Dr. Christopher Mlynski, BSc MSc

Wächtergasse 1
1010 Wien
Room: 504

T: +43-1-4277-47323
christopher.mlynski@univie.ac.at

Key Topics

  • The intrinsic value of effort
  • Effort Enjoyment Beliefs
  • Determinants of effort mobilization and its cardiovascular correlates

Curriculum Vitae

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Publications

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Mlynski C, Goschke T, Korb FM, Job V. The motivational consequences of boredom. Cognition and Emotion. 2025 Oct 10. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2025.2568554
Kraus J, Mlynski C, Hartmann F, Clay G, Goschke T, Silani G et al. The pleasure of effort: Cognitive challenges trigger hedonic physiological responses. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2025 Apr;1546(1):100-111. doi: 10.1111/nyas.15323
Roth LHO, Job V, Titz C, Meindl D, Mlynski C. And yet They Tire: Cognitive Fatigue Facilitates Task Disengagement and Worsens Performance. 2025 Mar 17. doi: 10.31219/osf.io/s5jmb_v1
Mlynski C, Clay G, Sik K, Jankowski J, Job V. Because it is fun! Individual differences in effort enjoyment belief relate to behavioral and physiological indicators of effort-seeking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2025 Mar 3. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000443
Mlynski C, Roth L, Loschelder D, Gieseler K, Job V, Friese M. Self-Control Following Prior Exertion: An Empirical Test of the Motivational Shift and Compensatory Effort Hypotheses. Collabra: Psychology. 2025 Jan 30;11(1):128616. doi: 10.1525/collabra.128616
Roth L, Job Sutnar V, Titz C, Meindl D, Mlynski C. And yet They Tire: Cognitive Fatigue Facilitates Task Disengagement and Worsens Performance. Motivation Science. 2025.
Job Sutnar V, Mlynski C, Bauer C. How rethinking difficulties can shape important life outcomes. Trends in Cognitive Science. 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.018
Jankowski JM, Roth L, Meindl D, Clay G, Mlynski C, Freiman O et al. What is Self-Control and How Can We Measure It? Frontiers for Young Minds. 2025.
Job V, Mlynski C, Nikitin J. Challenging the law of least effort. Current Opinion in Psychology. 2024 Dec. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101881
Jankowski JM, Mlynski C, Job V. Just a drop in the ocean? How lay beliefs about the world influence efficacy, perceptions, and intentions regarding pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 2024 Dec;100:102445. Epub 2024 Oct 1. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102445
Jankowski JM, Mlynski C, Prinz T, Job V. Saving the environment? That is beyond my (will)power! Motivation Science. 2024 Nov 18. doi: 10.1037/mot0000379
Roth LHO, Jankowski JM, Meindl D, Clay G, Mlynski C, Freiman O et al. Registered Report: Self-Control Beyond Inhibition—German Translation and Quality Assessment of the Self-Control Strategy Scale (SCSS). Collabra: Psychology. 2024 Nov 6;10(1):125242. doi: 10.1525/collabra.125242
Mlynski C, Mueller S, Napolitano C, Job Sutnar V. A backup plan for life? Alternative Life paths facilitate disengagement in an action crisis. Motivation and Emotion. 2024 Feb;48(1):66-74. doi: 10.1007/s11031-023-10052-z
Clay G, Mlynski C, Korb FM, Goschke T, Job V. Rewarding cognitive effort increases the intrinsic value of mental labor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022 Feb 1;119(5):e2111785119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2111785119
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Further publications

Mlynski, C., Reza, A, Whitted, M, Wright, RA. (2020). Mortality salience, effort, and cardiovascular response to a bar-press challenge: Remarkably nuanced effects of a death prime on heart performance. Psychophysiology, e13649. DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13649

Mlynski, C., Wright, R. A., & Kelly, K. (2020). Ability influence on effort and associated cardiovascular responses: Nocebo-Placebo evidence that perception is key. Biological Psychology, 152, 107867. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107867

Carbajal, I., Mlynski, C., Willson, K., Gillis, K., & Wright, R. A. (2019). Circadian mismatch and cardiovascular response to a performance challenge: Larks in morning and evening work sessions. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 143, 96-104. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.05.011

Wright, R. A., Mlynski, C., & Carbajal, I. (2019).  Outside thoughts on generating self-regulatory depletion (fatigue) effects in limited resource experiments.  Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(3), 469-480.  DOI: 10.1177/1745691618815654

Mlynski, C., Wright, R. A., Agtarap, S. D., & Rojas, J. (2017).  Naturally occurring fatigue and cardiovascular response to a simple memory challenge.  International Journal of Psychophysiology, 119, 72-78.  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.02.011

Agtarap, S. D., Wright, R. A., Mlynski, C., Hammad, R. & Blackledge, S. (2016). Success importance and urge magnitude as determinants of cardiovascular response to a behavioral restraint challenge.  International Journal of Psychophysiology, 102, 18-24.  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.03.004