The chair of Educational Psychology at the University of Mannheim focuses its research work on motivational and cognitive processes in learning and teaching. In particular, we are interested in the meaning of social context factors in motivational and cognitive processes in educational situations.
Selected Publications
- Merkle, B., Messerer, L. A. S. and Dickhäuser, O. (2024). Will I be happy in this major? Predicting intrinsic motivation and subjective well-being with prospective students’ well-being forecast and interest-major fit forecast. Social Psychology of Education, 27, 237–259.
- Daumiller, M., Janke, S., Butler, R., Dickhäuser, O. and Dresel, M. (2023). Merits and limitations of latent profile approaches to teachers' achievement goals: A multi-study analysis. PLOS ONE, 18, 1–24.
- Daumiller, M., Janke, S., Hein, J., Rinas, R., Dickhäuser, O. and Dresel, M. (2023). Teaching quality in higher education : Agreement between teacher self-reports and student evaluations. European Journal of Psychological Assessment : EJPA, 39, 176–181.
- Janson, M. P. and Dickhäuser, O. (2023). More fit, less load? Cognitive processes of feedback framed toward own preferences. The Journal of Experimental Education : JXE, 1–21.
- Janson, M. P., Siebert, J. and Dickhäuser, O. (2023). Everything right or nothing wrong? Regulatory fit effects in an e-learning context. Social Psychology of Education, 26, 107–139.
- Daumiller, M., Janke, S., Rinas, R., Dickhäuser, O. and Dresel, M. (2022). Need satisfaction and achievement goals of university faculty: an international study of their interplay and relevance. Higher Education, 83, 1183-1206.
- Janson, M. P., Siebert, J. and Dickhäuser, O. (2022). Compared to what? Effects of social and temporal comparison standards of feedback in an e-learning context. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 19, 1–26.
- Kilb, M., Dickhäuser, O. and Mata, J. (2022). A theory-based video intervention to enhance communication and engagement in online health communities: Two experiments. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 10, 199–228.
- Schwab, C., Frenzel, A. C., Daumiller, M., Dresel, M., Dickhäuser, O., Janke, S. and Marx, A. K. G. (2022). “I’m tired of black boxes!”: A systematic comparison of faculty well-being and need satisfaction before and during the COVID-19 crisis. PLOS ONE, 17, 1–19.
- Daumiller, M., Janke, S., Hein, J., Rinas, R., Dickhäuser, O. and Dresel, M. (2021). Do teachers' achievement goals and self-efficacy beliefs matter for students' learning experiences? Evidence from two studies on perceived teaching quality and emotional experiences. Learning and Instruction, 2021, 1–14.
- Daumiller, M., Rinas, R., Hein, J., Janke, S., Dickhäuser, O. and Dresel, M. (2021). Shifting from face-to-face to online teaching during COVID-19: The role of university faculty achievement goals for attitudes towards this sudden change, and their relevance for burnout/
engagement and student evaluations of teaching quality. Computers in Human Behavior, 118, 1–15. - Dickhäuser, O., Janke, S., Daumiller, M. and Dresel, M. (2021). Motivational school climate and teachers' achievement goal orientations: A hierarchical approach. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 391–408.
- Dyllick-Brenzinger, T., Dickhäuser, O. and Stahlberg, D. (2021). Personal metaphors as motivational resources: boosting anticipated incentives and feelings of vitality through a personal motto-goal. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1–17.
- Hein, J., Janke, S., Rinas, R., Daumiller, M., Dresel, M. and Dickhäuser, O. (2021). Higher education instructors’ usage of and learning from student evaluations of teaching – do achievement goals matter? Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1–15.
- Marksteiner, T., Nishen, A. K. and Dickhäuser, O. (2021). Students’ perception of teachers’ reference norm orientation and cheating in the classroom. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1–10.
- Merkle, B., Schiltenwolf, M., Kiesel, A. and Dickhäuser, O. (2021). Entwicklung und Validierung eines Erwartungs- und Interessenstests (E × I – Test) zur Erkundung studienfachspezifischer Passung in einem Online-Self-Assessment. Zeitschrift für empirische Hochschulforschung : ZeHf, 5, 162–183.
