Publications

Personality Psychology

  • Abrahams, L., Rauthmann, J. F., & De Fruyt, F. (2025). Understanding Person-Situation Dynamics at Work: Effects of Traits, States, and Situation Characteristics on Teaching Performance. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 16(5), 572–584. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506241236812
  • Grosz, M. P., Olaru, G., Back, M. D., & Rauthmann, J. F. (2025). Assessing the ABCDs of Machiavellianism: Development and Validation of the M4 Scale Using Ant Colony Optimization. Collabra: Psychology, 11(1), 142730. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.142730
  • Hämpke, J., Kerry, N., & Clifton, J. D. W. (2025). World Beliefs Predict Self-Reported Sustainable Behaviors Beyond Big Five Personality Traits and Political Ideology. Global Environmental Psychology, 3, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.5964/gep.12057
  • Hirsch, P., Moretti, L., Leichtmann, B., Koch, I., & Nitsch, V. (2025). Opportune moments for task interruptions: Examining the cognitive mechanisms underlying interruption-timing effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1465323. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1465323
  • Leichtmann, B., Gollob, E., May, M., Paschmanns, A., & Mara, M. (2025). Lonely Minds and Robotic Bonds: Effects of Human Loneliness on the Anthropomorphization of Robots. International Journal of Social Robotics, 17(4), 627–653. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-025-01210-z
  • Leichtmann, B., Meneweger, T., Busch, C., Reiterer, B., Meyer, K., Rammer, D., Haring, R., & Mara, M. (2025). Teaming with a Robot in Mixed Reality: Dynamics of Trust, Self-Efficacy, and Mental Models Affected by Information Richness. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 41(5), 3166–3183. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2331878
  • Phan, L. V., Modersitzki, N., Kuper, N., Beckmann, N., Fajkowska, M., Gollwitzer, M., Horstmann, K. T., Quirin, M., Renner, K.-H., Wright, A. G., & Rauthmann, J. F. (2025). Beyond nomothetics and idiographics: Towards a systematization of personality research approaches. European Journal of Personality, 39(2), 233–253. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070241301633
  • Rauthmann, J. F., & Kuper, N. (2025). The Landscape of Personality Psychology in the New Millennium: A Systematic Keyword Analysis of Journal Articles From 2000 to 2021. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128(3), 722–763. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000532

  • Denissen, J. J. A., & Rauthmann, J. F. (2024). A comprehensive scan of psychological disciplines through self-identification on Google Scholar: Relative endorsement, topical coverage, and publication patterns (vol 19, e0296421, 2024). PLoS ONE, 19(12), e0314923. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314923
  • Hämpke, J., Diller, S. J., Kerry, N., Clifton, J. D. W., & Frey, D. (2024). Believing in an Enticing World: Testing a Positive Psychological Intervention Aimed at Increasing Character Strengths and Well-Being via World Beliefs. International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology, 9(3), 1537–1561. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41042-024-00180-3
  • Humer, C., Ter, A. hinterrei, Leichtmann, B., Mara, M., & Streit, M. (2024). Reassuring, Misleading, Debunking: Comparing Effects of XAI Methods on Human Decisions. Acm Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 14(3), 16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3665647
  • Kaiser, M. I., Killin, A., Abendroth, A.-K., Back, M. D., Baune, B. T., Bilstein, N., Breitmoser, Y., Caspers, B. A., Gadau, J., Gossmann, T. I., Kaiser, S., Krueger, O., Kurtz, J., Lengersdorf, D., Malsch, A. K. F., Mueller, C., Rauthmann, J. F., Reinhold, K., Richter, S. H., … Wittmann, M. J. (2024). Individualisation and individualised science across disciplinary perspectives. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 14(3), 41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-024-00602-8
  • Kuper, N., Ernesti, L., Modersitzki, N., Phan, L. V., & Rauthmann, J. F. (2024). Distinctions Without Differences? European Journal of Psychological Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000867
  • Kuper, N., von Garrel, A. S., Wiernik, B. M., Phan, L. V., Modersitzki, N., & Rauthmann, J. F. (2024). Distinguishing Four Types of Person x Situation Interactions: An Integrative Framework and Empirical Examination. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(2), 282–311. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000473
  • Leichtmann, B., Hinterreiter, A., Humer, C., Streit, M., & Mara, M. (2024). Explainable Artificial Intelligence Improves Human Decision-Making: Results from a Mushroom Picking Experiment at a Public Art Festival. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 40(17), 4787–4804. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2023.2221605
  • Leichtmann, B., Hinterreiter, A., Humer, C., Ventura, A., Streit, M., & Mara, M. (2024). Moral reasoning in a digital age: Blaming artificial intelligence for incorrect high-risk decisions. Current Psychology, 43(41), 32412–32421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-06658-2
  • Matz, S. C., Beck, E. D., Atherton, O. E., White, M., Rauthmann, J. F., Mroczek, D. K., Kim, M., & Bogg, T. (2024). Personality Science in the Digital Age: The Promises and Challenges of Psychological Targeting for Personalized Behavior-Change Interventions at Scale. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19(6), 1031–1056. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231191774
  • Rauthmann, J. F. (2024). Personality is (so much) more than just self-reported Big Five traits. European Journal of Personality, 38(6), 863–866. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070231221853
  • Talic, I., Rauthmann, J. F., Renner, K.-H., Moeller, J., & Niepel, C. (2024). Students’ perceptions of instructional quality and learning achievement in everyday life: Do personality traits matter? European Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070241301810

