Dr. Leslie van der Leer

Assistant Professor
Social, Health and Organisational Psychology
l.vanderleer@uu.nl

Publications

2026

Scholarly publications

Levelt, L., Harris, C., van der Leer, L., Weijers, R., & van der Wal, R. (Accepted/In press). Pass/fail grading versus tiered grading in a theoretical psychology course: An evaluation. Psychology Learning and Teaching, Article 14757257261461930. [DOI]

2019

Scholarly publications

Hollis, H., Rachitskiy, M., & van der Leer, L. (2019). The development and face validity testing of the open test of information literacy with context-specific add-ons: OTIL. LIBER Quarterly, 29(1). [DOI]

2017

Scholarly publications

van der Leer, L., Hartig, B., Goldmanis, M., & McKay, R. (2017). Why Do Delusion-Prone Individuals “Jump to Conclusions”? An Investigation Using a Nonserial Data-Gathering Paradigm. Clinical Psychological Science, 5(4), 718-725. [DOI]
van der Leer, L., & McKay, R. (2017). The optimist within? Selective sampling and self-deception. Consciousness and Cognition, 50, 23-29. [DOI]
Tappin, B. M., van der Leer, L., & McKay, R. T. (2017). The heart trumps the head: DESIRABILITY bias in political belief revision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(8), 1143-1149. [DOI]

2015

Scholarly publications

Van Der Leer, L., Hartig, B., Goldmanis, M., & McKay, R. (2015). Delusion proneness and 'jumping to conclusions': Relative and absolute effects. Psychological Medicine, 45(6), 1253-1262. [DOI]

2014

Scholarly publications

Van Der Leer, L., & McKay, R. (2014). "jumping to conclusions" in delusion-prone participants: An experimental economics approach. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 19(3), 257-267. [DOI]

2012

Scholarly publications

Heyes, S. B., Adam, R. J., Urner, M., van der Leer, L., Bahrami, B., Bays, P. M., & Husain, M. (2012). Impulsivity and rapid decision-making for reward. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(MAY), Article Article 153. [DOI]

2011

Scholarly publications

Brouwer, A. M., Neerincx, M. A., Kallen, V., van der Leer, L., & Brinke, M. T. (2011). EEG alpha asymmetry, heart rate variability and cortisol in response to virtual reality induced stress. Journal of Cyber Therapy and Rehabilitation, 4(1), 27-40.

2010

Scholarly publications

Neerincx, M. A., Kallen, V. L., Brouwer, A. M., Van Der Leer, L., & Ten Brinke, M. (2010). Virtual reality exposure and neuro-bio feedback to help coping with traumatic events. In ECCE 2010 - European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2010: The 28th Annual Conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (pp. 367-369) [DOI]