., Bos, P. A., Terburg, D., & van Honk, J. (2012). Egoistic and Altruistic Moral Decision-making in Psychopathy – Preliminary Findings.. Poster session presented at International Society for Research on Aggression (ISRA) XXth World Meeting, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Montoya, E. R., Bos, P. A., Terburg, D., & Van Honk, E. J. (2012). Digit ratio modulates effects of testosterone on social behavior and moral reasoning.. Paper presented at 3rd European Forensic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychology and other involved Professions (EFCAP) Congress, Berlin, Germany, United Kingdom.

2011

Scholarly publications

van Honk, J., Terburg, D., & Bos, P. A. (2011). Further notes on testosterone as a social hormone. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15(7), 291-292.
Terburg, D., Hooiveld, N., Aarts, H., Kenemans, J. L., & van Honk, J. (2011). Eye tracking unconscious face-to-face confrontations: dominance motives prolong gaze to masked angry faces. Psychological Science, 22(3), 314-319.

Other output

Montoya, E. R., Bos, P. A., Terburg, D., Tromp, D. S., van Vught, M., & van Honk, J. (2011). Second-to-fourth digit ratio dissociates the effects of testosterone on social cooperation. Paper presented at The 41st Annual Conference of International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Montoya, E. R., Bos, P. A., Terburg, D., Tromp, D. S., van Vught, M., & Van Honk, E. J. (2011). Vingerlengte ratio medieert het effect van testosteron toediening op sociale coöperatie in vrouwen. Paper presented at Congres Hersenen en Cognitie: Maatschappelijke Innovatie, Utrecht.

2010

Scholarly publications

Bos, P. A., Terburg, D., & van Honk, J. (2010). Testosterone decreases trust in socially naive humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, 9991-9995.

2009

Scholarly publications

Terburg, D., Morgan, B., & van Honk, J. (2009). The testosterone-cortisol ratio: a hormonal marker for proneness to social aggression. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 32(4), 216-223.
Terburg, D., Peper, J. S., Morgan, B., & van Honk, J. (2009). Sex differences in human aggression: The interaction between early developmental and later activational testosterone. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(3-4), 290-311.