Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Diagnostik
Research

Research

Research Interests

  • Need for Cognition
  • Need for Cognition: Development, Relations to subjective well-being and mental health, underlying processes 
  • Relations of Need for Cognition to moral behavior

Selected Publications

  • Grass, J., Scherbaum, S., & Strobel, A. (2022). A question of method and subjective beliefs: The association of Need for Cognition with self-control. Journal of Individual Differences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000381

  • Grass, J., Dörendahl, J., Losereit, T., Greiff, S., & Strobel, A. (2022). Thinking to promote happiness: Need for Cognition, subjective well-Being, and burnout in different populations.PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zwc4y

  • Gärtner, A.*, Grass, J.*, Wolff, M., Goschke, T., Strobel, A. & Strobel, A. (2021). No relation of Need for Cognition to basic executive functions. Journal of Personality, 89(6), 1113-1125. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12639 *joint first authorship

  • Grass, J., Krieger, F., Paulus, P., Greiff, S., Strobel, A. & Strobel, A. (2019). Thinking in action: Need for Cognition predicts Self-Control together with Action Orientation. PLoS ONE, 14(8): e0220282. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220282 

  • Grass, J., John, N. & Strobel, A. (2018). Freude am Denken als Schlüssel zum Erfolg? Die Bedeutung von Need for Cognition für subjektives Erleben und Leistung im Studium. Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie, 32(3), 145-154. doi: 10.1024/1010-0652/a000222

  • Grass, J., Strobel, A. & Strobel, A. (2017). Cognitive investments in academic success: The role of Need for Cognition at university. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:790. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00790

  • Strobel, A.*, Grass, J.*, Pohling, R. & Strobel, A. (2017). Need for Cognition as a Moral Capacity. Personality and Individual Differences, 117, 42–51. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.05.023 *joint first authorship

  • Mahy, C. E. V., Grass, J., Wagner, S., & Kliegel, M. (2013), These pretzels are going to make me thirsty tomorrow: Differential development of hot and cool episodic foresight in early childhood?. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12023