Vocational interests assessed at the end of high school predict life outcomes assessed 10 years later over and above IQ and Big Five personality traits.

Gundula Stoll, Sven Rieger, Oliver Lüdtke, +3

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Vocational InterestsQuality Of LifeVocational DevelopmentEducational PsychologyHigh School +14

The Relationship between Self-Esteem and Depression when Controlling for Neuroticism

Wenting Mu, Jing Luo, Sven Rieger, +2

Collabra Psychology

Psychological Co-morbiditiesAffective NeuroscienceVulnerability ModelMental HealthPsychology +16

Social Cognitive Constructs Are Just as Stable as the Big Five Between Grades 5 and 8

Sven Rieger, Richard Göllner, Marion Spengler, +3

AERA Open

Social PsychologyEducational PsychologyEducationPsychometricsPersonality Traits +17

School or Work? The Choice May Change Your Personality

Jessika Golle, Norman Rose, Richard Göllner, +8

Psychological Science

The persistence of students’ academic effort: The unique and combined effects of conscientiousness and individual interest

Sven Rieger, Richard Göllner, Marion Spengler, +3

Learning and Instruction

Student MotivationStudent RetentionStudent SuccessEducational PsychologyMotivation +11

Stability and change in vocational interests after graduation from high school: A six-wave longitudinal study.

Gundula Stoll, Sven Rieger, Benjamin Nagengast, +2

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Vocational InterestsYoung Adult DevelopmentVocational DevelopmentHigh SchoolEducation +15

Natural Experiments: Missed Opportunities for Causal Inference in Psychology

Michael P. Grosz, Adam Ayaita, Ruben C. Arslan, +7

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

Behavioral Decision MakingRandom AssignmentInvestment BehaviorField ExperimentQuasi-experiment +15

How state and trait versions of self-esteem and depressive symptoms affect their interplay: A longitudinal experimental investigation.

Laura Braun, Richard Göllner, Sven Rieger, +2

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

The Development of Vocational Interests in Early Adolescence: Stability, Change, and State-Trait Components

Thomas Gfrörer, Gundula Stoll, Sven Rieger, +2

European Journal of Personality

Vocational InterestsVocational DevelopmentTrait VarianceEducational PsychologyIndividual Differences +22

Natural Experiments: Missed Opportunities for Causal Inference in Psychology

Michael P. Grosz, Adam Ayaita, Ruben C. Arslan, +7