
Hernán González Cruz, M.Sc.
Academic Staff Member
University of Mannheim
Chair of Educational Psychology
A 5, 6
Building B – Room B 315
68159 Mannheim
Chair of Educational Psychology
A 5, 6
Building B – Room B 315
68159 Mannheim
Consultation hour(s):
By appointment
By appointment
Research interests
- Intrinsic motivation
- Goal-setting
- Academic dishonesty
- Self-regulation
Vita
since 2021 Doctoral Student at the Chair of Educational Psychology, University of Mannheim since 2021 Certified Trainer of the Zürich Resource Model at the Institute for Self-management and Motivation Zürich (ISMZ), Spin-off of the University of Zürich 2020 – 2021 Scientific Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen 2016 – 2018 M.Sc. Psychology (Clinical and Cognitive Psychology), University of Mannheim 2012 – 2016 B.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim Publications and conference contributions
Publications
- González Cruz, H., Fritz, T., Rudert, S. C., Daumiller, M., & Janke, S. (2025). Differential effects of honesty-humility and descriptive social norms across the seriousness dimension of academic dishonesty. Studies in Higher Education, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2446654
- Fritz, T., González Cruz, H., Janke, S., & Daumiller, M. (2024). How to Best Measure Academic Dishonesty in Students: A Systematic Review of Self-Report Assessment Methods and Psychometric Quality. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 40(6), 498–514. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000861
- Daumiller, M., Fritz, T., González Cruz, H., Rudert, S. C., & Janke, S. (2023). Cheating as a prosocial act? Helping others with academic cheating is related to social goals and cooperative norms. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 49(7), 948–961. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2023.2290979
- Fritz, T., González Cruz, H., Janke, S., & Daumiller, M. (2023). Elucidating the associations between achievement goals and academic dishonesty: A meta-analysis. Educational Psychology Review, 35(1), 33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09753-1
- Janke, S., Fritz, T., González Cruz, H., Rudert, S. C., & Daumiller, M. (2023). Entwicklung und Überprüfung einer Kurzskala zur Messung akademischen Betrugsverhaltens im Selbstbericht. Diagnostica, 69(4), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1026/0012-1924/a000317
- Arnold, N. R., González Cruz, H., Schellhaas, S., & Bublatzky, F. (2021). A multinomial modelling approach to face identity recognition during instructed threat. Cognition and Emotion, 35(7), 1302–1319. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1951175
Conference contributions
- González Cruz, H., Fritz T., Daumiller M., & Janke S. (2025). Investigating task-specific self-efficacy as a moderator of the relationship between performance goals and cheating. Talk given at the 12. Conference of the Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF).
- González Cruz, H., Fritz T., Daumiller M., & Janke S. (2024). Investigating attitude as a moderator of performance goals and online cheating. Poster presented at the International Conference on Motivation and Emotion (European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, EARLI – SIG8).
- González Cruz, H., Fritz T., Daumiller M., & Janke S. (2024). Investigating attitude as a moderator of the relationship between performance goals and online cheating. Poster presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. https://doi.org/10.3102/IP.24.2114564
- González Cruz, H., Fritz T., Daumiller M., & Janke S. (2023). Investigating the effect of attitudes towards cheating on the relationship between performance goals and cheating behavior. Talk given at the 19th Conference of the Expert Group on Educational Psychology (PAEPS) of the German Psychological Society.
- González Cruz, H., Fritz T., Daumiller M., & Janke S. (2023). Do students come clean after the fact? Leveraging the Benford Randomized Response Technique to more accurately predict student cheating behavior during exams. Talk given at the 10. Conference of the Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF).
- González Cruz, H., Fritz T., Daumiller M., Rudert S., & Janke S. (2022). How does perceived seriousness matter for academic dishonesty?. Talk given at the 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs).
- González Cruz, H., Fritz T., Daumiller M., Rudert S., & Janke S. (2022). Social reprehension of dishonest behaviors: Another relevant dimension to (re)consider?. Talk given at the 9. Conference of the Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF).
- González Cruz, H., Fritz T., Daumiller M., Rudert S., & Janke S. (2021). Einfluss des Gerechtigkeitsempfindens von Studierenden auf akademisches Betrugsverhalten. Vortrag auf der 16. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung.
- González Cruz, H., Prentice M., & Lieder F. (2021). 'What Do You Want in Life and How Can You Get There?' An Evaluation of a Hierarchical Goal-Setting Chatbot. Talk given at the Life Improvement Science Inaugural Conference.
- González Cruz, H., Prentice M., & Lieder F. (2021). 'What Do You Want in Life and How Can You Get There?' An Evaluation of a Hierarchical Goal-Setting Chatbot. Talk given at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Science of Motivation.