  • Bleidorn, W., Kretzschmar, A., Rauthmann, J. F., Orth, U., Denissen, J. J. A., & Hopwood, C. J. (2023). Self-Esteem and Income Over Time. Psychological Science, 34(10), 1163–1172. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797623118512
  • Leichtmann, B., Hartung, J., Wilhelm, O., & Nitsch, V. (2023). New Short Scale to Measure Workers’ Attitudes Toward the Implementation of Cooperative Robots in Industrial Work Settings: Instrument Development and Exploration of Attitude Structure. International Journal of Social Robotics, 15(6), 909–930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-00996-0
  • Ortner, T. M., Kretzschmar, A., Rauthmann, J. F., & Tibubos, A. N. (2023). Specialist group for differential psychology, personality psychology and psychological diagnostics. Psychologische Rundschau, 74(3), 182–184. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000638

Educational Psychology

  • Pekrun, R., Marsh, H. W., Elliot, A. J., Stockinger, K., Perry, R. P., Vogl, E., Goetz, T., van Tilburg, W. A. P., Luedtke, O., & Vispoel, W. P. (2023). A Three-Dimensional Taxonomy of Achievement Emotions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(1), 145–178. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000448
  • Schuster, B. (2023). Pädagogische Psychologie. In D. G. Myers & C. N. DeWall (Eds.), Psychologie (pp. 761–773). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66765-1_18

  • Loderer, K., Gentsch, K., Duffy, M. C., Zhu, M., Xie, X., Chavarria, J. A., Vogl, E., Soriano, C., Scherer, K. R., & Pekrun, R. (2020). Are concepts of achievement-related emotions universal across cultures? A semantic profiling approach. Cognition & Emotion, 34(7), 1480–1488. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1748577
  • Schuster, B. (2020). Führung im Klassenzimmer: Disziplinschwierigkeiten und sozialen Störungen effektiv begegnen - der LMU-Leitfaden für Miteinander im Unterricht. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27509-9
  • Vogl, E., Pekrun, R., Murayama, K., & Loderer, K. (2020). Surprised-Curious-Confused: Epistemic Emotions and Knowledge Exploration. Emotion, 20(4). https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000578

  • Saffran, A., Barchfeld, P., Alibali, M. W., Reiss, K., & Sodian, B. (2019). Children’s interpretations of covariation data: Explanations reveal understanding of relevant comparisons. Learning and Instruction, 59, 13–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.09.003
  • Vogl, E., Pekrun, R., Murayama, K., Loderer, K., & Schubert, S. (2019). Surprise, Curiosity, and Confusion Promote Knowledge Exploration: Evidence for Robust Effects of Epistemic Emotions. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2474. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02474