- Montagna, M. J., Marksteiner, T. and Dickhäuser, O. (2021). The effect of a computerized growth-mindset intervention on teaching students’ mindset and cognitive stress appraisal. Frontiers in Education : FEDUC, 6, 1–13.
- Bonefeld, M., Dickhäuser, O. and Karst, K. (2020). Do preservice teachers’ judgments and judgment accuracy depend on students’ characteristics? The effect of gender and immigration background. Social Psychology of Education, 23, 189–216.
- Hein, J., Janke, S., Daumiller, M., Dresel, M. and Dickhäuser, O. (2020). No learning without autonomy? Moderators of the association between university instructors' learning goals and learning time in the teaching-related learning process.
Learning and Individual Differences, 83/
84, 1–31. - Janke, S., Hein, J., Daumiller, M., Rinas, R., Erdfelder, E., Dresel, M. and Dickhäuser, O. (2020). Open Access Evaluation: Lehr-Evaluation-Online (LEO) als Instrument zur studentischen Lehrveranstaltungsevaluation. Qualität in der Wissenschaft : QiW, 14, 120–125.
- Rinas, R., Dresel, M., Hein, J., Janke, S., Dickhäuser, O. and Daumiller, M. (2020). Exploring university instructors' achievement goals and discrete emotions. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1–15.
- Benning, K., Praetorius, A.-K., Janke, S., Dickhäuser, O. and Dresel, M. (2019). Das Lernen als Ziel: Zur unterrichtlichen Umsetzung einer Lernzielstruktur. Unterrichtswissenschaft, 47, 523–545.
- Hein, J., Daumiller, M., Janke, S., Dresel, M. and Dickhäuser, O. (2019). How learning time mediates the impact of university scholars' learning goals on professional learning in research and teaching. Learning and Individual Differences, 72, 15–25.
- Janke, S. and Dickhäuser, O. (2019). A neglected tenet of achievement goal theory: Associations between life aspirations and achievement goal orientations. Personality and Individual Differences, 142, 90–99.
- Janke, S. and Dickhäuser, O. (2019). Different major, different goals: University students studying economics differ in life aspirations and achievement goal orientations from social science students. Learning and Individual Differences, 73, 138–146.
- Janson, M. P. and Dickhäuser, O. (2019). Prüfungsvorbereitung an der Hochschule mittels Lernsoftware: Die Effekte von Wenn-Dann-Plänen. Unterrichtswissenschaft, 47, 295–312.
- Kleen, H., Bonefeld, M., Glock, S. and Dickhäuser, O. (2019). Implicit and explicit attitudes toward Turkish students in Germany as a function of teachers’ ethnicity. Social Psychology of Education, 22, 883–899.
- Krispenz, A. and Dickhäuser, O. (2019). Reduction of chronic stress and trait anxiety by inquiry of cognitive appraisals with the Inquiry-Based Stress Reduction (IBSR) method. Open Psychology, 1, 185–199.
- Krispenz, A., Gort, C., Schültke, L. and Dickhäuser, O. (2019). How to reduce test anxiety and academic procrastination through inquiry of cognitive appraisals: A pilot study investigating the role of academic self-efficacy. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1–14.
- Marksteiner, T., Janke, S. and Dickhäuser, O. (2019). Effects of a brief psychological intervention on students' sense of belonging and educational outcomes: The role of students' migration and educational background. Journal of School Psychology, 75, 41–57.
- Daumiller, M., Janke, S., Rinas, R., Hein, J., Dickhäuser, O. and Dresel, M. (2019). Temporal variability and domain specificity of university instructors’ achievement goals and associations with affective experiences. Mannheim ; Augsburg.
- Hein, J., Daumiller, M., Rinas, R., Janke, S., Dresel, M. and Dickhäuser, O. (2019). Lecturers’ achievement goals as predictors for the processing and use of student feedback. In , EARLI 2019 : Book of abstracts (S. 152). , RWTH: Aachen.
- Hein, J., Janke, S., Daumiller, M., Dresel, M. and Dickhäuser, O. (2019). Association of self-efficacy and achievement goals in university lecturers teaching. In , EARLI 2019 : Book of abstracts (S. 268). , RWTH: Aachen.